LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but only a patch of oil was found.- Rewards, £4 12s. 6d..

JULY 5TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A vessel had been reported on fire five miles off St. Albans Head, but nothing could be found. News was received later that the vessel had been towed into port. She had formed part of a convoy which had been...

JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...

NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.

MARCH 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a search of several hours, in which trawlers and aeroplanes took part, found nothing. - Rewards, £19 18s. 6d..

AUGUST 13TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A vessel had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but the life-boat was not needed.- Rewards, £3 18s..

AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...

HM The Queen visits Fraserburgh station Monday 22 June was a proud day for Fraserburgh as HM The Queen toured the town's lifeboat station.

In her capacity as Patron of the RNLI, she received a cheque for £305,613,...