LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the...

Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1954, fishermen at Burn- mouth reported that the motor fishing boats Braw Lads and Misty Isle were making for Burnmouth in bad...

TOOK INJURED MAN OFF OIL RIG At 7.15 p.m. on 22nd November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a man aboard the oil rig Endeavour needed medical attention for injuries. The life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane,...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 7.35 a.m.

on 2nd December, 1965, two motor fishing vessels, Lead Us and Winifred, were reported to be still at sea in bad conditions. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at...

Peel, Isle of Man - At 11.28 a.m. on lyth June, 1966, a m.f.v. about three miles off Lhen was seen firing red flares.

The life-boat Clara and Emily Banuell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.55 iQ a south...

DINGHY CAPSIZED At 8.23 p.m. later the same day the coxswain saw a sailing dinghy capsize about one mile south-east of Ramsgate.

There was a moderate to fresh northwesterly breeze with a moderate sea. It was two hours...

COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...

GERMAN COASTER AIDED At 1.34 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German coaster Dorothea Weber appeared to be in difficulties off the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a storm force wind...