Summer’s here, and our lifeguards are back on patrol. This year, they're on more than 180 beaches around the UK.
New beaches with RNLI lifeguard patrols this year include Cranfield, Murlough and Tyrella in Co Down;...
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Alderney's new Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker I pictured during her naming ceremony on September 181995- when even torrential rain could not dampen the spirits of everyone involved! Photo Brian Green. - View image in PDF
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On the morning of the 2nd November the coastguard tele- phoned that a seaplane was down on the sea, and apparently in difficulties, one mile east of North Foreland. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor...
The fleet approaching Plymouth, HMS Walkerton at its head: (left to right) Patron Emil Guyot (France), Arwed Emminghaus, Sigurd Golje, Monsun, City of Bristol and R. S. Platou.. - View image in PDF
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St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M.
on the 7th of February, and rendered assistance to the schooner John Lee, of and for Blakeney, from Shields, with a cargo of oilcake, which had...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.43 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the s.s. British Supremacy had wirelessed that she had taken in tow the ex-motor fishing vessel Will- roy, of Fleetwood, with...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWN-SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was ashore in front of the...
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.5 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was dragging her anchors across the bay towards Salt Island. A watch was kept on her, and at about 1.30 A.M. she was seen burning a flare. A...