LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Torbay, Devon. At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Levermead beach and that a man could be seen in the...
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months December 1970, January and February, 1971
Aith, Shetland Appledore, North Devon Ballycotton, Co. Cork Bar-mouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Calshot,...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat with five people on board had broken down, and that the people on board were waving their arms. The life-boat...
Kalora
SKIN DIVERS PASS LINE TO YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been blown on to the Pole Sands and that she was inside the...
Miss Lucy
ESCORT FOR TWO Torbay, Devon. At about 10 p.m. on ist April, 1964, a shipping agent at Exmouth informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel The Duchess had found a catamaran with four people on board 15 miles south-east of Berry...
Manana
Torbay, Devon - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about six miles south-southwest of Berry Head and picket boats had been sent out to investigate from the Royal...
Offshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aith, Shetland December 10.
Amble, Northumberland December 9, 19 and January 28.
Anstruther, Fife December 13.
Arbroath, Angus December 22.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow December...
Category: Services
A R.A.F. Aeroplane
OCT. 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and Bideford. A N.E. wind...
Two Vessels
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
Adur II, of Liverpool
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...