LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Propeller fouled A SMALL YACHT reported to HM Coastguard by VHP radio on the evening of Saturday October 7, 1978, that a 28ft sloop on passage from Penarth to Porlock Weir was broken down and drifting in Porlock Bay; she required immediate...

Margate, Kent. At 12.44 early on the morning of the 23rd December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen in the Gore channel. This was confirmed later, and the position was given as four miles...

On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.

The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.32 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Denise Germaine, of Zee- brugge, had been wrecked on the Long Sandbank, west-by-north of the Barrow Deep lightvessel....

THREE SEARCHES FOR AN AEROPLANE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 8.12 in the evening of the 27th of June, 1947, the Tara coastguard reported that an Aerovan aeroplane on a flight to New- townards was believed to have crashed one mile east of Craig...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8,17 in the evening of Christmas Day, 1948, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Princess Margaret had reported to Portpatrick Radio that a vessel was aground on Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...

A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.

"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...