LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Inshore rescue hovercraft The Hurley Flyer 'Recently, when a nine-year-old girl in a dinghy and a man were in trouble, the lifeboat picked them up and the hovercraft flew the casualties right across the beach up the slipway to the... - View image in PDF

MA R C H 2 2 N D . - B U C K I E , B A N F F - SHIRE. A motor fishing boat had capsized off Portknockie, but three of her crew were drowned and the remaining man was saved by a small boat from the shore. - Rewards, £9 16s. 6d..

MAY 13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had struck a wreck and sunk with a cargo of wheat. The weather was calm, and the life-boat attempted to salve her, but she was too badly damaged.- Rewards, £8 14s..

JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service had gone out to the help of an aeroplane which had come down in the sea, had caught fire herself and had been burnt out, but her crew were rescued by the examination...

APRIL 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. Cries for help were heard coming from the sea, and found later to be from a man who had jumped overboard from the S.S. Montferland, of Amsterdam, but he was picked up by a boat from a Norwegian steamer. - Rewards,...

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,...

AU G U S T 2 N D . - G O U R D O N , K I N CARDINESHIRE. A German bomber hadbeen shot down by S.S. Highlander, one of two which she brought down, but no trace of the crew could be found. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..

Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1943 During the year life-boats were launched 411 times. Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...