LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 14TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.

A seaplane had been reported down in the sea six miles N.W. of Cape Clear, but no trace of any machine could be found.- Rewards, £11 4s..

Mr. H. Jenkins, of Lowestoft, whose life-boat photographs will be familiar to readers of the Institution's Journal, has published a "fishing fleet calendar" for 1944, with J4 beautiful photographs of ships. Price 55. 3d.,...

The Institution awarded 204 gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry, and in rewards and other payments to its crews and launchers it spent £400,000. Lifeboatmen also won four British Empire Medals, two Distinguished Service Medals...

Important changes are to be made in the fleet. All one engine, single screw boats will be replaced by two-engine twin screw boats; and all petrol engines, with their risk of fire, will be replaced by oil engines. To do this another fifty...

A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...

JANUARY 11TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A naval rating finding himself unable to row back to his motor launch had boarded a yacht and shouted for help, but a boat belonging to the launch took him off.- Rewards, £6 19s. 6d.

MAY 31ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A motor fishing boat of Bridlington had broken down, but was towed into Bridlington by a Whitby fishing boat.- Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 6s.

NOVEMBER 29TH. - PEEL ISLE OF MAN. It had been reported that an aeroplane was missing and that a body with a life-jacket was floating in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 6s. 3d..