Salcombe, Devon - At 5.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, it was reported that a woman had fallen from a cliff path at Moorsands near Prawle. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 6.12 with her boarding boat in tow. There was a...
(Left) To welcome home Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, after her capsize in 1983 and complete survey and overhaul which followed, piper Gordon McCormack, landlord of The Shipwright's Arms, boarded the station'... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
A woman and a boy were out in a motor boat when the engine failed and the boat went ashore off Moor Sands. The woman climbed up the cliffs and summoned help. The lifeboat went out, but the...
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
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IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.
These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.
Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...
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Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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