LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer
16th April. A steamer thought to be ashore on the Pye Sands was found to be at anchor very near the sands.—Rewards, £7 2s. 6d..
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Fowey, Cornwall.—22nd September.
Distress signals had been reported at Dodman Point, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Motor Trawler
JULY 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A motor trawler had been blown up by an enemy mine, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
A Rubber Boat (3)
OCTOBER 2lST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX, A rubber boat had been reported adrift, but a long and thorough search only resulted in three lifebelts being picked up. - Rewards, £20 2s. 3d..
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MARCH 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Signals had been reported by the coastguard, but nothing but a convoy travelling north could be found. - Rewards, £16 2s. 6d..
An Anson Aeroplane
MAY 11TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An Anson aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £6 2s..
A Steamer (3)
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had run aground on the Haisborough Sands, but she refloated without help. - Rewards, £41 2s..
Holba
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Pres. Roosevelt
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. On the 26th of April, 1958, the coaster Pres. Roosevelt, of Groningen, was anchored a mile north-west of the life- boat station with engine trouble and was sheltering from the weather. A boat with four...
A Rowing Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.40 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the piermaster of the East Pier rang up to say that a rowing boat with four men and a woman on board was in difficulties about one and a half miles off shore. Eight...