LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A heavy breaking sea then struck the boat on the quarter, washing her broadside on to the beach ...'. This fine action photograph—it is a 'still' from a film—was taken by B.B.C. cameraman Tony Knightley from the cliff overlooking... - View image in PDF

CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...

MCH. 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

During the afternoon a strong N.W. gale sprang up, with a heavy sea. Anxiety was felt for the local fishing smacks Useful and Mannin, which were at sea, and the motor life-boat Manchester...

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(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...

FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...

CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down two miles north of Cape Cornwall....

The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...