LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maid Margaret and Maid Mary
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.
They...
Guisane
St. Helier, Jersey. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the assistant honorary secretary of a report received from St. Brelade's Bay that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties west of...
Vagrant
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...
Sea Time running out
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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Boathouses in fact and fiction:
Daphne du Maurier
• Her father bought a boathouse at Bodinnick, Cornwall, to convert intoa holiday cottage.
• She wrote sections of Frenchman’s Creek in a Coastguard hut above Lantic Bay.<...
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The Blue Rock
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...
Thurne
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...
Penguin
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...
Kiti
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...
Zingari
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.5 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a flare had been seen off Sully island. The lifeboat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 10.15 in a south westerly gale with a rough sea. The...