LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...

RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a...

A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...

AUGUST 23RD. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN At 11.35 A.M. information was received through the police that a British aeroplane was in the sea off Dalby. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.10 P.M. the motor life-boat...

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.<...

DECEMBER 25TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. The crew of an R.A.F. aeroplane had baled out and some of the airmen had come safely down. A search was made for three who were missing, but without success, and at dawn the men were found...

For decades, brave volunteers launched their Watson class
lifeboats to the rescue. Now the blueprint for a wellloved lifeboat that saved many lives has inspired a new RNLI Shop range. Celebrate our lifeboat heritage in style with...

AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...