Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with three boys aboard was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary...
YACHTMEN'S FRANTIC SIGNALS Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1 Ithof August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the crew of a yacht four to five miles south-south-east of Newhaven were waving...
On the Tth September, during the afternoon, a small cutter yacht was seen to be in difficulties off Aldeburgh, with seas washing right over her. Without delay the No. 1 Life-boat City of Winchester was launched, and proceeded to the help...
Margate. Kent.——At 12.55 in the early morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht at anchor half a mile north-west of the coastguard station was making heavy weather. There was a rough sea, and a strong north...
Margate, Kent.—At 3.5 in the after- noon, on the 26th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht, which appeared to have broken down, was drifting four miles north- east by east of the pier. At 3.13 the life-boat The Lord...
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 20th of August, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored in a dangerous position off Dutchman's Bank. The coastguard kept watch on her and later in the...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.35 on the evening- of the 5th of October, 1955, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles off Sea Lane, Goring, and that one of her crew of two had waded ashore. At nine...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.37 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht two miles west-south-west of Clacton Pier appeared to need help, and at 3.45 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that during racing held by a local yacht club a Merlin sailing dinghy, the Punch, had capsized one and a half miles south- west-by-west of...