LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wicklow, Co. Wexford. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, a man told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was firing red flares half a mile south of Newcastle Point.

The life-boat J. W. Archer was...

DURING the summer new life-boats were named at eight stations, Swanage, New Quay (Cardigan), Eastbourne, Ramsey, Barmouth, Porthdinllaen, Portrush and Newcastle (Co. Down).

Accounts of the ceremonies will be pub- lished...

CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the police reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide on a rock off the western undercliff. The motor life-boat Prudential...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.45 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard reported a trawler ashore between Noup Head and Start Point and at 3.38 the life- boat J. J. K. S. W. left her moorings.

There...

EASTBOURNE.—On the morning of the 4th January intelligence was received that a vessel was ashore between the Bell Tout Lighthouse and Birling Gap. The William and Mary Life-boat put off at about 8.15 during a fresh S.E. wind and a heavy sea,...

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With deep regret we record the following deaths: DECEMBER 1991 Miss G. MacDonald, founder of the Peebles branch in 1949. She was branch vice president from 1970 until a few weeks before her death when she became branch honorary life...

Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...