LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fig 4: (Below) Web Frames Stringers Engine Bearers and Keelson Are All Now In Place the Shape of the Propeller Tunnels Aft Is Already Emerging
Fig 4: (below) Web frames, stringers, engine bearers and keelson are all now in place. The shape of the propeller tunnels, aft, is already emerging.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer U.S.O. and Cargo Steamer Andre' Thome' of La Rochelle
NOVEMBER 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.30 at night the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands. A south-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Lifeboat Services June and July 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 8, July 5, 14. 15 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15, 17, 20 (twice) and 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 27,29, 30, July 4,6.
14 (twice) and 21 Aith,...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies: Ireland. Kilmore and Hovvth
Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.
Kilmore, County Wexford.
The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
Treaty, of Goole
On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of dis- tress flying. In a very short time the Henry...
Air Bags Which When Inflated Will Initiate Righting Are Fitted to Atlantic 21 Ilbs (Right Above) and to Watson and Barnett Lifeboats (Right)
Air bags which, when inflated, will initiate righting are fitted to Atlantic 21 ILBs (right above), and to Watson and Barnett lifeboats (right). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Trawlers, an Admiralty Trawler and a Steamer (1)
JANUARY 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Fishing trawlers, an Admiralty trawler, and a steamer had been bombed and machine-gunned, but all were able to go on their way except a fishing trawler which another vessel towed into...
Tern and the Trinity Vessel Reculver
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...
Penny Ann
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy seemed to be in diffi- culties about a mile off the Tyne entrance. The sea was rough and a • moderate westerly...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
Category: Meetings