LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (36)
JULY 5TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but a search, during which a floating mine was seen, found nothing. - Rewards, £6 12s..
None (37)
JULY 8TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
Red lights on the water level had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 10s..
An Aeroplane (23)
JULY 14TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £5 1s..
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
JULY 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A man had gone adrift in a rubber dinghy, but he was picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 9s. 6d. (See Margate, “Services by shore-boats,” page 76).
An Aeroplane (61)
JULY 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 10s. 6d..
A Motor Launch (1)
JULY 22ND. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor launch with a number of passengers on board was overdue, but she was towed in by a motor trawler.-Rewards, £4 13s..
A Beaufighter Aeroplane
JULY 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A Beaufighter aeroplane had nosedived into the sea, but no survivors were found. - Rewards, £16 13s. 6d..
None (43)
JULY 31ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Black objects resembling rubber dinghies had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 12s..
Around the Fundraising Regions
SCOTLAND RNLI Bellevue House Hopetoun Street Edinburgh EH7 4ND Tel 031-5579171 Fax 031-557 6943 Organising Secretary: David Richardson Aberdeenshire Aberdeen - Branch Aberdeen - Guild Banchory Bridge of Don Dyce Ellon Fraserburgh - Branch...
Category: Branches
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...