LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...
Category: Obituaries
A Broadcast from Walmer to America
IN July, 1948, Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, recorded a talk for the National Broadcasting System of Ke y York, to be broadcast in America.
"Hullo, America! "This is Freddy Upton, coxswain of the Walmer...
Category: Articles
Obituary
THE Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution records with regret the deaths of the following coxswains in the past year: Richard Henry Hayes of Poole.
Owen Jones of Porthdinllaen.
Isaac Jarvis of Hope...
Category: Obituaries
An All-Night Service at Selsey
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the rnternationaf Life-boat Conference that it she act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The Institution...
Category: Articles
Madame Sands
At 9.38 a.m. on 22nd March, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Madame Sands was proceeding to Bridlington Bay with a mine on board. The life-boat crew stood by until 10.42 when a message was received from the coastguard...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous, for the new Montrose...
Category: Committee
Blanka
At 7.15 A.M. on the 29th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore about a mile north of Rattray Head. The crew of the No. 2 Motor Life-boat Alexander TullvcJt were at once summoned and the boat proceeded with all possible...
Depot Visit
Children from the Summerswood Junior School, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, visited the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood late last year. The following are extracts from letters received after their visit.
'The place I liked...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society
The idea of forming a society to cater for those with technical or historical interests in the life-boat service was suggested by Mr. JohnG. Francis in the early summer of last year. A letter from Mr. Francis on the subject in the June 1964...
Category: Articles