LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Exeter
Before you buy or renew your Private Medical Insurance...read this With Exeter Friendly Society, your premiums do not increase simply because you get older. The age you join is the age you stay*.
This alone could save you...
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Jean Horsley
Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock...
Robert
REDCAR.—On the morning of the 7th September the sloop Robert, of Hull, which had been anchored for three weeks off Redcar, engaged in removing portions of the wreck of a steamer, weighed her anchor and made sail, her position having become...
Dagenite Batteries
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
Dagenite batteries are used extensively by the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ? Dagenite...
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A Rowing Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the night of the 4th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys, who had been fishing from a rowing boat fitted with an out board motor to the westward of the pier, were...
Cilla
Weymouth, Dorset-At 11.20 a.m.
on 5th June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Cilla with a one-man crew had broken down nine miles from Portland Bill. The lifeboat Frank Spiller...
Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christ- mas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the out- side. Inside are Christmas greetings and a picture in colours...
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The Asangyo
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.20 in the evening of the 23rd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch, heading south, had fired red Very lights and was flying the pilot flag. At 9.48 it was reported that she was firing...
Osprey
At 10 A.M. on the 9th March, the sloop Osprey, of Shields, whilst on a voyage from Shields to Dunbar, encountered a strong northerly gale, and, when off Berwick, sprang a leak. Finding himself in a sinking state, the master of the sloop bore...