Teignmouth is one of several stations re-opened over the last decade to meet the demand for greater lifeboat cover. The station was closed in 1940 and when it was reopened in 1990 the old boathouse was rebuilt and renovated.. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A local fisherman’s boat had got adrift and as the weather was too bad for another fishing boat to go out, the life-boat was lent to the men to recover the boat. - No rewards..
The crew of Peterhead’s Tamar class lifeboat.
The Misses Robertson of Kintail, are pictured recovering a woman from the water into the Tamar’s inflatable daughter boat on 20 August.
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On the 2nd December, 1939, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steam trawler Resolvo, of Grimsby, on Admiralty Service.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded a second clasp to his...
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A LIFE-BOAT service much on the same lines as our own is now being established in this wonderful country under the patronage of one of the Royal Princes.
For this purpose information has been sought from and gladly...
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Lifeboats and wrecks of Cornwall Spend a long and relaxing weekend in Cornwall, learning about wrecks and lifeboats.
Based at St. Ives. two weekends will be held in February and March 1979.
concentrating...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—5th March. A trawler had broken away from her tow, but she had no crew on board, and went ashore.—Rewards, £29 10s. 6d..
Dover, and Hythe, Kent.—18th May, 1938. A cutter yacht had got intodifficulties, but she reached Dover unaided.—Rewards: Dover, Partly permanent paid crew, £5 12s. Gd; Hythe, £18 Os. 6d..