Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …
'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....
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WOLVERHAMPTON has launched an appeal to provide an Atlantic 21 ILB complete with launching tractor, trailer, boathouse, slipway and all operational equipment at Abersoch, North Wales, where many Wolverhampton people, on holiday, take to the...
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Silver service at Cleethorpes and Numberhe knew he was in grave danger. It would take the combined skills and courage of Cleethorpes and Number lifeboat crews to rescue Dollard in an exceptional service, winning four medals It is a rare...
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TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 in the morning of the 17th of November, 1948, the pier head coastguard reported that the S.S. Nordic Queen was ap- proaching Southend and wanted to land ten survivors whom she had picked up from the Dutch...
Your itinerary Day 1 Harwich Take advantage of our special offer coach travel to ihe porl for just £ 10 per person. The ship sails at 6'pm.
Day 2 Cruising Day 3 Kirkwall, Orkneys £ Visit historic Scapa Flow or...
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JANUARY 26TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The steam trawler Merisia, of Fleetwood, while on her way to the northern fishing grounds, struck the rocks in Bulgham Bay, north of Laxey, in the Isle of Man.
The time was about...
Two capsizes A SMALL COBLE, John Dory, with four anglers on board was reported capsized close inshore off Cullercoats, l'/2 miles north of Tyne Piers, on Sunday morning February 22. The message came toTyne Coastguard from the coble...
Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
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Greater London.
THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...
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