LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (4)
APRIL 20TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane was thought to have crashed into the sea, but it was found that she came down on land.-Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 6s..
A Vessel (6)
OCT. 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosions had been heard, but nothing could be found, and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel’s crew had been...
A Danish Vessel
OCT. 30TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A ship had been reported on fire, but a later message stated that the survivors of a Danish vessel, believed to have been sunk by enemy action, had been picked up by a Finnish vessel. -...
A Rubber Air-float
Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..
A Rubber Dinghy (3)
DECEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A rubber dinghy had been reported at sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £22 7s..
September (1)
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
Category: Services
Direct Talking
The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, looks back at 1997 and at the Institution's plans for 1998 Although one of our principle challenges must be for the RNLI to be administered in a modern, businesslike and efficient way we should never...
Category: Articles
A Hunter Aircraft
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
Eileen Summer
Caister, Norfolk. Because of de- teriorating weather conditions on the night of the 17th of May, 1959, anxiety was felt for two fishing boats which had not returned to harbour, and the life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 11.55. It was low...