LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. On her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes the new Mallaig life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was making the passage from Donaghadee to Campbeltown on the 25th of October, 1957, when a May Day...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 18th December, 1938, the French schooner Bretonne, of Treguier, was sheltering in Whitesand Bay from a S.E. gale.

She carried a crew of five and was bound with a cargo of coal from Cardiff to...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 2.27 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel to the eastward was making S.O.S. signals on her syren. The motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched at 3.30...

Aberdeen.—At 8.7 on the night of the 5th of February, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was thought to be ashore two miles south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. At 8.45 he reported that she was sounding her siren...

THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.

The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...

Dfracombe, Devon.—-At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull Point Lighthouse that a vessel appeared to be ashore at Morte Point but that she had made no distress signals. At...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the police telephoned that a vessel was firing distress signals about one mile off Bangor, and at 8.55 the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched. A...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.45 in the afternoon of the 1st of July, 1949, it was reported from the East Pier that a R.A.S.C. launch had broken down and was drifting towards the North Goodwin Lightvessel. The life-boat crew were assembled, but the...