LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CREWS HEAD INLAND
Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, January 2nd, 1868. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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An Aeroplane (153)
OCTOBER 4TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A German aeroplane, a Junkers 88, had been shot down by British fighter aeroplanes east of Southwold, but only oil patches were found. A naval motor vessel which helped in the search was...
Awards to Honorary Workers. Thanks of the Institution on Vellum
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. ALEXANDER ALLAN, on his retirement after fifteen years as honorary secretary of the Kirkcudbright station branch.
Mr. HERBERT E. LOYNES, on his...
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Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
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An Aeroplane (9)
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—18th September, 1939. At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank justafter the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched in the...
An Aeroplane (42)
DEC. 18TH. - CROMER, SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she could not be found. - Rewards : Cromer, £39 13s. 6d. ; Sheringham, £37 14s. Wells, £30 9s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (42)
MARCH 30TH. - HOYLAKE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Hoylake, £9 7s. ; New Brighton, £19 1s..
An Aeroplane (62)
APRIL. 23RD. - CLACTON - ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Clacton-on-Sea, £25 3s. ; Walton and Frinton,.
An Aeroplane (94)
JUNE 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but later this was found to be incorrect. - Rewards, £6 6s. 6d..