LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea north of Lossiemouth, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £3 5s. 6d..

FEBRUARY 28TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS. The engine of a Norwegian fishing vessel had broken down in a gale, and she was leaking, but in a lull her crew repaired the engine and she got into Lerwick unaided. A letter of thanks on behalf of the...

On the 23rd De- cember the brig Englishman, of Working- ton, and the schooner Louisa Jane, of Drogheda, while running for the river Boyne, became unmanageable through a sudden change of the wind, and drove on the South Bull in a heavy sea....

Aberdeen. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coast- guard reported that a message had been received from the Dutch vessel De Hoop that another Dutch vessel Huiberdina Gijsbertha of Katwijk a/Kee was aground on the north...

Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Irish Lights Office asking if the life-boat would land a sick man from Slyne Head lighthouse. At 2.15 the life-boat...

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Port Medical Officer advised the life- boat coxswain that the cargo vessel S.S.

Sea Minstrel, of Dover, was expected off the port at one o'clock...

DE C . 1 S T . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sinking as a result of enemy action three miles S.S.W. of the Tongue Light-vessel.

A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea....

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 9.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Longstone lighthouse-keeper had reported that a vessel had hove to on or near...