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Saving Lives at Sea is a television documentary series about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, showing its rescues in British coastal waters and around Ireland. It was first broadcast by BBC Two on 13 July 2016.
There are generally three types of boat, in-land (used on lakes and rivers), in-shore (used closer to shore) and off-shore (into deeper waters and further out to sea). A rescue lifeboat is a boat designed with specialised features for searching for, rescuing and saving the lives of people in peril at sea or other large bodies of water.
Ballycotton Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat at Ballycotton in County Cork, Ireland. It opened in 1858 and continues to operate today. Its most notable rescue was the crew of the Daunt Rock lightship in 1936 which kept the crew at sea for the best part of three days.
After the RNLI withdrew the Runswick lifeboat in 1978, and placed an Inshore lifeboat at Staithes, it was felt that due to the popularity of the bay, particularly in the holiday season, there would need some sort of rescue cover. A meeting was held in 1980, and the local population at Runswick Bay set about to raise £4000 for their own rescue ...
Rescue water craft 2001 1 Fast craft used by lifeguard units. X Inflatable rescue boat Unmotored boat normally carried on board Tyne-class lifeboats but is an option on the Mersey and Shannon. XP: Inflatable rescue boat 9.2 m (30 ft) 61 kg 10 or 25 2 2 A small powered boat which is normally carried on board the Trent-class lifeboats. Y
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Mundesley Volunteer Lifeboat Bacton: Bacton, Norfolk: 1857–1882 Palling: Palling, Norfolk: 1852–1930 No evidence of Old Lifeboat Station. Independent lifeboat operated since 1972 by Sea Palling Independent Rescue [7] Winterton: Winterton, Norfolk: 1823–1925 Just the building foundations remain Caister: Caister, Norfolk: 1845–1969
Seascale lifeboat was launched only three more times over the next twenty years, and nobody was ever rescued. A new lifeboat, Rescue (ON 77) was provided on trial in 1886, a larger 34-foot boat built by Woolfe of Shadwell, named by request of the donor, and became the station boat in 1887. However, with insufficient volunteers in Seascale, and ...