RNLI Lifeboat News From Ireland
#RNLI - In a first for Crosshaven RNLI, the volunteer crew welcomed newly married couple Kieran Geasley and Patricia Lenihan to the Cork Harbour lifeboat station. Geasley, a commercial fishing skipper from Cobh and a former RNLI volunteer at Dunmore East, and…
#rnli - Crosshaven lifeboat volunteers were tasked by Valentia Coastguard to reports of a young man with leg injuries near Power Head this afternoon. The pagers were activated at midday and the lifeboat under helm Vincent Fleming with Aiden O'Connor…
#RNLI - Howth RNLI continued a busy week of callouts on Wednesday evening (16 July) when the volunteer crew launched to assist a 27ft motorboat with no power drifting in the vicinity of the Nose of Howth. The crew was…
#RNLI - Last night (17 July) the volunteer crew of the Bundoran RNLI lifeboat were paged by Malin Head Coast Guard to the aid of six teenagers who had been cut off by the tide at the West End of…
Portaferry & Bangor Lifeboats Spring Into Action For Search & Rescue Callouts
15th July 2014 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Portaferry RNLI launched its inshore lifeboat yesterday afternoon (14 July) to the aid of a man who had suffered a head injury in one of the races during Portaferry Sailing Club’s annual regatta. The lifeboat launched at 2.36pm…
#RNLI - Howth RNLI rescued a party of tourists yesterday afternoon (Monday 14 July) after the passenger boat they were on got into difficulty on the north side of Ireland’s Eye. The volunteer lifeboat crew was alerted at 3.25pm following…
#RNLI - Lough Ree RNLI aided 10 people in two separate callouts over the weekend. The first call came just before 7pm on Saturday (12 July) following a report that two craft vessels had ran aground on the east shore…
Arklow Lifeboat Crew Boot World Cup Final To Assist Stricken Pleasure Craft
14th July 2014 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Arklow RNLI’s volunteers gave the World Cup final the boot last night (Sunday 13 July) to respond to a pleasure craft in difficulty with three people on board. Most of the lifeboat crew were settling down to watch the game…
#RNLI - Following last week's assisting of nine people in two separate yacht breakdown incidents, Arranmore RNLI were out again yesterday (10 July) to rescue a man and a woman from a 14ft punt off the Donegal coast. The volunteer…
#RNLI - On 14 July our friends across the Irish Sea at Blackpool RNLI will celebrate 150 years of lifesaving. The station was established in 1864 – 40 years after the RNLI was founded – and has been operated by…
#Lifeboats - Portrush RNLI's all-weather lifeboat was launched on Saturday 5 July to reports of kayakers in difficulty at the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. Although the sun was shining and it seemed like a good day for kayaking, the weather conditions at…
#Lifeboats - Lough Ree RNLI assisted seven people whose vessels got into difficulty in two separate callouts over the weekend. The volunteer crew was first requested to launch their inshore lifeboat at 6.20pm on Saturday 5 July following a report…
#RNLI - Arranmore RNLI in Donegal has assisted nine people after two yachts got into difficulty within five hours earlier this week. At 12.30pm on Wednesday 2 July, the volunteer lifeboat crew responded to a call for assistance from a…
Wicklow RNLI Lifeboat Assists Four People in Difficulty at Silver Strand Beach In One Afternoon
3rd July 2014 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI – Wicklow RNLI all weather and inshore lifeboats launched this afternoon (Wednesday 2 July 2014) to three incidents involving four people on Silver Strand beach in Wicklow. The alarm was raised initially for a woman who was spotted in…
#RNLI - Dunmore East RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crew launched yesterday (Tuesday 1 July) to assist a 17ft vessel that suffered engine failure two miles south of the harbour. At 7:40pm the lifeboat launched at the request of the Irish Coast…
#RNLI - Wicklow RNLI's volunteers had a busy weekend answering three calls for assistance in a 24-hour period. The first callout was on Saturday afternoon (28 June) at the start of the Round Ireland Yacht Race in Wicklow Bay when…
