At 7. p.m. on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported aground to the west of the pier. There was a light north easterly wind with a slight sea and thick fog. It was one hour after low water. The no. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized near Monkstone Point. At 3.50 the life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate...
Dover, Kent - At 7.10 p.m. on 5th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties and drifting towards the Goodwin sands. At 7.22 the life-boat Faithful Forester was launched. It was three hours...
23 October: Ilfracombe After spotting a yacht anchored near Ilfracombe Pier with waves breaking over her, Coxswain Andrew Bengey contacted the Coastguard. His crew mates launched shortly afterwards in force 7...
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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...
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...
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...
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....
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.44 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, after the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 had been launched to the tanker San Cirilo, the coast- guard reported that a yacht was ashore on Red Sands. The...
Soulhend-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 2.35 P.M. on the 21st June, 1939, a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had capsized....