St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.20 a.m. on 2nd September, 1965, the signal station received a message from a yachtsman arriving in the harbour. He had seen red flares about three miles south of St. Martins Point. The life-boat Euphrosyne...
Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her...
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
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Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.
Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF
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JULY 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. During the evening a message was received from the coastguard, that a yacht was ashore on the Buxey Sands, but was not showing any distress signals. A gentle S.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea....
JUNE 27TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About four in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a man was waving a red flag on a yacht which was dragging her anchor off Holland Sluice. The motor lifeboat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty...
BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...
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Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
Ian Gillies, a twelve*-year-pld boy from Gourock, has been awarded an inscribe wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry. He has also received a franm letter of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain 'th...
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