A telephone mes- sage was received about 9.15 A.M. on the 13th November, stating that a small yacht was riding off Winspit, about a mile to the east of St. Alban's Head, with a man on board and that the Life- boat was wanted. A whole N...
Plymouth, Devon.—4th October. A yacht got into difficulties and ran on a sandy beach, but the two people on board managed to get ashore. Later one of them, a lady doctor, gave a present of money to the crew, and a donation to the...
Porthdlnllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties off Caernarvon bar. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 6.35 at low water....
2nd Sep- tember. A yacht, with a crew of four, capsized while racing. Other yachts rescued two of the men, but the other two were drowned before the life-boat could reach the scene.—Rewards, £8 7s..
Blyth, Northumberland. At 2 p.m.
on 15th May, 1965, the new Blyth IRB launched on exercise for the purpose of training crew members. During the course of the exercise, which was held at high water in a moderate southerly...
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 12th April the Hoy lake Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was called out to the assistance of a small yawl yacht, the Roulette, of Hoylake, which became unmanageable when off Dover Point. The W.N.W. wind was very...
TWO OVERBOARD At 4.34 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired at a position about 200 yards west of a wreck in Whitesand bay. There was a gale force southerly wind with a...
Search in surf A REPORT that Runswick Bay Yacht Club safety boat had capsized on the east side of the bay came to Staithes and Runswick lifeboat station from HM Coastguard at 1444 on Sunday June 21.
Although it was a fine...
TWO VESSELS AIDED Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.42 p.m.
on nth July, 1965, the coxswain was told that a yacht was aground on Buxey Sands. There was a strong south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was almost low water. The...
Margate, Kent.—At 5.26 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the West- gate Safety Boatman had reported a small sailing yacht capsized about half a mile off shore at Birchington. A man was swimming in...