LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
Shoreline Section FOR SHORELINE each new year is welcomed in by the Boat Show at Earls Court, early in January. As usual a voluntary Shoreline team was manning our stand for the full 11 days, and very well they did, too. We made an excellent...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
LOOKING BACK on this year's London Boat Show, held at Earls Court from January 5 to 15, there is no doubt that, for Shoreline, it was one of the most successful shows we have ever had. We can look back with pride! The Shoreline team,...
Category: Articles
An Air Force Aeroplane
27th September. A Royal Air Force aeroplane had come down in the sea in a fog on the previous day. A search over a wide area revealed noth- ing.—Rewards, Hartlepool, £6 7s. 6d.; Teesmouth, £8 15s..
While Trying to Help the Yachtsmen
While trying to help the yachtsmen the inflatable dinghy was capsized. The two lifeboatmen who had been manning her and one of Melfort's crew, swept down to Derby Haven breakwater, were successfully lifted from the sea by the crew of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A 37Ft Oakley Lifeboat Like Kilmore's Lady Murphy
A 37ft Oakley lifeboat, like Kilmore's Lady Murphy, is hauled over by crane for her righting trial; when she is upside down, the strop will be released. The Oakley's righting capability is given by a water transference... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Flying Boat
OCT. 13TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. The coastguard had reported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approximately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched she was...
An Aeroplane (191)
DECEMBER 5TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down on a sandbank in the Lynn Channel, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £15..
An Aeroplane (195)
DECEMBER 12TH. - WESTON - SUPER - MARE, SOMERSET. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and later it was learned that it had crashed on the shore.- Rewards, £12 1s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (15)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but after an unsuccessful search it was learned that the crew had managed to get ashore near Boston.
- Rewards,...
A Rowing Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. Two boys in a rowing boat had been reported missing in a thick fog, but the boat was found among the rocks, the boys apparently having left her there and gone home. - Rewards, £8...