LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christine
SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way...
Susmar
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...
Alycone
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.28 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that there was a small yacht astern of the Humber lightvessel which needed help.
There was a strong...
Venus
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill,...
Blinkbonny
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.7 p.m. on 5th November. 1966, it was reported that the yacht Blinkbonny was overdue on passage from Weymouth to Poole and had last been seen at 7.30 p.m. one mile and a half off Anvil Point. There was a strong north...
Penita
Two maydays FOLLOWING A MAYDAY from the yacht Penita received by Dover Coastguard on Friday August 29, 1980, Ramsgate lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Ralph and Joy Swann, launched at 2330 under the command of Second Coxswain Derek Pegden, the...
Sprite
APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
Dolphin
JULY 23RD. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
While on passage from the Clyde to Littlehampton, the yacht Dolphin was storm-bound off Penmon Point. She was storm-bound for two days and her crew of two were short of food and water. As...
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...
Ocean Spray (1)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...