LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Westwind of Stour (1)
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
Piciess
Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...
Double Toil and Trouble
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
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Shoreline
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS Shoreline has taken great strides forward. Our membership has grown faster than ever before, largely due to the support we are receiving from our members and, above all, from financial branches and guilds. We...
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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...
Dora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...
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Naive, Salamander and Abigail
GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
July Morn
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken, 100 yards off...