LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marie Galante
At noon on 2yth July, 1966, a Belgian yacht was reported aground and capsizedcapsized on the Longsand Head. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 12.20 in a strong north-north-easterly wind and a very rough sea. It was four hours...
Svea
Exhausted crew saved at Aldeburgh After 25 hours at sea, the crew of two on the yacht Svea were in real trouble in rough seas near Aldeburgh. The yacht's sails had blown out and the radio was not working. When the Aldeburgh Mersey class...
Zeearend, Valeria and Ellora
AUGUST 12TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.5 in the morning a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a yacht was drifting dangerously near the rocks on the southern shore. A south-westerly gale was blowing and...
Barnklet
Dover, Kent.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1954, a message was received from Lloyd's Signal Station that a dismasted yacht had been seen south of the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 2.15 the life-boat Southern Africa put...
Canores
Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...
J.B.W.
Barrow, Lancashire - At 2.45 a.m.
on 28th September, 1966, news was received that an air search had been in operation since the previous day for the yacht J.B.W., which was overdue at Glasson dock on passage from the Isle...
Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...
Pauline
Howth, Co. Dublin.—Two yachts were overdue from a local yacht race on the 17th of June, 1951. A message was received that one of them had been in trouble and was being towed by the other, so the life-boat decided to put out. At 4.30 that...
Sea Knight
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.40 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a wireless message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sigurdrinde that a yacht had been taken in tow...
Black Adder
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...