LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1952, a message was received from the coastguard that a motor fishing boat had broken down off Torness and was burning oil rags as a signal for...

PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Talacre, of Beaumaris, bound from Conway forLarne with a cargo of slates, the Lifeboat John Monk put off at 8.15 A.M., in a strong W. breeze and a heavy sea, on the...

FEBRUARY 28TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor vessel Ulster Queen, of Belfast, with about 120 passengers and crew on board, had gone ashore at Maughold Head. A light, freshening,...

Even though not a single stroke of tennis could take place because of heavy rain, the Central London Committee's American tennis tournament somehow still managed to raise a remarkable £3,400. One of the alternative attractions was a... - View image in PDF

BARMOUTH and PWLLHELI.—On the 2nd August the Life-boats Jones Gibb, stationed at Barmouth, and Margaret Plait stationed at Pwllheli, proceeded to the assistance of the barque Kragero, of Krageio, bound from Wilmington, South Carolina, for...

Aberdeen. On the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the steam trawler Luffness, of Granton, went aground at the north pier. She was badly holed and her crew had decided to leave her.

At 10.45 the life-boat Hilton Briggs...

STANDING BY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 9.50 a.m. on i8th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in distress south of C 2 buoy. There was a moderate north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The...

Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been... - View image in PDF