LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Charon of Styx (1)
Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...
Chica
Quick help IN A MODERATE TO FRESH north-westerly breeze on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 19, the owner of the yacht Chica was thrown into the sea just opposite Campbeltown Old Quay when his inflatable dinghy capsized. His wife threw a...
Orion
Life-boat O.N. 44-001 Life-boat O.N. 44-001 - At 12.10 p.m.
on 26th March, 1966, while on passage from Dover to Littlehampton, the lifeboat O.N. 44-001 came upon the yacht Orion of Newhaven which was burning distress flares...
Contessa and Lionheart
Two yachts aground BRADWELL COASTGUARD MOBILE was in the vicinity of Stansgate on the afternoon of Friday, May 20, keeping watch over a number of yachts off Osea Island, when, at 1723, a yacht was seen to be heading for the sand spit at the...
Ay Bee Gee
Yacht holed A YACHT SEEN TO FIRE a red flare, about \\ miles seawards of the Coastguard lookout was reported to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station at 1130 on Wednesday, September 1. It was almost flat calm when, at 1137, the...
Lady Friendship
Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht
Linnet
SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
Sea Hawkinge
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 31st August the motor yacht Sea Hawk, of Nottingham, got into difficulties after her engine had broken down, and ran aground in a very dangerous position three miles N.E. of Spurn. She was...
Star Thrower
Yacht saved in darkness SEVERE GALE TO STORM FORCE SOUthsouth- westerly winds were blowing on the night of Sunday May 25 when a message reached the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station that a 24ft yacht with auxiliary engine, Star...