LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

A naval aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a later message said that all aeroplanes had been accounted for, and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £8 11s..

JANUARY 10TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE, AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

A landing craft had been reported missing, but nothing was found. Then bodies were washed ashore. The landing craft had foundered in a gale and all her crew of...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.0 in the afternoon, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the South Gare coastguard tele- phoned that three tugs towing hoppers were making heavy weather. One tug and hopper were close inshore. The life-boat crew assembled...

Girvan, Ayrshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that one of the light keepers on Ailsa Craig had fallen and been injured and that he needed immediate medical help.

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 11.40 p.m. on 15th June, 1968, thecoastguard told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser had broken down off Pistyll beach. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 12.5 a.m. on 16th June in a light...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.55 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat appeared to be drifting about three miles to the eastward, and that one of her crew was waving a flag on an oar...

The school choir and other pupils who were following an Expressive and Performing Arts Course at the Duchess's High School in Alnwick performed 'The Legend of Grace Darling' last year in aid of the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF

CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.— A message by telephone was received by the Coxswain of the Life-boat, stating that a vessel was ashore S. of the Coastguard house, on the morning of the 15th August. A moderate breeze was then blowing from S.E.,...