LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but only an oxygen cylinder was found.

- Rewards, £31 19s. 9d..

APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....

SEPTEMBER 9TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

The life-boat had been called out to a tug towing concrete defences, with a trawler in attendance, but her services were not needed. - Rewards, £15 18s..

MARCH 11TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A steamer had sunk after being in collision, twenty miles south by east of Berry Head, but the survivors were rescued by another vessel. - Rewards : Salcombe, £15 9s. ; Torbay, £13 1s..<...

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...