LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
MONTROSE.—On the 30th September, a boat containing three pilots put off from this place to a Norwegian barque, and one of the men was placed on board the vessel.
The boat then returned towards the shore, but the wind having...
Floating fireball
When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.
It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
Sixteen of the cobles belonging to Newbiggin were overtaken by a strong gale which sprang up from the E.S.E, on the morning of the 13th February. At 11 A.M. it was blowing a whole gale and the sea got very heavy. The cobles made for land,...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
What's it like to volunteer at our most northerly station, Aith, on the Shetland Islands? On 20 June, Photographer Jack Lowe of the Lifeboat Station Project made the most of the midsummer light, while the crew spoke about life at 60°...
Category: Articles
RNLI Rescue Map
RESCUE MAP RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland as of August 2005.
See page 42 for news of the first Tamar class lifeboat to come on station.
Use...
Category: Charts
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
Yacht Auriga and Haliday
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
Peace
At 9 P.M.
on the 30th September distress rockets were seen in the direction of the Swin Middle light-vessel. The information was conveyed to the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14, and rockets were fired to...
C.T. 8
On the morning of the 15th February, during a mode- rate northerly breeze, with a heavy ground sea, a steamer was reported ashore about one mile N.W. of Donna Nook, flying signals of distress. The Life-boat was launched, and when she reached...
Your Letters
Licencing for sailors? is interesting to speculate on what would happen if we were ever to lose our traditional freedom to go to sea.
Many lifeboat callouts are for seafarers in small craft powered by unreliable outboard...
Category: Correspondence