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Beal Abha
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m.
on 18th December, 1969, a radio distress signal was picked up by the life-boat mechanic that the motor fishing vessel Beal Abha was in difficulties nine miles south east of Ballycotton...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 February 1994 show that during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,397 times (an average of 14 launches a day) 1,274 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 a day) Nearly 4% of all...
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Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by... - View image in PDF
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Luke John
Tyne class in five-hour search The Mumbles lifeboat crew, below, discuss operations with police divers during a service on 24 November 1991 to local charter fishing boat Luke John.
The casualty sunk at anchor within two...
Malcolm Macdonald
After spending his early working years at sea as a deck apprentice Malcolm Macdonald came home to Stornoway in 1967 when he was appointed mechanic of the lifeboat. In 1979 he took over as coxswain/mechanic, a post which had earlier been held... - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Conscious
CORRESPONDENT vouches for the truth of the following dialogue, which he overheard between two ladies looking at a life-boat poster in a London suburb.
" I do not see why this district should be interested in...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— 18th January. Red rockets had been reported, but nothing could be found.
It was learned later that a chimney had been on fire, and that burning soot carried seawards had given the...
A Washington Aircraft (3)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...