LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
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Brothers, of Shields
On the 17th February the brig Brothers, of Shields, was totally wrecked on the Redcar Rocks, near the mouth of the River Tees. On her perilous position being seen from the shore, the Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, and rescued her crew, 7...
An R.A.F. Spitfire Aeroplane
MARCH 1ST . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. An R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a trawler and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 13s..
A Dinghy
DECEMBER 30TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.45 in the afternoon thepolice reported a boy adrift in a small boat off Maddock’s Slip, River Mersey, and in need of help. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. With ex-second...
NEW LIFEBOAT FUND EBOOK
APS Group (Scotland) Ltd has launched an eBook in aid of The Lifeboat Fund. The book commemorates the Eyemouth disaster that killed over 180 fishermen in 1881 – see: thelifeboatfund.publishingthefuture.info
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An Aeroplane (70)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - TOBEMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down off the Island of Tiree, but the life-boat only found the airman’s boot.- Rewards, £6 13s
An Admiralty Patrol Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - NEWHAVEN SUSSEX. At 6.52 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that an Admiralty patrol boat needed help about two miles south of the breakwater. The sea was rough, with a fresh S.S.W. wind...
An Aeroplane (2)
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 27th October, 1939. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea but the life-boat found nothing.— Permanent paid crew: Rewards, 9s.
Elizabeth Ellen Fisher
FLEETWOOD.—On the 29th August, at about 5 A.M., it was reported that a vessel was in distress on Bernard's Wharf, a sandbank situated about 2i miles E.N.E.
of Fleetwood, and the Life-boat Edward Wasey was accordingly...
Mary
At daybreak on the 21st April, the pilots on the look - out discovered a schooner stranded on the beach about two miles N. of Montrose. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mincing Lane mustered as quickly as possible, launched the Lifeboat,...