LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th January, 1908.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
An R.A.F. Launch
JANUARY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 1.50 P.M. a message was received from the Stepper Point coastguard that a large R.A.F. launch, which had arrived under Pentire Head, needed help. A fresh N.N.E. breeze was blowing with...
Services of the Life-Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
Category: Services
An Army D.U.K.W.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that an Army D.U.K.W. was in distress near Manor- bier, and at 2.39 the life-boat John R.
Webb was launched. The sea was...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
An Aeroplane (6)
Shoreha m Harbour, Sussex.—27th June, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot. The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.
(For a full account see "Shoreboat...
An Aeroplane (22)
MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (32)
JUNE 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND NEWHAVEN. SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea to the east of Shoreham, but it was later found near Littlehampton, and the services of the lifeboats were not needed. - Rewards : Shoreham...
An Aeroplane (33)
JUNE 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND NEWHAVEN. SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea to the east of Shoreham, but it was later found near Littlehampton, and the services of the lifeboats were not needed. - Rewards : Shoreham...
An Aeroplane (53)
JULY 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An unknown bomber was believed to have crashed in the sea as lights were seen on the water after she had passed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..