LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Government Sea Plane
The Life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 27th September to the assistance of a seaplane belonging to the Government.
The seaplane had come from Sheerness and been beached near Hasborough...
A Submarine
On the 5th February, when a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, a wireless message was received? stating that a vessel was ashore on the South Scroby Sands.
This happened at 5.45 A.M., and within twenty minutes the No. 1...
An Aeroplane
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 P.M. on the 14th May, 1938, a man reported that he had seen an aeroplane come down in the sea about six miles S.E. of South Foreland.
A gentle S.S.W. breeze wasblowing, with a calm sea. The motor...
Mercure
Margate, Kent.—At 3.5 in the after- noon, on the 26th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht, which appeared to have broken down, was drifting four miles north- east by east of the pier. At 3.13 the life-boat The Lord...
Jarvis
HELIOGRAPH FLASHES At 8.2 p.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor-boat appeared to have broken down. Her crew of four were waving and flashing a heliograph.
The tide had...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
DRIFTING LOBSTER PUNT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.20 a.m.
on 2yth July, 1964, the keeper of Ballycotton lighthouse told the honorary secretary that a lobster fishing boat with two men on board had broken down and was...
Jondee
Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...
An Aeroplane (79)
OCTOBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.51 in the evening the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in Yarmouth Roads to the east of Nelson’s Column. The aeroplane was a bomber which, by mistake, had been shot down by our...
Mite
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the 5th of June, 1948, the engines of the sixty- three-ton motor yacht Mite, on passage from Malta to London, broke down some fifteen miles west of Portland Bill in a south-south-west gale with a very rough sea. The...
The Lifeboat on This Chart Is More Than £1100
The lifeboat on this chart is more than £1,100 on its way down the slipway to its splash target of £2,000. This launch is being achieved by North Cormorant oil rig with the help of Mr Campbell and the rig's radio room. They are... - View image in PDF
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