LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Trawler driven ashore in Force 9 southerly gale and 30ft seas Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia's Arun class lifeboat Margaret Frances Love was involved in a major incident on 13 January 1989 when the large, Brixham-registered trawler...

Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...

Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...

G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e I i ne • S t o r m F o r c e Hitting the target In the summer edition of THE LIFEBOAT we asked whether it was possible to set our sights on obtaining that 200,000th active member by the end of 1991. We have...

AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.

Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...

Fishermen rescued AT 0840 ON MONDAY, September 14, 1987 Captain K R Holmes, Fleetwood lifeboat station honorary secretary was informed by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that the 55ft fishing vessel Gallilean was taking water about five miles west...

• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...

Disabled longliner towed to safety in Force 9 Gale and 20ft seasTowing a fishing vessel of virtually ten times the displacement of the lifeboat isn't easy, to do so in seas averaging 20ft high and winds up to Force 9 is more difficult...