LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Orenda
Salcombe, Devon.—At 1.50 early on the morning of the 27th of October, 1956, the Hope Cove coastguard tele- phoned that the yacht Orenda, which was between one and two miles west of Prawle Point, had signalled that two men on board were...
Drake Dene
Clovelly, Devon. At 10.40 on the morning of the 5th of January, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that there was a small vessel in the bay flying a signal asking for medical help. As it was low water and no other vessel was...
Hanseat
GERMAN BOAT'S APPEAL Torbay, Devon. At 2 a.m. on 3rd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a radio message received at Niton radio station from the German coastal vessel Hanseat stated that one of the Hanseat's...
A Motor Boat
Appledore, Devon. At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the second coxswain that two boys were on a sandbank on the river Taw after being cut off by the tide. The life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings...
Joan Mary at Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe has received a new Atlantic 75 provided for by the legacy of the late Miss Evelyn Selina Wallace, of Newton Abbot, Devon. Miss Wallace funded the new lifeboat and provided a substantial amount towards the cost of the new station.... - View image in PDF
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S.S. James Otis, of San Francisco
FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea...
A Dinghy
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point, throwing her crew of two into the water. A light south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
The Deep Sea Tug Empire Harry, of Hull
JUNE 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At one in the morning a request came for the life-boat crew to stand by, as the deep sea tug Empire Harry, of Hull, with two laden lighters in tow, had gone ashore. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a...
Houtman
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 5.10 A.M. A...
St. Helens
JAN. 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the morning the auxiliary ketch St. Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour in a severe N.W. gale, and drove ashore on the beach near the life-boat station. A motor trawler got...