Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—9th July, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.—Rewards, £3 18s..
The Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, life-boat James & Mariska Joicey—she is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type with a steel hull—undergoing capsizing tests before going to her station. The pictures show her upside down and, seconds later, back on an... - View image in PDF
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(Right) Whitby's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield is pictured ready for her hull inspection and scrub down at the town's Endeavour Wharf. The operation took some three hours, but the lifeboat remained operational as she could... - View image in PDF
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At 1030 on 28 November 1991, Sennen Cove's new Mersey class lifeboat The Four Boys, the first Mersey to be allocated to a slipway station, sped down the slipway on its first launch at its new home.. - View image in PDF
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MAY 9TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.
The Arantzazu-Mendi, a steamer of Bilbao, had stranded, but was in no immediate danger.-Rewards, £l0 11s. 6d. (For another service to this steamer, see page 31.).
JULY 24TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported as being missing. -...
NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 30th January, 1941, the Newcastle life-boat landed the crew of fourteen of the motor ship Sandhill, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded a clasp to his bronze...
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MARCH 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Airmen had been reported down in the sea, but a high-speed launch was out searching and the coastguard recalled the life-boat by wireless as she was not needed.
- Rewards,...
APRIL 8TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the airmen were picked up by a motor boat from Colwyn Bay. - Rewards, £9 4s.
(See Colwyn Bay, “ Services by...
MAY 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. In her own crew of nine were five merchant captains, who were on leave. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..