Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
On the evening of 1 April, Skerries lifeboat crew members were requested to search for two missing fishermen from the Co Dublin town
Along with RNLI lifeboat crews from Clogher Head and Howth,...
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Naming and Dedication AT ST MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY, SHOREHAM HARBOUR AND FISHGUARD St Mary's, Isles of Scilly THE ISLES OF scii.i.v's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, donated by Mrs Esme Edgar and her son, Mr Anthony Edgar, was...
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• No one could be better fitted to write Mayday! Mayday!: A History of the Guernsey Lifeboat Station than Jurat Guy Blampied, QBE, who, an RNAS seaplane pilot himself in the first world war and an RAF officer in the second, has been an...
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British Petroleum and Bristow Helicopters are combining to provide an airborne search and rescue service based on BP Forties Field but available to other oil companies with North Sea operations and indeed to any ship in distress within 100... - View image in PDF
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John Neville Taylor The £1.3M Trent class lifeboat was named on Monday, 2 June 2003 in Poole.
The cost of the lifeboat was met by a substantial bequest from the estate of Mr John Taylor and other legacies. Mr Taylor... - View image in PDF
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Don't guess - Marinecall It's often said that the British are fixated with the weather and sailors are positively obsessed with it - and rightly so.
make it easier to get that all-important weather forecast, RNLI...
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Helmsman Alan Venner (right) and crew member Paul Brierley row in a disabled yacht.. - View image in PDF
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in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
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