LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and St.

Andrews, Fifeshire.—On the 27th De- cember the steam trawler Ebor Abbey, of Aberdeen, ran aground on the Carr Rocks, Fife Ness, while bound with a crew of nine to Granton for bunker coal.<...

The Life-boat was also launched at 10 A.M. on the 3rd May, and landed thecrew, consisting of two men, of the smack Brothers, of Carnarvon, which was in distress in Porthdinllaen Bay, having dragged her anchors and lost her boat which had...

Cromarty.—During the morning of the 21st December, 1937, the Helmsdale coastguard reported that they were trying to locate two small Helmsdale fishing boats, Linnet and Girl Pat, which had left Loch Fleet for Helmsdale at about 4 P.M. the...

LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.

The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...

.—At 11.30 A.M.

on the 3rd November a messenger from the coastguard reported that a motor boat was in difficulties near South East Newcome Buoy. Another boat had had her in tow, but the line had parted. A moderate S.S.E....

MR. WILLIAM HENRY JONES, the former coxswain of the New Brighton life-boat, was drowned on April 25th last, while out fishing with his son Thomas. Their boat went aground on the way to Rock Channel, off New Brighton, and Cox- swain Jones was...

TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...

The Mary Scott, on temporary duty at Dover, going out on January 1st, 1949, to the help of a pilot boat. - View image in PDF

From a painting by Mr, A. Whiting, a member of the crw.. - View image in PDF