LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tempes- tuous weather was experienced on the north-east coast during the last days of September, and the Swedish barque Princess Wilhelmina of Halmstad, laden with firewood from Kemi to Dundee, became embayed off St. Andrews. Fail- ing to...

the fish- ing fleet of cobles were at sea on the morning of the 16th March a gale of wind suddenly sprang up from the north and backed into the north-east.

The boats at once made for the harbour, but some of them being to...

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Four boys LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed Flint lifeboat station at 1225 on Sunday April 25, 1982, that four boys were stranded 500 yards off the shore in the River Dee. They had gone to fish from a bank off the Cob at Bagillt and had been cut...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor iishing vessel Amber Queen, which had a crew of five, had wirelessed that she had broken down and needed help...

Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...

A strong N.N.W. gale was experienced at Filey on the 23rd July, and at about 5 A.M.

the alarm was given that two of the large fishing yawls in the bay were dragging their anchors, and drifting southward towards Speeton...

AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...