he first six weeks of the Suevic’s voyage from Australia to Liverpool were uneventful – but on 17 March 1907, the ship sailed into a fog and ran aground on a reef off the Cornish coast. For 16 stormy hours, 60 crew members from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution battled to bring all 456 of the people on board safely back to land. Every one of the rescuers was a volunteer. Not a single
