LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Year Honours
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...
Category: Awards
Life first
Selflessness
We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Relief - Atlantic 75 Rotaract I On a bright November Saturday afternoon nearly 80 Rotaractors with a sprinkling of Rotarians gathered at the Poole Depot Quay for the naming ceremony of a new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, B718.
It...
Category: Inaugurations
Maggie
Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to the Newhaven life-boat station that the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
Muriel I
Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.36 in the morning of the 16th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor launch signalling for help off the harbour wall.
At 6.5 the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched in a...
Buccari
JANUARY 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received that one of the crew of the Italian steamer Buccari, which was anchored in the Downs, was seriously injured and needed medical attention.
A light easterly...
Contents
Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 531 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
Category: Contents
A Motor Boat
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—During the morning of the 16th October, 1938, nine Sea Scouts, from a Borstal Institution, with a scoutmaster, left Hunstanton in their motor boat for Boston. Soon afterwards the boat's engine broke down and the...
Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen
MAY 16TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
At 8.43 at night it was reported from Glandore that the fishing boat Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen, which had put out from Glandore, had not returned from fishing off Galley Head. A...
A Canoe and a Dinghy
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boy was drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off South Beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...