LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...

Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...

Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.

of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat five miles east of Ballycotton light appeared to have had her sails blown away. Ten minutes...

LIFEBOAT GROUNDS TWICE ON GALE-LASHED SANDBANK Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate...

RNLI lifeguards have had another busy Summer on the beaches. However, it’s not just on patrol that they prove their worth – as the Hit the surf and Beach to city programmes show.

Hit the surf teaches children aged 8–12 a...