LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Skald II
Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...
Stella Maria
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - at 9.5 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a yacht was firing flares seven miles south of the Needles. The Dutch vessel Advent was standing by.
The owner of the yacht had been...
Westwinds
Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.
on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
Natuna
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 2.17 p.m. on 15th October, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a yacht three miles north of the north breakwater. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at...
Mahe
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 6.59 p.m.
on 16th April, 1969, it was learnt that a two-masted schooner yacht had broken down about one mile south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat was requested to stand by. The yacht then resumed her...
Aileena, of Glasgow
JUNE 5TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At eleven in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported a small yacht in Derbyhaven Bay flying a signal. A later message said that she had lost her small boat and that her cable had parted. A...
Skipper overboard
On passage to Brighton on 26 May for the start of a race the next morning, a 10m yacht ran into near-gale-force winds and 4m breaking waves. On the approach to Brighton Marina, the skipper was swept overboard. His safety line prevented him...
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Amy II (2)
Torbay, Devon.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1950, the Brixham coastguard reported a small yacht in a dangerous position two miles off Beesands, apparently in need of help. At 12.55 the life-boat George Shee...
Spindrift II
YACHT AGAINST TIDE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 3 p.m. on igth October, 1963, the yacht Spindrift II was seen to be making little headway against a strong tide. As it was unlikely that the yacht would reach a safe anchorage before darkness fell,...
Julia
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.50 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Galloper lightvessel that the yacht Julia, bound from Rotterdam to Harwich, was alongside...