LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She...

17th September. A yacht in Torquay harbour lighted flares for help, as another yacht was fouling her, but the life-boat arrived to find that her help was not needed.— Rewards, £6 3s..

JANUARY 11TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A naval rating finding himself unable to row back to his motor launch had boarded a yacht and shouted for help, but a boat belonging to the launch took him off.- Rewards, £6 19s. 6d.

Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...

On the night of 25th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Hope Cove that the small auxiliary yacht Edith, belong- ing to Bigbury-on-Sea, was disabled and drifting about five miles off Salcombe, with...

Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...

5th August. A yacht went ashore but refloated without help.—Rewards, £11..

The Institution will be glad to supply free to any yacht club a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. The chart is varnish- ed arid can be sent mounted on cardboard and holed and...