LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...

Ax 9.14 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Torbay, Devon, life-boat station, Mr. F. W. H. Park, was informed by the coastguard at Berry Head that the Dutch tug Cycloop, which was shelter- ing in Torbay...

Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1990 Miss Betty Dennis, committee member of Barnstaple branch from 1960 to 1972, when she was elected president until her death. Mrs Dennis was awarded a silver badge in...

where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.

Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...

NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...

THURSDAY, 4th Oct. 1883.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.Pi, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...

North West passage Captain Patrick Roberts undertook a sponsored windsurf from Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to Ramsey on the Isle of Man.

The sail started at 1pm in light winds and sunshine, but the wind soon died...

From ist April to 30th June, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 76 times. On nine occasions—described in chronological order below—they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Walmer, Kent. At 4.14...