JANUARY Launches 51 Lives rescued 103 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...
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Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
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CRIES FOR HELP Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.21 p.m.
on iyth September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard in the water off the Prince of Wales pier. There was a gale from the...
NOVEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.40 in the afternoon the Bowmore Police reported that a rubber dinghy with men aboard had been seen eight miles south-west of Oversea Island off the west coast of Islay. A gale was blowing from...
(Below) When The Right Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Anthony Jolliffe, CBE was in Weymouth during the summer, he visited the lifeboat station and was shown all over the 54ft Arun Tony Vandervell. He is seen here II) in the engine room... - View image in PDF
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Few of Scarborough's summer visitors realise the extent of the lifeboat slipway, much of which is now buried by the rising level of the sand. Recent investigations showed it to be in remarkably good condition.
The... - View image in PDF
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In this issue News 2 Letters 9 Feature From saving goals to saving lives 10 A football tournament on Bournemouth beach in the summer kicked off a fun day of fundraising 14 Lifeboats in action Amazing rescues - including accounts of one...
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It was far from being a drag for Danny La Rue to open the summer fair organised by Bridlington ladies' lifeboat guild. He is seen here with Australian pianist Wayne King signing the guild's special table cloth which carries the... - View image in PDF
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The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd...
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Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...