Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
In 2023 this involved operations from 238 lifeboat stations with a fleet of 432 rescue craft that launched 9,192 times. [39] There are also 242 lifeguard units who aided 19,979 people. [ 68 ] These services are provided by nearly 10,000 lifeboat volunteers and about 2,500 paid staff including lifeguards.
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.
On Season 1 Episode 5 of the Channel 5 programme Construction Squad: Operation Homefront which aired on 4 November 2013, the team behind the show helped Solent Rescue build a new boathouse. [6] In 2017 Solent Rescue received a £22,600 grant from the Minister of State for Transport as part of a five-year £5 million scheme for rescue boat teams ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Lifeboat (rescue) 0–9. 35-ton deep-submergence rescue vehicle; A. A-1 lifeboat;
Lifeboat, a documentary "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1), a 2003 television episode "Lifeboats" , a 2018 television episode; Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus; Lifeboat, a 2008 album by Jimmy Herring; Lifeboat, a 1972 album by the Sutherland Brothers
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 ...