LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aeroplanes (1)
AUGUST 13TH. - SELSEY SUSSEX.
During an air battle a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the airman was saved by a destroyer. Several enemy aeroplanes had also crashed, and the search was continued, but the...
A Dinghy (1)
Douglas, Isle of Man - At 12.37 p.m.
on 13th August, 1968, the coastguard reported that a rubber dinghy, with two people on board, was adrift one mile east of Cornan beach. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was...
Survivors of 1899 Disaster (1)
Mr. Daniel Wilson and Mr Robert Thorp talking to the Mayor and Mayoress of Aldeburgh (see page 599). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (1)
Cromer, Norfolk.—27th July. A fishing boat capsized, and the two men on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach her. (See September number of The Life-boat, page 318.)— Rewards, £7 11s..
Caroline (1)
IRVINE.—On the 26th February signals of distress were shown by the barquentine Caroline, of Belfast, which had stranded on the north perch at the entrance to Irvine Harbour. The Life-boat Buebie put off to her assistance at 9 P.M., a strong...
William (1)
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th April, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and cold and squally weather, the Coxswain of the Life-boat who was working on the island, saw a flat driven...
Rose (1)
HABWICH.—While a gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the morning of the 30th March, a telephone message was received from Felixstowe stating that a schooner was aground on the St. Andrew's Bank and that she had...
None (1)
3rd Septem- ber. A fire on Foulness Island was mistaken for flares of distress at sea.— Rewards, £11 19s..
None (1)
15th October.
Rockets had been seen by the North Goodwin light-vessel, but no vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £11 19s. 9d..