LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Double Gift
MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...
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Mizpah
At about 10.30 A.M. on the 6th May a telephone message was received from the coastguard that a yacht was in difficulties two miles off Little Orme's Head. The coxswain went to keep a look out on her. Suddenly, in a fierce squall, he saw...
Widgeon II
Margate, Kent. — At 7.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11} was launched. The sea was slight, there was a...
Swee
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — About eight o'clock on the evening of the 13th of April, 1957, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the auxili- ary yacht Swee, of Port St. Mary, was trying to attract the attention of the Langness...
Marigold
Bembridge, Isle of Wight..—Early in the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1939, a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged.
She was kept under observation by the coastguard and life-boatmen. A...
Kittiwake
Weymouth, Dorset.—-On the after- noon of the 5th of April, 1947, the small yacht Ki tiwake, with one man wi board, lost her sails in Weymouth Bay and ran on a sandbank. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately tough sea and...
Quireda
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, information was received that a yacht was in distress and dragging her anchor towards the rocks at the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
Osterling
Swanage, Dorset.—About 3.23 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang to say that the S.S. Eptanissos, of Ithaka, had wirelessed that she had found a yacht in difficulties two miles south-east of Bournemouth and...
Lesley
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B....
Gypsy
At 7.30 a.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht three miles north ofPoint Lynas was in difficulties. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 7.40. There was a south easterly gale with a rough sea. The...