LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 27th December, 1931, information was received from tke Coastguard at Southend that distress signals had been seen by the Lighthouse Keeper at Mull of Kintyre, about eight miles S.W. of the...

OCT. 5TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 2.10 P.M. the Southend coastguard reported that a vessel had stranded on the Skerryvore Reef, Machrihanish.

It was thought that the services of a tug might be...

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea was running, the schooner Broughty Castle, of Londonderry, coal laden, from Swansea for Douglas, was being towed into port by a small...

JANUARY 24TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

At about 1.30 P.M. the sea began to make with the ebb tide, and soon it was breaking across the bar. The weather was cold, and a fresh E.S.E. wind was blowing. As the motor fishing boat...

Sixteen of the cobles belonging to Newbiggin were overtaken by a strong gale which sprang up from the E.S.E, on the morning of the 13th February. At 11 A.M. it was blowing a whole gale and the sea got very heavy. The cobles made for land,...

At about 6 P.M. on the 8th March a vessel was seen to strike the Haile Sand, and a few minutes later she burnt a flare. In response a boat went off to her, and came back with a message that the Life-boat was required. The crew of the No. 2...

Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird accepting North Sea rum from W.

Massie, area sales manager, MacKinlay-McPherson Ltd, on board the 54ft Arun BP Forties last February. Front row (I. to r.): Rear Admiral J. R. D. Nunn, the... - View image in PDF

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