LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When a January storm savaged a sail training crew and their yacht, a lifeboat headed to their aid – but in these violent conditions, what could the RNLI volunteers do to help?

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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...

Mdeburgh, Suffolk.—At 11.20 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a < rough sea. The No. 1 motor...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...

Dover, Kent.—About 10.15 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1951, Lloyds signal station on the Eastern Harbour Arm reported that a yacht was driving towards the Arm, and at 10.25 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched. A moderate...

Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 5.12 a.m.

on 3rd October, 1965, a motor yacht was reported in trouble one and a half miles north of Danger Patch. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.30 in a moderate breeze and a...

Fowey, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares three miles south ofFowey. At 8.13 the life-boat Deneys Reit: put out at high...