LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— 25th July, 1938. A yacht had been reported overdue and a long search was made, without result. Later a fishing boat picked up the yacht and brought her in.—Rewards, £19 lls..
A Yacht
Hartlepool, Yorkshire - At 7.27 p.m.
on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a yacht had capsized off the north pier. It was low water with a moderate easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The...
A Yacht
Rhyl, Flintshire. On the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary saw that a yacht, which had altered course on approaching Rhyl harbour entrance, appeared to be blown down wind out of control.
There was a...
A Yacht
Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.
on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...
A Yacht
Yacht sailed to safety by Atlantic 21 crew member Lymington - South East DivisionLymington's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had to put a crew member aboard a yacht off the Shingles Bank during the strong winds of the late...
A Yacht
Porthdlnllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties off Caernarvon bar. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 6.35 at low water....
A Yacht
2nd Sep- tember. A yacht, with a crew of four, capsized while racing. Other yachts rescued two of the men, but the other two were drowned before the life-boat could reach the scene.—Rewards, £8 7s..
Yacht Roulette
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 12th April the Hoy lake Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was called out to the assistance of a small yawl yacht, the Roulette, of Hoylake, which became unmanageable when off Dover Point. The W.N.W. wind was very...
A Yacht
OWNER OVERBOARD Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.56 p.m. on 2gth July, 1965, two distress flares were reported to have been seen to the north-east and at three minutes after midnight on the 3oth the life-boat Louise Stephens was...
A Yacht
Blyth, Northumberland. At 2 p.m.
on 15th May, 1965, the new Blyth IRB launched on exercise for the purpose of training crew members. During the course of the exercise, which was held at high water in a moderate southerly...