LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
Anne Gaston and Glance
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, a message was received from Toe Head, Castletownshend, that the trawler Anne Gaston, of France, which had a crew of nine, had been wrecked at Toe Head. At 11.30 the...
Rescue By a Converted Life-Boat
Ox the 15th of December, 1950, Mr.
W. A. Haines, of Burnham Overy, near Wells, on the Norfolk coast, was out musselling in the Wash, with another man, in a converted life-boat. The wind was blowing hard, with squalls of...
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Dimcyl
Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 9th of August, 1951, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched on a pub- licity trip to the Broads for Festival Life-boat Week. A moderate, but increasing swell was running with a moderate...
Myhaven
TOW FOR YACHT AFTER FUEL PIPE CLEARED Arbroath, Angus. At 5.20 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Myhaven had broken down with engine trouble three miles north of the...
Stella
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.47 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Stella of Whit- stable was in difficulties three miles south of Clacton pier. One of her crew had been...
Sea Rover
Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1959, the police at Cleethorpes informed the coxswain superintendent that a bather was in difficulties off Humberstone. At the same time the coastguard reported that a yacht,...
Erisca
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 4th of April, 1956, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that a dinghy, in which three people were coming ashore from the yacht Erisca in Totland Bay...
Louise
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.30 on the morn- ing of the 8th of October, 1960, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in shoal water inside Kirk Anow reef south of Selsey Bill and appeared to be out of...
Pippa
REFLOATED YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 1.25 p.m. on iyth May, 1964, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht was in a dangerous position on the Pole sands and at 1.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, taking her boarding...