LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
Category: Articles
An Original Cartoon By Mac of the Daily Mail Was One of the Lots at Truro Branch's Celebrity Auction at New Tregye Hotel Carnon Downs Last September Some 200 Let
An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Batchelor
John Batchelor (above), a member of Mudeford lifeboat crew runs the fresh fish stall on the quayside and has produced a fish cookbook to raise funds for the station. Mr Batchelor retires from active lifeboat duty in four years time and it is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Kent's Presidential Address
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 145 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 17 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 15th June, 1939 66,237 The Duke of Kent's Presidential Address A Record Year.<...
Category: Meetings
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Bare knuckle fight When Adrian, Duncan and Craig decided to enter a stretch of notoriously treacherous water, they knew they were risking their own lives It was Sam on Sunday 16 October 2005 when the Coastguard called Bridlington lifeboat...
Bolivar (1)
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...
Close inspection
Keeping a fleet of 330 lifeboats and their associated kit in tip-top condition is no mean feat
With the safety of the lifeboat and the shore crews always paramount, the RNLI has rightly had a...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats for the Coast of Scotland
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which has already numerous Lifeboat Stations on the English and Irish Coasts, is desirous to extend its work of usefulness to the Coasts of Scotland, that every part of the United Kingdom may be...
Category: Articles
News and Views
John McCarthy presents RNLI video Journalist and broadcaster, John McCarthy, presents the new RNLI video which is being launched at the London International Boat Show at Earl's Court this month. John, embarked on a circumnavigation of...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings