LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Yacht (4)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
A small yacht had capsized, but a speed boat rescued the man on board. - Rewards, £4 17s..
A Yacht (1)
JULY 22ND. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A yacht had been reported in difficulties, but got safely to land without help. - Rewards, £9 9s.
A Yacht Tender
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
The Belgian Yacht Bassurelle
The Y-boat was in action again on 29 July when the Belgian yachtBassurelle was driven ashore south of Irvine Harbour and fired flares which were spotted by the coastguard.
The yacht was fairly close to the station, and in...
A Yacht (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 9 a.m. on 25th September, 1964, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that he had seen people waving from a yacht in Cairney's Quay. At 9.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh southwesterly...
Yacht Leigh Hall
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.18 A.M. on the 18th January, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that flares had been seen about six miles south-east from Ramsgate. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain....
Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground
ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
Category: Services
Wick Lifeboat Assists Us Yacht
Wick's Tyne class lifeboat Norman Sali'esini launched at 0045 on 1 September to the casualty Fridor, a sailing yacht from Ohio, which was on passage from the Shetland Islands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ex-German Yacht Pirol
JUNE 25TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned a report from the east pier watchman that, the ex-German yacht Pirol, which had left harbour for Portsmouth, manned by five R.A.F. men, had grounded on the Brake...
Yacht Symphony II
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 19th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Austerity hadwirelessed that she had the ten-ton sloop yacht Symphony II, with a crew of six, in tow about...