LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JUNE 5TH . - MARGATE, KENT. Six white rockets had been seen by the Barrow Deep Light-vessel, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £18 12s.

POKTMADOC, CARNARVONSHIRE. — At 8 A.M. on the 24th January, a vessel having been observed on the S. side of the bar during a strong W.N.W. wind, the John, Ashbury Life-boat put off, and with some difficulty got alongside the vessel, which...

RNLI lifeguards will be on patrol on all the usual beaches in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Jersey this Summer. We're in negotiations to take on some more beaches too – watch this space!

With the Olympics and...

Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...

Arbroath, Angus.—Early on the'morn- ing of the llth of November, 1954, the local fishing fleet put out, but the sea became very rough. The boats made for harbour again, but were unable to enter because the tide was too...

Miranda.—" If by your art, my dearest Father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the...

The Motor Life- boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 5.50 P.M. on the 5th June in response to information, which had been sent to the Coastguard and passed on by them, that a small boat with two men in her was in trouble between East and...

The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...