LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Polish Yacht Jan-z-Kolna
POLISH YACHT AGROUND Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At one minute past nine on the morning of Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message that a large yacht had gone aground in the vicinity of Barrow No. 6 buoy and...
Yachts
ILBs SAVE 26 ON 7th August, 1971, when a local yacht club was holding a regatta, comprising 126 yachts, the wind was south south west force 4 to 5.
Then, at 12.35 p.m., the whole area was suddenly hit by a heavy squall and...
A Small Motor Yacht Heather Bell
During the afternoon of the 15th May the small motor yacht Heather Bell, of Blyth, put to sea from Berwick.
The easterly wind was light, but a heavy swell was breaking on the bar.
Some time later she was...
A Yacht, Rubber Dinghy and a Tug
CRIES FOR HELP Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.21 p.m.
on iyth September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard in the water off the Prince of Wales pier. There was a gale from the...
Yachts
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.7 p.m. on 4th August, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Aberdovey IRB had launched and that the Aberystwyth IRB was about to launch to search for several yachts which were missing and...
Rescue from a Yacht. Letters of Gratitude
Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
Category: Services
When the Yacht Melfort Went Aground
When the acht Melfort went aground in Derby Haven, Isle of Man. on May 17. 1981.
coastguards successfully took off one man bv breeches buoy while two crew members from Port St Mary's Arun stood by the lifeboat's Y... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Triple-Screw Motor Yacht Shirley Bourne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light...
A Sailboard, PowerBoats and a Yacht
Anticipatory launch ends in eight calls on two lifeboats Eastbourne South East Division Both of Eastbourne's lifeboats were launched in anticipation of problems on 17 July 1988, when freshening conditions on the day of the London to...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
The Institution will be glad to supply free to any yacht club a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. The chart is varnish- ed arid can be sent mounted on cardboard and holed and...
Category: Articles