LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Sailing Yacht Eladnid
Fast on West Barrow A RED FLARE was sighted in the vicinity of South West Swin Buoy by MV Hounslow at 0110 on Saturday, August 16, 1975.
Two minutes later a second flare was seen and reported to Warden Point Coastguard via...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
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A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...
The Bermuda Rigged Yacht Keg
When on 20th June the Bermuda rigged yacht Keg with one man aboard ran aground about half a mile south west of the NE Victory wreck on the Goodwin Sands, the Walmer, Kent, lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32}—she is a42-foot beach...
The Sailing and Motor Yacht Eleanor
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 8th April, 1938, the coastguard reported a small yacht in difficulties.
A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 4.55 A.M....
A Yacht and a Small Motor Launch
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — 10th September, 1939. Information had been received that a yacht was in difficulties on the North Bank and a small motor launch aground. Both vessels were on a lee shore, with a strong...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
DURING the past year mounted charts showing the life-boat stations round the British Isles, with the signals to be used by vessels in distress, were sent to nearly ninety yacht clubs. It is proposed to continue the distribution of these...
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Runswick Bay Yacht Club Safety Boat
Search in surf A REPORT that Runswick Bay Yacht Club safety boat had capsized on the east side of the bay came to Staithes and Runswick lifeboat station from HM Coastguard at 1444 on Sunday June 21.
Although it was a fine...
A Yacht and a Dinghy
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...