LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Institution and Salvage of Property
IF any excuse were necessary for again reverting to this subject in these pages, it is assuredly to be found in its importance to all concerned, viz., the owners of ships and cargoes; the various marine insurance and salvage associations;...
Category: Articles
Vertrouwen
Injured fisherman LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Barrow lifeboat station at 2232 on Monday July 16, 1979, that there was an injured crew member aboard the motor fishing vessel Vertrouwen, 18 miles west of Walney...
Miriam
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1959, the local fishing boat Miriam had not returned although she had left harbour at four o'clock. As the weather was deteriorating the life-boat /. W. Archer was launched at...
His Models Help the RNLI
£2,700 or more. Through HQ Scottish Command help was given under 'OPMAC (Operations with Military Assistance to the Civil Community). The location was reconnoitered by the 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., and plans were drawn up...
Category: Articles
18-Year-Old Boys In IRB Rescue
A FIRST-CLASS IRB rescue, carried out in near extreme conditions for an IRB, has earned Mr. Idris Evans, aged 23, the helmsman, and crew members Mr.
Trevor Evans and Mr. Peter Evans, both aged 18 of the New Quay,...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
Category: Articles
The Maud Smith Award
The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...
Category: Awards
Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tana the R.N.L.I.
R.N.L.I. 41ft. Watson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
Category: Advertisement
British Inventor
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...