LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duchess
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- tay sandbank on the south side of the entrance to the Tay. As no other boat was...
Aline II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.43 on the night of the 10th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht without lights was drifting on the strong ebb tide. There was a strong south-south- easterly...
Fylanna
Weymouth, Dorset. At 9.16 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a single red flare had been seen three to four miles from Portland Bill. A yacht had been reported in the area a short time...
Tessa
NOT MANAGEABLE Later the same day, a number of the life-boat crew heard a radio message broadcast from the North Foreland transmitting station stating that the motor yacht Tessa was in difficulties two miles east-south-east of the East...
Midnight
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the Wyke coastguard telephoned that a yacht was out of control twenty-five miles south-west of Portland Bill and needed help. At seven o'clock the life-boat William and...
Ocean Breaker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...
Coronet
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.26 on the morning of the 5th of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground one mile south of Red Sand Fort and was pounding heavily. At 10.55 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No....
Solar Gipsy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned to say a yacht was being towed by the S.S. Cora fifteen miles south-west of Portland Bill and to ask if the life-boat would take over...
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
Solveig
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.
Eight minutes later the life...