LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceres, of Arbroath
On the 26th Oc- tober, the schooner Ceres, of Arbroath, ran ashore, in a heavy sea, on the Salthouse Bank, striking heavily, and sustaining much, damage. The Lytham life-boat proceeded to the aid of her crew, and remaining by her until the...
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An Aeroplane (52)
JUNE 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and the life-boat and her motor boarding boat searched, but they found nothing, and later were recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £8 16s..
A Motor Boat (3)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—8th November, 1938. A fishing party in a motor boat had burned flares when their engine failed, but they managed to get ashore without help.—Rewards, £14 17s..
An Aeroplane (7)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
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CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOKD.—Signals were shown by the Tuskar Lighthouse for the steamer to proceed to her, on the 29th August. A messenger was at once sent to Wexford, but the tender could not get over the bar, owing to the heavy...
Borthwick
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.54 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a rocket had been seen near the Gorton lightvessel.
At 8.15 the life-boat Michael...
Nancy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 10.10 on the night of the 1st of July, 1959, a report was received that flares had been seen off Black Rocks, Penmon. At 10.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a rough sea. There was a...
Overlord
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1961, the signal station reported that the yacht Overlord, which had a crew of six, had been dismasted thirty miles west of Hanois lighthouse and that the tanker Volvatella...
A Canoe (1)
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...