Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 7th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that someone was critically ill on the island of Rhum. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out at 7.30 with a...
Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a fishing boat in difficulties four miles south-east o the life-boat station. Five minutes later the...
Wells, Norfolk. At approximately 4.20 p.m. on 13th June, 1965, the motor mechanic saw a man in the sea up to his waist, carrying a boy. The tide was flooding and the man was calling for help. At 4.20 the IRB launched in a slight westerly...
Perranporth beach, one of the seven beaches in the Carrick Beach Rescue area. - View image in PDF
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Inflatable are best played with on the beach, not in the water. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had gone ashore ten days before, one of the salvage vessels had also gone ashore, and the life-boat was asked to take the naval salvage officer from a tug to this vessel, but...
On October nth., 1941, the total number of lives rescued by life-boats since the beginning of the war was 4131. That is the exact number which they rescued in the whole of the last war, from 4th. August 1914 to nth. November 19i8. In no...
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On the 24th No- vember three fishing-boats were seen making for the harbour. The weather at the time was very stormy and a heavy sea was running on the Bar, through which it was feared they could not pass safely. The Albert Victor life-boat...
Again, on the 5th Nov., the schooner Mary Grace, of Whitstable, went on the South Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the S.W. and in a heavy sea. As the tide made, the sea broke over her, and she filled with water. The large Life- boat...
Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...