LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT DYNALITE FLASHES The world's most powerful flashlight, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power made of strong plastic, and unconditionally guaranteed for...

Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry...

Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 7.14 p.m. on gth September, 1966, a fishing boat, apparently with engine trouble, was noticed approximately half a mile north north west of the Sunk lightvessel.

A further message reported...

At 12.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1966, the Dutch coaster Spray, of Joure, was reported aground on Newcombe sands, about four hundred yards from Lowestoft harbour entrance, and was signalling by light for life-boat assistance. The life-boat...

Workington, Cumberland - At 2 p.m. on 5th February, 1967 a small boat was reported to be firing distress flares two miles to the seaward of Sailerbeck cemetery. The life-boat Thomas McCunn on temporary duty at the station, slipped her...

Wick, Caithness-shire - At 9.50 p.m.

on 24th July, 1967, it was learnt that an explosion and flares had been seen eight miles east of Brora. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 10.10 in a moderate south westerly...

A new life-boat service has recently come into being. This has been formed in the Union of South Africa and is known as the National Sea Rescue Institute of South Africa. The organisation is a voluntary one and aims to establish some 38 life...