LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.

At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8.50 in the morning, on the llth of September, 1950, the Cromer coastguard telephonedthat the Dudgeon lightvessel had re- ported a sailing yacht circling the light- vessel in need of help. Accordingly, at 9.5 the life...

flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.30 on the evening on the llth of August, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Dimcyl was flying a distress signal about two miles north of Lowestoft. She seemed to be trying to make harbour against a...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of Harwich, was aground at the mouth of the River Aide. Her crew of three were able to walk ashore. Later she...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. —• At 7.44 in the evening of the 13th of September, 1951, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned a wire- less message from the S.S. Gaslight that she had taken in tow the yacht Lassiette, of Burnham - on -...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares to the east of the har- bour. A moderate west-south-westerly wind was blowing...