LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Englyn I
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the Polruan coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles south of Fowey Harbour, and at 11.15 the life-boat C.D.E.C. was launched. A moderate sea was running with a...
Juliette
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—About five o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland was returning to her station after overhaul at Cowes when she saw distress signals from the motor yacht...
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 4th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties seven miles east of St. Agnes lighthouse. At 10.42 the...
Nancy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 10.10 on the night of the 1st of July, 1959, a report was received that flares had been seen off Black Rocks, Penmon. At 10.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a rough sea. There was a...
Eider Duckling
Walmer, Kent. At 2.38 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the South Goodwin lightvessel had reported a flashing light three miles east-north-east of her position. At 2.55 the life-boat...
Lucy
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.15 on the after- noon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that they were keeping the yacht Lucy, which appeared to have engine trouble, under observation. A fishing vessel was...
Hustler
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.46 on the evening of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Hustler, with one man on board, was out of control on Breydon Water. At 8.50 when the...
Panacea
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 10.20 on the morning of the 29th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a message had been re- ceived from the Galloper lightvessel that the auxiliary yacht Panacea, which was just astern...
Salazar and Painted Lady
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 3.20 p.m.
on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Salazar had broken down and was being carried over the Burbo bank.
There were two people on board.<...
Marie Grillon
LIFE-BOAT FINDS BODY THE recovery of charred wreckage and other evidence by the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon—a 46-foot 9-inch Watson type —pointed to an explosion aboard the French yacht Marie Grillon reported missing on...