LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
OCTOBER 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor boat’s engine had broken down, but an R.A.S.C. motor boat took her in tow.- Rewards, £11 17s..
A Ship (1)
AUGUST 23RD. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Wick radio had reported a ship on fire six miles west of Thurso, but the crew got ashore in their own boats.- Rewards, £4 11s..
A Tug (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
DECEMBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane’s dinghy had been reported some miles S.W. of the Bishop Rock, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..
Shannon on Station (1)
21 February 2014
The wait is over as The Morrell arrives on station at Dungeness, Kent. The first fully operational Shannon class lifeboat is 50% faster than the Mersey she replaces. She will reach...
Category: Articles
Signals of Distress (1)
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR, In the article headed ' Signals of Distress' in your last quarterly publication of August 1,1 find it stated that, in the first place," It is indispensable that...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pitwines (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
The S.S. Yewglen (1)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND . A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
A Vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 26TH. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A vessel had been reported sinking after being attacked by a German aeroplane, but a passing merchant vessel picked up the crew. - Rewards, £20 4s.
A Beaufighter Aeroplane (1)
AUGUST 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A Beaufighter aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found only small pieces of wreckage. - Paid permanent crew. - Rewards, 13s. 6d..