SWEDISH YACHT IN PERIL Hasting*, Sussex.—On the 22nd of October, 1947, the Swedish yacht Polstjarnan was alongside the pier with her engine broken down. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that she was bumping badly against the...
Hastings' 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Fairlight, with Coxswain Frederick White at the helm, tows the Dutch yacht Octopus towards Rye Harbour during a force 6 south-south-easterly gale and in rough seas on July 19, 1987. Rye Harbour's...
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—At 8.30 P.M., on the 13th August, the Albert Victor Lifeboat put off to the assistance of the yacht Puffin, of Berwick, which was brought up in a dangerous position off Spittal Beach. The owner and crew of the yacht having...
Graham Raines Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 on a service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988.
Crew Member Raines entered the water in conditions near the limit of operation for an Atlantic 21 to... - View image in PDF
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Falmouth, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 15th October, 1938, the St.
Anthony coastguard reported a motor yacht on fire about two miles south of Portscatho. The wind was light and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat B...
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.52 on the night of the 14th May, 1961, a report was received from the Golden Sands holiday camp that a yacht had capsized half-a-mile off shore in Kinmel Bay.
Three minutes later, when the life-boat...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.12 on the evening of the 17th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help off the west pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at low water in a light...
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 8.50 a.m.
on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Conway Bay. The lifeboat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was launched at...
St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.3 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, air traffic control informed the assistant honorary secretary that an aircraft had sighted a yacht which was firing red flares to the north of the island. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon...
At 3.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1967, information was received that the yacht Zerobe, with her sails gone, was in tow nine miles south east of Southwold. Thetow line had parted twice. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 4.40...