LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Year Honours
Three RNLI lifesavers were recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2012. Retired Newhaven Coxswain Ian Johns received an MBE for services to maritime safety. Ian was on the lifeboat crew for 37 years.
Arran Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Elizabeth Drew
At 10.30 P.M. on the 8th December a telephone message was received from the Civic Guard at Kinsale that a vessel was in distress off Garrettstown Strand.
The Motor Life-boat Sarah Ward and David William Crostxeller was...
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Southwold, Suffolk. At...
Category: Services
Eleno
The Lizard, Cadgwith and Penlee, Cornwall, and Plymouth, Devonshire.— On the 5th March the Italian steamer Eleno sent out a wireless message that her engines had broken down, that she was drifting ashore, and wanted...
Only a trained eye can see a rip current
Steve Wills, Beach Safety Manager, comments: Only a trained eye can see a rip current (experienced surfers actually use them to get out past waves) and normally only from high up, such as a cliff top. As we mentioned in the last issue, it is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Lexicon
Sea users have a language all of their own, and when you add the terms brought in by new technology and the demands of a specialised operation such as the lifeboat service the potential for confusion can be enormous! In The Lifeboat we try...
Category: Articles
The Fishin Boat Aurora
PETERHEAD.—It was reported at o'clock on the morning of the 24th September that a vessel was on the rocks at Scotstown Head, about six miles to the N. of Peterhead. A thick mist prevailed at the time, and as a strong breeze was blowing...
Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON two successive days the Motor Lifeboat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was launched to take doctors out to sick men on board vessels. On 24th March, an American steamer, the Yapalaga of Philadelphia, was seen approaching from the Needles...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—About 3.50 P.M.
on the 14th May the Coxswain's attention was drawn to a small boat which was apparently in distress about a mile from the shore. With promptness the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat were...
A Small Fishing Boat
— On the 6th March during a strong S.W.
gale Coxswain J. Cameron, of the new motor Life-boat Alexander Tullocli, observed a small fishing-boat in a perilous position about four miles to the north of Peterhead. Her sails had...