LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—The motor life-boat Dunleary -was launched at 3.45 A.M. on the 19th March in answer to distress sigpals from the Kish lightship in Dublin Bay. A moderate to fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...

Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.

—When attempting to enter Berwick Harbour during the afternoon of the 28th of August, 1952, the steam drifter Ugie Vale, of Peterhead, with a crew of nine, went aground on some rocks just...

Dover, Kent.—In the morning of the 21st of November, 1949, the S.S.

Intendant J. Patrizi, of Rouen, which had been ashore off Seabrook, was steaming towards Dover in a very rough sea with a whole southerly gale blowing and...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.

Strong...

— Early on the morning of the 9th March the coast- guard reported that a barge was drag- ging her anchors and making distress signals west of Castletown pier, Port- land harbour. A strong east breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The weather...

MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.

Eight minutes later the life...

Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane stating that the cost of the boat was defrayed by a gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane in .

memory of his father and mother, (top right) Early stages in the building of... - View image in PDF