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Eloise

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...

Birgitz and Riki Pia

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...

Liberty

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Dragging on to rocks AT 1704 on Sunday September 9, 1984, the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station was informed by Hartland Coastguard that the yacht Liberty needed immediate assistance as she was dragging her anchor close in to...

Ay Bee Gee

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

Yacht holed A YACHT SEEN TO FIRE a red flare, about \\ miles seawards of the Coastguard lookout was reported to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station at 1130 on Wednesday, September 1. It was almost flat calm when, at 1137, the...

Lady Friendship

Date: Autumn 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 554

Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht yacht Lady Friendship and her crew of three despite atrocious weather conditions...

L'Espoir and Innocence

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...

A Double Gift

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...

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Mizpah

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

At about 10.30 A.M. on the 6th May a telephone message was received from the coastguard that a yacht was in difficulties two miles off Little Orme's Head. The coxswain went to keep a look out on her. Suddenly, in a fierce squall, he saw...

Widgeon II

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Margate, Kent. — At 7.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11} was launched. The sea was slight, there was a...

Swee

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — About eight o'clock on the evening of the 13th of April, 1957, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the auxili- ary yacht Swee, of Port St. Mary, was trying to attract the attention of the Langness...