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Seasoned Lifesavers
Every summer, RNLI lifeguards patrol more than 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, keeping thousands of beachgoers safe. But how can we keep people safe as winter approaches?
A scheme being trialled on some of...
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North Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.53 on the evening of the 30th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed by the local Trinity House depot that a man had been taken ill in the Longstone lighthouse. As the sea was too rough...
A Sailing Dinghy
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — About 9.10 on the night of Sunday the 3rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy with a crew of two had apparently been caught in the tide race between Giltar Point and Caldy Island. Her sail...
Dorothy
LIFE-BOAT REFLOATS GROUNDED COBLE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.40 a.m. on Friday the 30th August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Dorothy was ashore at Danes Dyke and that another coble was going to...
St.Peter Port Lifeboatmen With Radiant Med Survivors
St Peter Port lifeboatmen with Radiant Med crew members rescued on January 24. Before the survivors left Guernsey the lifeboatmen took them on an island tour but a lifeboat alert towards the end of the afternoon meant a dash to St Peter Port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
DUTCH COASTER'S SEARCH ' Walmer, Kent. At 12.52 a.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vivat had reported seeing a small boat hi which several people were shouting for help...
Italiana, of Nuova Rosa,
MARYPORT.—On the 29th August the barque Italiana, of Nuova Rosa, got ashore on Seaton Point, near Workington, during a fresh breeze at N.W. A boat from the neighbouring coast put off to give assistance, but was capsized, and 3 men on board...
Garibaldi J.
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.15 a-m- on 15th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Kendall, towing the inshore fishing vessel Garibaldi J. from Rotterdam to Lowestoft, had run aground on the Newcombe...
Letters
One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.
of M. I am...
Category: Correspondence
A Dinghy
Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...