LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in...

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Action stations , LUC AS C AV can take it Specify LUCAS-CAV alternators and electrical systems in vessels which must work, come hell and high water. LUCAS-CAV marine equipment is built for really tough conditions. It includes screened and...

Derby branch commissioned Roderick Lovesey, the Derbyshire artist, to paint a lifeboat scene. A raffle for the original oil painting, The Rescue, is just ending, but a limited edition of 250 full colour prints (19'/2inx.26in) each signed... - View image in PDF

On the 10th Sept.

the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then...

THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January Gerry Prest Former Littlehampton branch chairman, in January Kenneth Atha Former Halifax...

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