LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Crewman steers yacht to place of safetyThere is no such thing as a routine job for lifeboat crews. When the Campbeltown lifeboat was called out on 1 October 2000, it was simply to escort a troubled yacht to the safety of Carnpbeltown Loch....
Raider
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...
Moana
Plymouth, South Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of June, 1956, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out from her ] moorings on an exercise in a smooth sea. A fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and...
Sharon (1)
Minehead, Somerset, and Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly-At 12.50 a.m. on 24th September, 1967, it was learnt that a youth had taken out a yacht which was now drifting out to sea. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 1.12 in a light variable...
Oriole
WATERLOGGED YACHT BEACHED ON MUD FLAT Selsey, Sussex. At 5.17 on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, a local fisherman, who was preparing to go to sea, saw red flares being fired from a ketchrigged boat about a mile north-east of the...
El Stente
YACHT ON ROCKS Selsey, Sussex. At 3.22 p.m. on 8th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht was on Bognor Rocks and that further information would be coming from the Bognor Yacht Club. The lifeboat crew were assembled. At 3.35 the...
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
Dodo V
Girvan, Ayrshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down because of a defect in her steering six miles north of Corsewall Point. A num- ber...
Drofli
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning- of the 1 st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet Sands to the east-south-east of the coastguard station. At 11.25 the life-boat...
Narwhal
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 3.57 P.M.
on the 29th June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht about two miles S.E. of East Pier was in difficulties.
She was apparently trying to make Blyth, but...