Nov. 7TH. - WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 8.30 P.M. signals of distress were seen from a fishing skiff about two miles north-east of Wicklow Pier. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.45 P.M. the motor...
APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.
A northerly pale was blowing with a very...
JULY 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 1.55 in the afternoon a doctor at Unst asked that the life-boat might he sent to Baltasound to take a sick boy, who was in need of urgent medical attention, to Lerwick ; no other boat was...
RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches
2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...
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Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
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Brian O’Carroll and his sister Kate were sailing a dinghy off County Wicklow when they capsized. Here, in Brian's own words, is their story.
We were making good speed towards Mizen Head and had intended to round it and...
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Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
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1,330 lives saved in 1984 Lifeboats launched 3,613 times and saved 1,330 lives in 1984, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported at the Institution's Annual Meeting in London on May 21.
Over £20 million...
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Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, has been appointed an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Appledore Life-boat Station for 28 years; and has been presented with a...
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You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...
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