LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (44)
DECEMBER 21ST. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
An aeroplane had reported an object in the sea off Workington, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 5s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (17)
JUNE 5TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea and was on fire, but an air-sea rescue boat passed the life-boat on the way.- Rewards. £3 3s. 6d..
The Admiralty Oil Tanker Brichol
Nov. 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND HEBRIDES. At 11.10 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Calavay Island, near Eriskay. A southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.35...
Dorothy of Poole
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.20 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, thehonorary secretary received a message from the observation post at the range at Lydd that a small cabin cruiser was burning red flares a mile off Jury...
Two Fighter Aeroplanes
DECEMBER 19TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Two fighter aeroplanes had crashed in the sea, but though wreckage was picked up by a motor launch, and oil patches were seen, no survivors could be found. - Rewards, £12 15s..<...
Purr Purr
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
L-R: Staff Coxswain Mike Storey is congratulated by Staff Officer Chris Price on being the first to pass the new tests
L-R: Staff Coxswain Mike Storey is congratulated by Staff Officer Chris Price on being the first to pass the new tests. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Kimball Harlow, of London
AUGUST 23RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 4.45 in the morning the coastguard telegraphed that North Foreland Radio Station had reported a vessel on the Southern Shipwash Sands and in need of help.
A light northerly...
Hawksdale
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...
An Aeroplane (87)
NOVEMBER 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing was found except a body and a rubber dinghy, which were picked up by an R.A.F. rescue launch. - Rewards, £15 12s..