LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCT. 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND ABERDEEN.

At 11.15 P.M. a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray Head, and that two vessels were standing...

To WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain of the Anstruther life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service.

To GEORGE CRANER, on his retirement, after serving for 21 years as...

Mothers and aunts . . . (seated, I. to r.) Miss Nellie Tart (Doris' mother), Miss Dorothy Tart, Miss Amelia Tart (Doris' aunt); (standing, I. to r.) Miss Lottie Tart, Mrs Deer, Miss Madge Tart (Doris' aunt) many years later to be... - View image in PDF

To DAVID CRASKE, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 20 years as Bowman, and previously 5 years as a member of the Crew of the Grimsby Lifeboat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service and a...

Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 19th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a speedboat had capsized opposite Deal coastguard station about half a mile off shore. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Bar mouth,...

Amble, Northumberland - At 7.21 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, two cobles were reported at sea with conditions on the bar bad. At 7.58 the cobles were seen to be approaching the harbour, and the life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings five...

WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...