LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Vessel (2)
OCTOBER 20TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A motor vessel apparently in difficulties from the failure of her engine was seen to be in tow of another vessel, but the life-boat was recalled when the vessel was seen to slip...
A Steamer (2)
JANUARY 22ND. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
A steamer had been reported ashore, but a second message asked that the life-boat should be recalled as she was not needed.- Rewards, £11 14s..
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....
Arbroath
ARBROATH, ANGUS On the 9th February, 1940, the Arbroath life-boat rescued the seven survivors of the crew of the hopper Foremost 102, of Aberdeen.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM SWANKIE was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
None (13)
JANUARY 21ST. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Explosions had been heard, but nothing could be found. The life-boat’s engine broke down, but she carried on under sail until taken in tow by a pilot cutter. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d....
Two Steamers (1)
MARCH 1 S T . - FILEY, AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two steamers, one Latvian and the other Norwegian, had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
Nothing could be found of the Latvian steamer, and the Norwegian got into...
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. ...
A Steamer (21)
MARCH 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer was reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft, fifteen miles S.E. of Flamborough Head, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 7s. 6d..
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..
None (49)
MAY 8TH, - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
Red and white rockets had been reported, b u t n o v e s s e l i n d i s t r e s s w a s f o u n d . - Rewards, £7 16s..