LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Travaylor
TORBAY, PLYMOUTH, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON.—The s.s. Trevaylor, of St. Ives, lost her propeller when off the Eddy- stone on 6th January, in a whole S.S.W.
gale, with a very heavy sea. She sent out an urgent call for help. It was...
Kenilworth Castle
Appledore, Devon.—During the evening of the 16th March Croyde coastguard reported that a vessel between Morte Point and Lundy Island was burning flares. A moderate and increasing south breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The vessel was...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 6 P.M. on the 19th September the Berry Headcoastguard reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head on to a ledge close to the water. He had been helping three others, who had got into difficulties when...
Yacht Raider
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.15 on the night of the 14th of June, 1952, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen between four and five miles east of Berry Head, and at 11.40 the life-boat George Shee left her moorings. The...
Zephyr
Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been...
Drakedene
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the King's Harbour Master reported that the motor vessel Drakedene, of Cardiff, with a crew of nine, had dragged her anchors and was on the rocks near Jennycliff. At...
Little Zahry
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of September, 1955, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a yacht was becalmed and flash- ing a light half a mile south-west of Prawle Point. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat C.D.E.C.,...
Colston
Dfracombe, Devon. At 5.50 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the m.v. Colston was seriously ill and needed hospital treatment, and asked if the life-boat...
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Plymouth, Devon. At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that some swimmers were in difficulties near the Mewstone islet on the eastern side of the entrance to the harbour. The...
Nimrod
Plymouth, Devon. At 1.53 early on the morning of the 5th December. 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a ship had drifted danger- ously close to the rocks near the Mount Batten look-out. The assembly signal was made...