LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....
Fishing Boats (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 5.7 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that the Arbroath coastguard had asked if the life-boat would escort four Arbroath fishing boats into...
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
None (6)
SICK CHILD TAKEN TO MAINLAND Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st August, 1962, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat in bringing a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland as no other boats were...
None (3)
Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the...
A Motor Boat (6)
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 12.50 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a motor boat had capsized five to six miles north of Aberystwyth. At 12.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh south-westerly...
An Aeroplane (7)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—9th July, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.—Rewards, £3 18s..
A Firefly Aeroplane
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Whitby
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 23rd February, 1946, the Whitby life-boat rescued a member of the crew of the fishing boat Easter Morn, who was washed overboard.
LIFE-BOATMAN JOHN ROBERT HARLAND was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
Happy Returns
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.21 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1951, the coastguard passed on the news that a Trinity House vessel had, through Newhaven Radio, reported the East- bourne fishing vessel Happy Returns disabled by an engine...