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
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations
Noble Example
AT the Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in March last, Admiral Sir GEO. F. SEYMOUR, K.C.B., some time since Commander-in-Chief of H.M.'s Squadron on the North American Station, read the following interesting...
Category: Correspondence
Self-Righting Trials on the Prototype 14M Fab 4, Now the Trent Class,
Self-righting trials on the prototype 14m FAB 4, now the Trent class, with the side keels protecting the propellers clearly visible. The watertight integrity of the superstructure is vital to self-righting and the design must take into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.
This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat's Air-Cases Can Be Seen Protruding from the Broken Hull and Scattered on the Rocks
The Life-Boat's Air-Cases Can Be Seen Protruding From The Broken Hull and Scattered on the Rocks. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 73 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,913 June 9th, 1932 Annual Meeting.
THE Hundred and Eighth...
Category: Meetings
William Wouldhave's Centenary
THE 28th September of this year was the centenary of the death of William Wouldhave, of South Shields, whose name will always be honourably remem- bered, with those of Lionel Lukin, of London, and John Greathead, also of South Shields, as...
Category: Articles
Snowflake, Our Boys and Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus. At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 28th September, 1961, three local fishing boats, Snowflake, Our Boys and Evening Star, were approaching the harbour in a strong south-south-easterly wind and a rough sea. Because of the...
Feature: Knowledge Is Power
Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
Category: Articles