LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

While the fishing cobles were I out on the 3rd April the S.E. breeze increased and the sea became very heavy. Two cobles nearly foundered i when coming in, and as it was feared that the remainder would come to grief, the Life...

During very thick weather on the 3rd October the steam drifter Honor, which was being employed as a mine-sweeper, ran on to the rocks and made signals for assistance. In response the Life-boat John Anthony was launched, and stood by the...

A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...

Three of the cobles were overtaken by the E.S.E. gale which suddenly-sprung up on the 22nd January, and as it was evident, owing to the heavy sea running, that their return to harbour would be very dangerous, the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1...

CATAMARAN DISMASTED Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.25 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coxswain sighted a catamaran being dismasted two miles east of Moelfre Island. The coastguard confirmed that the catamaran Magnificat was in difficulties and the...

RESCUE FROM CABIN CRUISER On the evening of the 18th May, 1963, the cabin cruiser Seamu went aground at the entrance to Blakeney harbour.

The Wells life-boat Cecil Paine was called out and rescued two men aboard the Seamu....

The old Worthing life-boat at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. - View image in PDF

Six members of the crew of the Japanese life-boat Chuyo Mam lost their lives when the life-boat capsized in heavy seas on the 23rd of May, 1958.

On hearing of the disaster the Institution sent a message expressing its...