LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
APRIL 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A report had been received that some airmen were in a dinghy, but the lifeboat and her motor boarding boat, which both went out, found some soldiers fishing from a dinghy. - Rewards, £13 12s..<...
Salty sea dog
13 October 2011: Mallaig lifeboat crew rescued a family of four people and two dogs from a tidal island, after their dinghy had drifted away. One four-legged family member really enjoyed his trip on the Severn’s...
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An Aeroplane (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - SALCOMBE , DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had been picked up from their rubber dinghy by a Hope Cove fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 13s.
(See Hope Cove, “ Services by...
A Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - PETERHEAD ABERDEENSHIRE. A workman from a shipbuilding yard had reported that a boat had capsized off North Head, Peterhead, but nothing was found, and it was thought that what had been seen was the Broughty Ferry life-boat...
An Unknown Vessel
FEBRUARY 22ND. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
An unknown vessel had been sunk by enemy action. Only wreckage was found by the life-boat, but some survivors were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch- Rewards, £16 9s..
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
APRIL 10TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat put out to help search for a rubber dinghy from a crashed aircraft about forty-two miles east-by-south of Wick, but was recalled. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (67)
APRIL 29TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British Sunderland aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £10 14s.
(See Bardsey Island, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...
None (8)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—27th January.
What was thought to be a fishing boat in distress was found to be a buoy, with a light and flag attached, marking the end of a drifter's line.—Rewards, £6 17s..
An Aeroplane
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—10th September.
During the King's Cup Air Race it was reported that an aeroplane had come down in North Bay, but actually it had crashed on Castle Hill.
—Rewards, £13 12s....
None
Ramsgate, Kent.—13th July, 1938. An open boat had been reported driftingby the North Goodwin Light-vessel, but it was found to be a large packing-case.
-—Rewards, £5 8*..