LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aurelia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...
Spray
Stromness, Orkneys. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 21st of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that after a small yacht had stranded under Ness Battery one of her crew had come ashore to get help, but on...
Clwyd
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1961, the motor mechanic in- formed the honorary secretary that the yacht Clwyd had run aground on the north side of the Ribble estuary. The...
Rissa
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man and two women had landed at Filey in a dinghy. The man had reported that they had come from the yacht Rissa, which was on fire off...
Waterbaby
At 8.58 a.m. on ist August, 1966, it was felt that, in view of the deteriorating weather conditions, a small yacht was likely to find herself in difficulties in Rye bay. The life-boat crew assembled and stood by. At the request of the...
Jezebel
At 5.41 p.m. on 8th September, 1966, a German ship reported that a French sailing yacht was leaking twenty nine miles south east of St.
Catherine's Point, and that the yacht could hold out for two to three hours by...
Albin Ballad
Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...
Vincente
Life-boat 70-001. Bristol Channel - At 6.35 p.m. on the zyth July, 1967, the coxswain intercepted a message from Ilfracombe radio to the yacht Vincente which had requested assistance. The lifeboat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service...
Weymouth Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sarah Ann
JULY 10TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 7 P.M. a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling and...