LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (37)
MARCH 17TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (8)
APRIL 5TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 8s.
An Aeroplane (50)
JULY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea fifteen miles south of Bognor, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (17)
MAY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A bomber aeroplane had been seen to fall into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 8s. 6d.
Mizpah. The Danish Barque Aurora Borealis, of Rebe
On the morning of the 5th January, the wind blowing fresh from E.S.E. with thick fog, guns were heard at in- tervals of five minutes, apparently from the North Sand Head and Gull light-ships; and the life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
The S.S. Dungonnell
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—The coastguard having informed the coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward, on the morning of the 2nd February, that signals had been fired by the Swin Middle Light-vessel, he summoned the crew, and at 5.30 the...
Suzanne Adrianne
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of December,1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Ilfracombe radio station that the trawler Suzanne Adrianne of Ostend was sinking near the...
Amanda, of Coleraine
The Laura, Countess of Antrim, Life-boat, saved 7 men from the brigantine Amanda, of Cole- raine, on the morning of the 3rd October, during a heavy gale from N.W. This was a truly noble service, and tested to the utmost the endurance of the...
Hawkinge, of Chepstow
The Life-boat Rochdale, in answer to signals of distress shown from the schooner Hawk, of Chep- stow, was, with considerable difficulty and persistent efforts, launched to her assist- ance on the morning of Sunday, the 2nd Feb., and having...
The Change to Ultra High Frequency
EFFICIENT means of communication at sea between life-boats and aircraft have been of growing importance in recent years. Particularly vital is the link be- tween life-boats and helicopters, for the number of services in which life- boats and...
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