LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pleasure Boat
JUNE 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A small pleasure boat had been reported overdue, but was found abandoned on the rocks, east of Hastings. - Rewards, £23 7s. 9d..
An Aeroplane (35)
JUNE 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea twelve miles east of Yarmouth, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (42)
JULY 7TH - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Orfordness, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £26 17s..
An Aeroplane (101)
AUGUST 23RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, reported a British aeroplane down on the sea, but nothing was found either by the life-boat or naval vessels. - Rewards, £12 7s..
An Aeroplane (175)
NOVEMBER 9TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A bomber had been reported fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £9 2s. 6d..
None (57)
DECEMBER 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
Rockets had been reported, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £16 14s. 6d..
A Looe Fishing Boat
DECEMBER 1 1TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
A Looe fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she reached harbour unaided. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Boat (5)
DECEMBER 31ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A boat with twenty men on board had been reported adrift in the Dee Channel, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Rhyl. £20 15s. ; Hoylake, £31 3s. 6d..
None (6)
JANUARY 28TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. Flares had been reported but no vessel in distress was found.
- Rewards, £12 6s. 3d.
None (32)
JULY 17TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A flashing light had been reported, but no boat in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £8 12s. 6d.