LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Themlyay
YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she...
Sgumain
YACHT TOWED IN WITH GALE IMMINENT Exmouth, Devon. At 11.30 on the night of the 25th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had an auxiliary yacht under observation whose engine had broken down off Sidmouth beach....
Volunteer
DETAILS LATER On nth September, 1964, the lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at Appledore, put out to the yacht Volunteer and rescued her crew of four. A full account of this service will appear in the March number of THE...
Espanola
LATER ACCOUNT Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On i8th August, 1964, the life-boat W. M. Tihon put out to the yacht Espanola and rescued her crew of five. A full account of this service will appear in the March number Of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Sea Ranger
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
Sam Baxter
5am Baxter, president of Morecambe station branch, helps with a draw at Morecambe Yacht Club which raised more than £1,000 for the lifeboats. Ho/ding one of the prizes is the raffle promoter, Mrs Jean Kilpatrick. photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swanage's Mersey Class Robert Charles Brown,
Swanage's Mersey class Robert Charles Brown, the lifeboat involved in a long service to a yacht off St Catherine's Point which led to Coxswain Chris Haw's Thanks on Vellum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Laddie
MAY 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 5.15 A.M. a message was received from Gunfleet Lighthouse through the coastguard that a vessel had gone aground on the Gunfleet Sands. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The...
Dona
Exmouth, Devon. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 13th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that orange-coloured lights resembling flames had been seen three to four miles south-east of Orcombe Point. The life-boat...
Brionie
Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.
of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...