LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Barges
MARCH 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. Two large barges, which had broken away from a tug, were drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. The life-boat went alongside them and made sure that there was no one on board. She could not take them in tow, and as...
An Aeroplane (107)
AUGUST 2 6TH. - MARGATE, KENT Intense machine-gun fire had been heard, an aeroplane on fire was seen falling into the sea, and an airman, and then three more airmen, were seen coming down by parachute, but they were picked up by other boats....
A Convoy
OCTOBER 2ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A south-bound convoy had been attacked by German aeroplane; and one of the aeroplanes had been brought down, but a destroyer picked up the survivors of its crew, and there were no...
An Aeroplane (33)
NOVEMBER 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea. An air-sea rescue launch picked up one body, but the life-boat found nothing.- Rewards, £15 12s. (See Nairn, “Services by Shore-boats,” 1946,...
An American Fortress Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An American Fortress aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of ten were rescued by a motor fishing boat. - Rewards, £15 12s.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...
The Seine Net Fishing Boat Marie Leach
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9 o'clock in the morning of the 24th of December, 1948, information was received that a vessel was on the Black Rocks two miles south of the harbour, and the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched...
Delila
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
The U.S.A. Liberty Ship Abraham Baldwin
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
Lifeboat Lottery
Win a fabulous smart car The Lifeboat Lottery takes place four times a year and is an exciting way to support the RNLI. Since 1977, when it began, the Lifeboat Lottery has raised in excess of £14M.The latest Lottery to be drawn, autumn...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
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