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Scotia of Sunderland

Date: October 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 38

At noon on the 28th May, the brig Scotia, of Sunderland, with flag of distress flying and mainmast gone, was ob- served in Gorton Roads, the wind blowing a hard gale from W.N.W. all the time. The Lowestoft life-boat was quickly launched, and...

An Avenger Aircraft

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west...

Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)

Date: May 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 208

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...

Category: Articles

A Boat (5)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JULY 23RD. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. News had been received that an up-turned boat could be seen on Stert Flats, apparently drifting out to sea, with two people clinging to her. The boat, however, grounded on a mud bank and the two men...

An Aeroplane (35)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

NOV. 25TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea eleven miles south by east of Shoreham.

The life-boat arrived to find several seaplanes also searching, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6...

A Motor Vessel (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

FEBRUARY 5TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.

A motor vessel’s engine had broken down, but the vessel got into the shelter of a headland and did not need help.

- Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..

An Aeroplane (56)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 11TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.

A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but a destroyer rescued the pilot.

- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..

None (9)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 17TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

Distress signals had been reported, but neither the life-boat nor a naval aeroplane which took part in the search could find anything. - Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..

Two French Crab Fishing Boats

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Two French crab-fishing boats had been reported missing from St. Ives Bay, but nothing was found. One had made harbour and the other had been totally wrecked, with the loss of three of...

An Aeroplane (32)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

OCTOBER 25TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but, as there was no possibility of anyone surviving, the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..