LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 10TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had got ashore in their rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £7 5s. 6d..

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.

on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.

A moderate northerly breeze...

On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...

HORNSEA.—On the morning of Tuesday, the 8th November, during a moderate E. gale and a heavy sea, rockets were fired in quick succession by the fourmasted ship Earl of Beaconsfield, of London, bound from Calcutta for Hull with a cargo of...

A NAVY Bomb Disposal team tackles still active wartime relic, caught in the nets of a fishing vessel.

A party of 10 anglers, adrift in their disabled boat, float into the danger area just as the wartime explosive...

EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...

THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...

IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...