LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...

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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...

To EDWIN W. DISTIN, on his retirement, after serving for 29| years as coxswain of the Salcombe life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

The late GEORGE S. KELLY, who for 15 years was coxswain and 6...

Restaurant owner Nick Constandinos visited Poole HQ in December to present a cheque for £70 to RNLI appeals secretary Anthony Oliver (r). It was the proceeds from the sale of the first two crates of Beaujolais Nouveau 1982 which had... - View image in PDF

SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...

A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...

LXIX. TRAMORE.—The Alfred Trower, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.

IT may not be out of place to preface this article with a description of the old and interesting city of Waterford, which is in close proximity to Tramore, and...