LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf
THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...
Category: Articles
Hundreds of Eager Walkers Took Part In a 20-Mile Hike to Raise Funds for the Lifeboat Stations In North Kent
Hundreds of eager walkers took part in a 20-mile hike to raise funds for the lifeboat stations in North Kent. The hike, organised by the Medway branch, was started by lifeboatmen from Sheerness and the walkers tramped from Upnor Sailing Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous, for the new Montrose...
Category: Committee
Sjofna, of Oslo (1)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St.Stephen's Day swim
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St Stephen's Day swim. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
Category: Services
The Naming of Rnlb Ann Ritchie Oban
ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Above: Oban Harbour, Where the Rescue Took Place. the Lifeboat Berth Is Marked to the Bottom Left of the Picture
Above: Oban Harbour, where the rescue took place. The lifeboat berth is marked to the bottom left of the picture. p iure A*« fiims Ltd. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs