LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Landing Craft (1)
JANUARY 10TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE, AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
A landing craft had been reported missing, but nothing was found. Then bodies were washed ashore. The landing craft had foundered in a gale and all her crew of...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...
A Flying Boat
MARCH 24TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A flying boat had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found by the life-boat, and her crew were picked up by a warship the following day. - Rewards, £23 1s....
A Speed Boat (1)
Plymouth, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, two people from a speedboat were reported in the water about half a mile off Rame Head. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse proceeded at 2.45 in a moderate west north westerly breeze...
A Foregin Ship
A foreign ship was observed in a perilous position off this place, during a heavy S.S.W. gale, on the 3rd January, 1869, and on her hoisting signals of distress, the life-boat Birmingham put off with the promptitude and skill which...
A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy
JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.
A light N.E...
A Yacht (2)
Dungeness, Kent. — 13th December, 1937. A yacht had been reported in distress and drove ashore. Her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life - saving appliances. —• Rewards, £16 14*. 6d..
A Cutter Yacht (1)
Dover, and Hythe, Kent.—18th May, 1938. A cutter yacht had got intodifficulties, but she reached Dover unaided.—Rewards: Dover, Partly permanent paid crew, £5 12s. Gd; Hythe, £18 Os. 6d..
A Steamer (1)
JANUARY 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An unknown steamer had been bombed by enemy aeroplanes and set on fire, but her crew were rescued by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £26 18s..
A Naval Landing Craft
NOVEMBER 14TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A naval landing craft had stranded, but her crew were saved by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, £6 18s..