LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Gifts of Chocolate
The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
Category: Donations
Coxswain Michael Berry St.Helier
Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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DOCTOR'S MISSION At i.20 p.m. on 8th November, 1963, the local medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a patient was in need of medical attention on Inishere Island, and asked for the use of the lifeboat in case the patient...
Mercantile Credit
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Mercantile Credit
FLOAT A LOAN WITH US If you need finance to get you afloat, Mercantile Credit have the plan to suit all hands.
Whether it's for a new or secondhand boat, refitting or new equipment, we'll get you...
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Schermuly Ltd
"Never sail without Schermuly they have a flare for saving lives" Take the advice of the people who know that it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares .. .just in case ! Schermuly Yacht Signals are available pre-packed...
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Nostalgia Direct
the essential Foster & Allen AVAILABLE NOW IN A SUPERB Enjoy the beautiful, relaxing music of Foster & Allen on this wonderful collection - reminisce to Maggie and A Bunch Of Thyme plus who can forget Old Flames and their chart...
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Landes
The motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 4.54 A.M. on the 3rd January, as the Hoylake coastguard had tele- phoned that the steamer Landes, of Liverpool, was ashore on the revetment, with a heavy list, and wanted immedi- ate...
Trapped by the tide
Among the new lifeboats that were in action (listed in Launches, left) over the Autumn and Winter was Newquay’s D class lifeboat, Enid Mary. Her crew faced a tricky rescue in the surf when a group of students were cut off by...
Category: Articles