MAY 12TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A small yacht which had left the Cumberland coast for the Isle of Man was overdue, but got into Douglas without help. - Rewards, £9 1s..
JUNE 10TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 10.20 at night a telephone call was received from the owner of a sailing yacht, that the yacht, with his son, his sister and a man on board, was being driven out to sea by a strong...
Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
Lone yachtsman saved by men from Morecambe lifeboat station The Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum have been awarded to three men from Morecambe lifeboat station following the rescue of a yachtsman who was...
Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a yacht was dismasted and in difficulties off Avon- wen beach. The South Caernarvon- shire Yacht...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — 5th September. A small yacht with a crew of three had disappeared while going to Castletown, and no trace of her could be found. One body was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 10s. 6d..
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1952, the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported aground on the Dutchman Bank, and at 5.40 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—1st June, 1938.
The Porthoustock coastguard had reported that a small yacht, with three men on board, had been blown out to sea from the Helford River. A strong W. by N. gale was blowing, with a very...
Lifeboatmen swim through surf to rescue sailor Port Talbot - South West Division Two crew members of the Port Talbot lifeboat station have received letters of thanks from the chief of operations after an unusual rescue which led to a life...