Another day... another service! Poole's Atlantic 75 was called out a couple of weeks before the events chronicled above, and while in the middle of her naming ceremony, when Poole's shallows and tidal streams caught out another yacht... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 9.30 in the morning a yacht was reported off the west coast in a dangerous position, but she was not showing any signal of distress. A south-west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. A...
Deja vu The duo that rescued the lives of four people on the yacht Headstrong are making a habit of saving lives in outstanding services Dave Milford and Sean Marshall have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for their role...
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
Torbay, South Devon.—About 10.15 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the honorary secretary and the motor mechanic were keeping yachts in the harbour under observation as the weather had deteriorated. One yacht, Boy Jack, seemed to...
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by... - View image in PDF
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Survivor snatched from yacht seconds before she sinks A service in very difficult weather conditions, carried out in full view of hundreds of local people and holiday-makers on the shore, has earned Barry Bennett, the coxswain of St Mary'...
MCH. 11TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARseaplane.
VONSHIRE. The life-boat motor mechanic saw a sailing yacht which appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.E. of the lifeboathouse.
A moderate N.N.W. gale...
At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...
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SCOTLAND THIS SUMMER Explore the romantic western isles or the glorious Clyde estuary on one of our 20 Self Sail charter yachts. Choose from Rivals, Nicholsons, Fishers, Sabres etc, or join an exciting skippered cruise and learn the ropes...
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