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Phaedra

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...

Cymba

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shoreThe coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for...

Insight

Date: Summer 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 581

RescUe Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity...

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Moonbeam

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th September a party of three men and two women left Fleetwood in the motor yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine trouble developed, and the Moonbeam ran ashore on the North Lighthouse bank at the entrance to...

Spray

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.

6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...

Sunshine

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.45 P.M. on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a sailing yacht was anchored three miles south of the look-out in a dangerous position. A strong and increasing S.S....

Colin Archer

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht had broken adrift from her tow off Sandown and ap- peared to be in difficulties. The life- boat Jesse Lumb was...

Janice

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.

The...

Nora

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.

the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...

Ystwyth

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...