LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Anticipatory launch ends in eight calls on two lifeboats Eastbourne South East Division Both of Eastbourne's lifeboats were launched in anticipation of problems on 17 July 1988, when freshening conditions on the day of the London to...

The relief Arun class Duke of Atholl was at Howth when Vision ran aground. The last of the Arun class to be built she is pictured here on an earlier occasion - with much more sea room and in far better conditions.. - View image in PDF

When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard

Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...

Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...

Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...

(left) One day last summer senior crew members from Brought}' Ferry, Stonehaven, Aberdeen and Peterhead visited Bristow Helicopters' Aberdeen base, which serves the Forties and Brent offshore oil fields. Bristows Senior Aircrewman... - View image in PDF

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...

Final combined exercise between RAF Chivenor air station and Appledore lifeboat, off Croyde Beach, August 1, 1974: the last of the pilots is lifted from the sea.. - View image in PDF