LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (8)
SEPT. 4TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
A small boat out fishing had been kept under observation and, as the wind increased, the life-boat was launched at 9.20 P.M., but in the darkness failed to find the boat, which got in...
A Trawler (17)
DEC. 18TH. - ABERDEEN, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A trawler had been reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft eighty miles to the E.N.E.
of Aberdeen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £23 17s...
A Landing Craft (1)
AUGUST 29TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A landing craft had been reported in difficulties with her engine broken down, but she anchored, and the life-boats were not needed. - Rewards : Aberystwyth,...
A Motor Torpedo Boat
JULY 25TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A motor torpedo boat had been reported in distress off Bardsey Island, but before the life-boat could reach the position she was recalled by wireless as the boat was safe. -...
A Motor Boat
AUGUST 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At about 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor boat belonging to the monks on Caldy Island had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at the back of St....
A Trawler (1)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A trawler had been reported in distress twenty-five miles north-west of Tory Island, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £15 8s. 6d..
A Steamer (10)
JUNE 29TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN.
A steamer had run ashore on the bar at Dundrum, but declined help and later refloated.
- Rewards, £13 7s. 6d..
A Yacht (1)
MAY 17TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, and a minesweeper which had seen the crash found wreckage, but no survivors were found.- Rewards, £16 5s. 6d.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by...
A Steamer (2)
JANUARY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CLOUGHEY, AND NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. A steamer had gone ashore. The life-boats searched in the fog without finding her, for she had got off and had gone on her way to Belfast. - Rewards : Donaghadee, £20 0S. 6d...
A Naval Motor Boat
JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
A naval motor boat had been reported missing, but the life-boat was recalled when it was learned that the motor boat had reached Bude. - Rewards, £24 6s..