LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (41)
OCT. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An explosion had been heard and a white light seen three miles away and later another explosion was heard and a red light seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £27 4s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
A Ship's Boat
FEBRUARY 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported drifting off Sandside Head, but nothing was found. The boat later went ashore, badly damaged, with no one on board.
- Rewards, £10 1s....
A Vessel (2)
MARCH 1ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported on fire, but later it was learned that she was going on her way accompanied by a trawler.
-Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
A Yacht (3)
OCTOBER 23RD. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
The coastguard had reported a yacht in difficulties, but nothing could be found, and later she was reported to have passed Dover.
- Rewards, £16 5s..
An R.N.A.S. Seafire Aeroplane
JULY 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
An R.N.A.S. Seafire aeroplane had crashed in the sea near the shore, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £5 13s.
Later the life-boat tractor helped to recover...
None (30)
OCTOBER 5TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Red rockets had been reported, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that a bombing aeroplane had come down on the land. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d..
A Motor Boat
AUGUST 30TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A motor boat had broken down, but it was learned later that her crew had landed in their small boat, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless - Rewards, £5 17s. 6d.
None (8)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police that a man was drifting out to sea off Waterwynch Bay. At 6.18 the life-boat Henry Comber...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that the wind was freshening and four local fishing cobles were out in a rough sea. At 11.10 the life-boat The Isa and Penryn...