LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (33)
NOVEMBER 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea. An air-sea rescue launch picked up one body, but the life-boat found nothing.- Rewards, £15 12s. (See Nairn, “Services by Shore-boats,” 1946,...
Five Years and Three Months of War
In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Fleet Calendar
Mr. Ford Jenkins has published a fishing fleet calendar for 1945. It has eight beautiful photographs of ships and the sea. Price 53. including postage, from H. Jenkins Ltd., 2 Pier Terrace, Lowestoft, not from the Institution..
Category: Articles
Obituary
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth; Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell; Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, Honorary Secretary of the Seaford Branch; Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, J.P., of Nottingham, a Member of the Committee of...
Category: Obituaries
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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A Collier
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A collier had been driven ashore north of Roker Pier, when trying to enter the Port of Sunderland, but the crew of thirteen were able to land in their own boats.
- Rewards, £23...
Two French Crab Fishing Boats
AUGUST 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two French crab-fishing boats had been reported missing from St. Ives Bay, but nothing was found. One had made harbour and the other had been totally wrecked, with the loss of three of...
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JULY 30TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man had been swept away by the tide while swimming off Dumpton Gap, but the life-boat could not find him, and he was washed ashore, still alive, near Broadstairs. - Rewards, £6 7s.
A Herring Drifter
DECEMBER 8TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A herring drifter had been reported aground, but the life-boat found nothing, and a drifter, which had been aground, came in while the life-boat was out.
- Rewards,...
A Launch
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A launch attached to a Coast Artillery School had got into difficulties and had capsized after striking a diving tower, but the crew were all rescued from the shore. - Rewards, £8 17s....