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Swallow

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

While the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam was cruising round H.M.S. Warspite in Blyth Bay during an exercise, on the 18th September, the yacht Swallow, of Blyth, was seen to be in difficulties. A fresh westerly wind was blowing with a choppy...

Corinne

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 21st of July, 1950, the Ventnor coastguard passed on a message from the steamer Stability that the yacht Corinne, of Glasgow, was dis- abled and in need of help. Half an hour later the...

Shaheen

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Dover, Kent. — About 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1956, a yacht was seen from the eastern arm of the dock, apparently in difficulties off the Forelands. 'The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...

Noella

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.6 on the evening of the 5th of September, 1959, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that a large motor yacht was burning flares about three miles from the harbour. At 6.15 the life-boat R.P.L. left her...

Tumbleweed

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...

Tahi-Tahi

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.

Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...

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Sea Mirage

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...

Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.

An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...

Dulcebella

Date: November 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 285

In the fourth case the interval between the two services was rather longer. On 17th April, 1922, the cutter Dulcebella, of Westcliff, with six people on board, ran aground on the Maplin Sands in a strong N.N.E. gale with a heavy...