LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moshulu
St. Mary's Isles of Scilly - At 6.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, it was reported that a yacht near Bishop rock had a split sail. At 6.58 the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched. The sea was rough and it was one hour after high water...
Kruguen
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.30 a.m. on 23rd January, 1969, it was learnt that the French trawler Kruguen had broken down eight miles west south west of the Bishop Rock lighthouse. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...
The White Star
CARNSORE, IRELAND.—At about 7 P.M. on the 24th December, a signal of distress was shown from the Tuskar Rock.
The Iris Life-boat proceeded there and found a wrecked vessel, which was hailed, but no answer was received. The...
The Latvian-Registered Factory Trawler Lunohods 1
Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men savedThe joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal and also the Thanks of the Institution...
Shoreline
Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.
The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...
Category: Articles
Fundraising
RNLI staff, crew and volunteers spent an exhausting weekend in Newcastle from 20-22 June, representing the RNLI at the 10th UK and Ireland Corporate GamesAgainst tough competition, the RNLI has been appointed the official charity of the UK...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
Accident to French Life-Boat
ONT the 4th of September, 1956, the life-boat Jean Charcot, stationed at Molene and belonging to the Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, overturned when being launched to go to the help of the yacht Mathan. Six of the crew were...
Category: Articles
Tonny (1)
Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.
A little later she was seen to move...
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services