Title
Braemar, Motor Yacht, Wrecked May 22 1967
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
On May 22nd 1967, the Guy and Clare Hunter was launched to go to the aid of the motor-yacht Braemar. The wind was WSW force 7, gusting to force 9 with a rough sea and bad visibility, when Coxswain Lethbridge set course to intercept the Braemar, some twenty eight miles from the Bishop.
By the time the lifeboat arrived on the scene, the Motor vessel, Trader, had already attempted a tow but abandoned the attempt, and eventually asked the St. Marys boat to pass a second line for them, but this too was abandoned.
The lifeboat then took the Braemar in tow and managed to shorten the distance to Newlyn before the leaking motor-yacht settled lower in the sea and took a dangerous list starboard.
Slipping the tow, the coxswain of the Guy and Clare Hunter placed the lifeboat alongside the sinking vessel and in a brilliant display of seamanship took off fifteen men and on woman, leaving the yacht's master and two crew still aboard.
The tow was then resumed in almost impossible conditions since the wind was now gusting force 10, but eventually both vessels reached Mounts Bay and the safety of Newlyn Harbour. For this gallant service, one silver and two bronze medals were awarded to members of the lifeboat's crew.
Description from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: Charles & David, 1971), p.20-205.
By the time the lifeboat arrived on the scene, the Motor vessel, Trader, had already attempted a tow but abandoned the attempt, and eventually asked the St. Marys boat to pass a second line for them, but this too was abandoned.
The lifeboat then took the Braemar in tow and managed to shorten the distance to Newlyn before the leaking motor-yacht settled lower in the sea and took a dangerous list starboard.
Slipping the tow, the coxswain of the Guy and Clare Hunter placed the lifeboat alongside the sinking vessel and in a brilliant display of seamanship took off fifteen men and on woman, leaving the yacht's master and two crew still aboard.
The tow was then resumed in almost impossible conditions since the wind was now gusting force 10, but eventually both vessels reached Mounts Bay and the safety of Newlyn Harbour. For this gallant service, one silver and two bronze medals were awarded to members of the lifeboat's crew.
Description from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: Charles & David, 1971), p.20-205.
Date
Unknown
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
COLLINS.222
Coverage
Newlyn
Bishops Rock, Isles of Scilly