LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Happy Days
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a motor boat flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 7.55 P.M. The position given was one and a half miles...
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JULY 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A man had fallen over the Bempton Cliffs, but he was hauled up the cliff face by ropes. - Rewards, £8 12s..
An Aeroplane (4)
MARCH 8TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Chichester Harbour, but only oil was found, and it was presumed that the aeroplane was lost. - Rewards, £17 12s. 6d..
None (94)
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
German airmen had been reported down in the sea five miles east of Saltfleet, but nothing could be found. - Paid permanent crew..
An Aeroplane (172)
NOVEMBER 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea three miles east of Foreness, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £7 12s..
An American Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
An American aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot swam ashore. - Rewards, £10 1s. 6d..
Spar
DEC. 11TH. - WALMER, KENT. The steamer Spar, of Rotterdam, had been in collision, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £14 12s. 6d..
A Canoe
MARCH 18TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
A canoe had capsized, but the two persons on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach them. - Rewards, £19 11s..
An American Fighter Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An American fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea off Worthing, but the pilot saved himself in his own dinghy. - Rewards, £8 1s..
An Aeroplane (12)
OCTOBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by another aeroplane. - Rewards : St. Ives, £11 1s. ; Padstow, £3 9s..