LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twenty-Five Years' 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
14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel
AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.
Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...
Category: Services
Now in Tesco and Asda
Supporting the RNLI’s lifeboat crews can be as simple as sitting down for a cup of tea.
Lifeboat Tea is already available in Waitrose, and from March you’ll be able to pick up a box in Tesco and Asda stores. For every pack...
Category: Articles
More Than £1000 Was Collected at the Third Annual Wine Lasting Evening Organised Bv Lymm Branch
More than £1,000 was collected at the third annual wine lasting evening organised bv Lvmm branch. Nenrlv 150 people sampled various wines on offer, supplied bv G and J Greenall. Pictured lasting one of the wines arc Chris Miller,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December
1st October to 31st December.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on 4th November at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, by permission of the Governor and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- General the...
Category: Branches
St John
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 16 saved the yawl St. John, belonging to Ballinagoul, and her crew of four hands during a strong W.N.W. gale with heavy squalls on the 13th January. The vessel had been trawling near Ballina- courty...
A Speed Boat
Lifeboatman leaps aboard runaway speedboat An incident on 29 July 1995 in which a speedboat owner fell overboard while retrieving his brother from the water left one of them injured by the boat's propeller and with their boat careering...
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
Scheme of Co-operation between the Institution, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the British Red Cross and St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
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Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860
FOE the past nine years we have periodically called public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the Seas of the United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament.
It is...
Category: Articles
Contents of Contribution Boxes, 1896
EXCLUDING THOSE BELONGINQ TO BRANCHES.
£. *. rf.
138 13 7 279 128 - 5 1 13 - 7 - 5 8 - 10 6 - 6 6 - 7 9 1 11 8 - 10 6 19- 1 11 5 12- - 7 6 213 - 16 - 3-9 1 - - 176 - 5 3 - 7 9 - 17 6 - 11 8 25- -...
Category: Donations