LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 1st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Holdernidd had wirelessed that she was towing the motor yacht Zippalong, of Boston, and was making for Cromer. She asked if the life...

Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord...

On the evening of the 12th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Avonmouth that a large motor launch had been reported aground on the Welsh Hook, in a dangerous posi- tion. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea...

At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat...

Exmouth, Devon. At 9.48 on the morning of the 29th of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares one mile south of Otterton Head.

The life-boat Maria Noble was launched at 10...

Barry Dock, Glamorgan. At 5.2 on the afternoon of the 6th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht Amanda Jane of Cardiff was making distress signals off Sully hospital a little to the east of Barry. A...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5 p.m.

on 29th August, 1965, the acting second coxswain heard a distress message being passed to Niton radio station from the yacht Dream of Holland saying that a capsized dinghy with two people...

Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 6.45 p.m.

on 3rd October, 1965, the secretary of the Penmaenmawr Yacht Club reported that a number of their sailing dinghies had been caught in a sudden squall and had overturned. The sailing club...