LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire—At 10.47 in the morning of the 18th of February,1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Frigate Bird had broken down one and a half miles to the southward and at 11.12 the lifeboat Jeanie Speirs...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—About 6.40 in the evening of the lit11 of April, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing boat in difficulties to the southward, and the life-boat Jeanie Spears was launched at 7.5 in a fresh west-south- west breeze...

Gour don, Kincar dineshir e - At 11.10 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the fishing fleet was having difficulties at the harbour entrance. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at 11.22...

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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,...

— A W.S.W. gale of unusual severity was experienced on the 15th March, and at 5 A.M. signals of distress were observed from a vessel in St. Tudwell's Roads.

The Life-boat Oldham was launched in response, and found the...

Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...

The Duchess of Kent, who made the award presentations on behalf of her husband, the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., congratulating Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's) after the award of first bar to his bronze... - View image in PDF