LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Co-operative Funeralcare Funeral pre-payment plan from Co-operative Funeralcare It's always a good idea to plan ahead and with a funeral pre-payment plan from Co-operative Funeralcare, you can do just that. There are three funeral...

THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.

Although the Society ("...

IN the early morning of 12th January, 1937, a Finnish motor ship, the Johanna Thorden, passed through the Pentland Firth, between the north of Scotland and the Orkneys, on her way from New York to Gothenburg. She had thirty- eight on board,...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 7.10 in the evening of the 9th of March, 1948, the Southend coastguard reported a vessel in the Sound of Sanda burning a red light or flare, and the motor life- boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.20 in a...

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—Thirty two fishing-cobles proceeded to their fishing ground about 18 or 20 miles distant at 3.30 on the morning of the 14th. January. A strong wind sprung up from the S.E. at about 7 o'clock, and by 9...

Somebody's sure to spot you, if• •• you have a SARBE BE369 aboard, because this new Flotation Distress Beacon automatically transmits sequentially on both the civil (VHP) and the military (UHF) aviation distress frequencies.

!QUTBOARDS MARINER DOESNT JUST PROMISE RELIABILITY it proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promised GREATER RELIABILITY as an important reason for...

George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...