LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oil on Troubled Waters
It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...
Category: Articles
The Aerial
The 46 feet Watson cabin motor life-boat at Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, fitted with the aerial (or R/T receiving and transmitting sets of the International Marine Radio Company.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
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Feature View from the Cockpit
Where do search and rescue helicopters go when they're not saving lives? James Ferguson hitches a ride with RAF Lossiemouth to find out.British military helicopters and RNLI lifeboats have been working together for over 50 years, with...
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A 100-Foot Length of Avon Inflatable Tendering Bent and Anchored Across the Mouth of Little Venice, London, to Contain the Oil Slick.
A 100-foot length of Avon inflatable tendering bent and anchored across the mouth of Little Venice, London, to contain the oil slick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Panamanian Steamer Buccaneer and Tanker Johannishus.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...
Collapse of An Oil Rig
ON Monday, 2yth December, 1965—Boxing Day—a great many people were appalled on hearing the news of a disaster which had overtaken the oil rig Sea Gem which collapsed and sank in the North Sea. The oil rig, which belonged to the British...
Category: Services
The Old Aerial
Fitted by Marconi on the Watson cabin life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.. - View image in PDF
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Service to a Tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
Category: Services
An Oil Rig
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil...