LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...
CONTAINER SHIP COLLISION
RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
Category: Services
Elsa
Dover, Kent.—About 10.15 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1951, Lloyds signal station on the Eastern Harbour Arm reported that a yacht was driving towards the Arm, and at 10.25 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched. A moderate...
Concerto and Martez
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Bosun and Motor Fishing Vessel Gentlemaid
Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A FULL account appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of the gallant efforts made from the shore by several men to rescue the crew when the vacht was almost on the rocks...
Category: Articles
On Entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man
THE feudal keep, the bastions of Cohorn, Even when they rose to cheek or to repel Tides of aggressive war, oft served as well Greedy ambition, armed to treat with scorn Just limits ; but yon Tower, whose smiles adorn This perilous bay,...
Category: Poetry
Lalage
Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...
Gavotte II, of Portsmouth
Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a...