LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...

JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...

Ian Gillies, a twelve*-year-pld boy from Gourock, has been awarded an inscribe wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry. He has also received a franm letter of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain 'th...

177,238 269 31,696 9,716 41,106 12,253 1,913 2.895 58,167 2,832 55~335 4,180 12,580 995 452 2,832 21,039 18,763 27,073 26 45,862 42,263 10,376 44,092 851 798 56,117 22,177 4,315 267 26.759 10,656 806 102,807 8,338 4,771 7,188 1,840 136,406...

3 April: A father and son were bringing their yacht from Troon to Whitehaven when they ran out of fuel in a force 9, 12 miles from their destination. Workington’s Tyne class lifeboat launched at 4.45pm and headed...

Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.

1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...

THE first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race in aid of the R.N.L.I, started at 11.00 hours on 2nd September, six cables north of the entrance to Granton harbour on the Firth of Forth. The race was the first international...

5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.

Feb.

1 Humber 1 Dungeness 1 Hastings 1 Newcastle, Co. Down 2 Poole 2 Arranmore 3 Margate 4 Moelfre 4 Stornoway 6 Barra Island 7 Yarmouth, I.o.W...