LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Queensferry's Lifeboat Open Day
Clockwise from top right: Highland dancers, RNLI supporter Pat 'Pirate' Mulraney and children's entertainer Scott Lovatt all helped to make the open day a roaring success Photos: Hamish . - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Offshore Members
Golden Offshore members Larry and Phyllis Green received an Admiralty RYA chart plotter from Admiralty Leisure and a special RNU memento from survivor Peter Landon (left) and David Brann. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (14)
DEC. 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands, but got off and went on her way.- Rewards, £33, and £19 5s..
A Mustang Fighter Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SELSEY, AND SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A Mustang fighter aeroplane crashed into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, Selsey, £9 7s. ; Shoreham Harbour, £6 11s..
An Aeroplane (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane, believed to be German, had crashed during an air-raid on Portsmouth, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £13 12s..
A Boat from an Examination Vessel
DECEMBER 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A boat, from an examination vessel, with a crew of three, had gone ashore, but the men landed without help.- Paid permanent crew..
None (54)
NOVEMBER 9TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two swimmers had been reported in difficulties, but the police rescued one and the other was drowned. - Rewards, £38 1s.
A Steamer
JANUARY 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. The naval authorities had asked the life-boat to bring an injured man ashore from a steamer, but the steamer could not be found. - Rewards, £12 4s..
A Fishing Boat (7)
MAY 14TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties south of Girvan, but she was towed into harbour by another boat. - Rewards, £9 4s..
The American Yacht Seafarer
AUGUST 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American yacht Seafarer grounded on the Goodwin Sands, but refloated and was taken in tow by the Ramsgate life-boat. - Rewards, £20 5s..