LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anglers brought to safety
27 June: St Agnes’s D class lifeboat Blue Peter IV is pictured towing an angling boat to safety. The vessel had lost power from both engines 4 miles off St Agnes Beach.
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The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, Co. Down.—7th September, 1938. Signals were seen flying from the South Rock Light-vessel, but they were found to be for a tender to bring a sick man ashore. — Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (65)
APRIL 26TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but later it was learnt, that other boats were near the place, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards,...
A Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A landing craft had been reported in difficulties with her engine broken down, but she anchored, and the life-boats were not needed. - Rewards : Aberystwyth,...
None (18)
MARCH 8TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. A big object, which appeared, through fog, to have people on it, had been reported, but nothing was found. It seems probable that the object was the carcase of a whale with birds on it. - Rewards, £14...
A Vessel (4)
APRIL 15TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A vessel laden with ammunition had a fire on board, but it was got under control and the life-boat was recalled.- Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..
A Dinghy (5)
JULY 2ND. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A dinghy, thought to belong to a missing Wellington aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Blackpool, £8 2s. ; Lytham - St. Annes, £7 6s....
Empire Jonquil
JANUARY 16TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The motor vessel Empire Jonquil, flying the Dutch flag, had gone ashore, but her captain declined the services of the life-boat. - Rewards, £7 2s..
Slava (1)
MARCH 16TH. - BARRY DOCK , GLAMORGANSHIRE, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. The Yugo-Slav steamer Slava, of Susak, had been torpedoed five and a half miles N.E. of Foreland Point, near Lynmouth, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. -...
Slava
MARCH 16TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. The Yugo-Slav steamer Slava, of Susak, had been torpedoed five and a half miles N.E. of Foreland Point, near Lynmouth, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. -...