LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COMMUNICATION WITH STRANDED VESSELS.

SIR,—I have recently read with painful interest strictures upon the failures on the Norfolk coast to establish prompt communication with a wrecked vessel. Few persons, indeed, are aware...

NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.20 a.m. on 2nd September, 1965, the signal station received a message from a yachtsman arriving in the harbour. He had seen red flares about three miles south of St. Martins Point. The life-boat Euphrosyne...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 4.22 on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received from the skipper of the fishing vessel Wiseman that the local fishing vessel Mayflower was ashore at Cairnbulg Point. At 4.36 the life-boat...

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CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...

1971: {right) The Queen Mother talks to Thurso lifeboat crew after naming The Three Sisters, and . . .. - View image in PDF

ON the 3rd December, 1913, Mr. William Bertram, the Honorary Secretary of the Dunbar and Skateraw Lifeboat stations, and Joint Honorary Secretary of the St. Abbs station, received a handsome presentation from the President, Committee,...