LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 12 February 1990, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,422 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,478 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
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Rosamond, Royal Empire and Brittania
OCTOBER 9TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning several fishing cobles had to cut, their lines and make for harbour, as a S.E. wind of almost gale force was blowing, and the sea was heavy. Three other cobles. Rosamond,...
New Year Honours
A number of RNLI people have been named on HM The Queen’s New Year Honours list:
• OBE: Richard Edward Dominic Langford, Chairman of the RYA and Ex-Officio Member of the RNLI Council, for services to sailing and...
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At 4.30 p.m. on 13th February, 1966, the Medical Officer of Health informed the honorary secretary that he had been called to Inishmaan island to attend to a zo-yearold girl with an injured arm who needed medical attention. He had, however,...
Two Exhibitions
Ax exhibition of life-boats through the ages was opened at Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, by Commodore the Earl Howe, deputy chairman of the Institution, on the 3rd of December, 1954.
The exhibition...
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Progress and Loch Kanza Castle
New Brighton, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— On the 23rd November, 1938, the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat rescued the crew of three of the fishing boat Progress, of Hoylake, and the crew of four of the auxiliary schooner Loch Kanza Castle, of...
Dusty Miller
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.53 P.M.
on the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about two and a half miles E.S.E. of Skegness Pier. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with...
Opportune
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.4 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat near Proudfoot was flashing signals and had burnt red flares. At 6.30 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched....
Duke visits life-boats
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
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Mirrie
On the 31st December the Life- boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the smack Mirre, stranded on the rocks under Summerlies Point. A heavy ground sea had set in after the Mirre grounded, which made the...