LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship
APRIL 16TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
Wreckage thought to be an aeroplane had been reported. The life-boat found it to be wreckage of a ship, but there was no sign of her crew. - Rewards, £6 3s. 3d..
A Large Admiralty Buoy
DECEMBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An object having the appearance of a ship’s boat had been reported, but it was found to be a large Admiralty buoy adrift. - Rewards, £6 13s..
None (30)
OCTOBER 5TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Red rockets had been reported, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that a bombing aeroplane had come down on the land. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (174)
NOVEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards : Rhyl...
IRB Launches
There were no services by IRBs in December and January, which resulted in lives being saved, but in February the Whitstable,Kent, IRB went to the assistance of a speedboat.
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 2oth February,...
Category: Services
Donaghadee - Ireland Division
(Left) Donaghadee's Arun lies snugly stern-to the South Pier just inside the harbour entrance - which is open to the north east.
The way in which the harbour shoals is very evident, and regular dredging is needed to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jean & Barbara
COBLE ESCORTED ASHORE AFTER DRIFTING Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that because of the deteriorating weather conditions he thought it advisable to launch the...
Susie Wong
Stolen Yacht A YACHT was seen to be in difficulty just outside New Quay harbour, Cardiganshire, one-and-a-half miles from the station on a bearing of 070° on Wednesday, September 19, 1973. Within ten minutes, at 9.35 a.m., the lifeboat,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...
Category: Articles
Isle of Gigha
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.19 a-ni.
on nth November, 1966, news was given that the barge Isle of Gigha had capsized three miles south of Chuirn Island. Two men were missing. There was a strong southerly wind with a rough...