LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 2.1 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht in the Needles channel. At 2.10 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding....
Garland
YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
CROSS-CHANNEL SERVICE
PENARTH AND PORTISHEAD | 13 MARCH
RNLI crews from both sides of the Bristol Channel worked together to help a yacht that was taking on water 2 miles off Cardiff. Penarth volunteers refloated the grounded vessel and escorted her...
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St. Monance
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...
Snark
Mdeburgh, Suffolk.—At 11.20 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a < rough sea. The No. 1 motor...
Dirk II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...
Elsa
Dover, Kent.—About 10.15 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1951, Lloyds signal station on the Eastern Harbour Arm reported that a yacht was driving towards the Arm, and at 10.25 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched. A moderate...
Gladeye
Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...
Dawn Flight
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 5.12 a.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a motor yacht was reported in trouble one and a half miles north of Danger Patch. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.30 in a moderate breeze and a...