LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Panda
Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.
At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
Clytie
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 1.0 on the after- noon of the 19th of August, 1952, a message was received that the sailing yacht Clytie had gone ashore five hundred yards to the west of the river Clwyd. The owner was advised to put ashore three...
Penboch
On the evening of the 3rd of July, 1955, the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat rescued five men from the yacht Penboch, which had gone aground two miles from Southport pier. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Joseph...
Jethen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground a mile and three quarters north-west of the Mid-Barrow light- vessel. There was a moderate...
Valhalla
FISHING BOAT TAKES YACHT IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht needed help three miles east-north-east of Spurn lighthouse but that a...
Sea King
YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...
Zeus
At 11.10 a.m. on i6th April, 1967, a small boat which had left Shoebury for Wallersay bay, was reported overdue.
The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 11.20 in a moderate northerly wind and...
Fire at Sea
'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn. - View image in PDF
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24 August.. - View image in PDF
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Porta Coeli
WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in...
Ruby
At about 7.30 A.M., on the 7th October, the Life-boat Coxswain, who was on the look-out, observed a yacht near the Middle Patch buoy, about four miles distant, showing signals of distress. He immediately summoned his crew, and the Life- boat...