LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 21 August 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 2,362 times (an average of more than 10 launches a day) 583 lives have been saved (an average of more...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 July 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,900 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) 401 lives have been saved (an average of nearly two a...

FOLLOWING THE RESCUE OH August 12 of a student who had fallen over cliffs at Petit Tor, Torbay ambulance divisional commander, John Bourne, told Torbay honorary secretary, Captain Barry Anderson, how impressed he was with the way the ILB...

The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?

Freedom of the Seas

Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...

During this year of war fourteen new motor life-boats have been completed and sent to the coast. All of them but one went to their stations by sea..

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...

Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...

RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...