LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

How one woman’s generosity and a volunteer crew’s commitment made a 12-hour rescue possible

The lifeboat crew from the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides worked through the night aboard the...

NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHRE.—The Lifeboat Ullen Newman and John Bentley was launched on the 5th March to the aid of a small pleasure-boat, the Alexander Duthie, of Aberdeen, which had put outto sea during the morning intending to proceed to...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 12.50 p.m. on 4th May, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a nine year old boy had to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. As there was no other suitable boat available,...

Moelfre, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m. on 24th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was rapidly drifting out to sea about four miles south east of the coastguard lookout. As the IRB was already at sea assisting a capsized yacht...

AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...

Padstow, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 19th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a boat near Stepper Point in a dangerous position. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. Flares of distress were seen later and...

INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 10.38 on the morning of the 2nd August, 1962, the honorary secretary at Lowestoft passed on to the honorary secretary at Aldeburgh a report from the Lowestoft port medical officer...

Droughty Ferry, Angus. At 4.30 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the police informed the coxswain that a man who was swimming in the Tay, 300 yards off Broughty Castle, appeared to be in difficulties.

An empty rowing skiff was seen a...