LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. Two airmen had baled out from their aeroplane, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 18s. 3d..

MARCH 26TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

An aeroplane had been reported down S.W.

of Lundy Island, but nothing but quantities of oil was found. - Rewards, £25 8s..

FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Otmerse— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....

JANUARY 22ND. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11.10 A.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be sent to a position three miles N. by W. of Margate, where an aeroplane’s yellow rubber dinghy had been seen. A S.W. wind was blowing,...

The Institution's New Life-Jacket and Protective Suit Made By Vacuum Reflex Ltd A Thousand Sets Will Be Bought In The First Instance. - View image in PDF

Fleetwood, Lancashire. — 28th July, 1939. An aeroplane which had on board the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, making for Belfast, was reported as missing. She had last been seen out at sea three miles S.E.S. of Walney Light. After searching...

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...

THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...