LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
Past and Present
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (79)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
An American Fortress Aeroplane (3)
MARCH 23RD. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew were rescued by a motor torpedo boat. - Rewards, £29 13s..
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 30TH - 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M.
A light S.W. wind was...
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...
Saved By a Motor Lifeboat
While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (79)
MAY 10TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A British aeroplane had been shot down, but the crew of two succeeded in reaching the shore unaided. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (196)
DECEMBER 14TH. - SKEGNESS, LIN-COLNSHIRE. A British bomber was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £28 18s.
An Aeroplane (56)
APRIL 11TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but a destroyer rescued the pilot.
- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..