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A Dinghy (4)
Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...
Jenesta
Plymouth, Devon - At 8.50 p.m. on 16th April, 1966, the naval authorities informed the honorary secretary that a red distress signal had been sighted due east of Penlee, near Renny Rocks. It was confirmed that the casualty was a yacht, and...
Skim
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine...
A £20,000 thank you - 65 years later
Richard Tookey was just 14 when Shoreham lifeboat crew rescued him and his family from their stricken yacht in 1948. Now the station has enough funds to fuel their lifeboat for 5 years after he donated £20,000 as a thank...
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Spider
RYE, SUSSEX. — The yacht Spider, of Ramsgate, brought up at 11.30 P.M. on the 2nd June, about a mile off Camber.
The wind was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., and the vessel was lying too near the shore, so that on the...
Iris
— The pleasure yacht Iris, of Chester, was seen to be in a dangerous position in the breakers near Portmadoc Bar on the loth August. The Coxswain launched the Life-boat and proceeded to the assistance of the crew. He asked them if they...
Mariner
Kirkcudbright.—Early in the morning of the 31st July the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported that a small yacht, anchored in Whithorn bay, was in a dangerous position, owing to a change in the direction of the wind. A moderate S.W. gale was...
Sarah Ann
Caister, Norfolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 10th July, 1939, a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling...
Aerielle
Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...