LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Industrial Life Offices Association have made a film about life insurance and there will be 500 showings during the winter to audiences such as women's institutes, community associations, church and chapel social groups and so on.<...

"Now we are over 50 at last we've found affordable Private Medical Insurance..." For the over fifties Exeter Friendly Society offer healthcare Insurance that is hard to beat, because unlike virtually any other medical insurer...

Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 8th of April, 1957, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Air Sea Rescue Unit at Tayport saying the poliee had asked the unit to send a motor launch to a position...

Length 16-16.55m (52ft-54ft 4in) D Q o m 17ft 9in (5.43m) Displacement 25.25-32.25 tons Speed 18 knots Range 230 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP), wood or steel. - View image in PDF

THREE members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans, another the mechanic, Sydney Fowler. The third is a police sergeant named...

THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...

IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....

Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...