LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
17th February. A canoe from Brandon had put out with three men on board to collect seaweed.
Later she was found drifting bottom up, but a prolonged search for the missing men was unsuccessful. The branch chairman and...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey.
He has been coxswain since 1918, and previously served for three years as bowman. During the nineteen years that he has been an officer of the...
Category: Articles
An Acknowledgment
THE photograph of the Maryport motor life-boat, Priscilla Macbean, which appeared in the article " On Service in a Motor Life-boat," in the last issue of Tlie Life-boat, was taken by Messrs.
Baxter & Son, of...
Category: Articles
A Boat
7th De- cember. Two boys in a boat had got lost in a fog, but made land unaided.
The father of one of the boys gave the life-boat crew fifty guineas in appre- ciation of their search. — Rewards, £24 8s. 6d..
A Barge (1)
Caister, Norfolk, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
— 17th May. A barge had grounded on Scroby Sand, but got off and was taken in tow by a tug.— Rewards, Caister, £14 12s. 6d.; Lowestoft, £13 175. Qd..
A Steamer (1)
Kirkcudbright.—22nd January, 1939.
A steamer had been reported blowing her horn apparently for help, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £23 11s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (3)
Hastings, Sussex.—24th July, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported...
An Aeroplane (11)
Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...
A Trawler (1)
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.
A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...
Scene 4
The rescue. The two men of the smack can be seen in the rigging. - View image in PDF
Photographs reproduced ty courtesy of H. Jenkins, Lowestoft, (For a full account of the service see page 491.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs