LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dispatch
POOLBEG, Co. DUBLIN.—The smack Dispatch, of Bullock, an out port of Dublin, bound from Bullock to Dublin with granite stones, being in danger during a whole gale from the N.W., violent hail storms and a heavy sea, on the 30th of March, the...
Your Letters
Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
Speed, skill, survival
The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach
Mawgan Porth Beach...
Category: Articles
None (1)
Long search rewarded FOLLOWING A REPORT that some people had been cut off by the tide in the Beacon Cove area, Newquay's 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat had launched on the afternoon of Sunday August 3, 1986. It was a fine day with...
Letters
It is a comfort to know . . .
On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...
Category: Correspondence
Emile Francqui
APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...
Jonadab
At 10 A.M. on the 12th May, during a heavy N.N.E.
gale, the fishing lugger Jonadab, of St.
Ives, was returning from the fishing ground. When trying to make the Harbour she struck and grounded on the ridge,...
October
Launches 50 Lives rescued 116 OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The...
Category: Services
Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
Category: Articles
Hartside and Kathleen
FLAMBOROUGH.—At noon on the 27th March a telephone message was received from Bridlington asking that the Life-boat might take provisions to the steamer Hartside, of Newcastle, which was lying off Sewerby. A gale of wind was blowing from the...