LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Waesland
NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
Our President's New Office. Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets
By George F. Shee, M.A., ALL who are connected in any way with the Life-boat Service will have read with special pleasure the announcement which was made on 14th February, that the King had decided to make a personal link between the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glenmoor
Shortly after midnight on the 24th-25th Decem- ber, whilst the s.s. Glenrnoor, of jSTew- castle-on-Tyne, was riding at anchor waiting to enter the harbour, a gale of wind sprang up from S.W., with hurri- cane squalls, causing her anchors to...
The Turbo-Electric Tanker Ampac-California
Barrow, Lancashire.—-At half past six on the morning of the 4th of October, 1950, the Walney Island coastguard reported a ship aground in Hilpsford Point, Walney. No distress signals had been made, but it was thought advisable to launch the...
The Ferry Nordic Ferry
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
The S.S. Earl Spencer
HOLYHEAD.—During a dense fog on the 8th January, signals were heard in the direction of the breakwater. The ThomasFielden Life-boat was launched at 5.30 A.M.and found the s.s. Earl Spencer, of Dublin, bound from Greenore for Holyhead, with...
The S.S. John Carrington
Caister, Norfolk. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of January, 1959, the coastguard at Great Yarmouth in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stationary a quarter of a mile east of Winterton. She was not at anchor and was...
The Name's Bond...
When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Progress of Seventeen Years. A New Edition of "Modern Motor Life-Boats"
Ix 1933, when he had been the Insti- tution's consulting naval architect for twenty-nine years, Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., published his Modern Motor Life-boats (Blackie, 7,9. 6d.). When he retired in 19-17, after...
Category: Articles
The Danish M.V. Bettann
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.30 a.m. on I9th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish m.v. Bettann, which was anchored off St. Helens Fort, was firing red flares. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...