LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PORTMADOC.—During the forenoon of the 18th February the ship Turkestan, of Liverpool, bound to that port from New York, got ashore near the bar at the entrance to this harbour. It was blowing fresh at S.S.W., with too heavy a sea to admit of...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 5.22 on the morning of the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was aground on the eastern side of the Middle Scroby sands. At six o'clock the...

A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Urania had reported a yacht in need of help a mile and a half north- east of Weymouth harbour. The life- boat William and...

PLYMOUTH.—A report having been received, on the llth March, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in Batten Bay and required assistance, the Life-boat Escape put off at 8.15 A.M., during a gale from the "W. and a high sea, and found...

THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....

North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland.—The fishing fleets of North Sunderland and Beadnell put out at about 5 A.M. on the 4th December for the fishing grounds, fifteen to twenty miles off shore. The weather was threatening, and...

25 November: When Broughty Ferry lifeboat was unable to locate a jet-skier who had called for help just after lunchtime, a major search and rescue operation was mounted, involving an RAF rescue helicopter and...