LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (1)
28th October. A rowing boat got' into difficulties, but a pilot boat took off the crew.—Rewards, £9 6s. 6d. 3.
A Yacht (3)
7th June. A yacht flew a distress signal, but other help reached her before the life-boat.— Rewards, £6 19s..
A Speed Boat
7th August. A speed-boat caught fire, but a fishing boat picked up the occupant.—Rewards, £15 11s..
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
A Trawler (2)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — 28th August, 1939. A trawler had gone on the rocks, but she refloated unaided.— Rewards, £4 11s..
Kattegat
Troon, Ayrshire.—4th February. The Swedish steamer Kattegatt, of Helsingborg, had stranded, but tugs went to her help.—Rewards, £14 13s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St. Helier, Jersey.—2nd February, 1938. A report had been received that a French military aeroplane had been forced down sea, but later it was learned that the plane was safe. The St. Peter Port motor life-boat...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Launch of a Reserve Life-Boat
This photograph taken in colour won a first prize in the Institution's competition (See page 283). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boats (1)
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...