LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
Active
Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...
Salome
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.25 early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1958, the Lade coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Salome of Colchester, which was in tow of the pilot cutter Pelorus, was half full of water and her...
Elaine
YACHT FOUND AFTER NIGHT SEARCH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-west of the Ventnor look-out....
Patricia
YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
Knox
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in trouble off Canvey Island. At 1.24 on the ebbing tide the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The Folk-Boat Huckleberry Finn
Weymouth, Dorset - At 6.50 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, a yacht reported that the folk-boat Huckleberry Finn was dismasted and adrift about eight and a half miles south east of the Shambles lightvessel.
The...
Ranger of Lune (1)
Padstow, Cornwall - At 8.47 a.m. on 2yth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune had engine trouble and was in difficulties twenty-five miles west of Trevose Head. There was a gentle...
Verseau
French crew saved AT ABOUT 1755 on Thursday, March 31, the Coastguard mobile from Beer arrived at Lyme Regis ILB house and the Coastguard informed Crew Member Christopher Greenhill that he was concerned about a small yacht which he had...
Robbery
Survivors cling to upturned hull Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London was called to the rescue of three Dutch sailors on 2 June 1993 when their 34ft yacht lost its ballast keel and capsized off Selsey during a fierce squall in the...