LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Launches
Station by station lifeboat launches for June and July Aberdeen: ILB D-536: Jun 3 (2) Jul 5(2) and Jul 1 1 Aberdoiey: ILB B-758: Jun IH Jul I6and Jul 22 Abtnock ILBB-582: Jun 10 and Jul 23 biT stwylh: 1LBB-704: Jun 4 Jun 17(3) Jul 20 and...
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A bit of a drama
For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...
Category: Articles
What and Where
What and Where The lifeboat fleet of the RNL9 If s back again by popular demand! The following is a print-out from LINCS, the RNLI's Lifeboat integrated Computer System, and is correct as of October 1999.
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON1050: Jun 13, Jul 7, 18,27and 28 Relief D class: Jun 13, Jul 18, 28 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 25, Jul 4, 5 (twice), 9 and 10 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 12m Mersey ON 1193: Jul 26 and 30 D class: Jul 30...
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Gien Mie
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...
Don
LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...
Pet
On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 7,16, Dec 12,23 D-470:Nov 27,Dec 12,27 D-536:Sep 3,7,Oct 5,22, Nov 17 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug21,28(x2),29(x4), 30(x2) Sep 1,14,Oct 16,Nov 12 ABERSOCH B-590:Sep 16 B-790:Sep 18,25 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Sep 1,7,9,Oct 1,9,...
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Lifeboat Services March April and May 1984
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Relief 52ft Arun: April 14 54ft Arun: May 8 D class inflatable: May 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 20, 24, May 13, 16 and 28 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 20, May 6,20 and 23 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class...
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Dorie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...