LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire.—-During the morning of the 4th December the motor fishing coble Mayflower, at sea north of Whitby, appeared to be in difficulties, and a watch was kept on her. A strong, squally N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea....

The winter of 1989/1990 - the Sheerness Waveney class lifeboat Helen Turnbull pictured leaving the harbour in atrocious conditions. (Photo John Mercer). - View image in PDF

Photograph by courtesy of Brentwood and Shenfield Argus. - View image in PDF

Above: Three generations Of boathouses at The Mumbles - the old ALB boathouse is in the right foreground with the new ILB boathouse in the centre and the current slipway station in the distance.. - View image in PDF

At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...

Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...

Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 9.30 a.m.

on 26th March, 1967, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Hamoaze informed the honorary secretary that a crew on board his vessel were attempting to salvage her as she was aground on...

When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard

Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...