LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
The History of the Plymouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 The second edition of one of Jeff Moriss's comprehensive local lifeboat guides, which brings the history of this particular station up to 1994.<...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The...
Category: Services
IRB Launches (1)
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
Waiting for Rescue By J D Sleightholme
This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
Category: Articles
Oil Rig Orion Went Aground on the North West Shore of Guernsey on February I on Friday February 10 It Was Thought She Was Adrift: In Fact She Had Parted from Her B
Oil rig Orion went aground on the north west shore of Guernsey on February I .
On Friday February 10 it was thought she was adrift: in fact, she had parted from her barge, which had sunk, but was still held aground by her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Category: Services
Ocea (2)
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Romantic
Dover, Kent.—-On the night of the 17th August Ramsgate coastguard telephoned that South Goodwin lightvessel had reported SOS signals and flares about two and a half miles southeast of the light-vessel. The sea was smooth and the weather was...