LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 29TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN

Signals of distress had been reported, but the life-boat found nothing, and later it was learnt that the signals had come from a fishing boat whose engine had failed, but it had started...

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On the evening of the 4th January a S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea and rain, and as a small fishing boat, with one man on board, had not returned, it was thought advisable to send a life-boat out to search. The No. 1 motor life-boat,...

CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.

Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...

On a sunny May afternoon, families flocked to the Cornish seaside for half-term. But it was no holiday for RNLI lifeguards at Porthtowan and Perranporth, who saved four lives from a strong rip current

Porthtowan Beach,...

Seasick baby Donaghadee lifeboat's open day was interrupted this summer by an unusual emergency. The lifeboat took a paramedic and a doctor to assist a baby who was suffering from severe seasickness. The mother and baby were taken tack...

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In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 37, 45, 57, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aith,...