LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
Category: Correspondence
Books
Books . . .
• In 1983 was published the first part of the late Grahame Farr's comprehensive Lists of British Lifeboats, covering non self-righting, pulling and sailing boats from 1775 to 1916. Before his death later...
Category: Articles
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
Cherbourg to Hamble By John Spicer
YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...
Category: Donations
Here and There
Committee of Management Commandant Vonla McBride, former director of the WRNS, Christopher Lucy, a stockbroker, and John James, a chartered surveyor, have joined the Committee of Management of the RNLI.
Commandant McBride...
Category: Articles
Mortar for Maroons
MORTAR for MAROONS.
This Signal Maroon has been adopted by the Institution in place of the Rocket Distress Signal because:
1. As there is no metal in its construction the danger of an accident through...
Category: Drawings
Contents
Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 219 Here and There 220 Lifeboat Services 221 VOlUme y .JL l V John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office -v T i 0 Lifeboat Fund .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 227 Number 458 The...
Category: Contents
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.
Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
None (62)
DEC. 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Flares had been reported by the coastguard, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
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JUNE 20TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
Flares had been reported, probably from an aeroplane, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £14 0s. 6d..