LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prelude
DOCTOR TAKEN TO OWNER OF YACHT Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yachtsman on board the yacht Prelude had reported by radio-telephone that the owner of the yacht had...
Nola and Gay Rig
LIFE-BOAT OUT TO THREE YACHTS IN ONE NIGHT Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.21 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a smail yacht with a split sail half a mile off Sandown needed help. At...
Cruiskeen Lawn
On the 8th April, during very stormy weather, with the wind at N.E.
and a very heavy sea running, signals of distress were shown from the yacht Oruiskeen Lawn, of Wexford, which vessel was stranded on the north end of the...
Lionesse
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had fired three flares two hundred yards south of the Owers lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
Raine II
SAILS LOST At 1.8 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a yacht, two and a half miles east of Ramsgate, had her sails carried away and was unable to make harbour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 1.15 in a gale force west south...
Squibbs
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - While the reserve life-boat H. F. Bailey was on passage from Arklow to Rosslare harbour on 3ist May, 1966, she came up with a small yacht which was becalmed with her engine broken down, south of Cahore Point....
Garavogue
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 3.36 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, a member of the National yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen distress flares between the west pier and Poolbeg, about two miles from the former. The...
Dorus Mhor
Ramsgate, Kent - At 10.5 a.m. on 28th May, 1967, it was learned that the yacht Dorus Mhor was in difficulties with a lost rudder one mile north west of the Sandettie lightvessel. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...
Snedronning
At 6.17 p.m. on 2oth June, 1967, it was learned that a yacht was firing red flares about one mile south of Ramsgate harbour.
The life-boat Edward and IsabellaIrwin, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded at 6.32 in a...
Swamped in rough seas
3 June: In high winds and rough seas, a dismasted yacht drifted towards the dangerous cliffs and tidal race of St Alban’s Head, Dorset. The yacht had been swamped and her cockpit filled with water. Swanage’s...
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