LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mistra, of Bosham
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.12 p.m. on 2nd July, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares just west of Broad Bench, and that there was a possibility that a second yacht was dismasted in the area. The...
Frances Helen
On 2nd September, 1968, the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put out to the yacht Frances Helen. A full account of this service appears on page 552..
Mayfly
On the evening of the 28th July telephone messages were received from the Coast- guard that a small yacht was at anchor in a dangerous position about 300 yards off shore, and that she would probably take tie ground and capsize when the tide...
Diana
YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
Coxswain Chris Haw
Bronze Medal Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage for the service to the yacht Be Happy on 28 October 1996 - see Tht Liftbott Winter 1996/7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
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Gellie
aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...
Chota
A CAPSIZED YACHT Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.12 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, the Yealm coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized a quarter of a mile north-east of Mewstone at the mouth of Yealm River, and the motor life-boat...
Sea Lavender
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.
on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience...
Snuffbox
TWO ON BOARD YACHT At 10.7 p.m. on I3th June, 1964, the coxswain told the coastguard that as a yacht had run aground near St. Helen's Fort and had been firing flares he had decided to launch. At 10.18 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary...
Namanda
YACHT AGROUND Kirkcudbright. At 5.06 p.m. on nth April, 1965, a local boatman informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a cabin cruiser on the rocks off the Balmangan shore of Ross Bay. There was a strong westerly breeze with a slight...