LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Revue Maritime el Coloniale recently published a letter on the deviations to which the needle is liable in consequence of the substitution of iron for wood in ships.

One of the latest contrivances for diminishing this...

ST DAVIDS | 26 AUGUST

Crew members on St Davids RNLI's Tamar class all-weather lifeboat were looking forward to putting their feet up at the end of a busy day at the Solva Regatta. AU such thoughts evaporated however...

NOVEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A ship's boat with men on board, thought to be from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action, was reported to be drifting off St. Govan’s Head, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that...

APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...

FEBRUARY 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

At 10.10 in the morning a report was received from Scurdy Ness that two fishing boats which were at sea would find it dangerous to enter harbour. A northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy...

JULY 27TH. - DUNBAR EAST-LOTHIAN. At 8.40 A.M., information was received from the Royal Observer Corps, through the coastguard, that a vessel was ashore two and a half miles east of Dunbar, and the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan...

Nov. 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

An explosion had been reported off Cooden Beach, Bexhill. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the life-boat searched all night, but found nothing. An increase in the usual...

MACDUFF

SQUAREMEN SUPPORT

Ye Corporation O' Squaremen are supporting 17 local causes this year, and the volunteers at Macduff Lifeboat Station are delighted to be
one of those causes. A...