LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
West Mersea, Essex. At approx.
8.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailingdinghy had capsized half a mile southeast of the station. At. 8.12 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 12.18 p.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a sailing dinghy was seen to capsize off Kettleness Point and it was thought there might be children on board. There was a light south-south-westerly breeze with a...
A Sailing Yacht (1)
JULY 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A small sailing yacht with three people on board was reported as missing, but she got in safely. - Rewards, £9 15s. 6d..
A Sailing Boat
AUGUST 29TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.50 in the afternoon the military look-out post on Greenore Point reported a sailing boat in distress off the point. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a rough sea, and the coxswain...
A Small Sailing Yacht
APRIL 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A small sailing yacht had gone ashore south-east of Donna Nook, but her crew got ashore. - Paid permanent crew..
A Sailing Barge
DECEMBER 27TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A sailing barge had been blown up, but one of her crew was rescued by another barge and the other one was lost.
- Rewards, £9 3s. 6d..
A Sailing Boat (2)
MAY 30TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND WORTHING, SUSSEX. During the afternoon a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At...
A Ship’s Sailing Boat
AUGUST 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon of the 29th of August, three men put out in a ship’s sailing boat from Herne Bay. Later in the day she was reported to be drifting but to have refused a tow from a motor...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...