LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (36)
JULY 23RD. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Dun Laoghaire, £11 14s. ; Wicklow, £15 1s. 3d..
A Motor Boat (2)
DECEMBER 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor boat had been seen drifting, but the life-boat was recalled, and the steamer which had first reported it said later that there was no sign of life on the drifting boat. - Rewards, £4 2s..
A Rowing Boat (6)
JULY 2ND. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A rowing boat with a man aboard had been reported missing, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16 11s. (See Porthoustock, "Services by Shore-boats,” page...
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 7TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea, but nothing was found, and it was thought that she had simply been flying very low. - Rewards, £12 13s. 6d..
A Flying Fortress Aeroplane
JUNE 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Flying Fortress aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards : Clacton, £11 6s. 6d. ; Walton and Frinton, .£14 3s. 6d..
None (19)
AUGUST 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. It was reported that a man had baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing was found, and it was thought that it must have been a target shot down which was mistaken for a man. - Rewards, £4...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (3)
APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....
A Camouflaged Motor Launch
JANUARY 13TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A small vessel had been reported bumping on the rocks, but she was a camouflaged motor launch dropping depth charges while tracking an enemy submarine, and the life-boat was not...
None (75)
AUGUST 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
It had been reported that an R.A.F. pilot was in the sea, but nothing was found. On returning to harbour, the life-boat was told that cries for help had been heard off Stone Gap and she put...
An Aeroplane (152)
OCTOBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and a search was made, during an air raid alarm, but nothing was found. The honorary secretary, Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N.,...