LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (57)
AUGUST 1ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported Very’s lights several miles to the S.W. by W. An easterly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. Police helped in getting the life-boat crew assembled, and with...
An American Thunderjet Fighter (2)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
An Aeroplane (51)
APRIL 5TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLANDS. A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea several miles to the N.W. of St.
Agnes, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 18s..
An Aeroplane (149)
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats were recalled at the request of the naval officer at Penzance. - Rewards : Newquay, £18 ; St. Ives, £25 1S...
An Aeroplane (5)
JULY 3RD. - BEAUMARIS, AND HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A wrecked aeroplane had been reported in the sea about twenty miles north of the Skerries, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £11 11s. 9d. ; Holyhead, £6 5s..
Baptism by mire
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA | 3 NOVEMBER
Southend’s search and rescue hovercraft crew launched to reports of five people in the water struggling to get ashore. The volunteers quickly located three of them –...
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An Amphibious Craft
AMPHIBIOUS CRAFT SANK Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an amphibious craft with five men on board, employed to make improvements to a sewage pipe for the local authorities, had...
Rescue By Borough Engineer and Clerk
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, 1957, Mr.
Harry Wilman, the borough engineer and surveyor of Colwyn Bay, learnt at his office that a boat was in distress in the bay. He arranged for a...
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An Aeroplane (177)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH BERWICK.—One of the newest type of Life-boats has been placed on this station. It is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, rows ten oars, double banked, and is provided with a transporting carriage. The cost was defrayed from a bequest given to...
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