Talk:Lifeboat (rescue)

Split needed for 44' and 47' MLBs
IMO there should be a clear split between the 44' and 47' MLBs since they are very different vessels. I have a good collection of materials on the 44' MLB (I was a MK on one and my dad oversaw all repairs to all 44' MLBs for Group Woods Hole for many years) including a certification check off booklet and basic operations manual (scans coming soon). Sigh, the 44's were slow but always brought you home. It's sad to see them almost gone.

In case anyone is wondering, the last two 44' MLBs in USCG service can been seen in Chatham, MA. I suspect they're not using the 47s because of their draft. There might also be a few near-complete ones left at the service yard in Maine since crews get assigned a different vessel when their's goes in for major service.

Also, there are a few restored one's for sale out there but cost well over $100k USD (ouch). Costoa 01:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

bad link
the Waiheke link http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~woodc/wvcgindex.htm is broken I think .... 18:58, 16 September 2007 User:Billymac00

Designers
The 47 MLB was designed by then G-ENE-5B Small Boat section of Naval Engineering, USCG Hqtrs, Wash DC. The team included Debrabrata Ghosh, Steven Cohen, Jeff Curtis, and Bill Dodge. 18:58, 16 September 2007 User:Billymac00

Superlative
The 47 MLB is the most sophisticated MLB ever built In the Whole World? Who has done the comparision?--84.129.194.84 (talk) 00:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste move

 * The history prior to December 14, 2007 of this content can be found at lifeboat. Ravenna1961 (talk) 09:02, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1979 first lifeboat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.31.171 (talk) 19:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have histmerged those edits to Lifeboat (rescue), which is where someone cut-&-pasted them to. Its talk matter is now at Talk:Lifeboat (rescue)/Archive 1. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:03, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Text-merge in from Motor life boat?

 * Text-merge in from Motor life boat? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:03, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:21, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Still tidying
Hi all

I have started tidying the article, but need a lot of time to reconstruct into a sensible format

I ahve removed te "Not worldwide" banner as I think it can be taken off now and continuous improvements over the next few weeks will reflect that even more.

The sections on USA MLB's is still a bit large, I will try and cut this down and make the article more balanced, alternatively we could include more info on other lifeboats types, but this is already covered in the other article pages such as the Coastguard page etc.

Chaosdruid (talk) 05:58, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi again all
 * I have just done an extensive revamp - I had left it for some months hoping others would perhaps sort it out as I was a bit busy in real life :¬)
 * The problems were-
 * Not in order
 * Large section of text from MLB just slapped in and not summary - most info repeat of articles on boats
 * Repetitions of material and historical section contained curent boats etc.
 * I have tried to clean up as follows-
 * Placed historical boats and events in to history section, general and by country
 * moved current boats to Modern boats
 * cut down USA MLB sections to summaries and "Main" links to articles on boats that have their own pages - will also create 30 foot page
 * Re-order so that sections are Overview, types of craft, history and modern boats.
 * I think that about covers it and hope it meets with approval as it has been a mess for over six months now
 * Chaosdruid (talk) 16:45, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like you have more tidying to do. The article says that Canada had the first motorized lifeboat in use in North America in 1908. Article also states (twice) that the US had a motorized lifeboat in service in 1899 and had 44 in service by 1909. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.46.39 (talk) 16:35, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

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Certificate of Efficiency to Lifeboat Man
I've come across a couple men who held such a certificate, plus a reference to a woman who achieved this status, in the first half of the 20th century. I found an actual duplicate certificate out of San Francisco dated 1942 which mentions a Bureau, but I don't know which one. My great uncle claimed to hold one as of 1927. The woman was mentioned in a book about lifeboats in the interwar years. This certificate isn't mentioned and probably should be, if anyone can determine more details. Pnoble805 (talk) 23:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)