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Lifeboat Services

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

August storms TWO DEEPENING DEPRESSIONS sweeping in from the Atlantic last summer within a few days of each other brought with them first, on August 9, severe gales with storm force gusts and then, on the night of August 13 and 14, storm...

Category: Services

Mona

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...

Freda

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...

Silver Minx

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 12th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 35-feet yacht was aground a mile off Dyffryn on St.

Patrick's Causeway. There was a north-...

Fortune II

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

YACHT RESCUED At 6.10 p.m. on i2th June, 1965, the motor yacht Fortune II was observed flying a distress signal. Her position was three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the harbour. There were light variable airs with a smooth sea and...

Eronwin

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

YACHT TOWED IN At 6.50 p.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the life-boat was requested to take over from the Trinity House vessel Ready the towing of the yacht Eronwin. The life-boat Kathleen...

Foam, of Dun Laoghaire

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...

Eloise

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...

Wallaroo

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

At 6.20 A.M.

on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.

She had...

Fastnet Family

Date: Autumn 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 589

A father and son team were racing their yacht to the Fastnet Rock in the early hours of 17 June when they were hit by a large wave.

Thrown into the water, the harnesses they were wearing allowed them to clamber back...

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