LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Steamers (1)
MARCH 1 S T . - FILEY, AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two steamers, one Latvian and the other Norwegian, had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
Nothing could be found of the Latvian steamer, and the Norwegian got into...
An Aeroplane (22)
MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (128)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 4.24 P.M. an aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea three miles north of the life-boathouse, but only oil on the water was found, and a bright green patch showing that it was a...
Giorgio Ohlsen
FEBRUARY 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The Italian steamer Giorgio Ohlsen, of Genoa, had struck a mine, and one of the steamer’s boats was reported adrift three miles east of Cromer, but the men in it had already been rescued. ...
A Trawler
JANUARY 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A trawler had stranded under the cliffs at Kettleness, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, £4 13s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (24)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane coming towards land was heard to strike the water. Aeroplanes and launches, as well as the life-boats, made a long search but all that was found was one body, by a launch,...
Awards to Honorary Workers
IN recognition of long and valuable co-opera- tion, the Gold Brooch or Pendant and the Record of Thanks have been awarded to the following Honorary Officials of Branches and Guilds and other Honorary Workers :— Mr. EDWARD DEAN, ...
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Invermore, of Dublin (6)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Antoinette
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...
Past and Present
40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...
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