LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robbie
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 11.15 p.m.
on 4th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen in the Straits off Beaumaris. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at...
Hexan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.35 p.m.
on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on a sandbank 1\ miles south east of Buxey Beacon.
The life-boat Valentine...
Daphne
Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...
David Wells, Has Been Helmsman of Clacton-On-Sea's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF
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Diane
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
About 11.30 in the morning messages were received from the coastguard and the R.A.F. that a yacht off Newlyn was dragging her anchors in a dangerous position and in need of immediate help....
Argo
AUGUST 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. About noon the sailing yacht Argo put out with a fishing party on board, a man, a woman and three children. They had not returned by ten at night, and anxiety was felt for their safety. At 11.8 the...
Doric
JULY 13TH. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At about 7.30 P.M. a motor yacht was seen flying a distress signal. A squally southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. T h e pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick Gainer was launched at 7.50 P.M...
Turpina
Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...
Embla
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of October, 1950, the Tara coastguard reported that a motor yacht trying to cross the Strang- ford Lough was making heavy weather.
At 5.3, as the weather was...
Ilka
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beawlerk was launched at 2.58 P.M. on the 21st August, as the coastguard had reported that a yacht about three-quarters of a mile S.E.
of Orford was signalling for help. A...