LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 24TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported as being missing. -...

October Mrs Jean Farrell. secretary of Amlwrch and district branch on Anglesey. She joined the branch in 1979 acting as assistant souvenir secretary and became secretary in 1994. Mrs Farrell was awarded the Statuette in 1992..

MAY 4TH. SELSEY, SUSSEX. A skiff had been seen signalling for help off Hayling Island, but she was towed into Chichester harbour by a motor boat. - Rewards, £11 4s. 6d. (See Hayling Island, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 73.).

MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...

NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...

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 1943, with 14 beautiful photographs of the sea. Price 43. 6d.,...

In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...

The 1939-45 star has been awarded to all members of the crews of lifeboats in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who were out on life-boat service 25 times or more during the war. Two hundred and fourteen men have qualified for...