LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
43127 search results for 'The S.S. Corrientes'
List view Card view

An Aeroplane (36)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.

(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).

None (13)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.

Airmen were reported to have baled out over the sea, but the life-boats found nothing. - Rewards : Llandudno, £21 13s. 6d. ; Rhyl, £27 9s....

An Aeroplane (42)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

APRIL 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and later a red rocket was seen, but on receiving a wireless signal that none of our aeroplanes was missing the life-boat returned. -...

A Vessel

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY 24TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

The naval authorities called for the life-boat to stand by a vessel east of Stack Rock, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £18 10s. 6d..

H.M.S. Astronomer

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JUNE. 1ST, WICK. CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

An explosion had been heard on board H.M.S. Astronomer, thirty miles away, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learnt later that the survivors had been picked up by trawlers. -...

Naval Motor Launch No.109

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

OCTOBER 30TH. -THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A naval motor launch, No. 109, had struck a mine and had sunk. Six survivors had been picked up by another launch ; and nothing could be found of the others.- Permanent paid crew....

An Aeroplane (180)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

An aeroplane had come down off Cliff End Point, a mile from the shore, but the airmen got to land in their rubber boats. - Rewards, £15..

Launches of Life-boats and Lives Rescued

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: Preface

Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..

Category: Services

An Aeroplane (51)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

DECEMBER 11TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down, but the life-boat was recalled when it was known that the airmen had been saved.

- Rewards, £12 8s. 6d..

An Aeroplane (172)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 8TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirty-seven miles in a N.E. direction from Kinnaird Head, but nothing was found. The life-boat was out for ten and a half hours. - Rewards, £23...