LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LOBSTER YAWL ESCORTED IN Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 7th December, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the bowman of the lifeboat that the local lobster yawl Lion was having difficulty in reaching port...

. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...

Brighton, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 8th July, 1965, the life-guard for the east section of the beach told the beach superintendent's office that a boy on a rubber mattress was drifting seawards off Black Rock swimming pool and signalling...

Coxswain Robinson, Second-Coxswain Nicholson and Motor Mechanic Scott, of New Brighton, Second- Coxswain Sim, of Fraserburgh, Coxswain Baker and Mr. Atkinson, Master of the tug, of Padstow, and Mr. Hugh MacKay, of Hilton,... - View image in PDF

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1957, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned to say that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had been suddenly taken ill. As the...

PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...

Here's a feast! Children from Royston Primary School, Edinburgh, made cakes and sweets to sell to their fellow pupils to help fund the new 47ft Tyne lifeboat for Fraserburgh which will be named City of... - View image in PDF

MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...