LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Alfred Cadman, D.S.M., of Dover. Although he was appointed coxswain as recently as August, 1960, the demands on the Dover life-boat have been such that since his appointment she has been launched...

THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...

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There is also a large life-boat on this station, named the St. Patrick, and that boat, on the 26th September, put off to the assistance of the ship Electric Spark, of Boston, U.S., which was observed off the coast with signals of distress...

Above. Loading the RNLI's Mercedes road train'. Driver George Dadson demonstrates how an Atlantic 21 can be loaded single-handed with the hydraulic crane.. - View image in PDF

About 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th January a telephone message was re- ceived from Newcastle stating that a schooner had been sighted to the south- westward drifting in an apparently disabled condition. A look-out was kept and...

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...

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...