LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Yachts
JUNE 19TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. Two small yachts had got into difficulties, but one was able to go on without help and the other was taken in tow by another yacht. - Rewards, £5 1S..
Fair Mistress
Selsey, Sussex - At 11.50 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, it was learnt that two of the crew of four of the yacht Fair Mistress were very ill and that assist-ance was required. The life-boat Charles Henry was launched at 12.20 a.m. on 7th July in a...
Wings of the Morning and Jonarra
Margate, Kent. At 5.19 on the after- noon of the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles east of Tongue Sand Fort. The life-boat North Fore- land (Civil...
Taki
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....
Oyster Catcher
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
Arosita
YACHT TOWED IN Dover, Kent.—At 2.49 in the afternoon of the 28th of September, 1947, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress signals one mile south of Folkestone. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was launched at...
Emery
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.29 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht was burning a red flare three miles to the east-south-east, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 5.40...
Dunlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.35 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Trinity House vessel Patricia, which had been sheltering in Lancresse Bay, asked for the help of the life-boat in towing the auxiliary yacht Dunlin, of...
Argo
On the evening of the 30th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was on, or just off, the West Rocks, apparently in difficulties. A strong E. by N. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The yacht seemed unable to get away from the rock...
Emmiman
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.
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