LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Outboard Motor Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—15th May, 1938. An outboard motor boat had capsized, but four of the five people on board were picked up by a rowing boat and the other swam ashore.—Rewards, £5 13s..
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MARCH 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Four men had been reported to have baled out of a burning aeroplane before she crashed into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £43 13s..
A Wellington Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 23RD. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A Wellington aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but four airmen were picked up from a rubber dinghy by an examination vessel, and a fifth man could not be found. - Rewards, £21 18s...
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—17th August. Four men had been cut off by the tide while fish- ing. Two got ashore but the others were drowned before the Lifeboats arrived.
—Rewards, Ferryside,...
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Category: Photographs
A Rubber Boat (1)
JUNE 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rubber boat, with one person on board, had been seen four miles to the north of Foreness, but nothing was found except an empty case and some small pieces of wreckage. - Rewards, £4 19s..
A Whaler
FEBRUARY 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON.
A whaler from a naval corvette had been reported missing. She was found waterlogged, but there was no trace of her crew of four. - Rewards, £10 11s. 6d..
Two French Crab Fishing Boats
AUGUST 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two French crab-fishing boats had been reported missing from St. Ives Bay, but nothing was found. One had made harbour and the other had been totally wrecked, with the loss of three of...
Fishing Cobles (1)
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 6th December, in a moderate N.E. gale with a heavy sea, and escorted into safety four of the local fishing cobles which had been overtaken by the bad...
A Trawler (1)
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.
A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...