LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M.

on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a herring drifter had gone ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the north side of Wick Bay. She was the Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for...

Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork

Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...

A NEW PROTOTYPE launching tractor was placed on extended evaluation trials at Ffoylake lifeboat station on Tuesday April 12, 1983. This new tractor has been developed jointly by the Institution and M. A. Bigland (Preparations) Limited of...

THE brig Superb, of Aberdeen, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand, in April, 1829, out of which three men were saved (two having died in the rigging), by Win. Mudd and S. Wordley, masters of two smacks, after persevering exertion during fifteen...

Sunderland, Durham.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of January, 1949, when a light north-easterly wind was blowing, with a slight swell, the Dutch motor vessel Beta was reported by the coastguard to be signalling "not under...

Over the water from Milford Haven, where the tall chimneys of the oil refineries belch out their smoke, lies the small village of Angle, a village of about 200 inhabitants, a village which the Industrial Revolution seems almost to have...

Swanage, Dorset. At 10.27 on the morning of the 10th of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a Dakota aircraft that a large barge had been seen adrift ten miles south-south- east of Anvil Point. At...

SINKING CABIN CRUISER AND CREW SAVED Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.45 on the afternoon of Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, the Cromer coastguard told the coxswain that a crab boat had taken a cabin cruiser in tow and might require assistance....