LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Category: Articles
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...
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
Tradewind, Ariba and Title Boxer
Arun at sea for 14 hours on three services to yachts in trouble Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell was at sea for almost 14 hours in one 25-hour period when she received three separate calls from yachts in trouble on 9...
the Berwick
CARMARTHEN BAY.—A private yacht, the Berwick, of Ferryside, with five persons on board, left Ferryside at 8 A.M.
on the 24th January, and proceeded down the river on a shooting excursion, intending to return with the tide....
Marosa
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—During the evening of the 15th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a yacht was ashore on the Buxey Sands, but was not showing any distress signals. A gentle S.E. breezewas blowing, with a slight...
Margaret
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.25 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares one and a half miles east-south-east of Aldeburgh. At 8.3 the No. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched in a...
Venturous
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.44 on the morn- ing of the 27th of July, 1954. a message was received from the East Pier that amotor yacht was burning red flares off Quern Buoy in the Ramsgate channel. At 9.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put...