LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wick, Caithness-shire. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...

At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...

PALLING.—During a strong wind from the N.E. with a heavy sea and foggy weather, the No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, put off at 6 P.M. on the 15th of April to the assistance of the barque Franziska, of Porsgrund, Norway, bound from that...

BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...

Fire at sea 'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn.

with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24...

THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...

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At 11 P.M.

on the 26th January signals were observed from the Newarp Light-vessel, and in response the No. 2 Life-boat Elinor Brown was launched. On reaching the Light-vessel, it was found that the brigantine Wilma, of...