LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved 1,704 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need £3'Am every...

DURING March, life-boats went out on service 45 times and rescued 10 lives.

A LISTING TANKER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S...

JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.

JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...

Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...

Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...

Caister, Norfolk.—At two in the afternoon, on the 8th of July, 1950, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched for exercise. On her way back to her station, about an hour later, she saw a yacht in difficulties off the north end of Caister...

Launches 70 Lives rescued 107

AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...

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Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The protective...