LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
JULY 28TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man who had put out in a speed-boat was reported as missing, but he had returned safely. - Rewards, £10 11s..
A Boat (1)
JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. A small boat was reported to have broken down, it was believed, with troops from Dunkirk on board, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £3 15s..
A Motor Boat
AUGUST 15TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A small motor boat was in difficulties, but reached land without help.
- Rewards, £11 7s..
A Fishing Boat (5)
OCTOBER 13TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported in distress, but no boat in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £21 1s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (8)
MAY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A fishing boat had been reported in distress, but the only boat found was not in need of help. - Rewards, £5 18s..
A Fishing Boat (14)
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
A fishing boat had run aground on a rocky shore and been wrecked, but her crew of two scrambled ashore. - Rewards, £6 19s. 9d.
A Fishing Boat (10)
DECEMBER 5TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. The engines of a fishing boat had broken down, but she was able to get in without help. - Rewards, £17 6s. 9d..
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Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...
Sarah K.
Engine room flooded THE COXSWAIN of Wells lifeboat was informed by HM Coastguard at 1412 on Friday November 20, 1981, that there was a possible casualty 2Vi miles north of Brancaster, and the coxswain immediately passed on to the station...
Top gear
In February 1858, the oar-powered Southwold lifeboat capsized in heavy surf. The 15 crew wearing lifebelts were all saved but records show ‘three unfortunate gentlemen who had … neglected to put on lifebelts, lost their lives’. Technology...
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