LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberdeen.—During the morning of the 25th August, 1938, the Gregness coastguard reported that distress signals had been heard off Girdleness.

Wind and sea were slight, but there was a dense fog. The No. 1 motor life-boat...

In. response to information received from the Hais- borough Light Vessel, through the Coastguard, the Motor Life-boat H. F.

Bailey put out at 3.50 A.M. on 4th October, in fine weather, with a light swell and moderate S.S.W....

It was reported by the Coastguard at Cairnbulg at about 10.30 P.M. on 16th May, that the small fishing boat Tulip, of Fraserburgh, with two men on board, was in distress off Cairnbulg Beacon and drifting into the surf. The swell was heavy...

On the night of the 20th October the fishing boat Wenden came in and reported that the motor fishing boat Dorothy was in trouble off Berry Head, with her propeller fouled by nets. Her two occupants had asked for the motor trawler Cygnet to...

The motor life- boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched at 4.40 P.M. on the 15th May, as the Kirkwall coastguard had telephoned that a small fishing boat, with only one man on board, had blown adrift from Scapa Pier. A whole N.E. gale was blowing,...

At J1.15 P.M. on. the 30th June it was reported that two fishermen, who had gone out in a small boat fitted with a motor to haul their lobster pots, had not re- turned. The motor life-boat Cunard put out at 11.25 P.M. and went to the...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...

Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life- boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was out on exercise in the afternoon of the 27th of January, 1949, information was received at the station that a man at Baltasound, Unst, had been badly injured, and the...