LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Whitley Aeroplane
DECEMBER 21ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An airman was reported to have baled out from a Whitley aeroplane, but he was not found. - Rewards, £27 12s..
A Fishing Boat (1)
MARCH 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A fishing boat was thought to be flying a signal, but the object was a fishing basket and not a signal for help. - Rewards, £7 19s..
Niritos
MARCH 11TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The Greek steamer Niritos, of Ithaca, had struck a mine E.N.E. of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, but her crew were rescued by another steamer. - Rewards, £8 15s. 6d..
A Pleasure Boat
JUNE 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A small pleasure boat had been reported overdue, but was found abandoned on the rocks, east of Hastings. - Rewards, £23 7s. 9d..
An Aeroplane (35)
JUNE 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea twelve miles east of Yarmouth, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (101)
AUGUST 23RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, reported a British aeroplane down on the sea, but nothing was found either by the life-boat or naval vessels. - Rewards, £12 7s..
Fourteen New Motor Life-Boats.
During this year of war fourteen new motor life-boats have been completed and sent to the coast. All of them but one went to their stations by sea..
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Four and a Half Years of War.
In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..
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£45,000 from An Aeroplane
The Newquay life-boat went out in a fog to a crashed, aeroplane. She found no one alive,'but. she brought ashore twelve bodies, mail bags and £45,000 in 100-dollar bills..
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Convoy's Papers Saved
The Southend-on-Sea life-boat has rescued , from a tug, which had gone ashore in a dense fog, the commodore of a convoy - and all the convoy's papers..
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