LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ARBROATH H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of Montrose at a ceremony held at the life-boat station in Arbroath harbour on the 21st of May, 1958. Provost D. A. Gardner,...

Arbroath, Angus.—On the 16th of December, 1955, the local pilot boat put off with a pilot to warn a vessel not to attempt to enter the harbour in the bad weather, but the pilot boat broke down and was towed in. At 2.30 in the afternoon the...

Montrose, Angus.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 25th of August, 1953, the Usan coastguard passed on a message from a pilot that the Arbroath fishing boat Family's Pride had left Montrose under sail that afternoon, bound for Arbroath with...

At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.

of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the vessel.

The fog was...

Arbroath, Angus. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1960, the fishing boat White Rose, which was returning from the fishing grounds, was seen by the coxswain to be off the harbour bar in a confused sea.

DANGEROUS POSITION Arbroath, Angus. At 8.50 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a message had been received from a Carnoustie resident that a fishing boat had fired two red flares from a point off Dowrie. At 9.6 the...

RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which was originally funded by our Shoreline appeal, moved station last year from Blyth, in Northumberland, to Arbroath where, on Saturday April 16, a service of re-dedication was held. It may...

The schooner Ann, of Inverness, was approaching the Har- bour of Arbroath, on the evening of the 24th August, it then being an hour past high-water, and the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., when she struck on the rocks, about 400...