LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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•1 GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...

Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...

Torbay, Devon.—3rd July, 1939. A small motor yacht had caught fire, but another yacht rescued the only person on board. A donation was received in gratitude for the launching of the lifeboat.

—Rewards, S.2 Ws..

Selsey, Sussex.—19th August, 1939.

It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the lifeboat could find nothing.—Rewards, £11 15s..

Great Yarmouth and Corleston, Norfolk.

—6th September, 1939. An explosion had been reported in the neighbourhood of the Gorton Light-vessel, but the lifeboat found that the light-vessel itself was all right, and there was...

(From r.) Tom Nutman, DI (Scotland, N.), accompanies Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, chairman of the Search and Rescue Committee, Commander Bruce Cairns, Chief of Operations, and Captain Bob Browning, BP Forties Administrative Superintendent... - View image in PDF

(I Super Punch Oul model Book! Featuring an authentic lifeboat replica easy to assemble with no scissors or glue required! Plus - pages of colouring and lots-to-do about the boats and the men who man them! Young World Productions Limited...

Congratulations to the RNLI on the occasion of its 150th anniversary Bideford Shipyard 1973 • • • • • Bank End Bideford LimitedDevon England Telephone Bideford (023 72) 5508/9 Telegraphic address: BIDSHIP DEVON 72ft Clyde Class...