LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

"About time, Private Medical Insurance that won't increase our premiums simply because we get older" When it comes to medical insurance, Exeter Friendly Society never penalise you with higher premiums simply because you get...

December Charles Rutland, former box secretary of the Medway branch since the mid 1980s. Charles collected over £30,000 during his term as box secretary and was awarded the silver badge in 1996..

PIEL, LANCASHIRE.—The ship Depositor, of Halifax, N.S., in ballast, was seen in a dangerous position on the foul ground 2J miles S. of Walney lighthouse, on the morning of Sunday, the 26th October.

She had been in tow of a...

MR. WILLIAM DRYDEN, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment for the rescue on the 17th of July, 1958, of an elevenyear- old boy, who was struggling in the water in...

25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...

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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 4.43 a.m.

on 13th May, 1968, the coastguard reported that a flare had been seen near the North Buxey buoy. The life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched at 5.15 in a south westerly gale with a...

(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...