LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
Bathing Accidents and Safety Bathing Dresses
WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
Category: Articles
Crew Member Recovered After Going Overboard
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Banff informed Coxswain William Pirie of Whitehills that red flares had been seen four miles off Portsoy. At 7.30 the Whitehills life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No....
Category: Services
Letters
ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
Category: Correspondence
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
Mercantile Credit
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Category: Advertisement
Mercantile Credit
A NEW BOAT ALL AT SEA OR PLAIN SAILING? Whether you want to buy a new or secondhand craft or refit your own, make Mercantile Credit your first port of call. As we've been financing all kinds of boats, and equipment for over 50 years our...
Category: Advertisement
The Atlantic 75
Hypalon coated nylon inflatable sponsons. All new boats are now orange.
Conical diaphram between sections allows some transfer of pressure if forward section is damaged and leaking.
Marine ply deck over...
Category: Articles
Heroine
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — On the 24th March, at about 1.15 P.M., a schooner was observed running for Bideford Harbour.
The wind was then blowing a gale from the N., with heavy snow squalls. When between the Fairway and Bar buoys...
The S.S. Pinedene
SALCOMBK, SOUTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been reported by the Coastguard on the 17th January, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 12.10 A.M. and proceeded towards Prawle Point; when about two miles distant from there she showed...