LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (10)
DECEMBER 20TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
Signals by siren from a vessel believed to be on fire had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 13s..
A Seafire Aeroplane
APRIL 10TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
A Seafire aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £5 1s..
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
A Steamer (9)
JUNE 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A large steamer had gone aground on the Shingles Bank, but tugs were in attendance and the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £3 19s. 6d..
A Vessel (11)
MARCH 5TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A vessel had been reported ashore and burning flares, but evidently had got off and gone on her way as she could not be found - Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
A Boat (6)
DECEMBER 31ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A boat with twenty men on board had been reported adrift in the Dee Channel, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Rhyl. £20 15s. ; Hoylake, £31 3s. 6d..
A Vessel (2)
JANUARY 9TH. - WHITBY, YORK-SHIRE. A vessel had been attacked by enemy aircraft but she was able to go on her way. - Rewards, £7 6s. 6d.
A Trawler (7)
AUG. 28TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A trawler had gone on the rocks, but she refloated unaided. - Rewards, £4 11s.
A Vessel (13)
MARCH 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. A vessel had been reported signalling to the E.S.E., but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 7s. 6d.
Lecture on Life-Boats
4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...
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