LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
JANUARY 15TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reportedin distress, with a trawler standing by, but the life-boat arrived to find the trawler gone and no one on board the fishing boat. It was learned later...
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
A Chinook Inflatable
Missing divers found It was a family affair at Lyme Regis earlier this year when a lifeboat crew member's father and brother were instrumental in saving the lives of two divers.
On the afternoon of 9 May, three skin...
A Steamer (5)
28th Decem- ber. A steamer had foundered, but her crew got ashore in the ship's boat.— Rewards, £7 2s..
A Motor Cruiser
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—12th July. A motor cruiser had stranded, but her crew got ashore without help.—Rewards, £18 19s. 6d,.
A Fishing Boat (3)
JUNE 2ND. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. A small fishing boat had drifted ashore, but her crew got off her without help. - Rewards, £10 7s..
A Steamer (5)
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—31st December, 1938. A steamer had run aground, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket lifesaving appliances.—Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..
A Trawler (3)
26th No- vember. A trawler went ashore at Islay, but her crew were rescued by the Life-saving Apparatus.—Rewards, £28 15*. 3d..
A British Wellington Aeroplane
AUGUST 22ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A British Wellington aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £11 9s..
A British Beaufighter Aeroplane
AUGUST 30TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British Beaufighter aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Paid permanent crew..