LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Power cut In winds of force 10-12, heavy squalls and seas of 8-1 Om, the Portpatrick lifeboat Mary Irene Millar launched to a fishing vessel with electrical failure. It was 12.55am on 8 January. Over two hours later, the lifeboat found the...

Crosshaven’s B class lifeboat Miss Betty is pictured searching for a man in Cork harbour after a car fell off the crossriver ferry on 8 March.

The driver of the car was recovered immediately, and the lifeboat launched to...

Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.

A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...

South-East England Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.7 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Norwegian vessel jfoika of Oslo had been in collision 13 miles east-south-east of Cromer and had been badly damaged. The...

Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...

Thursday, 3rd Nov. 1853. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and Life-boat Sub-Committees.

Reported the deaths...

Date Station 1960 Jan. 1 Scarborough ..

„ 2 Walton and Frinton „ 3 Kilmore „ 13 Filey ..

„ 16 Whitby „ 17 Swanage „ 19 Southend-on-Sea 20 Arklow „ 20 Tynemouth ..

„ 21 Gal way Bay...

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