LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...

LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...

A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.

Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....

The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...

At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF

Last year, RNLI lifeboats rescued 8,313 people around our coasts (the highest number in our history), while RNLI lifeguards assisted 18,775 on more than 150 of the UK’s busiest beaches. That’s 27,088 people who are grateful for your...

branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.

Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...

Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.

on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...