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

JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...

A survivor's story Lifeboats in action is usually our opportunity to describe in thrilling detail how brave lifeboat crews save lives at sea - but what's it like to be rescued? Michael O'Connetl reports on his experience and...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 18th of July, 1950, the police reported that a small boat, with three men aboard, needed help in Fal- mouth Bay. At ten o'clock the life- boat John- and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on...

COVER PICTURE The cover for the first issue of THE LIFEBOAT for 1974—the RNLI's 150th yearis reproduced from an old coloured lantern slide believed to have formed part of 'the first advertising campaign for RNLI on magic lantern...

Contents Notes of the Quarter by the Editor Burtonia; Largest Lifeboat Flotilla; Bristol and Ship Owners; Onedin Line; Support from Sport 199 XLIII Annual General Meeting 201 Number 449 „ . r . Naming Ceremonies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 206...

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RECENTLY I VISITED the USA in my capacity as secretary of the American/ British Lifeboat Appeal Committee.

I was able to make my journey at no cost to the appeal through the generosity of Transworld Airlines and was...