LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...

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RED FLARES SEEN Lerwick, Shetlands. At about 12.20 a.m. on 27th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted from the direction of Ham on the island of Bressay. There were light southerly airs...

APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...

Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a small boat was missing from the harbour.

There were marks in the sand indicat- ing that she had been dragged...

First service for new station's Arun The lifeboat scheduled to go on service at Fenit, an RNLI station being re-established on the west coast of Ireland (see 'Chalk and Cheese', this issue) was involved in her first service on 25...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1956, a message was received that a cow had fallen down a cliffside about half a mile north of Bull Bay. Efforts to rescue it had been made by the fire...

An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...