Courtown Sailing Club (CSC) member Paddy Mac Namara has raised €1,760 for the RNLI. Paddy let his hair grow for a year and then had it all shaved off – branding his event a Buzzcut for the Boats. The very generous donations came from members...
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At 11.30 A.M.
on the 12th December, the Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Rayford, of Glas- gow, which was lying at anchor in a dangerous position in Dunnet Bay.
Owing to...
At 7.40 P.M.
on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...
Royal wish fulfilled When Her Royal Highness Princess Anne named Southendon- Sea's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat last May, she confided in broadcaster Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee,... - View image in PDF
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Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...
A SEA captain's love for his dog was the cause of an interesting incident in connection with the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by the Clacton Life-boat on 23rd February last.
The schooner Renner stranded on the Buxey...
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At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .
Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...
ALONE FROM SALCOMBE TO SKYE Appledore, Devon.—At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles west-south-west of the Westward Ho look-out.] The motor life-boat...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 5.55 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a resident of Lancing had reported arubber dinghy in difficulties two to three miles to the west-south-west, and the life-boat...