LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...

10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...

CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.

Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...

Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...

TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE FAILURE Arbroath, Angus. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 5th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Eight Bells of Arbroath had engine faiJure off Auchmithie....

Troon, Ayrshire.—At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that the police had reported that a woman, who had been taken ashore from the converted fishing boat Silver Craig, had...

To WILLIAM GRIMES, on his retirement, after serving for 16 years as coxswain of the Wells life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a pension.

To ROLAND HAYTER, on his retirement, after serving for 14f years...