LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zephyros
Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...
A Yacht
Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...
News and Views
N E W S P O I NT Charting our course for the future Vision and Values for the RNLI can almost hear your groans as I mention two business buzzwords currently in fashion. Notwithstanding this healthy cynicism - I need your...
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A Wreck at Sea
" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
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Y.L.A. Section
On the afternoon of 22nd July, 1970, after parting company with the Y.L.A.
chairman homeward bound in his Black Cygnet, I was on passage in our 7-ton sloop Ar-Men from FAbervrac'h bound for Roscoff. It was a fine sunny...
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Difficult conditions as two casualties are taken from the shore The rescue of two people cut off by the tide in difficult and dangerous conditions has led to Sean Baxter, the helmsman of Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 lifeboat,...
On Weather Glasses
By Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
As an excuse for writing rather positively about weather and its premonitory indications, I beg to say that nearly half a century ago I was taught by my father, a farming, gardening, and...
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Electronic Eyes and Ears By Lieut Ernest Gough Rn
COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...
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A Schooner
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Visitor
WHITBY.—A telegram was received at about 10.30 A.M. on the 19th January stating that a ship had sunk about sixmiles southward of this port, and that the crew had been compelled to take to their boat and come to an anchor. A message was sent...