LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberdeen.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 6th of November, 1951, the city police telephoned for help in rescuing people who were trapped by flood water at a caravan camp on the banks of the River Dee at Milltimber. A south-easterly gale was...

Early on the morning of the 14th September the coxswain received a telephone message from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress east of the look-out. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and it was...

Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.

He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.

board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...

Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 29th of October.

1956. a Burnmouth fisherman tele- phoned the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel Rose Valley. of Burnmouth, was making for Eye- mouth harbour...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1956, a message was received that a cow had fallen down a cliffside about half a mile north of Bull Bay. Efforts to rescue it had been made by the fire...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1957, a vessel was seen ashore at French Point in Campbeltown Loch.

Later the vessel's owner asked for the life-boat to help refloat her on the...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.

He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...