LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.20 P.M. on 19th August, the Deal coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin light-vessel had reported a small boat, about one mile E.S.E. of the light-vessel, in urgent need of help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Tessa
NOT MANAGEABLE Later the same day, a number of the life-boat crew heard a radio message broadcast from the North Foreland transmitting station stating that the motor yacht Tessa was in difficulties two miles east-south-east of the East...
Lu II
JUNE 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. About six in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser was missing from her moorings at Bradwell-on- Sea, and that a cruiser had been reported not under control in the Wallet to the...
An Aeroplane (32)
AUGUST 8TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a search, in which R.A.F. boats and aeroplanes also took part, was without result, and it was thought that the aeroplane had exploded high up and had been...
An Aeroplane (122)
AUGUST 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in the estuary of the River Dee, but nothing was found. - Rewards : New Brighton, £9 5s.; Hoylake, £17 10s..
An Aeroplane (6)
MAY 9TH.. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, but only wreckage was found. Two shoreboats also took part in the search. (See “ Services by Shoreboats,” Mablethorpe,...
An Aeroplane (14)
APRIL 15TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found and later it was learned that the aeroplane had been taken in tow for Stornoway by a trawler.- Rewards, £4 19s...
An Aeroplane (102)
JULY 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and thelife-boat was recalled by a patrol boat.- Rewards, £8 15s..
An R.A.F. Pinnace
OCTOBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. An R.A.F. pinnace had foundered and her crew had taken to their small boat, but they were rescued by H.M.S. Lochiel a few minutes before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..<...
Mishandled By the Germans
When the chief inspector visited the two Channel Island stations in June 1945 he found that the Guernsey boat, which had been armed by the Germans with two guns and used as a fishery patrol boat, had been so mishandled that she was unfit for...
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