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Argus
Dover, Kent - At 7.10 p.m. on 5th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties and drifting towards the Goodwin sands. At 7.22 the life-boat Faithful Forester was launched. It was three hours...
Struggling against 4m swells
23 October: Ilfracombe After spotting a yacht anchored near Ilfracombe Pier with waves breaking over her, Coxswain Andrew Bengey contacted the Coastguard. His crew mates launched shortly afterwards in force 7...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At about 1.30 P.M. on the 5th June it was reported by the coastguard that a flag was being...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
Islander
The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...
Woodpecker
Southwold, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 4th September the sailing yacht Woodpecker was seen bound northwards.
A S.W. breeze was blowing, with rain squalls. The yacht was flying a flag from the crosstrees and as she...
Arthur Rogers
ESCORTING A YACHT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Redsands about two miles south-east of Redsand Towers and that seas were...
Elizabeth
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 11.15 on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary saw the yacht Elizabeth capsize during a yacht race.
The life-boat R.P.L. put out at 11.20 in a choppy sea. A westerly wind of...
Eight-Year-Old Michael Summerfied
Eight-year-old Michael Summerfied warms himself with a blanket as he comes ashore after being rescued from his parent's yacht by Whitstable lifeboat - photo Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Black Cat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.45 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1958, a message was received from the motor vessel Channel Trader, on passage from Newhaven to Guernsey, that shehad passed the fishing boat Black Cat three miles north...