LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Weather
THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...
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An Aeroplane (58)
AUGUST 8TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At about 5.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported by the coastguard down in the sea ten miles S.S.W. from Bembridge Point.
A strong south-westerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea....
An Aeroplane (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...
An Aeroplane (32)
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
An Ex-Landing Barge
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.28 in the morning of the 19th of March, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel two miles south-east of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, was drifting south, apparently with no crew, and the life-boat Prudential was...
An Admiralty Patrol Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - NEWHAVEN SUSSEX. At 6.52 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that an Admiralty patrol boat needed help about two miles south of the breakwater. The sea was rough, with a fresh S.S.W. wind...
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An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (26)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
An Aeroplane (59)
APRIL 18TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea between Combe Martin and Lynton, and one of the crew was believed to have baled out, but nothing was found, and it was learnt later that...