LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
Category: Services
The S.S. English Trader (1)
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles
From a Boy of Eight
THE following letter has come from a boy, eight years old, living in Derby- shire, with a postal order for eight shillings :— " DEAR SIR,—I had a sale and got 8s.
I love the sea.
" Yours truly,...
Category: Donations
Emanuel Boucher, of Whitby
On the morning of the 6th January, during a terri- fic gale of wind from the S.E., the Ponte- fract and Goole life-boat went off through a very heavy sea, in reply to signals of dis- tress, and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Emanuel...
Stolwijk
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT ARRANMORE DECEMBER 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. In the early morning a message was received at the lifeboat station on Arranmore Island, off the north-west coast of Ireland, that a vessel, in convoy, had gone on a...
The Test Rig Flexing a Sample
The Test Rig Flexing A Sample. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (4)
Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...
Category: Services
None (2)
Two hours searching - but nothing found One person is rescued, on average, every time an RNLI lifeboat is launched. Life-saving rescues are great news stories and it is these that capture the headlines across the country. But often the less...
Georges Langanay
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.22 -on the night of the 10th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the Humber Radio Station had inter- cepted a message from the French motor trawler Georges Langanay, of Fe'camp. She was on the...