LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
New Dawn and Annette
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.14 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored in a dangerous position in heavy seas half a mile south-west of Sandown pier. At 7.26...
Sennen Cove's Rother Class Lifeboat Diana White
Sennen Cove's Rother class lifeboat Diana White tows Koo-She and her four-man crew to safety.
The size of the sea can be gauged from the yacht - a sizeable 44ft ketch - as can the difficulty of towing a casualty without... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hardy Marine
HARDY MARINE +44 (0)1692 408700 www.hardymarine.co.uk Buy one, train many Congratulations to all our friends at the RNLI on the delivery of ‘Robert S Ellsmoor’ – their second Hardy Commodore 42 training vessel.
The...
Category: Advertisement
Lil
At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received from the lightkeeper on the East Pier that two yachts were adrift.
A gale was blowing from the west and the sea was rough. The motor life- boat...
Charis
Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...
CADABRA
Motor yacht Cadabra, which tours the coasts of Great Britain on sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd., a firm of stationers, has completed her fourth round-Britain trip, and Brian Hulme, Chairman of the company, has presented a cheque...
Category: Donations
Hydrovane
Six taken off ON A NIGHT of worsening weather, Clyde Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Islay lifeboat station at 2213 on Sunday September 4, 1983, that the 34ft yacht Hydrovane, on charter, was in trouble in the Sound of Jura.<...
The American Tug TID 76, and The Minca and Clover Leaf
AUGUST 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.45 at night. the Deal coastguard reported that a tug, with a barge in tow, was about four miles to the south-east of the South Goodwin No. 2 Buoy. A north-west gale was blowing, with blinding rain and a very...
Ocean Spray
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...