LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
Antira
ANSWERING FLASH At 7 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small yacht had capsized off the mouth of the river Dart in a moderate to rough sea with strong to near gale force southsouth- westerly winds. At 7.15...
Maudalric
On the 30th July the motor yacht Maudalric, of London, with seven people on board, had engine trouble when she was about a mile S.W.
of St. Aldhelm's Head. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a...
Scylla
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 8.23 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Scylla had been in collision with a French trawler. The yacht was moored alongside the Ship- wash...
Freya
YACHT FOUND WITH HEAVY LIST Margate, Kent. At 5.48 on the evening of Wednesday the 4th September, 1963, the coastguard passed an anticipatory message to the coxswain stating a sailing yacht was nearing the northwest Margate Sands, about...
Caprice II
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 6.10 on the morning of the llth of Septem- ber, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coast- guard reported that a yacht, ashore between the Brighton piers, had asked for the life-boat. Five minutes later the life-boat Rosa...
Constanze
Six saved from sinking German yachtA service by the Dover lifeboat, the Thames class Rotary Service, on 25 August 1992 has earned her coxswain, Anthony Hawkins, and his crew a letter of appreciation from Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI'...
Some of the 31 Yachts Including Seven French Boats Which Took Part In An Old Gaffers Rally In Guernsey Last August Racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I to R)
Some of the 31 yachts, including seven French boats, which took part in an Old Gaffers rally in Guernsey last August, racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I. to r.) Little Apple, Undine, Skipjack, the winner on handicap, Providence and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Framed Letter for Coxswain and Crew
A FRAMED letter of commendation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., has been sent to Coxswain David Cox and the crew of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat for the rescue of a man and a dog from...
Category: Services
Agm from Page 87
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings