LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tom Boy
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 2nd August it was reported verbally to the coxswain that a flare had been seen from a yacht. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat The Viscountess Wakefield was launched at...
Santa Lucia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the coastguards reported that a motor yacht was drifting out of control about five miles off Warden Point, one mile south of Red Sands Fort, and flying a flag from...
Wyvern
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of October, 1952, the Red Sand Forts reported that a yacht had stranded on the Forts' steel structure and that two boys had been taken off her. The Forts asked if...
Minx
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had seen a yacht on the Burbo Bank. Later she was reported to be high and dry. At 9.15 the life-boat Norman B....
Andante
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 5.20 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, the motor mechanic of the life-boat reported that a yacht was in difficulties off the harbour and drifting towards the dangerous coast south of Girvan. At 5.35 the life-boat James and...
Sevona
Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.40 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1958, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht had broken down three miles south- west of Portland and that H.M. frigate Murray had left...
Gleaner
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.57 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht had run ashore with the ebb tide on the Dike shoal off Ramsgate. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Crean
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to say that a woman had reported that a black-painted yacht was dragging her anchor off Helford River. The life- boat Crawford and...
Wal
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—On the morning1 of the 1st of September, 1956, the signal station sighted a yacht two miles south-east of St. Martin's Point signalling for help. At 6.53 the life- boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out in a...
Solent Sedge
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1957, the Needles coastguard reported that the yacht Solent Sedge was ashore on the Shingles with a rope entangled in her propeller. The life-boat S.G.E.