LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Yacht sailed to safety by Atlantic 21 crew member Lymington - South East DivisionLymington's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had to put a crew member aboard a yacht off the Shingles Bank during the strong winds of the late...
The Sail Yacht Medina Maid
A survivor's story Lifeboats in action is usually our opportunity to describe in thrilling detail how brave lifeboat crews save lives at sea - but what's it like to be rescued? Michael O'Connetl reports on his experience and...
The French Racing Yacht Corum
Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a...
A Yacht and a Speed Boat
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.30 p.m. on i2th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized two miles north of Hartlepool.
There was a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea. The...
A Yacht
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—22nd April, 1939. A capsized yacht was found off Shoeburyness, but there was no one on board.—Rewards, £6 10s..
A Yacht
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....
A Yacht
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht with three young men on board was missing. At 6.40 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4)...
A Yacht
At 8.22 a.m. on 26th May, 1967, information was received that a small vessel had fired flares about five miles north of Grenham Bay, Birchington. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 8.44 in a slight south...
A Yacht Little Dorrit
The Life- \ boat Civil Service, on the Wexford No. 2 sta- tion, did good service on the 13th May, by saving the crew of 2 men from the yacht Little Dorrit, of Weymouth, which, during a strong gale from the N.N.E., became a total wreck on the...
The Sailing and Motor Yacht Eleanor
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 8th April, 1938, the coastguard reported a small yacht in difficulties.
A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 4.55 A.M....