LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Local Fishing Boat Lady Betty
OCTOBER 19TH.. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
About one o’clock in the afternoon, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Lady Betty, with only one man on board, had broken down and was drifting out to sea towards the...
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
Category: Articles
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
Man the Life-Boat. (From the New York Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend)
IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
Category: Articles
Norwegian Dream and the Container Vessel Ever Decent (2)
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
The Use of a Line Thrown to Wrecked Vessels from the Shore
IT is a commonly-received opinion, that if a line can only be thrown over a stranded vessel, the salvation of those on board her is almost secured. It seems to be presumed that those at either end of this slender com- munication, after...
Category: Articles
Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tana the R.N.L.I.
R.N.L.I. 41ft. Watson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
Category: Advertisement
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal (1)
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...
The Help of Theatres and Cinemas
IN The, Lifeboat for last February an account was given of the help received from cinemas during the display of two films, " Down to the Sea in Ships " and " Women Who Give," which had Life-boat interest. These films were...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
Category: Articles