LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (52)
JUNE 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and the life-boat and her motor boarding boat searched, but they found nothing, and later were recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £8 16s..
A Steamer (5)
JANUARY 17TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A steamer had been mined, but she could not be found, and later the naval authorities reported that she had sunk without any loss of life. - Rewards, £14 11s. 3d.
None (4)
JANUARY 11TH. - PEEL, AND PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Amber-coloured rockets had been seen and the Peel life-boat went out. Later a red flare was seen in the direction of the life-boat and the Port Erin life-boat put out, but nothing was found.-...
Jane Isabella
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched on the 30th of June to the assistance of the coble Jane Isabella, which had gone to the fishing ground with four other boats and had been overtaken by a gale from the E...
Beaver III
CABIN CRUISER TOWED TO HARBOUR Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 14th August, 1962, the coxswain saw a flashing light about two miles north of Lady Isle. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 10.45 in a light...
Cicely
APRIL 18TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 8.55 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that flares had been seen four miles off Orrisdale Head. A light southerly breeze was blowing with a calm sea.
The motor life-boat...
A Fishing Vessel
Seaham, Co. Durham, At 5.50 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the cox- swain that a small fishing vessel was drifting four miles east-north-east of Seaham. At 6.15 the life-boat George Elmy was launched...
Industry
At 8.30 P.M.
on the 27th February a message was received from the Coastguard at Mundesley stating that a vessel was burning flares continually off" that place.
The Life-boat Louisa Heartwell was...
Margaret Evans, of Glasgow
On the 29th January, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat, Elizaleth Soys, brought on shore the crew of 21 men from the ! barque Margaret Evans, of Glasgow, bound ; from Philadelphia to Antwerp, which vessel had run ashore under Seaford Head...
Humber:
Humber: The 100-year-old, 86ft gaff-rigged ketch, William McCann, had run aground at Donna Nook on the night of Saturday November 17, 1984. Her II passengers were lifted off during the night by helicopter while Humber's 54ft Arun class... - View image in PDF
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