(left) The MTU would not fit on the ferry to Arranmore and training had to be carried out on the lifeboat. Nora Flanagan is seen getting to grips with the electronics.. - View image in PDF
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MFV aground A RED FLARE fired over Barmouth Bar was seen by the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 2140 on Wednesday November 22, 1978. Just after he had alerted Coxswain Evan Jones, the honorary secretary heard by telephone...
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
When our brave volunteer crews answer the call for help, they don’t know what they’ll be facing. Huge waves, storms, darkness ... They need to be prepared for anything.
Having the right kit can be the difference between...
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French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
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Mrs. Dorothy M'Gonigle, of Stockton, who has given years of voluntary service to the R.N.LI, as a fund raiser.. - View image in PDF
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The same life-boat also brought the captain ashore from the schooner Elizabeth, of Louth, which had stranded on the main below Gibraltar Point. He then proceeded to Boston to get the assistance of a steamer and lighter to get his vessel...
AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...
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