LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fortress Aeroplane
JANUARY 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Fortress aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had come down just inshore on a flooded marsh.
- Rewards, £15 9s..
A Large Admiralty Buoy
DECEMBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An object having the appearance of a ship’s boat had been reported, but it was found to be a large Admiralty buoy adrift. - Rewards, £6 13s..
A Motor Boat (1)
JUNE 15TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
A motor boat had broken down, but she was taken in tow by a steamer.
- Rewards, £5 18s. 6d..
A Wireless Appeal
ON Christmas Eve of last year a wireless appeal for the Life-boat Service was made by the Duke of Montrose. chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, a vice-president of the Institution and now the Institution's...
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A Motor Schooner
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A motor schooner had grounded, but she refloated and after she had drifted for a time her anchor held and she did not need the services of the life-boat.
- Rewards, £30 15s..<...
A Steamer (8)
JUNE 21ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A steamer, damaged by striking a rock or wreckage, had been beached, but she did not need the help of the life-boat.- Rewards, £31 12s. 6d.
A German Submarine
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A German submarine had struck the Wolf Rock and sunk. Naval vessels also sent to the rescue and picked up a number of survivors. but none was rescued by the lifeboat.
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A Steamer (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Cromer, Norfolk.—16th May. A steamer was disabled by the loss of her rudder and propeller in bad weather, but was taken in tow by a tug.—Rewards, Skegness, £24 16s. 6d.; Cromer, £20 12s. Qd.
A Small Boat
On the 10th February, two boys in a small boat persisted in going out of the harbour, in spite of warnings which they received from men on the pier, and drifted helplessly towards the Scroby sands on which a rough sea was breaking. Five men...
A Yacht (3)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.0 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, preparations were almost complete for the new life-boat's naming ceremony when severalcalls were received of a boat in distress in Scotsmans bay. At 4.20 p.m. the lifeboat...