LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cliff walker revived
TREGANTLE BEACH | 21 JUNE
A woman who’d collapsed while walking up the cliff from Tregantle Beach in Cornwall was given emergency first aid by RNLI lifeguards. They moved the woman out of the...
Category: Articles
Zuiderhaven
MAY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 9 A.M. a naval establishment onshore reported through the coastguard that a vessel was signalling for a doctor. The weather was fine, with a light N.E. wind and a smooth sea. With a...
SWEPT FROM A BREAKWATER
PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
MARCH 1ST. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Staithes fishing fleet put to sea about eight in the morning in rough weather. By 9.30 the wind had increased to a north-north-west gale, bringing with it a very rough sea, and at...
An Aeroplane (67)
AUGUST 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 1.32 A.M. the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea. The weather was calm. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2 A.M. When she was off Ecclesbourne...
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT At this year's Annual General Meeting in London, reported elsewhere in this issue the Institution's Chairman, Sir Michael Vernon, reported yet another record year for lifeboat launches in the previous year - a report that...
Category: Articles
Druid, of Sunderland
On thellth January, 1862, the barque Druid, of Sunderland, anchored in a leaky state off Eastbourne, in a gale of wind, and hoisted a signal of distress. The Eastbourne life-boat proceeded to her, but the Master required assistance only, and...
Tony Krowmann
WITHBRNSBA.—At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th October a messenger from Sandy le Mere, two miles N. of Withernsea, stated that a vessel was ashore there, too far off for the rocket apparatus to reach her, that the sea was getting up...
Esther Ann
On the following night, while the schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of wheat, was attempting to beat up Dublin river during rough threatening weather, her top-sail split as she was passing the North...
Emerald Isle
LYTHAM. — On the 22 nd September, during a 8. gale with thick rain squalls, a vessel was observed ashore on Salthouse Bank, and showing signals of distress.
The Life-boat was launched, and on arriving alongside found that...