LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 August 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,058 times (an average of 9 launches a day) 585 lives were saved (an average of two a day) Some 6% of all...

THE Institution has received a gift of £100 from Tasmania for the benefit of the life-boat station at Southend- on-Sea. The donor's aunt lived in Southend for many years and was a contributor to the branch..

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Tuesday the 11th day of May, 1875, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE...

Not only is The Lifeboat College a centre of excellence for lifeboat crews and staff - it provides a base for other organisations to learn about the RNLI's work. Regional Education Officer Dave Cooling looks back on a lively week when 14...

RAMSGATE AND DEAL.—On the 25th August, at about 3 A.M., signals were shown from the Gull Light-ship, and the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, and the Van Kook Life-boat, stationed at Deal, proceeded to the Goodwin...

A couple made a desperate call for help in the early hours of 20 December 2009 when their motorboat got into difficulties in near-gale conditions and snow showers off the mouth of the Humber.

The batteries to their VHF...

The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...