LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
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Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey (1)
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
The American Steamer John R. Park, of San Francisco (1)
MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
Jo
At 10.18 A.M. on the.29th, July a message was received from the Coastguard that a small yacht had been dismasted near Orfordness, and wanted help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain squalls. The Motor Life-boat A...
Maroc
On the even- ing of the 21st July two men and two women visitors put out from the har- bour in the motor yacht Maroc, in a moderate N.W. breeze, with a rough sea, not knowing the danger they would run in returning. The motor life-boat...
lona (1)
Ramsgate, Kent.—Soon after midnight on the 5th-6th September the watchman on East Pier reported that the local motor yacht lona had broken down off the harbour. The weather was calm, but there was a strong tide, and the yacht was drifting...
Hawkinge
ANOTHER YACHT IN PERIL Appledore, Devon.—At 8.50 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the yacht Hawk, of Southampton, which was moored in the pool, made distress signals. A strong west-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Vole
At 7. p.m. on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported aground to the west of the pier. There was a light north easterly wind with a slight sea and thick fog. It was one hour after low water. The no. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King...
Iliad
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized near Monkstone Point. At 3.50 the life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate...