LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pussy Galore
At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...
J.G.4.
At 3.52 p.m. on I3th July, 1967, a message was received indicating that the motor yacht J.G.4. had broken down about half a mile off Frinton and was taking in water fast. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the...
Jenny Rose
Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.
helicopter from No. 22...
Ranger of Lune
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 2.56 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune was in difficulties ten miles north-west of South Bishop's rock, as her engine had broken down....
Mary
NEAR DUMPTON GAP Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.45 p.m. on i8th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles off Broadstairs was apparently having some difficulty in the fresh to near gale force...
Xema
RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a...
Avocet
IN A TIDE RACE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.28 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was reported to be in distress off South Stack. Her two occupants had been waving. It was one hour before...
Pollyanna
Five saved as stranded yacht sinks on rising tide Both of Harwich's lifeboats were involved in a service to the yacht Pollyanna last August when she grounded on the Cork Sands and eventually rolled over while a lifeboat crew member, a...
Lilian
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.43 in the afternoon a message was received from the signal station at Spurn Point that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties on the Binks. A south-east wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...