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Cordelia II

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.7 p.m. on i oth September, 1966, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Cordelia II was in difficulties six miles north of Puffin Island with both engines broken down. The life-boat Watkin...

Depaky II, of Santiago

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Margate, Kent - At 9.10 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. The IRB was launched at 9.20 in a light south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was low water. When...

Shantico

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.

Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...

Morn,

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JUNE 1 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At about noon a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth.

The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...

Alanfred

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JUNE 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W. was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...

The Mumbles Lifeboat Station

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

The skipper and one of the crew of the yacht Duet, competing in this year's Three Peaks Yacht Race, presented £J,255 raised in sponsorship to The Mumbles lifeboat station. (I to r) Second Coxswain Alan Jones, Coxswain Derek Scott,... - View image in PDF

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Morn

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...

Evadne

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th May the life-boat station received information from the pierhead that flares had been seenfrom the lower end of the Nore Sands.

The sea was rough, with a fresh wind...

May Queen

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Eastbourne, Sussex. — During the afternoon of the 5th April, 1938, with a fresh west breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the motor yacht May Queen, of Lowestoft, bound from there to Littlehampton, was capsized about a mile off Eastbourne...

Amulet

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Salcombe, Devon.—At 8.45 in the evening on the 3rd of August, 1950, a report from Dartmouth announced a small yacht in difficulties six miles south-south-west of Prawle Point.

There was an injured man aboard! Fifteen...