LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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

JANUARY 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 11 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the rocks close to the east pier.

A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing, with very heavy seas. The motor life-boat...

Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.

Lucas and CAV supply a full range of...

Difficult launch A REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD that a small fishing vessel was in trouble in the Dee estuary was received by Hoylake lifeboat station at 1050 on the morning of Monday March 24, 1986. A north-north-westerly force 8 gale,...

Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...

Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.

Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...

Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...

CLOVELLY, DEVON.—During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's...