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Torbay Lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Sennen Cove's Rother Class Lifeboat Diana White

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Sennen Cove's Rother class lifeboat Diana White tows Koo-She and her four-man crew to safety.

The size of the sea can be gauged from the yacht - a sizeable 44ft ketch - as can the difficulty of towing a casualty without... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fidget

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

On the evening of the 4th May the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties some distance S.E. of Shanklin pier. The life-boat did not go out, as a motor boat was standing by the yacht. Later the yacht sailed in...

Penhale and Jan

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 2.5 A.M. a steamer east of Salt Island was heard blowing on her siren, and a flare was seen, and at 2.55 A.M. the French motor life-boat Jean Charcot, on temporary duty at this station, was...

Drifter

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past four in the afternoon of. the 18th of May, 1949, a resident of Leigh reported that a yacht had capsized about two miles off Leigh and that a man was clinging to her. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...

Finetta

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 26th of April, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the S.S. Emsworth had wirelessed for the help of the life-boat. She had picked up a man from the yacht Finetta, of Southampton. The...

Vivetta and a Naval Cutter of H.M.S. Ganges

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.47 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, while racing was in progress, the coastguard transmitted a message re- ceived from the Cork lightvessel. A yacht two to three miles to the north- east, was in...

Scylla

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

TOW TAKEN OVER FROM R.A.S.C.

LAUNCH Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 28th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Scylla of Beaumaris was being towed by the R.A.S.C....

Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

St. Jan Berchmans

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.53 on the night of the 24th of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel St.

Jan Berchmans, of Ostend, with a crew of ten, had broken down. The inlet...