Twelve Hours in a Whole Gale.
ON August 22nd the Clacton Motor Life-boat was out for over twelve hours in a whole gale with a very heavy sea, and went to the help of two vessels.
The first was a small...
SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.6 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a yacht and a motor boat were reported in distress between Bembridge Harbour and St. Helens. There was a strong southwesterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide...
JUNE 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Kentish Knock Light-vessel had reported that a yacht had carried away her mast, but the yacht cleared herself and went on her way.-Rewards, £4 15s. 6d..
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At midday on the 14th August the keeper at Wyre Light reported that a yacht was ashore in a dangerous position on the east side of the Wyre Channel, opposite the lighthouse. A fresh, and fastincreasing, N.W. breeze was...
24th August. A motor yacht had got out of control, but was towed in by a trawler.—Re- wards, £3 15*..
19th September.
Yacht signalled for help, which she got from a passing vessel.—Rewards, £21 3s..
Left and top: The sinking yacht is caught on mobile phone camera from the lifeboat while a survivor makes it to the liferaft. - View image in PDF
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.33 in the evening of the 1st of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.
Customs and Excise at Burnham-on- Crouch had reported four yachts on the Buxey Sands, and at eight o'clock the...
Two launches THE MUMBLES LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) launched twice in the storms of August 14, 1979. The first launch, at 0735, was to stand by while the tug Hendon brought a yacht manned by two people through...
6th September.
A yacht was in distress, but drifted ashore, and those on board got to land unaided.—Rewards, £29 8s. 6d..