LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI Staff Changes
Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the...
Category: Committee
The RNLI and me: Tomos Parry
The Michelin-starred restaurant owner and chef tells us what it’s like to grow up on the Welsh coast with the RNLI – and how he’s raising awareness of our lifeboats in London
WHO IS TOMOS PARRY?
Son of Gareth...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
Category: Articles
Open Days Poole Hq and Depot
Poole HQ and Depot JULY 19 TO 21 FOR THREE DAYS IN JULY, the Poole head office and depot buildings opened their doors wide to show RNLI supporters and the public at large exactly how the lifeboat service is run. This was the second time open...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing
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Category: Advertisement
Anna
At 1.45 on the following afternoon the barque Anna, of Copenhagen, having stranded on the West Gunfleet Sands, the Life-boat was once again taken out, and proceeded to her assistance. It was decided to remain by her until the tide flowed, in...
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Mary Ann
At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat John BurcJi was...