LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
Nisser
MAN OVERBOARD ~ RED flares reported at 11.37 p.m. on 24th July led to the Moelfre, Anglesey, life-boat Watkin Williams, which is a 42-foot Watson type, going to the aid of the yacht Nisser of Hoylake seven miles east of Moelfre at 12.40 a.m....
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...
Lady Lucy
RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.—On the morning of the 16th February, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was called out to the assistance of a small yacht—the Lady Lucy, of Liverpool — in distress ashore outside the bar. She left Liverpool the previous...
Gwendoline
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was close inshore at Rotting- dean, but that she did not appear to be in immediate danger. At 9.15 the coastguard stated that the...
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
Harbinger
DECEMBER 16TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At daylight the life-boat coxswain saw a yacht at anchor about half a mile from Preston Sands, Paignton. She was in an exposed position, and an east-north-east breeze was blowing, with heavy...
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
Maritime Book Society
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Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...