LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 17TH. - CROMARTY. A yacht had been seen showing red flares, but she was taken in tow by a fishing vessel.- Rewards, £6 5s. (See Burghead, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 78.).

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The...

Worthing, Sussex. At i.io p.m. on 2gth May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized three miles east of the station.

At 1.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong...

Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.45 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, red flares were observed in Seaford Bay. The Newhavea life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 1.57 a.m. She found a small yacht in difficulties with torn sails and outboard engine out of...

At 5.50 A.M., on the 12th April, a schooner -was seen through the haze stranded on the Gunfleefc Sands, and almost at the same time the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Light-house reporting a vessel ashore. The Life-boat...

Dover, Kent. — About 4.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1953, the harbour board gateman at the Eastern Docks reported that a small sailing yacht with a crew of four had capsized at the eastern end of the...

Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...