LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Teamwork saves three surfers Thanks on Vellum awarded to Newquay helmsman A;ombined lifeboat and helicopter rescue in Force 8 winds saved the lives of three surfers in January - including a thirteen year old girl who was suffering from...

At 4.50 A.M.

on the 17th March a telephone call was received from Dublin that Valentia Wireless Station had reported a trawler in distress twenty-five miles S.S.W. of Mizen Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...

Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...

Is it the hireling's greed of grain Urges them o'er the seething main ? Is it to glean with wrecker's glee The doleful harvest of the sea ? Is it to grasp with iron grip The riddled flag of the foeman's ship— To haul to port...

SEATON CAKEW, DUBHAM, AND TEES- MOUTH, YORKSHIRE.—On the morning of the 1st April a Greek steamer of about 1,500 tons, named the Mikelis, and belonging to Argostoii, attempted to enter the Tees, bound for Middles- brough in ballast. Her...

PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...

Logwatch, a new electronic navigational instrument made by the marine equipment division of R. P. Jeffers and Company, has recently been evaluated by the RNLI design department. It is an electronic digital log with an integral chronometer...

Ace Bhatti, actor and former lifeboat crew member

When I asked if I could help out around the inshore lifeboat station at Staithes and Runswick, they said ‘no – we need you on the...