A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?
Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...
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Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...