LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (119)
AUGUST 9TH. - BARROW, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Walney Island, but no trace of her crew could be seen and it was learned later that her crew had been landed. - Rewards : Barrow, £10 12s. ;.<...
A Ship's Boat (1)
FEBRUARY 26TH. - THURSO, CAITHwas NESS-SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported in difficulties near Cape Wrath, but a later message said that she had driven ashore with no one on board, and the lifeboat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (74)
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had dropped into the sea in flames, but it was learned later that the airmen had been rescued and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 17s..
A Landing Craft (3)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A landing craft had been reported in need of guidance to Falmouth, and was later stated to have made a distress signal, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £31 14s. 6d..
Sennen Cove
Sennen Cove's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Diana White, searches off Land's End after four schoolboys were swept from the cliffs on May 6, 1985. photograph by courtesy of Daily Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (13)
MARCH 13TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
An enemy aeroplane was seen to drop a bomb on the stern of a steamer, and although the life-boat arrived on the sceneonly four minutes after the steamer had sunk, she found no sign of the...
Campbeltown
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 16th March, 1946, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued fifty-four persons from the American steamer Byron Darnton.
COXSWAIN DUNCAN NEWLANDS was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
None (3)
Rescue of two cut off by tide Tenby's D class lifeboat was called out to rescue two young men who were cut off by the tide at Waterwynch Point on 23 August.
The sea was rough but the crew members displayed skill,...
Press Home, of Castlebay
APRIL 17TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
The motor fishing vessel Press Home, of Castlebay, was reported to be four hours overdue, and at 11.45 the motor lifeboat Lloyd's was launched in a moderate northerly wind, with a...
A Yacht (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At i .20 p.m.
on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was seen being driven ashore on Pilling sands. At 1.30 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a southerly gale and a rough sea. It was one...