LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dirk II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...
Stormdrift II
Montrose, Angus - At 6.50 a.m. on 27th July, 1966, the m.f.v. Stormdrift II of Montrose was reported immobilized with fouled propellers five miles southeast of Scurdyness. The life-boat TheGood Hope was launched at 7.19 in a light westerly...
Golden Charter
The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....
and to think alx ut loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.
Not the...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THERE is a time-honoured saying that " it is a long lane that has no turning," and the old saw may not inappropriately be applied at the present time to the Life-boat Saturday Fund. For the last three years the Life-boat Saturday...
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Rescue By Borough Engineer and Clerk
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, 1957, Mr.
Harry Wilman, the borough engineer and surveyor of Colwyn Bay, learnt at his office that a boat was in distress in the bay. He arranged for a...
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An Interesting New Concept In Lifeboat Design from Sweden.
An interesting new concept in lifeboat design from Sweden. Designed to combine the advantages of conventional construction and the RIB, the perimeter tubing is solid rather than inflatable.
Two of these lifeboats have now... - View image in PDF
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Errata
In the list of those who received silver badges, which appeared in the June 1963 number of the Life-boat on pages 485 and 486, the name of Mrs.
C. E. Thompson of Bradford appeared wrongly as Miss G. E....
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Healthspan
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Wmg of MSM and 60mg ol Vitamin...
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YACHT IN DISTRESS
YARMOUTH | 10 DECEMBER
The all-weather lifeboat crew based at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, headed to the aid of two sailors whose yacht was in danger of losing its mast. The yacht had serious rigging failure, leaving the sailors at...
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The Lifeboat Station at Skerries Co Dub/In Was Formally Re-Opened on Sunday May 1
The lifeboat station at Skerries, Co Dub/in, was formally re-opened on Sunday May 1 bv John Boland, Minister for the Public Service in the Republic of Ireland; Mr Boland lives in Skerries and has been closely involved in the reestablishment... - View image in PDF
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