LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (5)
JULY 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
News had been received from the coastguard that a trawler was in distress twenty-eight miles away, but she was picked up by a steamer.-Rewards, £16 10s..
A Skiff
NOV. 29TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. A skiff with three boys on board was in danger of being blown out to sea, but got in without help. The honorary secretary of the station, Mr. J. V. Steele, went out with the life-boat...
An Aeroplane (194)
DECEMBER 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea a mile off Lower Sharpnose Point, but a later message said that she was safe and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £...
A Drifter
JUNE 27TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A drifter, which was helping in the salvage of a motor vessel, had gone ashore herself, but she got off without help. Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £6 9s..
A Naval Vessel
AUGUST 27TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A naval vessel, towing a target for the army, was reported to have fouled some buoys, but she got clear without help.- Rewards, £13 16s..
A Spitfire Aeroplane (3)
APRIL 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
The pilot of a British Spitfire aeroplane was reported to have baled out off Perranporth, but he had been drowned and the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £17 5s..
A Steamer (6)
JANUARY 21ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A steamer had struck a mine and had sunk, but the life-boat found nothing. Survivors were picked up by another vessel. - Rewards, £13 19s. 6d..
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (4)
APRIL 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE, AND SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea several miles off Mablethorpe, but nothing could be found.- Rewards : - Skegness, £8 1s. 6d. ; The...
An Aeroplane (89)
AUGUST 15TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An enemy aeroplane had been brought down, and a second had been seen to fall, but an Amble fishing boat rescued five Germans, and nothing else was found but three patches of oil. -...
An Aeroplane (103)
AUGUST 24TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Reports had been received that an aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west of Great Orme’s Head, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Moelfre, £8 ...