Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.56 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the police that a yacht had capsized three quarters of a mile off Lee-over-Sand at St....
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 7.29 p.m. on 5th September, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was told by the police that a yacht had capsized in the Conway estuary. At 7.40 the IRB launched in a moderate to fresh north-westerly breeze and...
FRENCH YACHT'S DIFFICULTY At 4.40 p.m. on the same day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dismasted about i\ miles west of the Needles. There was a rough sea with a near gale from the southwest; the weather was...
AUGUST 31ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, AND HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. A yacht had sunk after being in collision, but her crew were saved by another yacht. - Rewards : Dun Laoghaire, £5 3s. ; Howth, £8 5s. 6d..
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.0 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, preparations were almost complete for the new life-boat's naming ceremony when severalcalls were received of a boat in distress in Scotsmans bay. At 4.20 p.m. the lifeboat...
AUGUST 27TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
The coastguard had asked for the life-boat to escort a yacht, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16..
Surrounded by fellow members, Tom Pearson, Commodore o/Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club, hands a cheque to Colin Nibbs, chairman of Leamington Spa branch, on his left. Miss Julia Johnstone, branch honorary secretary, holds a specially inscribed... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 11TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A yacht had been reported capsized, several miles north-east of Great Orme’s Head, but nothing was found.
It seemed probable that this was the boat which capsized...
Three nations THE SOVIET TRAWLER Topaz making for a position off Bournemouth with a French yacht, Campscharles, in tow was reported to HM Coastguard Solent RHQ by Lands End RHQ at 0910 on Thursday,October 14,1976. Two survivors aboard the...
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...