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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...

On 23 May 2001 the first RNLI inland waterway lifeboat station, on Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, opened for business.

Honorary secretary Sam McCreery and deputy launching authority Archie Birrell report on the events of...

Dover, Kent.—-On the night of the 17th August Ramsgate coastguard telephoned that South Goodwin lightvessel had reported SOS signals and flares about two and a half miles southeast of the light-vessel. The sea was smooth and the weather was...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.12 on the morning of the 27th of May, 1951, the yacht St. Heller, of Burnham, was seen a quarter of a mile off the pier, where she had been lying all night.

The coxswain went out to her and found...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 1.40 in the afternoon on the llth of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was showing distress signals one mile off South Pett. She was the Hilary, a converted life-boat, bound from Boulogne to...

New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 7.40 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in a dangerous place inside the revetment on the south side of the Queen's Channel near the Formby...

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about 6.30 P.M. on the 19th June, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through Cullercoats wireless station and Blyth coastguard that the s.s. London had in tow the brokendown motor yacht Irene...