LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fairweather Father
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A...
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...
Kirsty
The motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 19th September, during a whole S.W. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the yacht Kirsty, of Ayr. The yacht was being used by Gaumont British Picture...
Little Mariner
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 29th May the coastguard telephoned that a yacht off Chesil Beach, about fourteen miles by sea from Weymouth, was flying distress signals. A freshening W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Mamounia
Dover, Kent.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 1st of July, 1956, the Eastern Arm signal station reported that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties close inshore to South Foreland. At 6.25 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a rough...
Jane
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 2 A.M. on the 16th August, 1939, a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a small yacht was showing red flares a quarter of a mile east of Portland Bill. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The motor...
Faraway
On the 13th of July, 1952, the Mar- gate life-boat went to the help of a small yacht ashore on Margate sands, and the assistant mechanic waded through the surf to bring two men off the yacht.—Rewards, The thanks of the Institution inscribed...
Maybe
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of May, 1954, the life-boat's motor mechanic saw the yacht Maybe, of Dun Laog- haire, capsize half a mile off the Nose of Howth. Five minutes later the life-boat R.P.L....
Alekton
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 12.32 p.m. on 2nd February, 1969, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alekton, with two people on board, had broken down on the east side of Ryde pier and needed the assistance of the life-boat. At 12.47 the...
Evergreen
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd June, 1969, information was received that a yacht had capsized off Blackrock.
At 4.29 the life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings. It was low water. She came up with...