LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1959, the police at Cupar asked the pilot station at Broughty Ferry for the assistance of the pilot boat as a body had been found floating ten miles off the mouth of the...

FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...

Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...

Mother Nature threw a lot at our lifesavers in 2013: it was the coldest Spring since 1962, the hottest Summer for 7 years and the windiest December since 1993. But they rescued thousands and saved 425 lives.

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BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...

REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...

31st Janu- ary. A hulk without lights had broken away from her tug off Chapel St. Leonards, thirty-five miles from the life-boat station. It was believed that a man was on board. The sea was heavy, with a strong northerly wind and rain....

AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.

At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...