LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...

At about 10 A.M., on the 7th March, a message from Boarhills reported that a vessel was in a dangerous position about 4 miles east of St. Andrew's. The wind had fallen, but a very heavy sea was still running. The Ladies' Own...

ANOTHER distressing wreck occurred just to the north of the town, on Sunday morning, the 13th January, 1895, when, after a heavy S.E. by S.

gale all night with snow squalls, the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields, was seen...

D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had...

Grounded crew pulled to safetyOn 11 August last year, a small rigid inflatable boat (RIB) with two people on board ran aground on West Pole Sands, on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Hayling Island lifeboat station launched the Atlantic 75...

Honorary Life-Governor.

Mr. ARTHUR E. HEAZELL, honorary secretary of the Nottingham and District branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given...

Three sailors whose flares were seen off the coast of Pembrokeshire on 5 September were very glad that vigilant onlookers called the Coastguard.

Their boat had capsized, and Fishguard’s inshore lifeboat, battling force 5–6...

Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 9.35 in the night of the 23rd of December, 1949, a wireless message was picked up at St. Abbs from the steam trawler Arlette, of Grimsby. She was making for Berwick to land a man with a poisoned arm....