LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Treacle for Oil
READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...
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Cave Pic: View of the Cave at Perranporth, Where the Surfers Were Stuck
Cave pic: View of the cave at Perranporth, where the surfers were stuck. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oil Rig Sea Gem
Humber, Yorkshire On the 27th and 30th December, 1965, the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem A full account of this service appears on page 63.
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
View our AGM
AGM (IN POOLE, DUBLIN, LONDON OR PERTH) Would you like to come along to the RNLI Annual General Meeting? This year, as reported in previous editions of the magazine, it’s in a new venue. Our AGM has been held at the Barbican in London for...
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An Aerial Picture of the Rosslare Harbour Life-Boat R. Hope Roberts Which Is a 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Costing About £70,000.
An aerial picture of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat R. Hope Roberts which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type costing about £70,000.. - View image in PDF
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The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Service to North Sea Oil Rig
THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...
Category: Services
The Liberian Tanker Panther (15,840 Tons) Stuck on the Goodwin Sands After Running Aground on 30th March, 1971. Tugs Eventually Got Her Off With (Lower Foreground) the Local Life-Boat Standing
The Liberian tanker Panther (15,840 tons) stuck on the Goodwin Sands after running aground on 30th March, 1971. Tugs eventually got her off with (lower foreground) the local life-boat standing by. An account of this service appears on page... - View image in PDF
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The Costa Rican Tanker Aster and French Steamer Fauzon
Walmer, Kent.—About five o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1953, shipping agents in Dover tele- phoned that a steamer was asking for help five miles east of the East Good- win lightvessel. At 5.15 the life-boat Charles...