Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF
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MARCH. 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHE: SHIRE. At 11.38 A.M. the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift. A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...
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Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At noon on the 23rd of September, 1956, the Dun- dee harbour police reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board was aground on Naughton sand- bank to the west of Tay Bridge. At 12.35 the life-boat Mono,...
It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in...
Category: Obituaries
MC A/ITHELATESTIN IMC W! WEATHER TECHNOLOGY STARTING AT JUST Wireless or cabled me V.- T The new Vantage Pro weather stations offer foreeaMing, on-screen graphing for every sensor. ;md multiple alarm sellings. Monitor...
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1st May. A motor boat had had engine trouble but was able to go on her way without help.—Rewards, £5 15s..
WE have received from the Japanese Life-boat Institution copies of its Annual Report for 1925, and of its Journal for 1925 and 1926. We shouldbe very glad, at any time, to lend these very interesting books to any Life-boat workers or...
Category: Articles
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
Category: Correspondence