LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bedouin
SAW FLASHING LIGHT Montrose, Angus. At 11.53 P-m- on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light had been reported at sea and was understood to be a distress signal. The yacht Bedouin which had...
Belle Isle and Isabella
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....
Amontillado
YACHT'S CREW RESCUED BY FISHING VESSEL North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized about a mile and a...
Fifi
YACHT POOPED AND FLOODED IN HEAVY BREAKERS Rhyl, Flintshire. On Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the yacht Fiji, of New Brighton, was bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of two, but she was overtaken by bad weather and decided to make...
Racy Lady
Ashore on the Shingles Visitors to Lymington's boathouse during Lifeboat Stations Open Days on 26 May 1996 were treated to a taste of the real thing when their Atlantic was suddenly called away to a real 'shout', at first to...
Seamist
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...
Happy Bear
Three saved from yacht after long tow by Tyne in Storm Force windsCromer lifeboat coxswain Richard Davies has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal following the rescue of five people aboard the 30ft yacht Happy Bear off Cromer, Norfolk...
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1958
Time of Date Launching Station 1958 Jan.
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Paperchase
Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...