LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penguin
AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly...
Gordon
On the evening of the 10th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on the Brake Sands with a motor boat standing by.
A strong squally N.W. wind was blow- ing, with a very heavy sea, and it was raining. A little...
Calypso
Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.
was...
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
Timander
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.55 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the pilot launch, which was sheltering in Totland bay, had reported that a small yacht needed help. The pilot...
The Long Tow
The new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami bringing in the Theodora after a round trip of nearly 100 miles on 4th September, 1967, when the 38-ton auxiliary yacht carrying 14 people got into difficulties in the North Sea. The photograph... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Efbee
Torbay, Devon - At 9.59 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about eight miles off Teignmouth. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 10.10 in a...
Asia
AUG. 26TH . - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Rockets had been seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her bearings, and towed her...
Wendy
Appledore, Devon. — At 11.33 A.M.
on the 14th August the coastguard reported that a yacht one mile N.W.
from Fairway buoy was showing flares.
She was the auxiliary yacht Wendy, of Bristol...
Tinker
At 1.15 A.M. on the 23rd August the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a small vessel was burning distress signals about one mile N.E. of Lade coastguard station, A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a choppy sea, and thick rain...