LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (6)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy fitted with an outboard engine, with two children on board, had run out of petrol and was in the tide...
A Dinghy (2)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY IN TOW Moclfre, Anglesey. At 11.50 on the morning of the 17th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was in distress three and a half miles south-south-east of the life-boat station,...
A Dinghy (4)
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the Baily lighthouse watchkeeper informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized near the lighthouse. At 1.43 the life-boat R.P.L. was launched in a rough sea....
A Fishing Boat
Fishing boat missing A SMALL FISHING BOAT missing, believed to be in the Loch Shell area, was reported to the honorary secretary of Stornoway lifeboat station at 0010 on Thursday, September 9, 1976.
The weather was cloudy...
An Aeroplane (194)
DECEMBER 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea a mile off Lower Sharpnose Point, but a later message said that she was safe and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £...
A Canberra Aircraft (1)
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
A Sailing Barge (1)
Southend'on-Sea, Essex.—12th December, 1937. A sailing barge had struck a sunken wreck off Low Way Buoy and sank, but her crew had already left her when the life-boat arrived.—Rewards, £19 10*..
A Boat (9)
SEPT. 28TH. - DOVER, KENT. A small boat had been reported as capsized six miles from Dover in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Partly permanent paid crew : Rewards, £1 17s. 6d..
A British Anson Aeroplane
MARCH 24TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL,.
A British Anson aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew were rescued by a Walrus amphibious aeroplane.
- Rewards, £40 12s.
A Motor Boat
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.