LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, South Devon - At 2.30 p.m.on 18th October, 1969, information was received that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Babbacombe.

The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 2.50 in a fresh...

Appledore, North Devon. At 11.30 a.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the auxiliary yacht Sea Jack, which had a crew of three, had lost all her canvas and had engine trouble. She was being towed by another yacht...

First season success Glorious sunshine brought many to Croyde and Woolacombe beaches, North Devon, on 11 June 2006, but high surf and strong rip currents combined to make a busy day for RNLI lifeguards. They used their rescue watercraft to...

OCT. 24TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

SHIRE. At 3.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard station that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles S.W. of Lundy Island. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...

FEBRUARY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The S.S. Georges Mabro, of Alexandria, had been reported out of control to the south of Start Point, and the Salcombe motor life-boat put out at 1.40 P.M., but was signalled from...

JUNE 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At three o'clock in the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee set out on a publicity cruise. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing.

with a steep, choppy sea. The life-boat saw a motor...

"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...

Lifeboatmen pick a winner The 81st RNLI lifeboat lottery was drawn by lifeboat crew members on 30 April at the RNLI depot in Poole. The draw raised over €197,000 and first name out of the drum was Mr C Chestnutt from Worcestershire, who won...