LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Apeloiter
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...
Bilberry
On igth June, 1967, the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke proceeded to the yacht Bilberry.
A full account of this service, for which a special award was granted, appears on page 231..
Pictured During the Presentation of This Year's Cheque for £1,000
Pictured during the presentation of this year's cheque for £1,000 are. from left to right, Don Galbraith, yacht club commodore; Brian Hurst, chairman of the Castletown branch; Rod Haire, representing Royal Life; Jane Galbraith,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Towing In!
L to R: Barry Knaggs, Mark Reeves, Skipper Michael Picknett and Andy Beevis tow the stricken yacht to safety. (Redcar Crew Member Cordon Young. en-Redcar and Seahouses Crew Member Michael Hoyle, and Dave Bond of Cleveland Fire Brigade also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
JULY 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An empty, waterlogged, rubber dinghy was picked up, and it was learned that an airman had been saved by an Admiralty trawler and a dead body picked up by an Admiralty yacht. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
Bass, Alto and Vivendi
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Rosalind
The Life-boat Coxswain at Hythe telephoned to the Dover Coxswain at 2 A.M. on the 1st July that a small yacht was making a distress signal by continuously sound- ing her fog-horn about half a mile off the Hythe Life-boat House. As the Hythe...
Jess
On the night of the 21st October the yacht Jess broke away from her moorings and after drifting about the harbour, to the danger of other shipping, drove up against the quay. The Motor Life- boat C.D.E.C. put out and towed her to a safe...
Jackdaw and Chanticleer
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 4 P.M. on the 10th August the coastguard reported a small yacht at anchor about a mile to the south of the station. As the wind was rising, a close watch was kept.
Later another yacht was reported at...
Goodewind
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — In the early morning of the 21st of July, 1948, the yacht Goodewind, of Leith, was reported by the coastguard to be dragging her anchors in the bay, but she picked up moorings and seemed to be safe. The...