LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star of Freedom
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 12.10 p.m. on i5th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing vessel was in difficulties on the east side of Muldoanich Island. Thelife-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Dagenite Batteries
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DAGENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take...
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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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Coxswain Terry George of Sennen Cove
Coxswains Terry George of Sennen Cove, left, and Neil Brockman of Penlee were both awarded a Bronze Medal as a result of their joint service to the fishing vessel Julian Paul.
They are pictured shortly before receiving... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bicycle Made for Eight!
A bicycle made for eight! Eight members of HM Coastguard undertook to pedal from Chepstow to Penarth, a distance of 50 miles, on a bicycle made for eight by Geoff Townsend.
They raised over £1,000 for the RNLI and are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From Darkest Peru To
Small Paddington Bear soft toys will be on sale in branches of Barclays and Woolwich throughout the UK from 4 July-7 August 2006. They cost just £2 each and all proceeds will go to the RNLI'sTrain one, save many. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (76)
MAY 2ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and part of it was above water. Attempts were made to recover the bodies of her crew, but they were unsuccessful. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.
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Reinhard
The German ketch Reinhard, of Westrhauderfehn, stranded on North Sunderland Point during hazy and very cold weather in the early morning of the 24th February. A strong southerly breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was inclined to be...
Handy Billy
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 7th August information was received by telephone that the Great Yarmouth fishing boat Handy Billy was in distress about one and a half miles to the northward. A fresh E. by S. breeze was blowing and the...
Saida
Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground...