LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (36)
MARCH 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed, but nothing was found, and the coastguard reported that the crew baled out and all were safe. - Rewards, £15 9s..
A Vessel (20)
JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...
A Steamer (36)
OCTOBER 2ND. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been bombed and set on fire by a German aeroplane, but the Irish patrol steamer Fort Rannock rescued the crew.- Rewards, £17 0s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (36)
MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.
(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Rescue of a Deer
IN the middle of June, 1939, a roe deer crossed the golf course opposite Aber- deen harbour, entered the harbour channel, and swam out to sea. Cox- swain Thomas Sinclair (who has twice won the Institution's silver medal for gallantry and...
Category: Articles
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore In the Republic of Ireland
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore in the Republic of Ireland first joined the lifeboat crew in 1955. He became second coxswain in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1972, being awarded a long service badge in 1982. John is a boat builder by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...
Category: Committee
A Steamer (46)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A steamer was on fire, but her crew were rescued by a destroyer. - Rewards, £6 16s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (76)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...