LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The New Rod Aerial
On the light self-righting life-boat at Bridlington. The loud-hailer is in front of the mast.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above Right - the Stricken Gas Fuel Oil Tanker, Blackfriars
Above right - the stricken gas fuel oil tanker, Blackf riars. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
Category: Articles
Oil As a Wave Smoother
The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
Category: Articles
Sustainability: the long view
If you find it tricky to keep your landfill waste, carbon footprint and electricity bills to a minimum, spare a thought for the RNLI – we’ve got people and buildings all around the UK and Republic of Ireland. But we have a duty...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Oil Trader
AUGUST 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. At 11.56 A.M. the coastguard reported that enemy aircraft were attacking shipping some seven miles S.E. of Aldeburgh.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes...
Another View of the "Green Ranger"
Another View of the "Green Ranger". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tanker
DECEMBER 19TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A tanker had been attacked by German aeroplanes and set on fire, and the life-boat and naval motor boats went as near to her as possible, but saw no sign of anyone on board. - Rewards,...
The British Tanker Esso Canterbury
Valentia, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m. on 2nd March, 1966, the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the British tanker Esso Canterbury and that her estimated time of...