LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Aeroplanes
APRIL 20TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A German aeroplane had been shot down in flames, but the only survivor was picked up by another boat. The lifeboat then learnt that two British aeroplanes had come down and joined in the search for...
An Anson Aeroplane (4)
SEPTEMBER 9TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson training aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but two men in a rowing boat had rescued three of the crew and recovered two bodies. A third body had been left in the aeroplane.- Rewards...
An Aeroplane (152)
OCTOBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and a search was made, during an air raid alarm, but nothing was found. The honorary secretary, Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N.,...
An Aeroplane (155)
OCTOBER 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NOR FOLK. A bomber had been reported down in the sea twenty miles off Wells, but notrace of her was found either by the life-boat or by other vessels and aeroplanes which took part in the search. - Rewards,...
Life-Boat Days.
Of 507 Life-boat flag days of which the results have been received, 350 have raised larger sums than ever before. In Greater London half a million more people contributed than in 1939, and the sum raised was £12,528. That is £3,860...
Category: Articles
From Two East Londons.
On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..
Category: Articles
Success
JAN. 2ND. - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.45 A.M. the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew of four. Her...
Most people ever rescued
Last year, RNLI lifeboats rescued 8,313 people around our coasts (the highest number in our history), while RNLI lifeguards assisted 18,775 on more than 150 of the UK’s busiest beaches. That’s 27,088 people who are grateful for your...
Category: Articles
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
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Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence