LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lowestoft
LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK On the 30th September, 1943, the Lowestoft life-boat rescued ten of the crew of H.M. Minesweeper 106.
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Two Yachts
JUNE 19TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. Two small yachts had got into difficulties, but one was able to go on without help and the other was taken in tow by another yacht. - Rewards, £5 1S..
A Spitfire Aeroplane (2)
APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....
A Dinghy (1)
JUNE 22ND. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A dinghy, the property of the R.A.F. and with R..A.F. men aboard, had got into difficulties, but she was beached before the lifeboat reached her. - Rewards, £11 1s..
A Vessel (2)
OCTOBER 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The life-boat had gone out to help in an attempt to salve a vessel which had been stranded since 1939, but the operations were not successful. - Property salvage case. (See Cromer, “Accounts...
An Aeroplane (199)
DECEMBER 21ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and oil and small wreckage were found, but there was no sign of the crew. - Rewards, £23 16s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (4)
JANUARY 27TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
An unknown aeroplane had been reported by the Dublin military authorities to be down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £10 13s..
A Steamer (10)
MARCH 2ND. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. A survivor of a bombed steamer who had been landed by a trawler had reported that others were missing, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £15 18s..
An Aeroplane (102)
JULY 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and thelife-boat was recalled by a patrol boat.- Rewards, £8 15s..
An Aeroplane (171)
NOVEMBER 7TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A British aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea, but a search, in which an Admiralty boat and aeroplanes took part, found nothing. - Rewards, £16 8s. 3d..