LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocean Wave
DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two...
Black Sue and Atlanta
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 11.48 p.m.
on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties between Portrane and Lambay. There was a gentle north easterly breeze with a corresponding sea.
The life-boat...
Gavotte II, of Portsmouth
Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a...
La Libertine
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...
Airy Mouse, Kuzheol
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 10.25 p.m. on 20th August, 1969, the signal station told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen south west of Sark. The life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings...
Narwhal
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 3.57 P.M.
on the 29th June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht about two miles S.E. of East Pier was in difficulties.
She was apparently trying to make Blyth, but...
Yana
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary...
Cloetta
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...
Duclair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Paulina
Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.41 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Paulina needed help five miles south of Portland Bill.
The life-boat Lloyd's, on...