LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services In September, October and November. 73 Lives Rescued
During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.
A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...
Category: Services
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
Category: Articles
The Danish Cargo Vessel Lone Dania (1)
Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st March to 31st May: Launches 359, lives saved 156 MARCH SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; Relief Lifeboat at Poole; and the Prototype Tyne Class Lifeboat In the City of London
Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...
Category: Inaugurations
OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June 1971 to 31st August 1971: Launches 1,330, lives saved 787 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/8/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 94,443 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (9)
CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.
They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...
Category: Services
The Bull Light-Vessel (1)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—29th April.
A steamer reported by wireless that she had been in collision with the Bull lightvessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel did not need help.— Permanent paid crew..