LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tula
Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...
Margara Della
MAN AND BABY TAKEN OFF YACHT Poole, Dorset. At 9.10 on the evening of the 29th September, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was missing inside the harbour with a man and a baby on board. The yacht had grounded at...
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...
Osiris
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the crew of two of the yacht Osiris, of Beaumaris, had made their yacht fast to the Morecambe Bay light- vessel because of the...
Goosander and Barbar
Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...
K.N.
YACHT AND THREE TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.18 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that the yacht K.N. was firing distress signals three quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate...
Meda II
PINNED TO PIER At 12.12 p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Meda II was on a lee shore in a moderate sea and gale force south-easterly wind. The yacht was pinned to the north pier and...
Wombat
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.25 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, the yacht Wombat, lying a mile and a half south south east of Portland breakwater light, reported to Niton radio that she was taking in water and had run out of fuel. There was a gale from...
Magpie
On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...