LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aslaug
YACHT TAKEN EM TOW IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.40 on the evening of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a quarter of a mile south-southeast of Clacton pier. The...
Fairwinds
YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.
The life...
Elizabeth Ann
LEAKING YACHT TOWED TO HARBOUR Cromer, Norfolk. At 7.35 on the morning of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht anchored between East Runton and Cromer was leaking badly and needed a tow to...
Buccaboo
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 in the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1951, the East Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that the crew of three of the motor yacht Buccaboo, one of them injured, had made fast to the light- vessel in the yacht's...
Osterling
YACHT REFLOATED IN NEAR GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel abreast of no. 8 buoy, and...
Dilkusha
Margate, Kent-At 8.58 p.m. on4th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted at Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 9.15 in a strong east north...
Golden Hope and Blue Peter
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...
Hazhad
HELP FROM MOTOR BOAT, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht off the Conway estuary was being kept under observation...
Caravel II
YACHT SEEN TO DISAPPEAR IN ROUGH SEA Exmouth, Devon. At 9.25 on the evening of the 16th August, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a sailing yacht had been seen to disappear between a half and...
Ocean Wave
DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two...