ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...
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AT 11.45 P.M. on the 14th January, 1938, the civic guard at Tramore, Co.
Waterford, reported that lights had been seen at sea, possibly from a ship in distress. The crew of the motor life-boat C. and S. was assembled, but a...
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The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.
The...
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Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.
Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...
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RescUe OUT In A FLASH When three children were suddenly torn out of their depth by a rip current at a Devon beach, they were in danger of being thrown onto rocks – or worse Rip currents are the main surf hazard for beach goers – they can...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...
Medical student and RNLI Crew Member Stuart Braithwaite took to the Alaska skies with the US Coast Guard last year – training and undertaking medical research
Stuart (31) is Second Mechanic at...
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