LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR

In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...

Tins year South Shields, where the first life-boat was built in 1789, cele- brated its centenary as a county borough. As part of the celebrations the Mayor and Mayoress, and members of the Council, went out in the Tyne- mouth life-boat...

Thursday, 21st February, 1924.

The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the Chair Decided to dose the Eastbourne No. 1 Life boat Station.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. Mr....

IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the RNLI has been exploring the possibilities of introducing intermediate lifeboats into its fleet: fast boats of about 35 feet in length, essentially simple but with outstanding seakeeping qualities, which would...

IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...

Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...

When sisters Emily and Lydia visited Newborough Beach in north Wales on a blustery February day, they had no idea they’d end their trip on Trearddur Bay’s lifeboat

Getting cut off by the tide is an incredibly easy mistake...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...