LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI Patron HM The Queen has honoured the following with Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) for voluntary service to maritime safety: • Joel Grunnill (Chairman, Skegness Lifeboat Management Group) • Patrick Wood (Chairman, Harpenden...

JAN. 22ND. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. A steamer had been reported blowing her horn apparently for help, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards,.£23 11s. 6d.

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At n a.m. on 2ist November, 1966, the coxswain decided that conditions were such that the life-boat should be launched to stand by three motor fishing vessels returning from fishing in deteriorating weather. At 11.10 the...

Four rescued EARLY ON FRIDAY, November 12, 1982, the 17ft 6in fishing boat Lady Theresa was seen leaving Redcar and, as it was a rough morning, a watch was kept on her from the lifeboathouse. At 1213 a passer by informed Coxswain David...

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St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.3 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, air traffic control informed the assistant honorary secretary that an aircraft had sighted a yacht which was firing red flares to the north of the island. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon...

IT WAS QUIPS AND LAUGHTER all the way when Paul Daniels, comedian and conjuror, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's ninth national lottery at Poole HQ on Thursday July 31. The draw was supervised by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...