LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Year 1939
IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.
There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...
Category: Services
A Yacht
Buzz off! In an unusual rescue in south Wales on 23 July 2004, Burry Port lifeboat assisted a man whose yacht had been invaded by a swarm of bees. The man took refuge in the cabin and radioed for help and the Burry Port D class lifeboat came...
Hatano and Nogi
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 16-17th August, sixteen men belonging to the trawlers Hatano and Nogi were rescued.—Rewards, Bronze medals, vellums and monetary awards amounting to £40 15s. (For a full account of this...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. •— At five in the evening of the 15th of No- vember, 1948, an urgent call was received for the life-boat to take a woman, who was suffering with acute appendicitis, to Lochboisdale, in South Uist. The...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly...
Rnli Lottery
Since 1979 Chelsea Pensioner Company Sergeant Major Albert Spurdin has been a regular, and colourful, visitor to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show persuading the public to put money into his collecting box.
In...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, December 1940 issue Four Months of War The first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service...
Category: Articles
Into the Dragon's Mouth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...
76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...
Category: Services
Logwatch
Logwatch, a new electronic navigational instrument made by the marine equipment division of R. P. Jeffers and Company, has recently been evaluated by the RNLI design department. It is an electronic digital log with an integral chronometer...
Category: Articles