On 1 May, the people of Ireland got behind their volunteer lifeboat crews as part of the MAYDAY campaign, supported by food company John West. We asked the public to donate or hold a fundraising event – and the support blew us away. So much...
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Fire aboarcLSpanish cargo vesselLifeboats and their crews are often called on to work with the other emergency services and that includes the Fire Service when their work takes them beyond the range of their land-bound...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...
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As it is considered that the periodical exercise of the crews of life-boats is very essential, it is hoped that the several Local Committees in connexion with the National Shipwreck Institution, will pay particular attention to that part of...
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AN unusual rescue carried out in a small plywood dinghy led to the rescue from drowning of an angler near Dunbar on 15th April, 1968. At 3.30 in the after- noon of that day, Miss H. Bibby, a gardener on the Earl of Haddington's estate at...
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Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two miles north north...
Lifeboat Services (from page 165) Shetland Islands, that she was aground on Bressay Island in heavy seas and needed help. The Coastguard were already on the telephone to the honorary secretary of Lerwick lifeboat, who asked that maroons be...
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BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...
Disabled A FISHING VESSEL, Gardelwen, suffering engine and steering failure was reported to the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 0330 on Sunday October 31, 1982. She was 17'/2 miles bearing 265°M from Barmouth and...
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
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