LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
Festive Funds
Festive funds Dudley branch chairman, Karl Falk, gave up his Christmas Day and New Year's Eve to collect cash in memory of the lifeboat crew members who lost their lives in the Penlee disaster 18 years ago.
Karl... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marazion - South Division
Like a giant sand castle, the picturesque granite island of St Michael's Mount rises 100m from the waters of Mount's Bay capped with a real 14th century castle.
The causeway, which is revealed at low tide, connects... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons faka Heartbeat's Sgt Oscar Blaketon and PC Alt Ventress) officially launch the lifeboat in the traditional style with a bottle of bubbly.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Eardley Wilmot Bryan
• It is also with regret that we report the death of John Eardley Wilmot Bryan, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat coxswain/mechanic from 1967-76 and a member of the crew from 1956..
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (124)
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £31 2s. 6d..
A Steamer (1)
FEBRUARY, 1 2TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. A steamer had stranded, but her crew got ashore unaided, and the ebbing tide left the steamer high and dry. - Rewards, £13 4s..
Two Salvage Lighters
NOVEMBER 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...
A Thunderbolt Aeroplane
JUNE 17TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A Thunderbolt aeroplane had come down in the sea, but a vessel in convoy rescued the men. - Rewards, £36 17s. 6d..
Loch Loy, of Nairn
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - CROMARTY. At 5.20 in the afternoon the Burghead coastguard reported the motor fishing vessel Loch Loy, of Nairn, in difficulties three miles northeast- by-north of Nairn. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough...