LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (19)
FEBRUARY 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported in difficulties fifteen miles east of Haisborough, but although the life-boat and aeroplanes made a search nothing was found.
- Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (160)
OCTOBER 2 l ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A British bomber had come down in the sea, and the life-boat found the tail of the machine above water but no sign of the crew of five. Later it was learned that they had been rescued by an...
An Aeroplane (181)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - PEEL ISLE OF MAN. It had been reported that an aeroplane was missing and that a body with a life-jacket was floating in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 6s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (147)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HOLYHEAD , ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Holyhead, £5 ; Porthdinllaen, £13 6s.
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An Admiralty Minelayer (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Admiralty minelayer had run aground, but her crew were saved from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, Barmouth, £8 6s. ;...
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Alfred Thomas 'Alf Pavey,
December 1998 Alfred Thomas 'Alf Pavey, Coxswain of Weymouth lifeboat.
Alf was on the Weymouth lifeboat crew for 31 years, of which he served as Coxswain for over 17 years. He was awarded the Bronze medal in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (6)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 5.45 A.M. information was received that a British aeroplane, some twenty miles due east, was making for Wick.
A few minutes later it was reported that she was down...
An Aeroplane (117)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two hundred yards west of the Hook Beacon. A light S.S.E. wind was...
St. Anne's Life-Boat Disaster Fund
ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
Category: Articles