LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
JANUARY 18TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Fishing boats were making for harbour in bad weather, but got in without help.-Rewards, £6 13s..
A Steamer (1)
JANUARY 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had gone ashore ten days before, one of the salvage vessels had also gone ashore, and the life-boat was asked to take the naval salvage officer from a tug to this vessel, but...
A Dinghy (1)
MARCH 25TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
A dinghy with a man on board had been reported drifting towards Peel, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £22 16s. 6d..
H.M. Trawler Avanturine (1)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.50 in the morning a message was received at Shoreham Harbour from the coastguard that H.M. Trawler Avanturine, which had been left at anchor by the Newhaven life-boat off Newhaven, as described...
A Ship's Boat (1)
FEBRUARY 26TH. - THURSO, CAITHwas NESS-SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported in difficulties near Cape Wrath, but a later message said that she had driven ashore with no one on board, and the lifeboat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards,...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
AUGUST 9TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. A sailing dinghy had been reported missing and could not be found, but it returned the next day. - Records, £16 8s..
A Canoe (1)
MAY 13TH. - GALWAY BAY, AND FENIT, CO. KERRY. Three men, who had left Kilronan in a canoe, had been reported missing, but they reached land in County Clare.
- Rewards : Galway Bay, £13 16s. ; Fenit, £13...
S.S. Royal Crown (1)
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
APRIL 10TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat put out to help search for a rubber dinghy from a crashed aircraft about forty-two miles east-by-south of Wick, but was recalled. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Lancaster Aeroplane (1)
MARCH 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A Lancaster aeroplane had blown up over the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £21 19s.