LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Andante
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 5.20 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, the motor mechanic of the life-boat reported that a yacht was in difficulties off the harbour and drifting towards the dangerous coast south of Girvan. At 5.35 the life-boat James and...
Sevona
Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.40 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1958, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht had broken down three miles south- west of Portland and that H.M. frigate Murray had left...
Gleaner
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.57 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht had run ashore with the ebb tide on the Dike shoal off Ramsgate. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Crean
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to say that a woman had reported that a black-painted yacht was dragging her anchor off Helford River. The life- boat Crawford and...
Wal
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—On the morning1 of the 1st of September, 1956, the signal station sighted a yacht two miles south-east of St. Martin's Point signalling for help. At 6.53 the life- boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out in a...
Solent Sedge
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1957, the Needles coastguard reported that the yacht Solent Sedge was ashore on the Shingles with a rope entangled in her propeller. The life-boat S.G.E.
Maralla
LIFE-BOAT HELPS YACHT TO WEIGH ANCHOR Salcombe, Devon. At 9.13 on the morning of the 20th August, 1962, the Bolt Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Maralla, which had been at anchor a quarter of a mile south-west...
Petree
YACHT FOUND ABANDONED AND ASHORE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 11.20 on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Hilbre Island, and at 12.6 the reserve life-boat Frank...
Evenlode
YACHT'S SAILS BLOWN AWAY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the s.s.
Bravo had taken the yacht Evenlode in tow...
Salopia
NINE TEENAGERS RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.47 p.m. on Thursday the 5th September, 1963, the coxswain received a report from the east pier watchman, that a yacht was in difficulties about two miles south of the pier. The life-boat Michael...