LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham, and the crew of four had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a trawler.

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AUGUST 27TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

The coastguard had asked for the life-boat to escort a yacht, but nothing could be found.

- Rewards, £16..

DECEMBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

A German aeroplane had come down in the sea in Wigtown Bay, but nothing was found.

Later wreckage was washed ashore. - Rewards, £15 19s. 6d.

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At 10.26 a.m. on 26th February, 1965, the coxswain was informed that conditions on the harbour bar were becoming very dangerous and that six local fishing boats were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30 in a...

Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland...

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....