LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
Moonbeam, the S.S. City of Dublin and Marie Victoire
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
Dora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...
Raider
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
Dawn
NEAR PORT ISAAC Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.55 p.m.
on i6th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that three Port Isaac fishing boats were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The honorary secretary...
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854
IN various parts of the Life-boat Journal, we have expressed a strong conviction of the utter inadequacy of all existing means for affording succour to shipwrecked persons around our coasts. We have mourned over it as a national discredit,...
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Martinique
Torbay, Devon.—At midnight on the 1st of September, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that a man at Torcross had reported that a motor yacht was short of fuel and had anchored two hundred yards off the north end of Beesands. At...
Donora
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 29th of March, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small vessel had been seen drifting towards Chale Bay. Her engines were not working and she was tiring red flares. The...
Suzy of Chalfont
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.24 a.m.
on 5th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet sands north of Clacton. The boat was kept under observation and it...