LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Self Service:
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
Category: Photographs
Elizabeth and Catherine
NEW ROMNEY.—On the 30th March, during a N. wind, and a heavy ground sea, rockets were fired from a vessel close to the beach, near the Life-boat station.
The Dr. Hatton Life-boat was launched, and boarded the vessel, which...
Two Rubber Dinghies
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.40 in the afternoon, on the 17th of July, 1950, the Skegness police reported two rubber dinghies adrift off Huttoft. At two o'clock the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze...
A Dinghy and Mambo
TWO CASUALTIES At 6.52 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting one mile south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at...
Aquilla
OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
Happy Return
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...
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Very much an Inshore Lifeboat...
West Kirby's D class inflatable took the term Inshore Lifeboat literally on 14January 1991, when the crew took her 14 miles by road and through the Mersey Tunnel to rescue a boy and his...
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Two calls HASTINGS 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Christopher Cooper and Crew Members Steven Barrow and John K. Ronchetti, was launched at 1534 on the afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1984, after it was reported that a...
33 Years -- Still. Sailing
One of the. first eight motor life-boats to be built for the Institution's fleet was "General Farrell", stationed at St. David's on the coast of South Wales in 1911. She served there until 1936 when she was sold out of the...
Category: Articles
Diadem and Dreadnaught
At 12.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...