LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loss of Life on the East Coast of Scotland
ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
Category: Articles
Iselle
Margate, Kent. At 11.6 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile east of Queen's buoy, and that the motor vessel Miletence was standing by unnl the...
Mozambique 2000, our volunteer crew members returning home onboard a transport plane
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat
Dover, Kent.—At 11.10 in the morn- ing of the 7th of August, 1948, the dockyard police reported that a small boat had capsized in the bay, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot was launched. The sea was...
A Cabin Cruiser
Cruiser in difficulties A CABIN CRUISER off Skinningrove which appeared to be in difficulties and was being kept under observation, was reported to Redcar lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1910 on Sunday, September 26,...
Here and There
'A Queen's Gala' will be staged on Sunday June 10 in the beautiful grounds of Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire, where Mary Queen of Scots was entertained in 1562. An afternoon of fun will include dancing scenes from the life of...
Category: Articles
A Trawler (4)
MAY 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The military look-out had reported a trawler sounding her fog siren, but the life-boat was recalled when a message came from the Ballycotton Lighthouse that, after signalling “ mines...
A Rowing Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. Two boys in a rowing boat had been reported missing in a thick fog, but the boat was found among the rocks, the boys apparently having left her there and gone home. - Rewards, £8...
A Steamer (3)
MAY 8TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A steamer had gone ashore, but she got off and was taken in tow by another vessel, which brought her to a sheltered position and there beached her. - Rewards, £12 3s..
A Lysander Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A Lysander aeroplane had crashed into a rough sea one mile east of Porth Gain, but the life-boat found nothing and it was learned later that one airman had got ashore in his...