LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
An Aeroplane (2)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
Three Medal Services. Donna Nook, Lincolnshire; Humber, Yorkshire; Gorleston, Suffolk
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not have been worse. A whole gale was blowing from the north. A tremendous sea was...
Category: Medals
An Ex-Naval Picket Boat
ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Selsey, Sussex.—At 2.35 in the after- noon of the 20th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress between the eastern entrance to Chichester Harbour and Wittering Beach. A moderate south-westerly breeze...
Standing By All Night In Gale
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed Coxswain Hugh Jones of Beaumaris that the Greek tanker Essar I was drifting with engine trouble and with her engine room flooded one mile north of Point Lynas....
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (60)
AUGUST 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.15 P.M., during an air-raid, a British aeroplane was seen from the life-boathouse to crash about three miles to the northward.
A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The crew...
Contents
Contents Volume XLVIII Number 482 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.L Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Notes of the Quarter Long Service Awards.
Lifeboat Services.
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Category: Contents
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...
An Aeroplane (31)
MARCH 7TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A British Anson aeroplane had crashed at sea, and a destroyer picked up one survivor, but nothing was found of the other three members of the crew.- Rewards, £6 14s....
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...