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Skills for summer
RNLI lifeguards have had another busy Summer on the beaches. However, it’s not just on patrol that they prove their worth – as the Hit the surf and Beach to city programmes show.
Hit the surf teaches children aged 8–12 a...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARANMORE ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL.
—On the application of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment on Aran- more Island on the north-west coast of Ireland. The coast in...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1959
5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.
Feb.
1 Humber 1 Dungeness 1 Hastings 1 Newcastle, Co. Down 2 Poole 2 Arranmore 3 Margate 4 Moelfre 4 Stornoway 6 Barra Island 7 Yarmouth, I.o.W...
Category: Services
Two Dinghies (2)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
An Unknown Yacht and April Legend and On Y Va
Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...
Contents
Contents Volume XLV Number 461 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Editor: JOAN DAVIES Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, West Quay Road,...
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A Dinghy
Drifting dinghy ON THE EVENING of Monday June 29, 1981, John McAllister was working at Garron Point, east of Red Bay lifeboat station, when he saw people waving in a small dinghy off the point. He telephoned the station's deputy...
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
A Dinghy
Meanwhile, a report had reached Clyde Coastguard that another small boat, this time an open dinghy with three people on board, was being blown offshore from the mainland at Saltcoats while its occupants tried in vain to paddle ashore with...