LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (4)
Torbay, Devonshire.—17th September, 1939. A motor boat, with ten passengers on board, had not returned and the life-boat put out to search for her, but she got in without help.— Rewards, £9 7s..
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...
A Speed Boat (1)
FOUR YOUTHS GET ASHORE UNAIDED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At twenty minutes past two on the afternoon of Sunday the 22nd September, 1963, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a 22-foot sptiedboat with four youths on...
A Boat (1)
Aith, Shetlands. At 6.55 on the even- ing of the 8th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that two men had gone to an uninhabited island earlier that day in a small boat.
As the weather had deteriorated...
A Yacht (5)
JUNE 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Kentish Knock Light-vessel had reported that a yacht had carried away her mast, but the yacht cleared herself and went on her way.-Rewards, £4 15s. 6d..
A Martinet Aeroplane
OCTOBER 8TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
A Martinet aeroplane had come down in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £18 2s.
(See Watchet, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 65.).
A Lancaster Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 24TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
The instruments of a Lancaster bombing aeroplane failed while she was returning from Berlin and the airmen, instead of being at 1,000 feet as they reckoned, found themselves in the...
A Boat (3)
DECEMBER 21ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A boat had been reported ashore and showing flares, but could not be found, and it was presumed that she had got off.- Rewards, £10 8s. 6d..
A Dinghy (1)
JUNE 22ND. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A dinghy, the property of the R.A.F. and with R..A.F. men aboard, had got into difficulties, but she was beached before the lifeboat reached her. - Rewards, £11 1s..
A Vessel (2)
OCTOBER 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The life-boat had gone out to help in an attempt to salve a vessel which had been stranded since 1939, but the operations were not successful. - Property salvage case. (See Cromer, “Accounts...