LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Members of East Devon Artists for Charity exhibited their work at Brancombe and Seaton in 1999 to raise money for the lifeboats.
The exhibitions, which involved considerable work in setting up and manning, raised the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Minesweeper No. 382
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. The Norwegian minesweeper No. 382 had been reported blown up by a mine fifteen miles off Berry Head, but no survivors were found. The Salcombe life-boat put out at midnight on the 7th May and was the...
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild and New Branches of the Institution
ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...
Category: Branches
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Date of Wreck.
1861.
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Category: Services
John
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 7.45 P.M. on the 2nd March, and rescued the crew of three men from the ketch John, of and for Bideford, from Lydney with coal, which was totally wrecked near the bar buoy...
Monte Gurugu (2)
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
An Oil Tanker (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
An Oil Tanker (2)
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
Services of the Life-Boats During the Storms of November and December, 1867
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
Category: Services
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services