LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Reserve life-boat O.N. 873 on trials.
At 12.45 P-m- °n i?th July, 1964, while the reserve life-boat George Elmy was undergoing trials on the river Thames she heard from the river boat Tamar Belle that a sailing dinghy...
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
The Sailing Boat Dolores
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 1.42 on theafternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Colebrook had the sailing boat Dolores in tow and her master had asked to be relieved of the tow off Ramsey...
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.
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The Sailing Boat Delphus
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 28th of June, 1950, the harbour master called the mechanic ashore from the life- boat Dun- leary II, and told him that a sailing boat had capsized. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
A Small Sailing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th of November, 1952, the parents of two men who had left on a fishing trip in a small sailing boat that morning reported that their sons had not re- turned. At...
The Sailing Boat Gladys
Moelfre, Angelsey. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a sailing boat had overturned in Red Wharf Bay. At 2.30 the life- boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea....
Two Sailing Boats
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Mumbles told the honorary secretary that two sailing boats had capsized between Ferryside and Llanstephan. At 2.40 the life- boat Caroline...
Six Sailing Dinghies
LIFE-BOAT'S FORTUNATE SOCIAL APPEARANCE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was attending the Clacton-on-Sea sailing club regatta on Sunday the 25th August, 1963. She left the slipway at 11.50 a.m. and lay off the...
A Sailing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.46 on the evening of the 8th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small sailing boat had capsized a mile off Lancing, and that four people had been in the water for about twenty...