LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aeolian
StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...
Kalora
SKIN DIVERS PASS LINE TO YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been blown on to the Pole Sands and that she was inside the...
Star Song
RESCUE FROM YACHT AT THIRD ATTEMPT Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.27 on the morning of the 16th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in •difficulties two miles north-east-bynoith of Grimsby. The life...
Marika II
YACHT IGNORES FLARES AND SIGNALS Whitby, Yorkshire. About 11.20 on the night of Saturday the 17th of August.
1963, the coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht was standing into danger near Saltwick...
Juffertie
TOW FOR YACHT WITH INJURED MAN ABOARD St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.3 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1963, a message was received by radiotelephone from the yacht Juffertie that her master had cut his head and needed help. At 7.40 the...
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....
Cygnet
Poole, Dorset. At 5.45 p.m. on i7th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received that a yacht was aground on the Hook Sands. The life-boat Basset Green went out at 6.5 in a strong westnorth-...
Chianti
At 8 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, the yacht Chianti, with three people on board, was reported aground on the Newcombe sands. At 8.25 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick set out. It was low water, there was a light westerly breeze, and the sea...
Reedbird
At 3 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, news was received that the yacht Reedbird was in distress one mile west of the Bar lightvessel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at 3.8 and proceeded in a south south easterly...
Come Away
YACHT MISSING FOR THREE DAYS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 12.5 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to discuss the possibility of searching for the yacht...