LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Vessel (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
A Small Boat (1)
APRIL 6TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A small boat with three boys in it had been reported in difficulties, but it rearhed land safely. - Rewards, £5 10s..
A Motor Boat (1)
JUNE 15TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
A motor boat had broken down, but she was taken in tow by a steamer.
- Rewards, £5 18s. 6d..
A Boat (1)
JULY 14TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. About 11.30 in the morning the Southbourne coastguard reported that a boat had capsized a mile from the shore oft Christchurch Ledge. The motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.35 in...
A Tug (1)
DECEMBER 8TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A tug had gone ashore, but refloated.
- Rewards, £8 11s..
A Raft (1)
FEBRUARY 1ST . - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A large raft was seen about a mile east of the North Southwick Buoy, but no one was found on board. - Rewards, £31 4s.
The S.S. Coryton (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.10 in the morning the coastguard reported to the North Sunderland life-boat station that a ship was ashore on the Farne Islands. She was the S.S....
A Motor Launch (1)
JULY 22ND. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor launch with a number of passengers on board was overdue, but she was towed in by a motor trawler.-Rewards, £4 13s..
Sarah Elizabeth (1)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull and North Sand Head light-vessels on the 14th January, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, and Christopher Waud, Bradford, of Broadstairs, left their stations at 7.45 P.M....
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 22ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but was found by a small fishing boat. She had sunk in ten feet of water and the pilot was drowned.- Rewards, £6 12s.