LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (3)
Weymouth, Dorset.—2nd August. A small boat had been reported adrift, but no boat in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £8 15s..
A Steamer (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—10th November, 1938. A steamer had run ashore on the Inner Gabbard, but got off without help.—Rewards, £21 7s. Qd..
A Rowing Boat
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—llth March, 1939. A small rowing boat had been reported drifting out to sea, but she succeeded in reaching land without help.—Rewards, £30 16s. Qd..
A Dutch Motor Vessel
Ramsgate, Kent.—9th April, 1939.
A Dutch motor vessel had been reported near the Goodwins, but she could not be found.—Rewards, £5 8s..
A Fishing Boat (3)
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—17th April, 1939. A fishing boat had not returned, but was found making her way home without needing help.—Rewards, £5 3*. 6d..
A Boat (1)
Hastings, Sussex.—6th July, 1939. A boat had been reported off Bexhill, partly submerged, but she could not be found.—Rewards, £31 16s. Qd..
A Sailing Yacht
Eastbourne, Sussex. — 30th July, 1939. A small sailing yacht with three people on board was reported as missing, but she got in safely.—Rewards, £9 15*. 6d..
A Dinghy (7)
TWO RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED DINGHY Dungeness, Kent. At 12.24 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary honorary secretary that a dinghy had overturned about a hundred yards off shore south of the...
A Motor Boat (3)
LEAKING MOTOR BOAT At 4.17 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a white motor boat off South Stack was in trouble.
There was a slight sea with a gentle southwesterly breeze. The tide had been...
A Fishing Boat
PAID EXPENSES At 4 p.m. on ist January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that an unmanned fishing boat had broken away from her moorings and was drifting up the inner Tralee Bay. At the request of her owner, who promised to...