LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

YACHT TOWED WITH EIGHT ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.10 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the pier master informed the coxswaiu that a yacht was in distress off Ringstead Bay.

A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing...

ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of...

YACHT TAKEN IN TOW IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the Baily lighthouse-keeper informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht which he had kept under observation for twenty-five minutes was...

Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...

YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...

Lytham-St Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.55 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1958, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that the owner of the motor yacht Le Cateau of Glasson Dock had rowed ashore to report that his vessel was...

Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...

Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.

on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...