LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
West Wind and the Rhyl Yacht Club Rescue Launch
RESCUE LAUNCH AND DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Rhyl, Flintshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th September, 1962, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a sailing dinghy had capsized near the entrance to the harbour. At 12.40 the...
Rollo of Braye, Solveig and French Yacht Pupas
Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...
A Small Motor Yacht
Torbay, Devon.—3rd July, 1939. A small motor yacht had caught fire, but another yacht rescued the only person on board. A donation was received in gratitude for the launching of the lifeboat.
—Rewards, S.2 Ws..
Yacht Maria Lecina
Ramsgate, Kent.—About nine o'clock in the morning of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the crew of a Dutch yacht, three- quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate, were waving flags and clothing, and the life-boat...
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...
The Yacht Orchid II Pictured on 11Th July, 1970,
The yacht Orchid II pictured on 11th July, 1970, in trouble on the ebb tide on Caernarvon bar. Before the photograph was taken storm oil had been used by the Porthdinllaen life-boat (pictured in the foreground) to calm the sea. One man was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Yacht
Coverack, Cornwall. — 14th August, 1939. A motor yacht was on fire amile E. by N. of Dollar Point, but when the life-boat arrived her crew of five had already taken to their boat and had been picked up by a fishing...
A Yacht (3)
Weymouth, Dorset.—12th September.
A yacht had gone aground, but her crew of three got ashore unaided.— Rewards, £8 15s..
A Yacht (2)
6th June.
A yacht was in distress, but was picked up by a R.A.F. tender.—Rewards, £7 2s. 6d..
A Small Yacht (1)
Hastings, Sussex.—16th July. A small yacht had stranded, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life - saving apparatus. — Rewards, £14 6s. Qd..