Why are more and more swimmers shunning heated, chlorinated indoor swimming pools in favour of rivers, lakes and the sea?
Outdoor swimming has enjoyed a resurgence recently, whether people are bathing in backwaters, bays,...
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1858. Skerries, Co. Dublin 1861. Aberystwith. . .
1857 Walmer 1857. Seaton Carew 1858. Fraserburgh . . .
1858. Carnsore, Co. Wexford 1859. Exmoath 1859. Lizard ....
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It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
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The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...
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MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
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Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.8 oil the morning of the 1st of March, 1953, the Spurn coastguard telephoned that the master of the Humber lightship had requested the help of the life-boat to land a sick man. The life-boat City of Bradford II was...
Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...
Like a giant sand castle, the picturesque granite island of St Michael's Mount rises 100m from the waters of Mount's Bay capped with a real 14th century castle.
The causeway, which is revealed at low tide, connects... - View image in PDF
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