LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.50 p.m.
on 9th August, 1966, during the localtown regatta, a strong south westerly wind developed which suddenly capsized many of the smaller craft which were near the starting line. This kept the...
Pastime
Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk carrier Sugar Producer was...
Moonbeam
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th September a party of three men and two women left Fleetwood in the motor yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine trouble developed, and the Moonbeam ran ashore on the North Lighthouse bank at the entrance to...
Spray
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.
6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...
Sunshine
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.45 P.M. on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a sailing yacht was anchored three miles south of the look-out in a dangerous position. A strong and increasing S.S....
Colin Archer
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht had broken adrift from her tow off Sandown and ap- peared to be in difficulties. The life- boat Jesse Lumb was...
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Nora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.
the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...
Ystwyth
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...
Mabruki
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.40 ill the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, Lloyd's Signal Station reported that a motor yacht was in distress and drag- ging her anchor one hundred yards off the station. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper...