LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Category: Services
Gifts from Crews
THE Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat saved the French yacht Rose Marine and her three occupants during a strong N.E. gale with a rough sea on the 15th September, 1927. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given a...
Category: Donations
Correspondence
Four Winds, Wade Lane, Wade Court Road, Havant, Hampshire.
16th September, 1956.
DEAR SIR, I am writing to express my extreme gratitude to the coxswain and crew of the Selsey life-boat for their rescue of...
Category: Correspondence
Ngalawa
Prompt action saves life of lone yachtsmanThe rescue of a lone yachtsman from seas off Hastings has earned assistant mechanic David Curtis the Thanks of the RNLI Inscribed on Vellum.In his official report, deputy divisional inspector of...
A year of exceptional courage
Dungeness lifeboat Crew Member Garry Clark is to receive the RNLI's Silver Medal for his bravery and determination during the rescue of seven people from the yacht Liquid Vortex on 3 January this year.
In a long and...
Category: Articles
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Major-General R H Farrant Cb Chairman of the Institution
In a lifetime of sailing and the sea, participation and service have gone hand in hand.7 have always been interested in boats that would go faster than their wave length speed . . .'FOR MAJOR-GENERAL RALPH FARRANT a constant search for...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1910
Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services
Bosun and Motor Fishing Vessel Gentlemaid
Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...