TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...
Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was...
The Branch has received a donation of £10 10s. Od.
from Dr. J. Gerard-Pearse, owner of the yacht Hope, and the three men who were on board with him when the yacht was rescued by the Weymouth Motor Life-boat on the 8th...
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a sailing yacht approaching from the north. The River Girvan was very full of water, which was pouring through the harbour, and he thought...
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—On the morning of the 4th of July, 1949, the sailing yacht Vagrant, of Belfast, left Helvick for Bantry against a strong westerly wind, but returned to Dun- garvan Harbour about half-past six in the evening, and...
The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
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LLANDDULAS, NORTH WALES.—The Life-boat Mary Jane Gould was launched at 10.5 A.M. on the 10th January, it having been reported that a small yacht was in distress opposite Beach House.
There was a strong W. wind then blowing...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...
Weymouth, Dorset.—-At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 30th of November, 1951, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a fifteen ton auxiliary yacht was flashing SOS signals three miles west of Portland Bill. The sea was rough, with a fresh...
TOW FOR YACHT WITH THREE ABOARD Dungeness, Kent. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 16th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty off the power station. The life-boat Mabel...