LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
RESCUE craft of the R.N.L.I. were launched on service more often in 1964 than in any other year since the Institution was founded in 1824. The number of launches by life-boats was 929 and by inshore rescue boats 238. Lives saved by...
Category: Articles
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild and New Branches of the Institution
ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...
Category: Branches
Your shout
The Editor responds:
Great minds think alike Mr Dean! See page 46. And from this quarter, all seven versions of Compass are available online too at...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...
November
Launches 28 Lives rescued None
NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of...
Category: Services
To Five Vessels In One Day. Bronze Medal to the Southend-On-Sea Coxswain
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...
Category: Services
Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved * over 1,750 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need £ n every...
Category: Advertisement
Daily Express
DAILY EXPRESS N R N A I O N A Sttiw 23rd MARCH-lst APRIL J989 Following its highly successful debut in Plymouth, the Daily Express Test of England Boat Show be moved to the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order to expand the marker for...
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Squadron-Leader John Weaver, Officer Commanding, No. 22 Squadron, Photographed at the Controls of a Westland Whirlwind Mk. 10 Helicopter During the Flight Between R.A.F. St. Mawgan And
Squadron-leader John Weaver, Officer Commanding, No. 22 Squadron, photographed at the controls of a Westland Whirlwind Mk. 10 helicopter during the flight between R.A.F. St. Mawgan and R.A.F. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...