LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...

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 ...

Yarmouth Life-Boat Towing A Yacht. - View image in PDF

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1953, H.M. Customs telephoned to say that a boat was ashore near St. Anthony Lighthouse. The life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea at nine...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953,the Pendeen lighthouse-keeper rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that he had seen a yacht in distress off the Three Stone Oars Rocks, and at 5.30 the life-boat...

Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.

on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...

At 5.30 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian yacht Nan Shan had been taken in tow by the coaster Windsor Queen. The yacht's crew of three were on board the coaster and she requested...

A Dutch yacht, Carolina, with three people on board, ran aground on the western end of Bramble Bank in a strong south-westerly breeze on Monday, July 19. Calshot's40' Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,... - View image in PDF