LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Seafire Aircraft (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
A Bathing Float (1)
T o r b a y, Devon.—6th September, 1938. A search was made for a boy reported to be missing on a bathing float, but he had got ashore.—Rewards, £2 3s. 6d..
A Motor Vessel (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—20th December, 1938. A motor vessel had been seen drifting with a distress signal flying, but she was able to go on her way.— Rewards, £24 14s. 6d..
Fishing Boats (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...
A Small Boat (1)
Torbay, Devon.—12th June, 1939.
A small boat had capsized, but a motor boat rescued the crew. A donation and a letter of thanks were received in gratitude for the launching of the life-boat.—Rewards, £2 16s..
A Boat (1)
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — 23rd July, 1939. News had been received that an up-turned boat could be seen on Stert Flats, apparently drifting out to sea, with two people clinging to her.
The boat, however, grounded on a...
A Motor Boat (1)
S c a r b o r o u g h , Yorkshire.—4th August, 1939. A motor boat \vas seen flying a distress signal, but she was towed in by another boat.—Rewards, £13 12*. 6d.~.
A Boat (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 8 p.m. on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted one and a half miles south of South Shields pier. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 8.5 in a...
A Dinghy (1)
Dover, Kent - At 3.30 p.m. on 15th May, 1968, while the life-boat Faithful Forester was on exercise, a dinghy was seen to capsize throwing two men into the water. There was a moderate breeze from the south west and a corresponding sea. It...
A Canberra Aircraft (1)
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...