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Barbara
Soon after midnight, on the 10-11th March, signals of distress were observed from the schooner Barbara, of Wick, an- | chored in the roadstead. As the wind was blowing a hurricane from N.N.E.
and the vessel was dragging...
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
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Lifeboats on the streets Dublin suffered from some severe flooding on Friday, 1 March and the RNLI stepped in to help to evacuate people from their homes as the water steadily rose. A combination of heavy rain, high winds, the highest tide...
Speed, skill, survival
The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach
Mawgan Porth Beach...
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Laurita Once the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Priscilla Mcbean Built In 1921 and Still In Commission on Lake Windermere
Laurita, once the Kirkcudbright lifeboat Priscilla McBean, built in 1921 and still in commission on Lake Windermere. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classifieds
RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus / Saved by a motor lifeboat (1924)...
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Brett
Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...
Hartside and Kathleen
FLAMBOROUGH.—At noon on the 27th March a telephone message was received from Bridlington asking that the Life-boat might take provisions to the steamer Hartside, of Newcastle, which was lying off Sewerby. A gale of wind was blowing from the...
Margaret Wicks
BY BREECHES BUOY Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 3.17 a.m.
on 8th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Margaret Wicks,of Fleetwood, was ashore on the Mull of Oa. There was a fresh...
Books
Books First of the flood By Fred Normandale Published by Bottom End Publishing ISBN 0954368606 Price £11.75 paperback Now Lifeboat Operations Manager at Scarborough, Fred Normandale grew up as part of the fishing community in the...
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