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Trimley Maid
Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.
The service was carried out in...
Man and cat saved in gale
Engine failure combined with force 7–8 winds to put a sailor and his cat Sukie in danger 4 miles off the Mull of Kintyre on 3 September. Campbeltown’s Severn class lifeboat, Ernest and Mary Shaw, launched to help. The 7m yacht was rolling...
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MISSING FOR DAYS
LOWESTOFT | 6 JUNE
After a Dutch yachtsman failed to reach his destination and days of radio silence passed, a Coastguard aircraft spotted him drifting 14 miles off Lowestoft. Coxswain John Fox launched with his fellow crew...
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Maid of Kent and Dragon
SWANAGE.—On the 30th of September the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched, and brought ashore the crews—7 men in all—from the schooner Maid of Kent and the yacht Dragon, which vessels were in very dangerous positions during a heavy gale...
Luffra, of Douglas
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A small yacht, the Luffra, of Douglas, was reported to be in distress and quite unmanageable off Santon Head while a whole gale was blowing from N.E. with a very heavy sea, on the 29th May. The Life-boat...
Fiona
The sailing yacht Fiona, of Glasgow, when | out cruising near Coquet Island on the llth May, missed stays and stranded on the ' Coquet Steel.' A strong W. gale was blowing and the Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched to assist her. The...
Acorn
At 8.30 P.M. on the 9th July, during thick weather, a telephone message was received at Cemaes stating that the services of the Life-boat Charles Henry Ashley were required. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time, and proceeded to...
Tarka
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.47 in the afternoon, on the 14th of December, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about three-quarters of a mile east of the coast- guard station. At 3.55 the life-boat Prudential...
Vixen, of Dublin
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—On the morning of the 2nd June a Coast Life- Saving Service Inspector telephoned that a yacht was in danger off Greystones harbour. She was the Vixen, of Dublin, bound, with her owner on board, for Wicklow. The wind...
Solstice
YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...