PYROTECHNICS 0 As a reader of THE LIFE-BOAT I have found many of the articles printed therein of great interest, particularly so the 'article in the January issue, 'Safety at Sea with Pyrotechnics', by Pat Winter Thomas.
Category: Correspondence
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Northman of Aber- deen was aground off the Peterhead north breakwater. Ten minutes later the life-boat Julia...
North Eastern Division Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of...
Category: Services
THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.
THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...
Category: Articles
• The first edition of The Small-Boat Skipper's Safety Book by Denny Desoutter (Hollis and Carter, £1.95) was published in 1972. The revised second edition published this year is in the light, no doubt, of after thoughts; but it...
Category: Articles
MARGATE.—About 4.40 p.m., on the 21st March, a telegram was received from Lloyd's agent at Whitstable stating that a brigantine had stranded on the Red Sand and that her crew were apparently in jeopardy. A strong gale was blowing from...
Perseus Ablaze In The Channel—Walmer Life-Boat Took Off The Crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Burton-on-Trent branch president and a committee member plan to visit all English mainland lifeboat stations on their BMW motorcycles. They will start from the RNLI stand at the Royal Show being held at the National Agricultural... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs