Mark Blanchard looks back at the eventful 115-year life of the Cornish lugger Happy Return – virtually rebuilt twice, rescued from decommissioning and now saved for posterity Happy Return in her 12th decade, sailing off West Cornwall. Standing on Penzance…
While families were relaxing on Christmas Day 1956, the crew of the Exmouth lifeboat were facing a tragic ordeal. Mark Blanchard reports… The South Devon town of Exmouth, with its small commercial docks and fishing community, forms the gateway to…
Many of the classic wooden boats built by the Dixon’s yard in the 1960s and 1970s are still going strong – and still fishing. Mark Blanchard reports There aren’t many ports along the south coast between Salcombe and Newhaven, or…
Swanage Lifeboat Week got off to a flying start on Saturday, 20 August after the pandemic had put paid to it for the past two years – and one of the highlights is the Build a Boat competition, reports Mark…
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