LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eagle
During a moderate E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were observed at 10.30 P.M. on the llth September. The Civil Service No. 6 Life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the pleasure yacht Ea/jle, of...
Passat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1952, a resident at Leigh-on-Sea reported a yacht run ashore off Leigh, with her mainsail gone and seas washing right over her. A rough sea was running, with a strong south...
Two Dinghies
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say the Royal Lymington yacht club had reported that a fourteen-foot dinghy had capsized off Hurst Point; that another...
Morning Breeze
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.40 on the after- noon of the 9th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Chichester police had reported a yacht in difficulties half a mile off Brackles- ham Bay. At six o'clock the life-boat Canadian...
Bryter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 21 st of September, 1953, the life-boat coxswain saw a yacht two and a half miles east-south- east of the pier which appeared to be in difficulties. At 1.35 the life-boat Greater London...
West Wind
Dover, Kent.—At 8.25 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1956, the Sandgatecoastguard rang up to say the auxi- liary yacht West Wind needed help three miles east of South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 8.45 in...
Tailte
On the afternoon of the 17th June a motorist reported that a small yacht with several persons on board was aground on the rocks south of Wicklow Head. A moderate S.S.W.
breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor...
Loyang
MOTOR YACHT'S ENGINES FAILED Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.25 in the evening of the 6th of July, 1947, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard tele- phoned information, received by the Worthing police from a resident, that he had seen a motor...
Martlett
On the evening of the 21st April the coastguard reported that a small yacht, anchored in Pol- zeath Bay, was in a dangerous position.
The wind and sea were slight, but she was very close to the rocks and would have grounded...
Seabird
Hilbre Island, Cheshire.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 23rd July information was received from Hilbre, through the Mersey Dock Board, that a yacht was in distress on Salisbury Bank. A strong, squally breeze was blowing from the N.N.W., with...