LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters and Membership
etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...
Category: Correspondence
Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
An American Superfortress Aeroplane
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
An Oil Tanker
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
An Aeroplane (185)
DECEMBER 1 8TH. - ABERDEEN. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £15 9s..
An Aeroplane (50)
MAY 27TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £9 1s..
An Aeroplane (179)
NOVEMBER 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S , PEMBROKESHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 6s..
An Unknown Vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 24TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. An unknown vessel had been torpedoed, but only wreckage was found.- Rewards, £15 11s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (40)
NOVEMBER 21ST. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported in distress, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 6s..