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Kylin

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Wells, Norfolk - On ifth September, 1966, the Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat rescued a man and his dog from the yacht Kylin. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...

Moby Dick

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...

Mary Ann

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat John BurcJi was...

Stellar

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

FRENCH YACHT FOUND BY EQUIPMENT Swanage, Dorset. At 8.5 on the morning of the 4th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French yacht Stellar's engine had broken down twenty miles off Poole and the yacht...

Selina

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.10 p.m. on yth June, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a yacht off Sandsend was signalling and needed help, so at 4.30 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched. There was a light southeasterly...

Ocean Breaker

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...

Osterling

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Swanage, Dorset.—About 3.23 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang to say that the S.S. Eptanissos, of Ithaka, had wirelessed that she had found a yacht in difficulties two miles south-east of Bournemouth and...

Dream

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

The Lizard, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficul- ties off Mullion Cove, and he tried without success to obtain the services of a local...

Yann Paol

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.45 p.m. on I3th July, 1967, the duty harbour official was informed that a yacht was adrift off St. Brelades Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon was launched at 11.18 in a light breeze and a calm sea. It was half an...

Dawn

Date: November 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 210

NORTH DEAL, KENT.—About 10.30 P.M. the Coastguard informed the Coxswain that flares were being burnt in the direction of the Brake Sand. He immediately summoned the crew, launched the Life-boat Mary Somerville, and proceeded to the spot...