LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (5)
NOVEMBER 17TH . - ABERDEEN. A small boat had been reported drifting, but it could not be found. - Rewards, £8 15s. 6d.
Mrs. K. Hanson of Staithes, Yorkshire, Pinning a Life-Boat Flag on Andrew Blowitt, Aged 3
Mrs K Hanson of Staithes Yorkshire Pinning A Life-Boat Flag On Andrew Blowitt Aged 3. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (2)
Selsey, Sussex.—19th August, 1939.
It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the lifeboat could find nothing.—Rewards, £11 15s..
A Sailing Boat
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 9.30 on the night of the 13th October, 1961, an hotel manager told the honorary sec- retary that a friend of his had left Howth in a small outboard sailing boat with another man and a girl for Dun Laoghaire, and that...
A Dinghy (4)
SEARCH FOR TWO BOYS IN DINGHY Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.50 on the night of the 2nd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the harbour master at Newquay had reported that two boys, who had left Newquay at 8.30 in the...
A Raft (2)
JULY 23RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A raft with two boys on board was drifting seawards., but one of the boys succeeded in swimming ashore. The other was drowned, and his body recovered by a boat. - Rewards, £10 11s....
A Spitfire Aeroplane (1)
APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....
A Steamer (4)
JANUARY 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. A call had been received from a steamer for the port doctor. The weather was severe and the life-boat could not find the steamer. She must have gone on her way. - Rewards, £15 11s. 6d..
A Vessel (25)
JULY 5TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A vessel had been reported on fire five miles off St. Albans Head, but nothing could be found. News was received later that the vessel had been towed into port. She had formed part of a convoy which had been...