LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dimcyl
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About three in, the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an auxiliary sailing yacht, one and a half miles to the eastward, was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott,...
Cerise
Salcombe, Devon.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1953, the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a sailing boat wassignalling for help half a mile south- west of Prawle Point. At 6.5 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...
Index to Advertisers
Castrol Ltd 159 Chloride Group Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Coastal Radio Ltd 159 Cogswell & Harrison Ltd 159 Duckhams Oils Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside front cover Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd....
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Fairey Marine Group
Fairey Marine You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness. But if...
Category: Advertisement
Jewel
DRIFTING SLOOP Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.55 p.m. on 3ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of Worthing pier. The sea was choppy with a gentle breeze from the east....
The French Cutter Naia
FRENCH CUTTER ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 on the evening of the 1st September, 1962, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Brake sands and was firing distress flares. At ten o'clock...
Olivier
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the motor mechanic told the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground...
Tessa
Selsey, Sussex - At 7.54 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a motor cruiser was seen burning distress flares about two miles off Middleton. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 8.7 in a calm sea with fog patches. It was four hours after...
Club Rescue Launch
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 3.25 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the yacht club rescue launch was in difficulties off Llanena reef. At 3.45 the life-boat St.
Albans was launched in...
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...