LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (11)
OCTOBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by another aeroplane. - Rewards : St. Ives, £11 1s. ; Padstow, £3 9s..
An Aeroplane (12)
MARCH 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the lifeboat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (68)
AUGUST 20TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea over thirty miles away, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless before reaching the position. - Rewards, £11 8s.
An Aeroplane (20)
MAY 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew of two were saved by a Royal Marine craft. - Rewards, £5 6s. 6d..
Services by Lifeboats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1945 During the year life-boats were launched 497 times. Of these launches 118 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Services
Pushing the Boat Out (Above and Left}
Pushing the boat out (above and left} ~ In September Bundoran branch organised a sponsored 'boat push' from Ballyshannon to Bundoran which raised £2,500 for lifeboat funds,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Angela May and Northern Star
At 9 a.m. on 29th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two cobles were still about eight miles north-east of the Brig and in view of the deteriorating weather they might need help. At 11.20 the life-boat The Isa &...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (159)
OCTOBER 2lST. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British aeroplane was reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as it was learned later that the aeroplane had landed safely. - Rewards, £12 7s....
An Aeroplane (185)
NOVEMBER 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. A British bomber had crashed, her crew of four had come down by parachutes, and one of them was believed to have dropped in the sea, but it was found later that he, like the others, had come...