LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Oil Tanker (2)
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
An Oil Tanker
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
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On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...
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Aerial View of Weymouth Harbour
The life-boat, which lies afloat, is seen in the centre. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oil Rig Orion
Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...
The American Oil-Tanker S.S. El Morro
10,000-TON STEAMER AGROUND Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, a vessel was reported apparently ashore on Sheringham Shoal, about six miles south-east of the town. She was kept under observation,...
The Norwegian Oil Tanker Beuston and Dudley Rose
APRIL 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The Norwegian oil-tanker Beuston and the British steamer Dudley Rose sailing in convoy had been attacked by German aeroplanes, and the tanker had been set on fire. The sea was a mass of flame for 150-500 yards...
An Aerial View of Scarborough Harbour
An aerial view of Scarborough harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aerial View of Ramsey Sound from the North the Bitches Can Be Seen As a Thin Line of Rocks Running Eastwards Into the Sound Off the Island of Ramsey on The
An aerial view of Ramsey Sound from the north. The Bitches can be seen as a thin line of rocks running eastwards into the sound off the island of Ramsey on the right.
Photograph by courtesy of West Air Photography.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ida Bakke, and Oil Tanker British Influence
SEPT . 15TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. A telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service at about 6.30 A.M., asking that the life-boat should be sent out to meet the Norwegian motor vessel...