LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Griff’s hidden depths
He was once best known as a TV funnyman, but these days Griff Rhys Jones is serious about theatre, documentaries and indulging in his passion for sailing
Griff is enjoying treading the boards. After a spate of television...
Category: Articles
Letters
Augustine Courtauld Can we please hear a bit more about 'the well known explorer' Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named?—N. L.
STEWART, LIEUT.-CDR., RN, at RAF Staff College,...
Category: Correspondence
Baltic and Dagmar, Mermaid, and Schooner Vilfrid
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 27th March the Life-boats Charles Ingleby and Cyclist were taken out three times with the view of assisting vessels which were in danger in a gale of wind backing from E.N.E. to N.E., accompanied by a very high...
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Atlantic rescues two boys cut off by the tide Framed Letters of Appreciation signed by the Institution's Chairman have been sent to Helmsman Michael Picknett and crew members Michael Hoyle, Barry Knaggs and Gordon Young following a...
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LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. At 11.25 in the morning of the 21st of December, 1944, the coastguard saw a Mosquito aeroplane crash in the sea near Covesea Skerries, two or three miles north-west of Lossiemouth. The Institution’s auxiliary...
Category: Services
Rnli News
1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.
Lifeboats were at sea...
Category: Articles
A Long and Hazardous Service
COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...
Category: Services
A Rubber Dinghy
DUTCHMEN IN DINGHY Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, five Dutch fishermen left Ballycotton harbour in a rubber dinghy to return to their ship which was anchored with twelve other Dutch trawlers in Ballycotton Bay....
Sea Fury
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...