LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
45923 search results for 'The Deadly Oil Slick - An Aerial View of the Tanker Torrey Canyon'
List view Card view

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: May 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 80

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.') FOUNDED in 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...

Category: Advertisement

Spectacular, of St Malo

Date: November 1874

Volume: 09

Issue: 94

The Dr. JTatton, the Institution's boat stationed near New Eomney, was launched soon after noon on the 25th October, and proceeded through a very heavy sea and strong breeze to the assistance of a ketch embayed off Dym- ehurcb. with a...

The Iron Ship Loch Shiel

Date: November 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 174

ANGLE, MILFORD HAVEN.— The fullrigged iron ship Loch Shiel, of and from Glasgow, bound for Adelaide and Melbourne, with a general cargo of about 1,600 tons, stranded on Thorn Island, at the entrance to Milford Haven, in a heavy sea on the...

The French Motor Trawler Janock

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

Torbay, Devon.—At 9.7 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had signalled for help eight miles east-north- east from Berry Head. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...

Around the Coast

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.

A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...

Category: Articles

1. Three of the seven ex-lifeboats on passage to Dunkirk

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

1. Three of the seven ex-lifeboats on passage to Dunkirk - from front to rear: Dowager, Tyne Star and Stenoa.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Ingrid II

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

The s.s.IngridlL, of Christiania, whilst bound from Christiania to London with a cargo of timber, stranded on the Whitby Rocks on the 25th November. As the sea was smooth, Coxswain Langlands and Second Coxswain Eglon put off in a coble to...

The Life-Boat Service on Exhibition

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

DURING the past few months, the Life- boat Service has been represented at three different exhibitions. From December 26th-31st, 1950, there was a scientific exhibition at the Imperial College, South Kensington, organised by Crosby Hall (the...

Category: Articles

Pulling a Fast One?

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Pulling a fast one? There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the RNLI trials team are looking for an alternative means of lifeboat propulsion and asked the Director to acheive 25 knots under oar! Brian Miles, right, is actually... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...