LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...

At 4.20 A.M.

on the 20th January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard report- ing that a vessel was ashore at Thorpe- ness. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Dresden was launched and found the s.s. Monkwood, of...

Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.22 a.m.

on igth August, 1966, the Danish trawler Robert Schou was reported aground at Proudfoot. There was a light south south westerly breeze with a slight sea. The lifeboat Thomas McCunn, on...

For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At about 5 P.M. on the 23rd April an aeroplane fell into the sea about two hundred yards from the...

Above: The site of the rescue Left John Carthy Pictures RNLI/Sue Denny. - View image in PDF

SCOTLAND RNLI Bellevue House Hopetoun Street Edinburgh EH7 4ND Tel 031-5579171 Fax 031-557 6943 Organising Secretary: David Richardson Aberdeenshire Aberdeen - Branch Aberdeen - Guild Banchory Bridge of Don Dyce Ellon Fraserburgh - Branch...

The crew of the helicopter that rescued the sole survivor from the South Goodwin lightship Left to right: Captain Curtis E Parkins (awarded an RNLI Silver Medal for Gallantry), Major Paul L Park, Airman First Class Elmer H Vollman and... - View image in PDF

(below) seas break heavily over the stranded vessel. Conditions had moderated by the time these photographs were taken in the early aftemoon.of 13 January. (Photos courtesy Jerry Kennelly). - View image in PDF