LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (49)
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Two airmen had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless when it was learned that it was two balloons that had come down and they had been mistaken for...
A Steamer (5)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A steamer had been damaged in an air raid, but all the injured were taken ashore by a speed boat and the steamer herself was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £21 18s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (44)
APRIL 13TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but her crew were picked up by atrawler about twenty miles N.W. of Morecambe Bay lightship and the life-boat was recalled by wireless....
Verbania
MARCH 18TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
News had been received through Wick Radio that the Italian steamer Verbania was in distress, seven miles N.E. of Foula, but the life-boat, which was out for fifteen hours, could find nothing. ...
An Aeroplane (11)
APRIL 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A bombing aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea some twenty miles out, but nothing could be found. The life-boat covered seventy miles. - Rewards, £13 12s..
A Hurricane Fighter Aeroplane (1)
MAY 2 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A Hurricane fighter aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Ramsgate, but the life-boat was recalled when news came that it had been found off Dover. - Rewards, £5 3s..
None (66)
JULY 11TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
In the belief that a vessel had been blown up, the life-boat put out, but found that a mine had been exploded by minesweepers.
- Rewards, £5 6s..
An Aeroplane (53)
JULY 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An unknown bomber was believed to have crashed in the sea as lights were seen on the water after she had passed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (105)
AUGUST 25TH. -WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Many German aircraft had been brought down in a terrific fight in the Weymouth and Portland areas, but although the sea was strewn with wreckage nothing worth rescuing was found. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (146)
OCTOBER 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the life-boat made a long and extensive search, but without result. - Rewards, £33 12s..