LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE WORLD'S MOST DWERFUL FLASHLIGHT ITNALITE FLASHES B world's most powerful flashlight, specially ported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight 30,000 candle power and is entirely waterjof, made of strong plastic and...

THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT DYNAL1TE FLASHES The world's most powerful flashlight, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power and is entirely waterproof, made of strong plastic and...

Thought you might be interested in this one for the next issue of the Lifeboat magazine.

We've heard of military cutbacks but this takes the biscuit. A kite assisted rescue helicopter.

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FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.

Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...

JANUARY 19TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During a north-northeast gale of eighty-seven miles an hour, cries for help were heard and it was believed that a small boat was in difficulties, but nothing was found. It was...

On the 25th June the services of the Thomas Bewick were again called into requisition. Four of the herring boats belonging to the port were waiting for the tide to rise sufficiently for them to get into harbour, but in the prevailing...

Coxswain Edwin Distin, of Salcombe, who won the silver medal in the third month of the war, has now been awarded the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of an Admiralty salvage craft, in very heavy seas. His motor mechanic was ill, and his...

MR. HAROLD WATKINSON, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of 1955 carried out by coast life-saving companies to be held by the companies of Gardenstowii and Banff jointly. The award...