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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.
The tradition of serving in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) went back many generations in Richard Evans' family, with one of his ancestors being involved in the rescue from the wreck of the Royal Charter in October 1859. Both Richard's grandfathers had served in the crew of the Moelfre lifeboat and when he himself joined at the ...
However, all the lifeboat crew and the crew of the Reperio were saved. [15] Another rescue occurred in October 1919, when the Cap Palos, a five-masted schooner was stranded in the bay, and the lifeboat went out four times to rescue the crew. The heavy swell later washed the ship ashore, and she spent a year on the beach at Robin Hood's Bay ...
The Mumbles lifeboat came to rescue the crew. [3] When the Mumbles lifeboat, a wooden sailboat named the Wolverhampton, got into trouble Wright and Ace waded into the surf to rescue the lifeboat crew. They tied their shawls together to use as a rope and rescued two of the lifeboat crewmen who had fallen overboard. [4]
Daniel Webster Cluff (July 4, 1916 – March 5, 1989) was a United States Coast Guard officer who led one of the U.S. Coast Guard's largest small-boat rescue operations in the midst of a New England winter storm on February 18 through 19, 1952, as Chatham Lifeboat Station's officer-in-charge. [1]
The search and rescue series for 4-7 year olds [3] is fast, fun, full of visual jokes and eccentric characters with strong sea safety messages for children running through the episodes. Lifeboat Luke is the first 52 part animation series to be originated and produced in Northern Ireland and has been financed through a combination of private ...
A disaster in the English towns of Southport and St Anne's-on-the-Sea occurred on the evening of the 9th December 1886, when 27 lifeboat men lost their lives trying to save the crew of the German barque Mexico. 14 of the 16 crew members aboard the Southport Lifeboat Eliza Fernley drowned along with all 13 of the St Anne's Lifeboat Laura Janet.