Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.
This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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Faltnouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the same night a vessel in Falmouth Harbour signalled for help by whistle and rocket, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out. A whole southerly gale was then blowing, with...
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THREE MATERNITY CASES Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—A severe blizzard on the 12th of March, 1947, isolated Campbeltown. On the morning of the 15th a woman with child in the Southend district needed a doctor, and at 10.50 that, morning the motor...
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
STUDENTS STRANDED STUDENTS stranded on Calf Island, four miles west south west of Port Erin, I.o.M., led to the Port Erin life-boat going to their assistance on 21st May.
The motor vessel, which took them to the island,...
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1949, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat, with two on board, was alongside the North Carr Lightvessel. She had sprung a leak. The...