LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mizpah
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — During a south-westerly gale on the 20th August the yacht Mizpah, of Liverpool, which had been anchored in the bay overnight, dragged her anchor and was quickly driven out to sea. A rough sea was running and the...
Damia B
Blyth, Northumberland.— At 4.51 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties to the south of the entrance to Blyth Har- bour. She had made no distress signal, but as it...
Restless
Peel, Isle of Man.—About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties off Peel, and the life-boat Helen Sutton was launched at 5.15. A strong, squally south-west wind was...
White Wings
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—While the motor life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was out on exercise on the 25th June, 1938, a yacht was seen flying a distress signal about a mile S.W. of Lavernock Point. A strong W.N.W.
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The Sailing Boat Taw
Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat had capsized off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...
Prince
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 10.12 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht four miles south-south-west of Orford- ness was flying a distress signal. The life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.26 in a...
Thyminia
Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the...
Rainbow
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of May, 1953, the life-boat honorary secretary saw the local yacht Rainbow with a crew of four, drifting across the north of the harbour. She had been dismasted and...
Sabrina and Pen Cw
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the harbour master reported that the yacht Sabrina had parted her moorings and was drifting on a lee shore with one man on board. The life-boat St. Albans was...
Wild Duck
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard passed on a message from the Norwegian steamer Manx that a yacht was in difficulties about one mile west of the West Sunk buoy. The life-boat...