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
Mudeford Ladies' Guild
How could anyone refuse to buy an apple or an orange from these irresistible sellers'.' Gabrie/le Blunden and Tamrnv Skan were he/ping Mudeford ladies' guild to raise more than £500 at its 1983 annual fete, which included... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Iron Ships, and the Wreck of the Royal Charter
How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
Category: Articles
A watchful eye
Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
Olivia Maersk
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
Category: Articles
The 900-Ton Coaster Woodlark Aground on Rocks at Morte Point Woolacombe Devon on 13Th December 1967 and (Below) the Appledore Life-Boat Towing the Vessel
The 900-ton coaster Woodlark aground on rocks at Morte Point, Woolacombe, Devon, on 13th December, 1967, and (below) the Appledore life-boat towing the vessel clear.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Crew of two survive yacht fire and explosionTwo people and their dog had a very lucky escape last October when a fire and explosion ripped through their 27ft yacht.
Whitstable's Atlantic 21 was searching within 100...
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