Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Clogher Head
HOLLYWOOD COMES TO CLOGHER HEAD
Volunteers at Clogher Head Lifeboat Station were overwhelmed by local support for a fundraising event in aid of the station’s Shannon class lifeboat appeal....
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Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
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DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 144 station life-boats 102 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 89,437 from the Institution's foundation in...
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Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...
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At the annual presentation of awards last May Coxswain William Jones of Holyhead and Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth both received silver medals for gallantry and Second Coxswain Keith Bower a gold medal; all were for services...
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More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
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Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
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