LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

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...

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...

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...

5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.

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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...

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...

ABOUT 2.45 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht Lorelei, which was one of the Mermaid class, capsized shortly after leaving Rush Harbour, Co. Dublin. Several people saw the incident and raised the alarm.

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Time of Date Launching Station 1958 Jan.

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Rosslare Harbour Clovelly Filey...