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All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.
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Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at...
Category: Donations
Touching distance
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
Category: Articles
Judy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1952, the Clacton-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties about one mile west- south-west of the pier. They had had her...
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Sum Speed
Harwich lifeboats called to power boat on fire Both of Harwich's lifeboats, the Waveney class John Fison and the Atlantic 21 British Diver II, were called to an incident on the River Orwell on 18 March 1990.A moored power boat had burst...
Enchantress, of Hamble
Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at 1920 the 48ft 6in...
Sailboards
Strong offshore wind results in four calls in an hour Hayling Island's Atlantic 21 Aldershot had a very busy hour or so on 8 May when she was afloat on exercise and then dealt with several casualties in quick succssion.
Magnet
WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...