THE INSHORE LIFEBOAT D class Thomas Campbell D-447 (relief fleet) Funding: Legacy of Mr Edwin Ramsden THE CREW Helmsman David Maguire (pictured top) Crew Members (pictured bottom L-R): Simon Gulliver, Lorraine Calvin, Sinead Casey WEXFORD...
Early on the morning of the 17th July a tele- phone message was received from the Needles Signal Station that a small yacht, anchored W. of Shingle Bank Buoy, was burning flares and making S.O.S. signals on a lamp. A fresh E, breeze was...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 16th September a party of three women and a man went cruising in the motor yacht Sydia. The sea was rather rough, with a strong N.E. breeze.
The yacht ran across the...
Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.
He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...
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Douglas, Isle of Man.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 20th of August, 1950, the life-boat Elsie, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to help the motor yacht Barra- cuda, of Belfast. With a crew of four aboard, shs had...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.50 in the morning, on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the I3ritish Railways' berthing master telephoned that a small yacht was drifting' towards the North break- water and making S.O.S. signals...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 2.25 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a pilot cutter had wirelessed him. A yacht was in difficulties and needed help, a quarter of a mile north-west by west of the Sunk...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.0 in the afternoon on the 7th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that a cutter rigged yacht was off Formby Point. Twenty minutes later he said conditions were bad and her sails had been damaged. At 1...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.31 on the night of the 21st of August, 1951, the signal station made a report.
The yacht Marguerite T., of Lowestoft, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was in a dangerous position...
Wicklow.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1954, a man at Brittas Bay telephoned that the yacht Monk, which had been stolen from Dun Laoghaire, was in Brittas Bay.
No one was aboard, and as no other boat was...