LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Life-Boats to Come Into Production Will Include Those of the 70-Foot, 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, 44-Foot Steel and 37-Foot Oakley Classes. the Four Types Mentioned Are Shown Above In That Or
Additional life-boats to come into production will include those of the 70-foot, 48-foot 6-inch Solent, 44-foot steel and 37-foot Oakley classes. The four types mentioned are shown above in that order.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The East German M.V. Saale
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,832 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,637 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 46 per cent of all services carried out...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crews. No. II
THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
Category: Articles
15-year-old Sarah Bennett, A Chetham’s Pupil And RNLI Fundraiser
15-year-old sarah Bennett, a chetham’s pupil and RnLI fundraiser Photo: Jonathan Keenan. - View image in PDF
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Lottery
LiFeBoAt LotterY Lifeboat Lottery Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never...
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Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 523 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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Focus on Scarborough
WHEN I arrived at Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, night was falling. Down on the fish pier lights twinkled as the wind, the restless wind, tugged at lamp fittings. Sand, like powdered snow, drifted along the promenade, and the wind...
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Rnli News
Duke of Kent to present awards The Institution's President, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, will address the meeting of the annual presentation of awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in May. He will also present bravery...
Category: Articles
The Letter Writers
In these days when the telephone is more attractive than letter writing it is always a pleasure to receive a hand-written note. Early this year the R.N.L.I.
received 28 such letters from pupils of Pinkwell Junior School,...
Category: Donations