LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Barge
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—28th February.
A sailing barge had been reported with her sails damaged, but she did not want help.—Rewards, £8 9s..
A Small Yacht (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—21st May.
A small yacht had been seen apparently in difficulties, but she entered Chichester Harbour without help.—• Rewards, £4 13s..
A Steamer (3)
Walmer, Kent.—llth September. A steamer had burned flares for help, but when the life-boat reached her she did not need it.—Rewards, £10 5s. 6d..
A Small Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—27th November, 1937. A small yacht was missing, but could not be found. She had stranded, but'had refloated and reached port next morning.—Rewards, £11 14*..
A R.A.F. Shackleton Bomber
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 7.42 in the evening on the 25th June, 1952, a R.A.F. Shackleton bomber crashed into the sea seven and a half miles north-east of Emmanuel Head, Holy Island. The life-boat J....
A Mysterious Gift
ON the balustrade in front of the headquarters of the Institution stands a half model of a life-boat which is also a collecting-box. When the box was opened on the morning of the 18th of April 84 farthings were found in it.
Category: Donations
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat...
A Fishing Boat (4)
Boulmer, Northumberland.—16th November, 1938. A fishing boat, which had had trouble with her lines, was late in returning, but she got in unaided.— Rewards, £9 10s..
A Fishing Vessel
Cromarty.—20th December, 1938.
A fishing vessel had burned flares, but she made Burghead Harbour with the help of another fishing boat.—Rewards, £13 2*. Qd..
A Canoe (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—9th July, 1939.
A canoe had capsized with two people on board, but the police rescued them from the shore with lines.—Rewards, £5 13*..