LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...

Torbay, Devon - At 8.45 p.m. on June, 1967, the coastguard and the honorary secretary conferred with regard to an unidentified 'Mayday' call which had been received. It was decided not tolaunch the life-boat until further information...

Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.

The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...

NEWHAVEN.—The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Michael Henry was informed on the morning of the 12th January that a large ship was ashore at Portobello. He atonce summoned the crew, and at 8.45 the Life-boat was launched. On reaching the vessel she...

On Feb- ruary 6th the s.s. Mango, of Newry, ran ashore on the rocks off Aranmore, during a thick fog. A strong S.W.

breeze was blowing, a heavy sea was running, and it was raining. The motor life-boat William and Laura put...

Holy Island, Northumberland. - - At X.15 P.M. on the 19th July, 1939, a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that distress signals had been heard from the direction of Longstone Lighthouse. A light easterly breeze was blowing,...

OCTOBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 11.20 in the morning the Carne coast life-saving service telephoned that a schooner was ashore at Churchtown, Carnsore Point. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor...

WITH " revolving years" the seasons of storm again and again occur, and each season brings more and more prominently into view the " Life-boat and its Work," whilst each seems to demand for that work a greater and greater...