LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tilaer
Poole, Dorset - At 2.5 p.m. on 3rd November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties two miles east by south of Bournemouth pier. The life-boat crew were asked to stand by. At 3.30, as...
Scamper
At 9.51 a.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Scamper, which was moored in breakers off Camaes bay, had asked for assistance. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, which was on...
Shantico (1)
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
Rescue By An Honorary Secretary
ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch...
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Aerial
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 1.45 P.M. on the 20th August a small sailing yacht, with one man on board, was seen trying to make Staithes harbour.
A gale was blowing from the south-west.
After several...
Wild Duck II
Southwold, Suffolk.—The coastguard telephoned at 12.50 P.M. on the 22nd September that a small yacht about half a mile south of the coastguard station was making signals of distress.
A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Shelmelier
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.29 a.m.
on i8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Kilkenny had sighted red flares about 10 miles north-west of Skerries lighthouse. There was a gale from...
Firefly
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1952, during bad weather, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht with a man and woman on board, had an- chored a quarter of a mile north-east of the pier in a...
Dehra
AWARDS MADE On 29th May, 1965, the Weymouth life-boat Frank Spiller Locke rescued the crew of five of the yacht Dehra. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
Mikado
YACHT'S CREW FOUND IN STATE OF EXHAUSTION Torbay, Devon. At 10.50 on the night of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some visitors that flares had been seen in Start Bay off Torcross....