SEPTEMBER 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
A north-north-west wind of hurricane force was blowing and the sea was very rough. It was thought advisable for the life-boat to put out, as many yachts, with their crews on board, were at...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 7.55 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a yacht had capsized one mile north of Penmaen Head. The life-boat Lilly Wainwright was launched at 8.20 and on her way to the reported...
Yarmouth's Arun class Joy and John Wade is dwarfed by the Royal Yacht as the lifeboat escorts Britannia through Her Majesty The Queen Mother's review of yachts in the Solent.. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 19TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. Two small yachts had got into difficulties, but one was able to go on without help and the other was taken in tow by another yacht. - Rewards, £5 1S..
The yacht Poppy ashore at Barmston, nr, Bridlington, on 26th May, 1969. The Bridlington IRB is in the foreground.. - View image in PDF
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Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Crew (In Oilskins) With Men From The Yacht Kechedro. - View image in PDF
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Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on Sunday the 16th of July, 1950, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard about several yachts racing in the bay. As the weather was bad and the probability of some of them...
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.15 p.m. on gth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small yacht was hi difficulties in the Rock Channel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded at 5.20 in a near gale from...
This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles (see page 499). - View image in PDF
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D class inflatable saves two from lee shore in near gale Helmsman Alan Attrill of Bembridge inshore lifeboat has been accorded the RNLFs Thanks on Vellum following the rescue last August of three people from a yacht aground on Bembridge...