LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joass
YACHTS IN DISTRESS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morning of the 8th of June, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported a yacht ashore on the Spile Sands, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tempor- ary duty at the station, was...
Intrigue
Margate, Kent. At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 27th October, 1961, the coast-guard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Tongue lightvessel had wirelessed that a sailing yacht with four people on board was secured astern...
Farida
Swanage, Dorset. At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Niton radio station had received a signal from the Dutch tanker Capricornus that she was standing by the yacht Farida...
Regina
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 7th of August, 1955, a message was received from the harbour office that the local yacht Regina had put off with a crew of two, and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the ebbing tide. Twenty...
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
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...
Dulcet Bella and Troglodyte
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...
Cameo
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...
Buccaboo
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 in the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1951, the East Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that the crew of three of the motor yacht Buccaboo, one of them injured, had made fast to the light- vessel in the yacht's...
Osterling
YACHT REFLOATED IN NEAR GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel abreast of no. 8 buoy, and...
Dilkusha
Margate, Kent-At 8.58 p.m. on4th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted at Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 9.15 in a strong east north...