LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Among the awards announced in the Birthday Honours list were: KCVO Captain Alastair Sturgis Aird, cvo.

Sir Alastair is Comptroller and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the...

HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.

The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...

News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat was anchored off Holland-on-Sea near the buoy marking the sewer. Her occupant was waving a...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.54 p.m. on 9th March, 1967, a barge was reported in difficulties near the Black Tail Spit buoy. The life-boat Cecil amd Lillian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.21 in a storm force...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Dunkirk pilgrimage When 30 of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships sailed from Ramsgate for Dunkirk on May 30 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the evacuation, they were accompanied by the new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie,...