LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Campaigner
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.10 p.m. on i5th August, 1965, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was aground on Cork Sands.
She was in no immediate danger, but it was later decided to launch the...
Mayflower
JUNE 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 9.39 P.M. on the 14th June a message was received from the coastguard that the motor yacht Mayflower of Great Yarmouth, was ashore at Jaywick. As the yacht was not then in a dangerous position the...
Vega
AUGUST 22ND. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 5 P.M. the coastwatchers reported a yacht dismasted off the Bailey lighthouse. A strong squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. A strong tide was running. The motor...
Liberty
Dragging on to rocks AT 1704 on Sunday September 9, 1984, the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station was informed by Hartland Coastguard that the yacht Liberty needed immediate assistance as she was dragging her anchor close in to...
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...
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...