LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the beach During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.

Rye's C class inflatable...

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat mechanic reported that the motor trawler Silver Cloud, of Abersoch, was towing to Pwllheli the yacht Runag, of Glasgow, which had gone...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1952, during bad weather, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht with a man and woman on board, had an- chored a quarter of a mile north-east of the pier in a...

— 3rd August. Shouts from one boat to another for a tow were mistaken on shore as calls for help.—Rewards, £2 Os. 6d..

OCTOBER 6TH. - FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE. A naval trawler which was leaking had been reported to be making for Fraserburgh, but she made for Aberdeen instead. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..

At 6.25 A.M. on the 29th December the watchman re- ported that the Lightship off Newhaven was firing distress signals; the Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was there- fore dispatched. It was blowing a strong N.N.W. gale at the time, and...

THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE OSTAR 1976 Single banded transatlantic race Nine chose Tiller Masters— Four finished in first eight I SOLAR AND WIND BATTERY CHARGERS AVAILABLE DAVID JOLLY 3 Little...

At 11.17 P.M. on the 6th September the coxswain received a message from the Ramsgate coastguard that two ships had been in collision off N.E. Spit buoy. They were the s.s.

Archon, of Syra, Greece, bound with a cargo of...