LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (2)
On the morning of the 9th September four young visitors put out in an outboard motor boat.
They had not returned by 2.30 P.M., and some anxiety was felt. Enquiries were made along the coast, and the Cadgwith coastguard...
A Sea Hornet Aircraft
St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft...
Five Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
Category: Articles
From the Gold Coast
THE Institution gets many letters from West Africa, asking for its "catalogue." Here is one of the latest. It comes from the Gold Coast.
"I am very happy to write you this letter. Please, sir, I beg you to...
Category: Correspondence
A Sailing Boat
30th July. A sailing boat was seen endeavouring to land in a gale. She succeeded unaided.
—Rewards, £10 12s..
A Steamer (1)
Boulmer, Northumberland.—13th September.
The life-boat searched unsuccessfully for a steamer which was sounding her siren continuously in a fog.—Rewards, £13 4s..
A Pleasure Boat
26th January.
A pleasure boat—a converted life-boat —drifted away, but there was no one on board.—Rewards, £9 2s. 6d..
A Small Sailing Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—4th August, 1938.
A small sailing boat had capsized, but was helped at once by a motor boat.— Rewards, £4 19s. Gd..
A Collapsible Canoe
New Brighton, Cheshire.—27th December, 1938. A boy had been reported adrift in a collapsible canoe, but could not be found.—Rewards, £13 11*. Qd..
A Fishing Coble
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—26th September, 1939. A fishing coble had been reported in distress, but a pilot cutter took her in tow.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..