LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...

A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...

Excellent ser- vice was performed by the Life-boat on this station on. the 16th August. About five o'clock on the rooming of that day, during a very heavy gale, with a rough sea, the barque Neptunus, of Soon, Norway, drove ashore in...

At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February a message was received by telephone stat- j ing that a vessel was in distress off I Buddonness Lighthouse. A strong gale was blowing at the time with a heavy j sea. The motor Life-boat Maria was at...

Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...

Anstruther, Fifeshire, and Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 7.34 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary at Anstruther that the fishing boat Devotion of Kirkcaldy was on fire about a mile and...

LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.

They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...

At 11.30 A.M. on the 15th November a tele- phone message was received stating that a barque was in a dangerous position to the south of Donaghadee, and in need of assistance. The Motor Life-boat William and Laura was promptly dispatched to...