LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 15th September the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported a vessel ashore on Cairnbulg Briggs making signals of distress.

The weather was very thick, the sea calm and the wind easterly. At 2...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.40 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of messages re- ceived from the Trinity House pilot cutter and from the Sunk lightvessel that a large motor vessel...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio mess- age received from a local fishing boat stating that she had struck a...

MARCH 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. on 9th March, the duty naval officer at Ardrossan reported the S.S. Asteria, of Glasgow, ashore on Eagle Rock, off Ardrossan breakwater, and in need of help. She was a vessel of 694 tons gross, in...

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THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was...

Caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks were all shunned in favour of water during our new fundraising challenge, H2Only. It was a tough ask for many of our supporters: giving up all drinks except for water for 2 weeks. But they were determined...

MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW BROUGHT ASHORE Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.43 on the morning of the 20th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had asked if the life-boat would...