LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Weymouth. Dorset.—At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, a local sailing club asked if the life- boat would put off to the help of the yacht Marzealine, of Le Havre, which, after going ashore, had refloated but was in danger of...

Padstow, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that the Camelford police had reported a small sailing boat in diffi- culties near Tintagel Point. The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.

1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...