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Spring Flower

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Ilfracombe, Devon.—About noon on the 4th of August, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in diffi- culties off Bull Point. Another yacht had tried to tow her but had failed to make headway and had cast off the tow and made for...

Starbeam II

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 20th of October, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized south of Clacton pier. At 1.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched in a rough sea.

Lively Lady

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.17 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, it was learnt that the 22 foot Bermuda-rigged yacht Lively Lady was in difficulties three miles south of the life-boat house and was firing distress signals. The lifeboat Watkin Williams...

Vale

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 2.30 p.m. on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Newcombe bank. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 2.40 in a southerly gale and...

Droomboot

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 7.10 a.m. on 22nd August, 1966, a yacht off Dunwich required assistance. There was a gale from the north east with a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary...

But Before Melfort's

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

. . . But before Melfort's other three crew members could be rescued in the same way the yacht, pounding on rocks, began to break up and founder.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Aslaug

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

YACHT TAKEN EM TOW IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.40 on the evening of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a quarter of a mile south-southeast of Clacton pier. The...

A HAT-TRICK RESCUE

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 618 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2016/17

Struggling in the cold, dark sea, three football fans wondered if it was game over 

After a night out in Barmouth watching Wales play in a televised football match on 6 July 2016, three sailors rowed a small dinghy...

Category: Articles

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Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—6th July. A small yacht was reported to be adrift, but it was found to be a drifting bathing raft.—Rewards, £4 10s..

Windspiel

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Dover, Kent.—In the early morning of 30th May, 1938, the motor'life-boat Sir William Hillary escorted in the German yacht Windspid, of Hamburg. (A full account appears on page 538).