LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The America
On the 18thNovember at 8 A.M., while a strong wind was blowing from the S., signals of distress were observed flying from a vessel which had grounded on the south side of Wexford Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen immediately put off in...
Hilda and Royal Charter
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.40 A.M. on the 28th February, as it had been reported that the local motor fishing coble Hilda was at sea, and though the breeze was light there was a very rough...
A Tiger Moth Aircraft
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.37 on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed into the sea two miles south of the look-out. At 2.45 the life-boat...
The Llandudno Inshore Rescue Boat Returning from the Service on 3rd June, 1967 When She Saved Two Boys from the Little Orme
The Llandudno inshore rescue boat returning from the service on 3rd June, 1967 when she saved two boys from the Little Orme.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (42)
APRIL 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and later a red rocket was seen, but on receiving a wireless signal that none of our aeroplanes was missing the life-boat returned. -...
An Aeroplane (152)
OCTOBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and a search was made, during an air raid alarm, but nothing was found. The honorary secretary, Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N.,...
An Aeroplane (180)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
An aeroplane had come down off Cliff End Point, a mile from the shore, but the airmen got to land in their rubber boats. - Rewards, £15..
An Aeroplane (51)
DECEMBER 11TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down, but the life-boat was recalled when it was known that the airmen had been saved.
- Rewards, £12 8s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (172)
NOVEMBER 8TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirty-seven miles in a N.E. direction from Kinnaird Head, but nothing was found. The life-boat was out for ten and a half hours. - Rewards, £23...
Motor Fishing Cobles
FEBRUARY 23RD. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. four Staithes motor fishing cobles went out to fish. By 9.30 A.M.
it was blowing a strong gale from the E.N.E., with a heavy sea and rain. At 11.55 A.M....