LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Keep on running . . .
I refer to the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT and would appreciate your forwarding to me a supply of marathon sponsorship forms, say 60.—JOHN A.
GALLAGHER, divisional welfare secretary,...
Category: Correspondence
Southern Region Grand Draw 1983
Southern region grand draw 1983 raised a magnificent £25,300. The draw was made at Poole HQ on October 25 by BBC TV reporter Anne Dawson, and the first prize, a Ford Fiesta Popular car, was won by Rupert Thomas of Burghfield Common,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Fairway
HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 10th October a heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced. The coxswain of the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat, the John Clay Barlow, was at the pilots' watch house at about seven o'clock, when it was...
The Sand Dredger Ron Woolaway
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.58 on the night of the 18th of June,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand dredger Ron Woolaway had capsized near Flatholm Island but that her crew of seven were safely...
Maxwell
The full-rigged ship Maxwell, 1,800 tons, of Liverpool, left that port on the morning of the 19th July, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. She was towed by the steam-tug Great Western and, on arriving near the North-West...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been...
Category: Articles
The Ship's Company of Rfa Gold Rover Commanded By Captain P T Taylor Collected £234 for Weymouth Lifeboat Station and the Money Was Presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1) By Chief O
The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
Category: Obituaries
Isaac Vondy Sir William's Coxswain Was Awarded Three Silver Medals for Gallantry Illustration By Courtesy of the Manx Museum
Isaac Vondy, Sir William's coxswain, was awarded three silver medals for gallantry.
illustration by courtesy of the Manx Museum.
Category: Drawings
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1878
THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next...
Category: Meetings