LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
Category: Articles
An Ex-Naval Man's Gratitude
ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough,...
Category: Services
An Air Force Aeroplane
27th September. A Royal Air Force aeroplane had come down in the sea in a fog on the previous day. A search over a wide area revealed noth- ing.—Rewards, Hartlepool, £6 7s. 6d.; Teesmouth, £8 15s..
An Aeroplane (60)
APRIL 18TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Flares had been reported several miles south of Skilligs, but nothing could be found. The life-boat put out again to a German aeroplane which had crashed in the sea, but the six airmen had...
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APRIL 29TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Hurricane fighter aeroplane had crashed at the mouth of the Hanford Water, but when she was found she was almost submerged and the pilot was dead. - Rewards, £4 6s..
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MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
An Aeroplane (35)
MARCH 13TH. - THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A British aeroplane was expected to come down, probably at sea, but it reached land before crashing.- Rewards : Thurso, £21 9s. ; Wick, £8 13s..
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AUGUST 7TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A British bomber had come down in the sea and her crew of three had got into her rubber boat, but they were picked up by a trawler. - Rewards, £26 12s. 6d.
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AUGUST 31ST. - MARGATE, KENT. A German aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued one of its crew, and of another airman who, he said, was also in the sea nothing was found but his parachute. - Rewards, £5...
An Aeroplane (34)
MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.
Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor...