LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (4)
APRIL 15TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A vessel laden with ammunition had a fire on board, but it was got under control and the life-boat was recalled.- Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..
A Ship’s Raft
JUNE 29TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A large, damaged ship’s raft, with no-one on board, had been seen drifting, but the seas prevented the life-boat from taking it in tow.
- Rewards, £5 18s..
A Steamer (9)
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
It had been reported that a steamer was being attacked by enemy aircraft off Haisboro’ and two loud explosions had been heard about seven miles south of the Hairsboro’ Lightvessel, but...
An Aeroplane (190)
DECEMBER 27TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Flares had been seen and an aeroplane was believed to be in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and later it was learned that a German aeroplane had been...
An Aeroplane (88)
DECEMBER 18TH. - BEAUMARIS ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was found to have crashed on land. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £15 ; Llandudno, £35 0S....
An Aeroplane (95)
AUGUST 19TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British bomber had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that the pilot had brought her safely home. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d.
Galaxy
BROKEN CROSS-TREES Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.56 a.m. on igth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht in distress near Cork sands. There was a slight sea with a gentle...
Calvijn
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of February, 1961, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Calvijn of The Hague was aground on Newton Point. At...
None (21)
Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.
Webb, on temporary duty at the...
A Boat
OVERDUE BOAT FOUND AND TOWED TO SAFETY Newcastle, Co. Down. At 9.28 p.m.
on Sunday the 11th of August, 1963, the Kilkeel coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat last seen at 8.45, four miles north of Annalong,...