LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat People
Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Timothy Hugh Bevan, chairman, Barclays Bank PLC. Sir Timothy has been honorary treasurer of Balcombe and Staplefield branch since 1964 and was awarded the...
Category: Articles
The German Sailing Ship Adolf Vinne
LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...
Letters
Stick or pin? Is this the end of an era? Another chapter ended in our history? I refer to the demise of that ancient institution, the boat-on-a-pin flag day emblem, which is now being replaced by the adhesive type.
What...
Category: Correspondence
Helicopters
In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...
Category: Articles
Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Awards ceremony and AGM
This year’s RNLI Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will take place on 19 May at the Barbican in London.
RNLI Governors will be contacted individually in March, when they can request tickets to both...
Category: Articles
Karela
CATAMARAN AND NINE Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.10 p.m. on 18th July, 1964, the local police informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Ardwell bay. There was a smooth sea with light airs from the...
The S.S. Libelle
The coxswain of the Palmerston Life-boat was called at 1 o'clock on the morning of the 12th January, and informed that a vessel was ashore on the north side of Tynemouth Sands. The Lifeboat was manned and launched as quickly as possible,...
Deevale
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.14 p.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares and appeared to be ashore at South Ness. At 8.28 the lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth...
A Walrus Amphibious Aeroplane
DECEMBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At two in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the River Mersey off Gladstone Dock.
The weather was foggy, with a light southeast wind. The sea was...