LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
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Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
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The Cruisada
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the evening of the 7th of April a small vessel was observed in the Wallet Channel, S.E. of Clacton Pier, during a strong S.W. wind and a very rough sea. With the aid of a powerful glass, it was seen that she wasdisabled,...
Escape, of Belfast
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the afternoon of the 8th August, the sailing yacht Escape, of Belfast, with two men on board, left Portrush for her home port. There was very little wind and she began to drift towards the dangerous Skirk rocks....
Mab
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1955, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a vessel was burning flares on the south side of the harbour. At 3.55 the life-boat A.E.D. put out. The sea was rough, there...
Saida
Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground...
Skugga
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...
Fair Maiden
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, the police informed the coxswain that a yacht was firing flares in Normans Bay. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.23 in a rough sea with a moderate...
Susie
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.42 in the morning of the 28th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles west-south-west of Clacton pier, and at 10.50 the Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The sea...
Five of Hearts
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.40 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1952, the police re- ported that a motor cruiser was in difficulties about one mile from Brey- don Swing Bridge, and at 10.10 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...