LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Spitfire Aeroplane (4)
MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...
An Aeroplane (56)
JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...
Prevalent
OCTOBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9.41 in the morning the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor trawler was flying distress signals two miles north-north-east of Berry Head. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea....
Windsor Lad
DECEMBER 13TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The district inspector was at the station preparing to take the life-boat out for exercise, when at 2.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported the local fishing coble Windsor Lad in...
Snow Bound.
Towards the end of January, after the heaviest fall of snow for many years, the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire, was cut off by land from the rest of the world. Roads and railways were blocked; the telephone wires were down; but the sea...
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Salvenio, of North Shields
JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...
Lily, of Scarborough
AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy...
Windermere (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - WICKLOW. At 10 in the morning distress signals were made by the motor schooner Windermere, of Arklow, a mile N.N.E. of Wicklow pier, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched immediately. A strong S.S.E. gale was...
China
PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles,...
Clipper of Great Yarmouth
On the night of the 24th January, dating a heavy gale from S.S.W., guns were heard from the St.
Nicholas Light Vessel, and rockets were thrown up, indicating a vessel in distress.
The crew of the large...