LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceta
Dover, Kent.—At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 21st of October, 1951, the Eastern Arm Signal Station telephoned that a yacht was dragging her anchor in the harbour and driving ashore, and at 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings...
Molin
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.25 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Molin, anchored in St. Ives Bay, was making distress signals. At 5.50 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
Swordfish
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S.
Rota had signalled by morse lamp that a small yacht off Bull Sands needed...
Volga
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the morning of the 14th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Volga was making water seven miles west-by-north of Porth- dinllaen Point....
Bullfrog
The following account of a service by the Lizard, Cornwall, life-boat on the 30th June, 1961, was received too late for inclusion in the September number of the Life-boat: At 11.23 in the morning the coast- guard informed the honorary...
Periwinkle
Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was being heavily pounded by a rough sea while at anchor off Hardfast Point. Because of the state of the weather...
Gannet
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 3.21 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1966, news was received that a yacht, whose engine had failed, was being driven on to the rocks at Puffin island. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched...
Jorjika
At 6.37 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties off Holland-on-Sea beach. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 7 o'clock in a gentle south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The IRB was also...
Herga
OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying distress signals. A moderate easterly gale was blowing, and the sea was very rough...
Lalage
Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...