LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 30 May 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 785 times (an average of some 5 launches a day) More than 215 lives were saved (an average of 1.5 people rescued each...

An attentive consideration of the wreck chart appended to the Northumberland Report, and a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-Guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction that the greater part...

Rubbish recovered from the bottom of the River Cam raised £500 in sponsorship, half of which was donated to the RNLI; the sub aqua junk hunters were members of Cambridge University's Underwater Exploration Group whose haul included... - View image in PDF

With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1993 Geoffrey Flint, chairman of Weston-super- Mare station branch from 1976 to 1992 and chairman of the financial branch from 1971 to 1986. He was assistant treasurer for the station...

EX-COXSWAIN JOHN HOWELLS, of Fish- guard, died on 14th March at the age of 72. He was Coxswain of the Fishguard Life-boat from 1910 to 1921.. In December, 1920, he was awarded the Institution's Gold Medal for the ser- vice to the Dutch...

and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...

Have you got old printer cartridges, mobile phones and gadgets that you no longer use? They could help keep our lifesavers trained and equipped. The Recycling Factory gives the RNLI a donation for every item successfully recycled and, to...

Caught in the path of Storm Abigail, the crew of a broken-down shellfish trawler needed RNLI volunteers to come to their aid – quickly

As the storm passed over them on 12 November 2015, the 12 men onboard trawlers Genesis...