LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.

During an air raid a German aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea four or five miles N. by W. of the station, but nothing except a patch of oil could be found.

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SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

During an air battle several aeroplanes, both British and German, crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found nothing but patches of oil. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d..

NOVEMBER 1ST. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. Flares had been reported twelve miles off, but nothing was found.

This was the first service call received at, this recently established station, where the life-boat arrived on 24th...

HELICOPTER FOR BOYS Hoylake, Cheshire. At 4.35 p.m.

on 28th May, 1964, the Formby coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that two schoolboys had been seen on what was assumed to be a rubber dinghy, drifting out to sea a...

— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...

On the llth August last, the barque William Bromham, of Glouces- ter, when running for the harbour of Aber- dovey, in tow of a steam-tug, ran aground on the bar at the entrance of the river, the wind being from W.S.W., and the sea rough at...

.—On the evening -of the llth January, considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of fourteen fishing boats belonging to Poole, the south- westerly wind having suddenly increased to a whole gale whilst they were out at sea. Many members...

Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1990 Miss Betty Dennis, committee member of Barnstaple branch from 1960 to 1972, when she was elected president until her death. Mrs Dennis was awarded a silver badge in...