LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Savourna
During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...
Carillion, of Cowes
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Mignonne
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and...
Nicolinda
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.25 on the night of the 13th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sagona that red flares had been seen east of the West Sunk...
Dutchy
Margate, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of 26th April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Dutchy of Rotterdam was ashore on the rocks at Walpole Bay, with her engine broken down. It was then almost low...
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Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving In 1957
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.
He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...
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A Dinghy and Stella
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...
Sea Air
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a boat appeared to be in difficulties between West Mersea and Bradwell, and at half past one the motor life-boat Edward Z....
Monie
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At i a.m.
on 25th August, 1965, the signal station told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off the east coast of Herm Island and at i.u the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea...