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The RNLI's Open Days on 23 and 24 July were more popular than in any previous year, with more visitors, more displays and more things to see than ever before. With free access to two separate sites accurate estimates of the numbers...
Category: Articles
August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
Your Letters
Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...
Category: Correspondence
A Swim Too Far
A sWim too fAR During the aftermath of Hurricane Gordon, when Ireland was buffeted by extraordinary gales, one woman found herself in grave danger The call came on 21 September 2006. As she cleared the shelter of the harbour and entered...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 749 times, saving 305 lives.
In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three people...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1985 lifeboats launched 3,003 times, saving 1,351 lives.
In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,631 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,336 lives (an average of...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services...
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Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21 (1)
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
St. Ambrose
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 7.20 in the morning of the 21st of June, 1952, the Kilkeel coastguard reported that a small vessel, one mile off St. John's Point Lighthouse, was flying the dis- tress signal, an ensign upside down, and had also...