LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kestrel and Anemone III
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...
Esquirol II
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.21 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat was in diffi- culties off Ryde pier. A moderate north- westerly wind was blowing and there was a...
Asia (1)
AUG. 26TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Rockets had been seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her bearings, and towed her...
I.R.B. Services In Brief
Station Redcar Torbay Worthing Mudeford Redcar Southwold Whitstable Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Hastings Largs St. Ives Mudeford Redcar Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Redcar West Mersea Redcar Torbay Aberystwyth North Sunderland Aberystwyth...
Category: Services
Sulabassana
Yacht aground WHILE A RACE FROM ABERSOCH Was being timed into Howth Harbour at about 2330 on Saturday, August 28, 1976, the yacht Sulabassana of Holyhead, a 32' Nicholson, attempted to pass inside the buoys marking the rocks off the end...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1959
5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.
Feb.
1 Humber 1 Dungeness 1 Hastings 1 Newcastle, Co. Down 2 Poole 2 Arranmore 3 Margate 4 Moelfre 4 Stornoway 6 Barra Island 7 Yarmouth, I.o.W...
Category: Services
The Merchant Shipping Act (Conclusion)
IN our further observations on the Merchant Shipping Act, we come to the consideration of those parts of it which have more immediately to do with the Preservation of Life from, or AFTER Shipwreck, or other casualty at sea. An object which,...
Category: Articles
Norian
Plymouth, Devon - At 7.43 p.m. on 27th September, 1966, news was received that the yacht Norian had broken down in heavy seas twenty two miles south south east of Eddystone, and was asking for the assistance of a tug and a life-boat. The...
Hally Lise
— On the 19th March the yacht Holly Lise was cap- sized and the motor life-boat rescued one of her crew.—Rewards, £8 10s.; bronze medal to Robert C. Brown, assistant motor mechanic, with vellum, grant of £1 and 16s. lid. for...