LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
A Lancaster Bombing Aeroplane
APRIL 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.39 in the morning the naval authorities at Dover asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should be launched to an aeroplane north-east of the South Foreland. A moderate north-west wind was blowing,...
James Postelthwaite
— The schooner James PostletJiwaite, of Barrow, whilst bound for Burton Port in ballast, stranded on the north side of Eighter Island, on the 15th June. Information reached Aranmore by telegram about 2.15P.M., and the Life-boat, La Totitam,...
Upas
On the 18th March, during a strong N. gale with snow showers, the Motor Life-boat William and Laura was called out to the assistance of the steamer Upas, of Newry. When the vessel was five miles south of the Skullmartin Light- ship her cargo...
Boadicea
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...
Impulsive
Margate, Kent. At 10.20 on the morning of the 18th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser, which he had been keeping under observation, had stoppedand that two people on board were waving frantically from the...
A Small Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—8th December, 1937. An angler in a small boat was overdue, but a long search failed to find him. He had been picked up by a fishing boat. The Brighton Deep Sea Anglers sent a letter of thanks and became annual...
A Salmon Yawl
21st March. A salmon yawl capsized, but before the life-boat could reach her two of her crew had been picked up by another boat and the other two had been drowned.—Rewards, £15 7s. 6d..
None (25)
AUG. 6TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
A bather had been reported in difficulties by the pilots, but the life-boat could find no sign of him. He was already drowned. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..