LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (155)
OCTOBER 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NOR FOLK. A bomber had been reported down in the sea twenty miles off Wells, but notrace of her was found either by the life-boat or by other vessels and aeroplanes which took part in the search. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (172)
NOVEMBER 8TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirty-seven miles in a N.E. direction from Kinnaird Head, but nothing was found. The life-boat was out for ten and a half hours. - Rewards, £23...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
DECEMBER 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1 A.M. the coast-guard reported a message from the coastwatching post at Goring that it had seen red flares at sea about a mile away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
An Aeroplane (7)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea north of the Stags of Broadhaven, Co.
Mayo, but. the lifeboat and an R.A.F. rescue ship could find no survivors. The...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
"Light of All Nations" on the Goodwin Sands
THE following letter has been forwarded to the Committee of this Institution, to which, considering the great importance of the subject, and the apparent feasibility of the proposition, we give insertion, as we fully concur in Mr....
Category: Correspondence
The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927
By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.
[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...
Category: Articles
Fig 2: Engine Beds In Place Note Bulkhead at Forward End of Engine Room (Right)
Fig. 2: Engine beds in place. Note bulkhead at forward end of engine room (right).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Should I Bring an Umbrella?
‘Should I Bring an Umbrella?’
Celebrating weather in photographs
By Alan Johnston
Review by Tim Corke
Alan Johnston’s personal portfolio of photographs captures the...
Category: Articles
An American Yacht
Yacht owner injured by boom Weymouth South West Division A service to an American yacht by Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell has led to a letter of thanks to the station's honorary medical adviser Dr Peter Gibbons...