LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (169)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...
Tranquillity (2)
Barrow, Lancashire.—Ar two o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that a fishing boat about six miles off shore between Barrow and Heysham appeared to be drifting. He told the...
David
The Life-boat London Coal Exchange assisted to save the Prus- sian schooner David, which was observed off the port in a sinking state, with a : signal of distress flying, on the 16th Dee., } a gale blowing at the time and a heavy | sea...
Oljaren (1)
Stromiu;s, Orkneys.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 30th of April, 1051, a salvage company reported that the n.otor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, which had been aground off Muckle Skerry since the 12th, had been re- floated and was...
Christine Elisabeth
HARWICH.—At about 10 A.M. on the 13th November the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out and proceeded with the Reserve No. 3 Lifeboat in tow to the upper part of the Long Sand, where the three-masted schooner Christine...
An Aeroplane (90)
AUGUST 15TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A German bomber had come down and the crew of five had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
The Submarine Tijgerhaai
Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.
Half an...
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...
City of Marseilles
JANUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.6 A.M. a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that the twin-screw steamer City of Marseilles, of Glasgow, of 8,300 tons, bound from Calcutta to Dundee, had been mined off the Fairway...
A Cargo Ship
Sea sick One of the last places you'd want to be when struck by food poisoning is out at sea. Dozens of crew on a cargo ship suffered this fate off the Western Isles on 14 September.
Stornoway lifeboat came to their...