LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (165)
OCTOBER 29TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea off Holland Haven, and a man was reported to be in the water, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 19s..
An Aeroplane (115)
AUGUST 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat only found wreckage of a balloon and, learning that no aeroplane was missing, returned to her station.- Rewards, £5...
The Coaster Union Star Overwhelmed and on the Rocks West of Tater-Du Lighthouse Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Culdrose
The coaster Union Star overwhelmed and on the rocks west of Tater-du Lighthouse. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"All Sich Things As the Like o' That."
Pulling Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...
Category: Songs
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (116)
AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A burning aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea, but only oil and smashed timber were found. - Rewards, £14 1s. 6d..
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (58)
AUGUST 8TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At about 5.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported by the coastguard down in the sea ten miles S.S.W. from Bembridge Point.
A strong south-westerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea....
An Aeroplane (57)
AUGUST 1ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported Very’s lights several miles to the S.W. by W. An easterly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. Police helped in getting the life-boat crew assembled, and with...
An Example of Energy
THE following summary of eight months' work by a new honorary secretary, Miss G. Coventry, of Milford- on-Sea, Hampshire, deserves to be put on record.
A year ago Miss Coventry bought an old life-boat (the Mevagissey,...
Category: Articles