LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (74)
AUGUST 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
The naval authorities had asked. that the life-boat should go to the North Foreland where enemy parachutists had come down in the sea, but they could not be found.- Reward, £4 10s....
A Rubber Boat (2)
AUGUST 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham, and the crew of four had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a trawler.
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A Steamer (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. News had been received of a steamer sinking, and a later message said that she had sunk, but nothing was found, and a patrol vessel nearby was believed to have rescued the crew. -...
An Aeroplane (160)
OCTOBER 2 l ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A British bomber had come down in the sea, and the life-boat found the tail of the machine above water but no sign of the crew of five. Later it was learned that they had been rescued by an...
A Motor Fishing Boat
MAY 31ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A motor fishing boat of Bridlington had broken down, but was towed into Bridlington by a Whitby fishing boat.- Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 6s.
An Aeroplane (205)
DECEMBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
A German aeroplane had come down in the sea in Wigtown Bay, but nothing was found.
Later wreckage was washed ashore. - Rewards, £15 19s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (150)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
Au aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. Soldiers helped in the launch of the life-boat. - Rewards, £31 5s.
An Aeroplane (147)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HOLYHEAD , ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Holyhead, £5 ; Porthdinllaen, £13 6s.
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Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence
A Motor Boat (1)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—2nd October, 1938. It had been reported that a disabled motor boat had been carried out to sea, but the boat got to Belfast unaided. Great help was given the life-boat by the military searchlights at Grey Point and...