LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oil Drilling Rig Sea Quest Costing £3]M Before She Left the Belfast Shipyard That Built Her Boats Can Be Seen on Davits at Deck Level
The Oil Drilling Rig Sea Quest Costing £3]M Before She Left The Belfast Shipyard That Built Her Boats Can Be Seen On Davits at Deck Level. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3.25 p.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the motor mechanic reported that a dinghy had capsized in the estuary and that her crew were having difficulty in baling her out. At 3.39 the mechanic reported that the dinghy...
The Refrigerated Cargo Vessel Green Lily
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
Gotcha!
The things some people do to raise money for the lifeboats! Beryl Cole from Exmouth secretly sent in this picture of her husband, Brian. The couple were at an outside event in Exeter and Brian had his face painted to raise some cash for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
Dispatches
RNLI fundraising offices Scotland RNLI, Unit 3, Ruthvenfield Grove Inveratmond Industrial Estate Perth, PHI 3CL Tel: 01738 642999 Email: [email protected] Eastern RNLI, Magdalen Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 BAD Tel: 01473 822837...
Category: Articles
Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
Category: Articles
Maritime Books (Readers Union Ltd)
f MARITIME BOOK BARGAINS from The No-Nonsense Book Society Tor All Who Love The Sea The Maritime Book Society is a unique, personal service offering books on every practical aspect of boatowning and modern seamanship. Our books provide all...
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A Voice from Mesopotamia. Note By the Editor
SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
Category: Articles
The Rnli In Ireland By Edward Wake-Walker
There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
Category: Articles