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Corrections The Spring 2007 centre-spread picture of the rescue team at Tenby included representatives of the local Police, Ambulance, Fire and Coastguard services, though these were omitted from the caption. Sincere apologies to all...
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Fishing Boats
OCTOBER 2 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before noon the sea became heavy, with an easterly wind blowing.
A number of fishing boats were making for harbour and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon...
A Seafire Aeroplane
OCTOBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVONSHIRE.
At 3.10 in the afternoon the wife of the life-boat coxswain saw a Seafire aeroplane crash into the sea five miles N.E. by N.
of Clovelly. A moderate N.E. breeze was...
Jacinth
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
At 9.35 at night the Dunbar coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat Jacinth was overdue. She was believed to be in difficulties east of North...
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JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s Day. A very strong south-easterly wind...
Tangled in Nets
On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.
New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...
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A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
A Rowing Punt
FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...
Beach volunteers save life
RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...
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New! Online Magazine
Lifeboat is especially for loyal, regular givers and members like you. But there is also a new online magazine for everyone interested in the RNLI – with content you can’t get in a quarterly print publication, such as videos and recent...
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