LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
Category: Services
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma Prototype of the Rnli Medina Class Lifeboat Visited the Liner SS Canberra In Southampton Docks Last July Taking Out Commodore F B Woolley Deputy Captain I
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
Woolley, Deputy Captain Ian Gibb and other P and O... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of Launches
Ahcrdi'i'n ALBON-I24K: Aug 11. Aug 29 ( m i i f ) . Sep K (twice). Oct 1 and Oct 13 ILBD-536: Aug 9, Aug 11. Aug 29 (twice), Sap 8 (twice), Scp 29 andOct 13 l n n l i n t' 1LBB-7SS: Aug 2, Aug 5.
Aug 14. Aug...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
The No. 2 Pilot Boat
Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
A Sea-Plane
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At about 3.10 P.M. on the 24th July, 1938, just as the annual sacred service at the life-boathouse was beginning, news was received that a sea-plane had come down three or four miles off Port Erin.
A...
Third Gold Medal Since the War
AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th February, 1963, Niton radio informed St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that the Norwegian motor vessel Johan Collett needed help immediately. Her position was fourteen miles west-north- west of Les Hanois...
Category: Services
Services In Brief
The following is a complete list of services or attempted services by inshore rescue boats during the months of April, May and June, 1964: Date 1964 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 15 April 20 April 24 April 27 April 30 May i May 2 May 4 May...
Category: Services
Ferrocrete
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 12.56 A.M. on the 20th May in response to signals from the St.
Nicholas light-vessel which had...
Alexandra
.—At 7.15 A.M. on the 13th November the Coxswain of the Life - boat, James Stevens No. 1, sighted a dismasted vessel about three miles to the south of Port St. Mary. He immediately assembled his crew, and very promptly launched the boat. A...