LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Linnet
SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1957
Time of Date Launching Station 1957 Jan. 1 23.07 Newcastle 2 04.55 Stronsay „ 3 10.07 New Brighton 3 19.40 Weymouth ..
4 02.00 Tenby 4 21.25 Blyth ,, 6 06.25 Stornoway ..
7 19.45 Arklow 8 02.30 New...
Category: Services
Past and Present
25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...
Category: Articles
Pauline May
At 10.57 A.M. on the llth September a boat- man at Frinton telephoned, through the Coastguard, that a small yacht was in difficulties off Frinton, and was flying a signal of distress. The Motor Life-boat E. M. E. D. was launched, and found...
Westwind
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On 30th May, 1938, the motor life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden towed the German yacht Westwind, of Bremen, to Harwich. (A full account appears on page 538)..
H.M.S. Boreas
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—3rd August, 1938. A boat from H.M.S. Boreas, acting as escort to the Royal Yacht which had their Majesties the King and Queen on board, had been reported adrift, but it was learned...
Sandrae
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.
Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...
Windflower
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht with a capsized boat alongside was calling for help off Birchington.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Mona
INEXPERIENCED YACHTSMEN IN DAMAGED BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.5 on the morning of Wednesday, 21st August, 1963, a fisherman returning from crabbing in squally weather with poor visibility and light wind from the west-north-west reported...