LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Reproduction of a Painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.

As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the...

Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.

—15th September, 1938. A steamer had reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found.—Rewards: Dungeness,.

AUGUST 1 2 T H . - NEWHAVEN, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Newhaven, £8 15s ; Hastings, £14 3s. 6d..

SEPTEMBER 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and on fire off Worthing Pier, but nothing could be found.

- Rewards, £4 1s..

MAY 17TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. An American aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only a patch of oil and some wreckage were found. - Rewards, £12 14s. 3d.

JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...

DECEMBER 23RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

An aeroplane had burst into flames and crashed into the sea, but only the blazing petrol tank and wreckage were found.- Rewards, £19 8s..

THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...