LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
David Scott Cowper's Ex- Watson Class Lifeboat Mabel E. Holland Beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to Carry Out Temporary Repairs During Her Epic Cicumnavigati
David Scott Cowper's ex- Watson class lifeboat Mabel E. Ho/land beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to carry out temporary repairs during her epic cicumnavigation via the North West Passage. One of the illustrations from Northwest Passage... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cheers!
In addition to several special events organised by the Hillam and Monk Fryston ladies' guild during 1994, its 10th anniversary year, the ladies ran a very well stocked bottle stall at Monk Fryston Gala in July and raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth
Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth pictured earlier on exercise. During the service for which the Thanks on Vellum was awarded she was operating in gale force winds and a stong tide which kicked up seas so steep that she could... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (33)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea. but the airman’s body was picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards. £5 12s. 6d.
(See Margate, “’ Services by Shore-boats,” page...
A Vessel (3)
DECEMBER 3RD. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported sunk in collision, but a search in the darkness was without result. Picking up a wireless message that some survivors had been rescued the life-boat...
An Aeroplane (32)
AUGUST 8TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a search, in which R.A.F. boats and aeroplanes also took part, was without result, and it was thought that the aeroplane had exploded high up and had been...
An Aeroplane (31)
MARCH 7TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A British Anson aeroplane had crashed at sea, and a destroyer picked up one survivor, but nothing was found of the other three members of the crew.- Rewards, £6 14s....
An Aeroplane (40)
MARCH 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The R.A.F. reported that a pilot had been forced to bale out, but a few minutes after putting out the life-boat received a wireless message “No one in parachute. Return to your station “. -...
None (25)
APRIL 1ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
Fires at sea had been reported, but after thelife-boat had gone some miles out it became evident that they were right across the channel near the Welsh coast. - Rewards, £19 13s....
An Aeroplane (36)
MARCH 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed, but nothing was found, and the coastguard reported that the crew baled out and all were safe. - Rewards, £15 9s..