LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE variety of services performed by life-boats and the variety of vessels which life-boats help have been clearly illustrated during the past quarter.
The first ten services for the month of May, which are recorded on...
Category: Articles
Windsor Products
See up to 35 miles with these high-powered binoculars See up to 35 miles with these high-powered binoculars Why are we giving these binoculars away? We have just secured a direct factory supply of these 900% high power lens, rubber armoured...
Category: Advertisement
Books
The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
Category: Articles
A Trawler (3)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—7th February.
A trawler had stranded, but one of her crew went ashore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus with the information that the crew intended to stay on board.—Rewards, £17 12s....
None (49)
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Two airmen had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless when it was learned that it was two balloons that had come down and they had been mistaken for...
An Aeroplane (44)
APRIL 13TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but her crew were picked up by atrawler about twenty miles N.W. of Morecambe Bay lightship and the life-boat was recalled by wireless....
Two Steamers (1)
MARCH 1 S T . - FILEY, AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two steamers, one Latvian and the other Norwegian, had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
Nothing could be found of the Latvian steamer, and the Norwegian got into...
A Steamer (23)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
An Aeroplane (146)
OCTOBER 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the life-boat made a long and extensive search, but without result. - Rewards, £33 12s..
Two Steamers
FEBRUARY 7TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Two steamers had been reported in collision in the Firth of Forth, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that one steamer had been damaged and been brought into port by tugs, and that the other had...