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The S.S. City of York
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. City of York had reported that she wished to land a sick man at Whitby and had stated that she would be off the...
An Aeroplane (60)
APRIL 18TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Flares had been reported several miles south of Skilligs, but nothing could be found. The life-boat put out again to a German aeroplane which had crashed in the sea, but the six airmen had...
An Aeroplane (86)
MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
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Your Letters
Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
Category: Correspondence
An Aeroplane (51)
APRIL 5TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLANDS. A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea several miles to the N.W. of St.
Agnes, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 18s..
An Aeroplane (66)
APRIL 27TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the body of thepilot had already been picked up. - Rewards, £12 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (46)
JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s..
An Aeroplane (88)
AUGUST 1 3TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A Hurricane aeroplane had come down some fifteen miles east of Orfordness, but the life-boat was recalled a few minutes after launching. - Rewards, £11 4s..