LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat and Ampico 2
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.55 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was making very heavy weather five miles south-south-west of Mumbles Head. At 7.10 the life-boat William...
An Aeroplane (158)
OCTOBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A Blenheim aeroplane had been shot down in error by a British fighter, but a search, carried out during an air-raid. was without result.- Rewards : New Brighton, £19 6s. ; Hoylake,...
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy
JULY 19TH. - FISHGUARD , PEM-BROKESHIRE. A rubber dinghy with the survivors of an aeroplane’s crew had been reported twenty-nine miles N.N.W. of Fishguard, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard before she reached the position...
Pearl
In very cold weather, during heavy snow-showers, the Life-boat Hollon the Second was launched on the 25th February, to assist a vessel which was reported ashore under Speeton Cliffs. On reaching the vessel it was found that she had lost her...
An Aeroplane (11)
JANUARY 2 l ST. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except a big floating mine which was reported by the Scarborough life-boat. - Rewards : Filey, £11 12s.;...
Two Aeroplanes
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938.
Two aeroplanes had been reported to have come down in the sea, but a search in which another plane joined revealed nothing. The honorary secretary of the station and district inspector...
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SEPTEMBER 26TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A Halifax aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but it had come down on the Belgian coast.- Rewards : Ramsgate, £12 3s. 6d. ; Margate, £17 3s. 6d..
Silver Scale
NOVEMBER 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a heavy sea at 1.30 in the afternoon and stood by at the harbour mouth while the local fishing boat Silver Scale came in. She returned to her...
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TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so...
Kyle Rona
Barra Island, Hebrides.—During the night of the 31st October, 1938, a whole south-westerly gale sprang up, and the steamer Kyle Rona, of Glasgow, which was at anchor in the bay, lost one of her anchors and was in danger of being driven on...