LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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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Silver Cloud
MAY 25TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At 1.15 in the afternoon the harbour master reported that the motor fishing boat Silver Cloud, of Gourdon, returning from the fishing ground, had been hit by a big sea and her engine had failed. A...
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DID NOT REVIVE At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1964, a nurse on Inishmaan Island reported that a doctor was needed to attend to a young girl who had been rescued from the sea. It was just after high water with a smooth sea and moderate...
The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Upperton
Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valkyran
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had burnt a red flare half a mile south of the piers. At 6.54 on an ebbing tide the life-boat...
Sandetti
BOAT ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 2.12 a.m. on i3th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was on fire four miles south of Thorney Island and that a helicopter had been sent. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was...
Presentation of Lister Generator: (1 to R) Mike Pennell Executive Assistant to Director Rnli John Atterton Deputy Director Rnli; Cdr David Wilford Superintendent Pool
Presentation of Lister generator: (1. to r.) Mike Pennell, executive assistant to director RNLI, John Atterton, deputy director RNLI; Cdr David Wilford, superintendent Poole depot; John Ball, production director R. A. Lister Power Plant; Cdr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vanguard
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The steam trawler Vanguard, of Sunderland, was seen near the outer Fame Island making signals of distress, during squally weather, at about 2 P.M. on the 1st April. As the sea was too heavy for ordinary boats to put off,...
Darlwin
Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...