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
An Offshore Platform
Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...
Girl Christian and Minehead Angler
Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...
Kingston Prison In Portsmouth
People passing by Kingston Prison in Portsmouth one day in April were amazed to see the prison doors swing open and hordes of oddly dressed 'convicts' flooding out. They were all competitors in the great charity jailbreak, organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Safety at Sea
SPEAKING AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, London, at a combined meeting with the Greenwich Forum on February 25, John Archer, head of the Department of Trade's Marine Division, said that despite the growth in the risks facing ships at sea today,...
Category: Articles
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NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
MAYDAY FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL
Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...
Category: Articles
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SEPTEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An unusual light had been reported, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £9 7s..
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OCTOBER 1ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. Reports had been received that faint SOS calls had been heard and a patch of oil had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Rhyl, £16 14s. ; Beaumaris, £16...