LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.

(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).

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APPLEDORE, DEVON.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has re- cently sent a new Life-boat to Appledore, North Devon, to replace one which had been stationed there for many years. The new boat is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, and rows...

Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...

A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures

For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the "plan" or deck view. Fig. 3...

Not long after the lifeboat had returned, at 1815. a message came to Torbay station honorary secretary from Brixham Coastguard that something was amiss in mid channel. Coxswain Curnow and Motor Mechanic Stephen Bower were alerted and at 1914...

Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...