LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
My Heart's Content
YACHT FOUND CLOSE INSHORE UNDER CLIFF Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1962, a yacht was seen close inshore under the cliffs between Hastings and Ecclesbourne Glen. There was a light eastsouth- east breeze and...
Pactolus
JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...
Mouette
Poole, Dorset.—At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of September, 1954, a message was received from the coastguard that shouts for help could be heard from a yacht in Poole harbour.
At 1.15 the life-boat...
Brief Encounter, of Southampton
Poole, Dorset.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1957, the South- bourne coastguard telephoned that a small yacht needed help as she was aground opposite the Sandbanks pavi- lion. The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright put out at 4.25 in...
Bellbo
R.A.F. DESERTERS RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.35 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard at Warden Point reported a small yacht, with her engine broken down, drifting near forts on the Shivering Sands, and the...
Tango
Great Yarmouth and Goriest on, Norfolk.
—At 12.39 in the afternoon, on the 28th of May, 1950, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Smith's Knoll Lightvessel had reported a yacht burning flares half a mile...
Ann Young
YACHT ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.3 on the evening of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile east of Quern buoy and was flying distress signals. There...
Robbe
NINE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, a man telephoned to say that cries for help could be heard off Bouldnor and that red flares could be seen. Thirteen minutes later the...
Chanticleer
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 8.12 p.m. on 9th September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Blackhead, Lizard.
The honorary secretary suggested that...
Taia and Standig
Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...