LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...

HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — 2 6 t h July. A yacht was in difficulties, but managed to get to a safe anchorage.

The mother of one of the boys in the yacht sent a letter of thanks and a donation to the branch.—Rewards,...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the 17th November a heavy gale sprang up from the north, with a very heavy sea and rain. Several open cobles were at sea, and the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched at 6.55 P.M. She went in the direction...

JANUARY 18TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 10.20 at night a message was received from the coastguard at Bangor that a vessel was in distress west of Wilson’s Point, Belfast Lough. A whole north-east gale was blowing, with...

WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.

It might...

Yachtsman transferred in 'appalling9 conditions A service by Weymouth lifeboat on 13 April 1992 has Jed to the Director sending a letter of appreciation to Second Coxswain David Pitman, the station's Honorary Medical Adviser Dr Will...

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