LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sirius
Seaham, Co. Durham - At 8.1 p.m.
on 26th July, 1966, a yacht about one mile offshore, to the north of Seaham, was seen to be making heavy weather. The Sunderland IRB was requested to investigate.
As the...
Sirocco, of Port Wrinkle
Fowey, Cornwall - At 9.10 a.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a yacht was thought to have capsized between Looe and Polperro.
The life-boat Deneys Reitz proceeded at 9.20 in a strong westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was one...
Trumpeter
Plymouth, Devon - At 10.10 p.m. on ist April, 1967, a yacht was reported to be in difficulties inshore and dangerously close to rocks near the Royal Western yacht club. She appeared to be trying, without success, to pick up a mooring.The...
Depaky II
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.33 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht half a mile east of the North Goodwin buoy was firing flares. The Swedish ship Buenas Aires was standing by until the life-boat arrived....
Windgap, of London
AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.50 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio had picked up a message from the American steamer City of Alma that a motor yacht to the north of Dumpton Buoy was in need of immediate...
Arrow, of Derbyhaven
OCTOBER 27TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal south-east of Scarlett Point. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
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Storm
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received that a small yacht appeared to be in need of help about a mile and a half east of Holland sluice. At...
Orari
Aground on the bar ON THE EVENING OF Wednesday July 11, 1984, a yacht, in difficulties in the estuary of the River Ribble, fired a red flare. She could be seen by the auxiliary coastguard at Lytham at anchor, and pounding in heavy...
Day Dream and The Raider
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...