LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Spectre and Nola
RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Wheatear and Banshee
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.8 on the night of the 3rd of August, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Quern buoy. At 10.23the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...
Topaz
Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1958, the coastguard reported that the police had seen a small sailing yacht in distress one mile off Peacehaven with clothing tied to the masthead. At five o'clock the...
Jan Bart
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.32 on the night of the 20th of April, 1959, a message was received from the east pier watchman that a yacht was anchored three miles north-east of Ramsgate.
She had engine trouble and needed...
Vynesta
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report received by the police at Lyndhurst that a yacht was aground off the entrance to the Beaulieu river....
Aurelia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...
Spray
Stromness, Orkneys. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 21st of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that after a small yacht had stranded under Ness Battery one of her crew had come ashore to get help, but on...
Clwyd
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1961, the motor mechanic in- formed the honorary secretary that the yacht Clwyd had run aground on the north side of the Ribble estuary. The...
Rissa
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man and two women had landed at Filey in a dinghy. The man had reported that they had come from the yacht Rissa, which was on fire off...