LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat (2)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
A Sailing Dinghy
On the evening of the llth September a message was received from a Teignmouth resident, through the coastguard, that a girl had left Teignmouth for Exmouth in a 12-feet sailing dinghy, and as a strong wind was blowing, with a choppy and...
The Sailing Barge Colonia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.1 on the night of the 29th of October, 1956.
the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the area of Shellness.
At 11.35 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The Sailing Boat Mudlark
Dunbar, East Lothian. At two o'clock on the morning of the 9th of Nov- ember, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Edinburgh had reported the sailing boat Mudlark, with three young men on board, missing...
A Sailing Boat (3)
MAY 30TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND WORTHING, SUSSEX. During the afternoon a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At...
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...
A Sailing Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...
A Sailing Boat
At 10.20 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing boat was seen being carried to seaward by the wind and tide. At 10.40 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour and a half after...
A Sailing Dinghy
CLUNG TO DINGHY Tynemouth, Northumberland. On 5th July, 1964, the life-boat Tynesider was returning from a trip with members of the ladies' life-boat guild aboard when, just off the Northern pier, a capsized sailing dinghy was seen with...
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...