LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gisele Aimee
Weymouth, Dorset.—At about 4.20 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, Wyke coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties north of Weymouth Pier and was burning red flares. She was the auxiliary yacht Gisele Aimee, of St. Malo, bound, with a...
Hawkinge (1)
A LOST PROPELLER Montrose, Angus.—At 6.8 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1947, the Scurdy Ness Lighthouse keeper reported that a motor yacht about a mile off- shore was making distress signals, and the No. 1 motor life-boat The Good...
James Napier
MR. JAMES NAPIER, a member of the Committee of Management since 1934, died on the 13th of November, 1953.
From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Boat Committee. A ship- builder by profession, he was chairman of the Steel...
Category: Obituaries
St. Joseph (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 2.30 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the harbourmaster reported that the motor yacht St. Joseph, of Dro- gheda, with a crew of two, had broken down about two miles north of Port Oriel and was...
Zephyr
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At six o'clock in the evening, on the 16th of Sep- tember, 1950, a report was received that a yacht was dragging her moorings on to rocks at Restronguet. At 6.30 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Esperanza
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1948, a fresh north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 10.30 the sailing yacht Esperanza, with a crew of two, went to sea. The weather got worse, and as the yacht attempted...
Thuella
SMOKE SIGNALS SAVE YACHT Salcombe, South Devon. At 6.5 p.m.
on Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that smoke signals had been seen south of Bolt Head. At 6.10...
Galene
Dover, Kent. At 9.40 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1958, Lloyds signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in distress off Shakespeare Cliff. At 9.50 the life- boat Southern Africa put out in a rough sea....
Sea Ranger
Padstow, Cornwall. At 5.45 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that the yacht Sea Ranger, of New Quay, needed help off Pentire Point. At 6.3 the life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick was launched. There was a strong...