LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Broughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly after ten o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the Carnoustie coastguard reported that the Abertay Light vessel had said a small boat was in difficulties off the light- vessel. A...

Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire.—Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning of the llth of December, 1948, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617, bound with stores from Invergordon to Rosyth, wirelessed to Wick Radio that she was...

" SHIPBUILDING—From Smack to Frigate, from Cutter to Destroyer." Published on behalf of J. Samuel White & Co., Ltd., Cowes, by the Albion Publishing Co., London.

This book describes the activities of the firm...

WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.

—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...

High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...

The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from Christiansand to Oporto with a cargo of codfish, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, about four miles S.W.

of North Goodwin Buoy, on the 4th July. News of the accident...

FOR the rescue of four men from a trawler on the evening of 16th November, 1969, Coxswain John King of Bridlington has been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum.

At 6.5 p.m. that evening Mr. A. W. Dick,...

LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....