LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taki
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....
Fishing Boats (3)
At about 1 P.M. on the afternoon of the 19th March, the fleet of fishing boats, seventeen in number, which had gone out during the morning, were seen making for the harbour, the tide then being one hour's flood and the sea breaking very...
Capri
— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...
Mandragon
Margate, Kent. At 4.56 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares have been seen north west of the West Girdler buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 5.22 in a...
Albany
GORLESTON.—The dandy Albany, of Lowestoft, while returning from fishing, on the 4th January, in a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, had her mainsail blown away and lost her rudder. She was taken in tow by another...
Whitsun
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. — On the evening of the 9th of April, 1956, the motor vessel Whitsun, of Groningen, was discharging a cargo of piles. About 6.35 a heavy ground swell developed, and she parted her lines and began to be driven on...
Comet
Barmouth, Merionethshire. — At 8.30 on the evening of the 28th of August, 1951, the police reported that the Tonfanau artillery camp had an- nounced a small fishing boat in distress.
There was one man in her,...
The Sailing Barge British Oak
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.41 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the sailing barge British Oak, of London, had sunk on the Buxey Sands.
Her two masts could be seen. The motor life...
Saturnas
Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the 14th August, as the motor life-boat Robert Potion—The Always Ready was being launched for the annual regatta, news was received from the coastguard that a ship was ashore at Kelder Steel.
The...
Salazar and Painted Lady
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 3.20 p.m.
on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Salazar had broken down and was being carried over the Burbo bank.
There were two people on board.<...