Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
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COXSWAIN/MECHANIC Eric T. Offer, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for a shore boat service in which he rescued two men who got into difficulties at night in the harbour.
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Falmouth, Cornwall.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the life-boat Craziford and Con- stance Conybeare was returning to her moorings after she had been beached for bottom cleaning, when a dinghy was seen to...
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
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An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
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Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.
It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF
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By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.
UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...
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IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
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Eight-year-old Heather Lean took to the boats to help Newquay lifeboat station last summer. She joined Newquay's carnival parade in a new design of 'inshore lifeboat' - specially made for her by her grandfather Jack Parkin,... - View image in PDF
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