LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Topdal and the S.S. Kittiwake
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....
An Aeroplane (11)
APRIL 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A bombing aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea some twenty miles out, but nothing could be found. The life-boat covered seventy miles. - Rewards, £13 12s..
Black Diamond and Karoon
RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...
Paquita, of Santander
Very early on the morning of the 4th January, a vessel was seen on the Dogger Bank, off this coast, on which a rough sea was then breaking.
As soon as possible the smaller of the two Life-boats on this station, the Civil...
Ethel Edith
During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...
An Aeroplane (20)
MAY 26TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. It had been reported that an aeroplane had come down into the sea, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £9 1s..
An Aeroplane (23)
JULY 14TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £5 1s..
An Aeroplane (20)
JUNE 12TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea in flames, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. - Rewards, £27 16s. 3d.
The S.S. Wandle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.48 in the evening of the 3rd of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Wandle, of London, was approaching the harbour and wished to land a sick man. The motor life- boat Louise...
The Ro-Ro Ferry Chartres
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...