LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (2)
RUNSWICK.—The Margaret and Edward Life-boat put off to the aid of several of the fishing-cobles belonging to this port which had been overtaken by a gale on the 2nd April. The Life-boat remained out two hours, and rendered important service...
The S.S. Amcott
. — Early on the morning of the 2nd January, during a strong W.S.W.
breeze and heavy sea, large flare lights were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, and the Lightships fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat...
Coronella
Making water WICK COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Thurso lifeboat station at 1355 on Tuesday September 7,1982, that the fishing vessel Coronella was making water off Duncansby Head andthe lifeboat was asked to launch with pumps...
An Aeroplane (17)
FEBRUARY 19TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A British Whitley aeroplane had crashed in Abersoch Bay, but Royal Air Force speedboats rescued five of the crew and picked up two bodies. - Rewards £5 14s.
An Aeroplane (189)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A British aeroplane had crashed in the Silloth Channel, but the lifeboat found nothing, and on putting into Silloth learned that the aeroplane had been found, but that the crew had been...
An Aeroplane (95)
AUGUST 19TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British bomber had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that the pilot had brought her safely home. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d.
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
IN the House of Commons on the 14th of March, 1956, Mr. S. S. Awbery, M.P., for Bristol Central, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Avia- tion how many attempts had been made by helicopter to assist ship- wrecked seamen; how many...
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Royal opening for Cowes station
HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.
The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...
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Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1928
THE subject set for the eighth Lifeboat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools was " Describe the kind of man that a good Life-boatman should be." The number of schools taking part was 1919, an increase on last year of 427. The...
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Sark
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1947, a message was received from the piermaster that a yacht was drifting about two miles offshore and flying distress signals. A south-south-west gale was blowing,...