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Nomis

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....

Fairey Marine

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

Marine FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of...

Category: Advertisement

William Osborne Ltd.

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

4KINGSWIFT 26' This G.R.P. Production is designed, Moulded, completed and Marketed direct by WILLIAM OSBORNE LTD.

Raked Vee Transom, Full headroom, Four berths.

Walk round...

Category: Advertisement

lolanthe

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...

Pace

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Swanage, Dorset - At 6 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Pace was broken down and becalmed and in danger of being swept on to the rocks at Anvil Point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 6.10. It was one hour after...

Cheshire Cat

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.48 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the East pier watchman noticed that the motor launch Cheshire Cat with nine people on board was aground in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 12.55 in a...

Four Yachtsmen Rescued at Margate

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

SHORTLY after midnight on the 2nd of September, 1951, the coastguard at Margate called up the life-boat station to say that he could see distress signals being flashed by a torch from a small yacht just outside the harbour.

Category: Services

Chayka of Ardgour

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...

Southern Cross

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...

Seamist

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Damaged steering YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station at 0236 on Monday May 3, 1982, that the yacht Seamist of Rhu had sustained damage to her steering gear two hours earlier on...