LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...

Workington, Cumberland.—On the 29th of April, 1957, the master of the motor vessel Tarbek, of Hamburg, anchored off the entrance to Working- ton harbour, asked if a doctor could be sent to his vessel to attend six members of his crew. The...

MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an onshore gale three...

Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...

AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...

Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...

The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with a tender in tow, put out at 3.35 P.M. on the 25th March, as the life-boat watch- man had seen a small vessel go ashore about half a mile S.W. of the fort. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose, died on 16th December last, at the age of sixty-seven. He had been in the service of the Institution for fortyeight years. In 1913 he was appointed Coxswain of the Montrose No. 2 Lifeboat, and then in...