LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...

Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a rubber- covered dinghy had been observed by a pilot of a Rritish European Air- ways aircraft some five miles east of Ronaldsway. The...

Margate, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 18th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the police had reported that a dinghy had capsized and that two boys were in the water half a mile off Minnis Bay. At 5.1 the life-boat...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1954,the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Dennis was still at sea and the weather was deteriorating. It was thought that she might be in danger making for...

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MOELFRE.—The schooner .Reaper, of Dublin, bound from. Wicklow for Garstoo, with a cargo of pit-wood, was caught in a gale from the S.W. on the morning of the 25th January, and was driven on the Dulas rocks. The Life-boat Star of Hope put off...

Mrs Margaret (Peg) Braithwaite MBE, president of the Barrow ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Braithwaite has been a member of the guild since 1969 and became president in 1994. She was awarded an MBE in 1984..

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 10.40 on the night of the 9th of July, 1953, the head lightkeeper at the Power Head fog station rang up to say that he had seen a motor fishing boat burn flares half a mile east of Power Head. At 10.45 the life-boat...