A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night
Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.55 on the night of the 27th of September, 1951, a wireless message was received through the harbour master, from the captain of the Norwegian motor vessel Skagerak that he needed a doctor for a very sick man. As...
The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbruchiger—the German Life-boat Society—have sent the R.N.L.I. a donation of £147—half the proceeds from a concert they staged at which there was a brave showing of R.N.L.I. flags..
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The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.10 on the night of the 26th of July, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling for help with a torch one mile to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was...
THE summer months are practically the high season of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and throughout the country, north, south, east and west, the various Local and District Committees, including the Ladies' Auxiliaries—without whose...
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Flash rips sweep South West RNLI lifeguards had their busiest week of the year in early August 2005.
In just three days, they dealt with a staggering 368 incidents involving rip currents The peak of activity came on 8...
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