OTHER IRB LAUNCHES In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 197 .and 201 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and February, 1970,...
Category: Services
SHORELINE MAKES PERSONAL LOANS PLAIN SAILING.
SHORELINE MAKES MARINE LOANS PLAIN SAILING A new boat? a refit5 Or just a little help with annual expenses? Whatever your requirements, if you're an RNLI supporter you can...
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Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel
On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...
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— The schooner Sweet Some, of this port, sailed thence to Cardiff on the evening of the 15th August, but in beating out of the harbour she drove ashore at Moll Goggin's Corner.
The master and boy remained oa board to...
OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.
At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...
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MFV broken down HM COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station at 1706 on Sunday May 2, 1982, that MFV Mary had broken down and had asked for immediate help; she was about 15 miles east of the...
As the means provided in other countries for saving lives from shipwreck cannot fail to be interesting to a large number of our readers, we have much satisfaction in placing before them the following account of the Society which has under-...
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An Australian Lifeguard On Beach Patrol. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 8TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. A flashing light had been reported, but it was found to come from a dan (a buoy with a flag or a light attached), belonging to a trawler engaged in fishing.- Rewards, £13 2s. 6d.