LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th December, 1931, was appointed a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- perience in the Mercantile Marine,...
Category: Obituaries
Eboe
Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 3 A.M. on the 20th February. The Lifeboat was launched, and proceeded to the barqne Eboe, of Liverpool, bound from that port for Africa with a general cargo; she had 6 feet of water in her hold,...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Frederick Swarts, of Barry Dock, who has been coxswain since the 1st April, 1956. For nearly ten years before that he was second coxswain.
Since he became a boat's officer...
Category: Articles
David Jolly
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Category: Advertisement
The Daunt Rock Lightvessel
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...
Oberscew
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
The S.S. Ragna Gorthon
On the 26th September the s.s. Ragna Gorthon, of Helsingborg, bound for the Thames with a cargo of wood pulp, ran on the Kentish Knock sands about three miles N.W. of the light-vessel. A fresh to strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
A Boat
DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.
Nothing had been found...
A Memorandum on Salvage*
THE following memorandum has been prepared for guidance after consultation with underwriters. The memorandum deals only with the more salient aspects of salvage, and must not be regarded as an exhaustive submission on the law of salvage.<...
Category: Articles