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Rescue services and safety at sea

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  • 6 stories
  • 27 photos
  • 6 multimedia
  • 2 documents

Rescue services have been vital to keeping people safe around the Bay for over 200 years. Here is a selection of stories.

6 stories about Rescue services and safety at sea
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  • 'We don't have tides in Blackburn'

    'We don't have tides in Blackburn'

  • Crossfields of Arnside

    Crossfields of Arnside

    With 25 boats and 2 replicas, Crossfields of Arnside are one of most significant builders on the OGA Boat Register. Arnside ...
  • Morecambe cockling disaster - 'on our knees'

    Morecambe cockling disaster - 'on our knees'

  • Nearly drowned - Margaret Owen

    Nearly drowned - Margaret Owen

  • Rites of passage of a coastguard

    Rites of passage of a coastguard

  • Ulverston inshore rescue on a busy saturday - Bruce Chattaway

    Ulverston inshore rescue on a busy saturday - Bruce Chattaway

27 images of Rescue services and safety at sea
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  • Herbert Leigh

    Herbert Leigh

  • Lifeboat N.T.

    Lifeboat N.T.

  • Photograph of Ulverston Slipway

    Photograph of Ulverston Slipway

  • Photographic slide of Lifeboat

    Photographic slide of Lifeboat

  • Plover Scar Lighthouse surrounded by a wattle fencing fish trap

    Plover Scar Lighthouse surrounded by a wattle fencing fish trap

  • Portrait Janet Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses

    Portrait Janet Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses

  • Portrait of Cockersands Lighthouse Keeper Thomas Parkinson

    Portrait of Cockersands Lighthouse Keeper Thomas Parkinson

  • Portrait of Dick Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses

    Portrait of Dick Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses

  • Portrait of Dick Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses, at Plover Scar fish trap

    Portrait of Dick Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses, at Plover Scar fish trap

  • RNLB Herbert Leigh

    RNLB Herbert Leigh

  • The four masted sailing ship "Kelburn" stranded on the Yeoman Bank

    The four masted sailing ship "Kelburn" stranded on the Yeoman Bank

  • The Morecambe lightship ashore after parting her moorings in a storm November 1894

    The Morecambe lightship ashore after parting her moorings in a storm November 1894

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6 media clips about Rescue services and safety at sea
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  • Morecambe Bay Lives Oral History Podcast Number 3 - The Sea

    Morecambe Bay Lives Oral History Podcast Number 3 - The Sea

  • Oral history interview with Bruce Chattaway, station Officer for Ulverston Inshore Rescue Service

    Oral history interview with Bruce Chattaway, station Officer for Ulverston Inshore Rescue Service

  • Oral history interview with Colin Midwinter (born 1954) and Harry Roberts (born 1958), both RNLI Morecambe volunteers.

    Oral history interview with Colin Midwinter (born 1954) and Harry Roberts (born 1958), both RNLI Morecambe volunteers.

  • Oral history interview with Eric Greenough on coastguards

    Oral history interview with Eric Greenough on coastguards

  • Oral history interview with Maisie and John Murray

    Oral history interview with Maisie and John Murray

  • Oral history interview with Tony Cowell, Fisherman in Fleetwood

    Oral history interview with Tony Cowell, Fisherman in Fleetwood

2 documents about Rescue services and safety at sea
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  • Barrow Lifeboat Station Centenary Certificate

    Barrow Lifeboat Station Centenary Certificate

    Certificate produced by the RNLB recognising one hundred years of the devotion and courage of the crew of Barrow’s lifeboat station at Roa Island. The text reads: “The institution gratefully ...
  • Sir William Priestley and Replica By Alasdair Simpson, Arnside Sailing Club

    Sir William Priestley and Replica By Alasdair Simpson, Arnside Sailing Club

    Includes information and photographs about Sir William Priestley– 1934 Lifeboat History of replicas of Sir William Priestley Linda – 1983 Freda– 1989 Minx – 1995 Beryl 1984
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