LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 23RD. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 8 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported a vessel ashore south of Ayr Harbour, and the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 8.45 P.M. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a very...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...

Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, has been appointed an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Appledore Life-boat Station for 28 years; and has been presented with a...

On the afternoon of the 24th October the Curracloe coastal watch reported that a boat in North Bay was flying a distress signal. A moderate S.S.W.

gale was blowing, with a rough sea and driving rain. The motor life-boat K.E...

For all that a century and a quarter has passed since Grace Darling and her father attained fame, over the years their story has attracted the interest of a succession of authors. Save for two early works, which were almost blatantly fiction...

At 12.45 P.M.

a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...

On the 20th October, at 11.30 A.M., the Russian brig- antine Porthan, of Aland, bound from Oruskjoldsrik to Antwerp, being water- logged, and in danger of foundering at her anchors outside the entrance of the River Tees, slipped her cables...

The ketch Fanny, of Bideford, stranded on the Leys Reef, off Green Lane Cove, on the even- ing of the 23rd July, during a thick fog. Information reached the Life-boat authorities between 9 and 10 o'clock, and the Life-boat Admiral Sir...