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Dawn Wind

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two...

Lysistrata

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...

Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman of Aldeburgh for the service to the yacht Red House Lugger on 29 August 1996 - see ThtLfftbott Winter 1996/ 7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gweyneth

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

At 2.35 P.M. on the 19th May a telephone message was received stating a yacht was in distress on the Buxey Sands.

The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was promptly summoned, and the Life-boat, under motor power...

A BargeYacht

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Margate. Kent.—21st May, 1938. A barge-yacht had carried away her boom, but she went on her way to Whitstable without help.—Rewards, £9 18s..

Amy II (1)

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Ramsgate, Kent. •— At 6.40 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1950, the East Pier Watchman telephoned that the Dutch yacht Amy II, which had left Ramsgate an hour earlier, had burned flares and was apparently aground in Pegwell Bay. At 6...

Akeco

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

On the 27th of September, 1951, the Dover life-boat rescued one man from a Dutch yacht. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 283..

Jubilee

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

Early on the morning of the 6th June the small yacht Jubilee, of Fleetwood, with two men on board, sent up distress signals. She was in broken water about one and a half miles south of the life-boat station, and was dragging her anchor about...

Alouette de Mer

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the...

Cormorant

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...