LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam Drifter
JUNE 21ST. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A steam drifter appeared to be on fire, but another drifter took her in tow. It was later learned that her engines had broken down.- Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
A Dinghy (1)
JULY 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An empty, waterlogged, rubber dinghy was picked up, and it was learned that an airman had been saved by an Admiralty trawler and a dead body picked up by an Admiralty yacht. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
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AUGUST 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A German airman had come down by parachute, but he was picked up by a motor boat.
- Rewards, £5 12s. 6d.
(See Herne Bay, “ Services by Shore-boats”, page 140,).
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DEC. 14TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. Ship’s YORKboats had been reported adrift, but nothing was found except large trunks of timber.
Rewards : Clacton-on-Sea, £8 13s....
A Small Naval Vessel
MAY 30TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A small naval vessel had had trouble with her engine, but was able to repair it and to anchor nearer land. - Rewards, £14 0s. 6d..
A Dinghy (5)
JULY 2ND. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A dinghy, thought to belong to a missing Wellington aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Blackpool, £8 2s. ; Lytham - St. Annes, £7 6s....
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FEBRUARY 24 TH . - SHERINGHAM NORFOLK. A heavy explosion and machine gun fire had been heard and aeroplanes seen but no vessel in need of help could be found.
- Rewards. £19 9s. 6d..
A Flying Boat (1)
OCTOBER 29TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS, AND THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A British flying boat had crashed as her petrol was exhausted, but two trawlers rescued her crew. - Rewards : Longhope, £24 11s. 6d. ; Thurso, £20 19s...
A German Aeroplane
29th October. A Ger- man aeroplane had come down at sea, but no trace of her could be found.— Rewards, £5 12*. 6d. (A full account of this service launch appears on p. 6, of this issue.).
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—23rd November, 1938. A boat had been reported in distress, but nothing could be found and it was thought that what was taken for a distress signal was probably lightning.—Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..