LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEW YEAR HONOURS Knights Bachelor Captain David Stanley Tibbits, DSC RN (Retd.), Deputy Master, Trinity House. Sir David is an exofficio member of the RNLI Committee of Management.

QBE Rodney Murison Addison, Vice- Chairman...

A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...

Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...

25 November: When Broughty Ferry lifeboat was unable to locate a jet-skier who had called for help just after lunchtime, a major search and rescue operation was mounted, involving an RAF rescue helicopter and...

The RNLI's chief of operations has written to the St Helier lifeboat station expressing thanks for the way in which the crew of the station's new Tyne class lifeboat Alexander Coutanche handled a service during the storm of 25...

RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...

RNLI crew members from Brighton, Littlehampton and Poole took part in two displays at the last ever Royal Tournament at Earls Court on 22 July.. - View image in PDF

SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...