LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (50)
DECEMBER 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
Rescue craft and aeroplanes also searched.- Rewards, £24 2s. 6d..
An American Liberator Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 23RD. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The life-boat stood by outside the harbour in readiness to go and search for a missing American Liberator aeroplane, hut her services were not needed.
- Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (10)
APRIL 25TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 2.40 in the afternoon the Greenore military look-out post reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.
Messages were also...
An Aeroplane (102)
JULY 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and thelife-boat was recalled by a patrol boat.- Rewards, £8 15s..
An Aeroplane (171)
NOVEMBER 7TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A British aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea, but a search, in which an Admiralty boat and aeroplanes took part, found nothing. - Rewards, £16 8s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (12)
JANUARY 2 l ST. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except a big floating mine which was reported by the Scarborough life-boat. - Rewards : Filey, £11 12s.;...
An Aeroplane (100)
AUGUST 23RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and two men were said to have baled out from it, but nothing could be found of them. - Rewards, £6 12s..
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
MAY 17TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but nothing could be found. A message came that a body had been seen, and the life-boat went out again, but again found nothing. - Rewards : first...
An Aeroplane (187)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - FENIT, CO: KERRY.
A German aeroplane had crashed near the Blasket Islands and three of the crew were safe, but two others were adrift in the aeroplane’s rubber boat. A search was made, but nothing was...
An R.A.F. Pinnace
OCTOBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. An R.A.F. pinnace had foundered and her crew had taken to their small boat, but they were rescued by H.M.S. Lochiel a few minutes before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..<...