LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-—1st June, 1938. A yacht was in difficulties off Kimmeridge, but her crew got ashore unaided.—Rewards, £8 15s..
A Yacht (4)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.50 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a yacht was aground on East Barrow sands. She was not showing any distress signals but in view of the weather conditions the lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...
A Yacht (4)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the Outer Binks. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Bradford III was...
A Yacht (6)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8 p.m.
on 25th July, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Lane End shore. At 8.9 the IRB launched in a fresh southwesterly breeze and...
A Yacht (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 4.25 p.m.
on 2Qth July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht had capsized one mile off Port Mulgrave. The life-boat The Elliot Gill, which had just returned from a harbour fete at Staithes and was being...
A Yacht (2)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At i p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an 18-foot yacht had capsized off Fontagary and three people were clinging to her. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was...
A Yacht (1)
Two sailors were rescued from their capsized boat in May this year thanks to the eagle eyes of an 11-year-old boy from South Queensferry. Scott Findlater spotted an object floating in the water from his bedroom window and raised the alarm....
A Yacht (3)
THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
A Small Yacht (3)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—20th September. A small yacht had capsized, but a rowing boat from Penarthrescued the crew.—Rewards, £5 3s.
[An account of the rescue by the small boat will appear in the next number of The...