LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 5.45 A.M. information was received that a British aeroplane, some twenty miles due east, was making for Wick.

A few minutes later it was reported that she was down...

BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.

Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 10.20 a.m. on I2th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground at Barony Point, Morvern. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 10.30 in a fresh north...

GIFTS or bequests for any purposes are always most gratefully received by the Committee of Management. The most acceptable and most generous of all is a gift or bequest for general purposes, which leaves the Committee free to apply it in any...

Bookw of the I Bookshop Offer Price £4.95 Price after 1st July £ 6.95 Every copy sold makes a contribution to the RNLI! This is the exciting story of the RNLI: the men, the boats, the rescues, and has been chosen by a panel of...

Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...

Atlantic saves five from speedboat capsized in heavy surf Helmsman Brian Gould of the Cullercoats lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving five people from their capsized speedboat on 8 April 1995.Crew...

DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...