LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Reverend David Mumford of Surrey was delighted to scoop the £5,000 first prize in the Spring 2010 Lifeboat Lottery. The model boat enthusiast, who has constructed an entire fleet of 136 miniature craft, said:

The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...

RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.

At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.

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TWIN ENGINED inflatable lifeboats have been designated the C class. This is to distinguished them from the single engined 15ft 6in D class inflatables, well known all round the coast. All C class boats at the moment are 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV...

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

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Tuesday, 2nd August 1860. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of .the Finance, Correspondence, Wreck and Reward and Barometer Sub-...

LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—The life-boat Latitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, j which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her...