The Lifeboat Service

[j.sabourn]

As of 1990 when I left the UK . The political remarks about it need establishing to their authenticity?
The RNLI is a voluntary organisation which exists to safe life at sea. Since it’s foundation in 1824 more than 118,000 people have been rescued by lifeboat within the British Isles.
The RNLI, on 24 hour call , has the lifeboat service necessary to cover search and rescue requirements out to 30 miles from the coast of the UK and Republic of Ireland. There are 203 lifeboat stations with 263 lifeboats ( offshore and inshore) and 98 lifeboats in the relief fleet.
The RNLI was founded by Sir William Hillary and is the oldest national lifeboat Service in the world .
Hillary established the first lifeboat stations on the Isle of Man ,and personally won the Institutions
Gold medal for. Gallantry three times in the. Douglas lifeboat.
The early lifeboats were powered by oars and in 1890 the first steam powered lifeboats went into service .Experiments with petrol engines started in 1904. But in 1932 the Diesel engine was introduced .Now all offshore lifeboats are fitted with twin Diesel engines
The. Types of boats in 1990 were the Arun.Thames, Solent, Watson, Tyne,Waveney, Mersey, Rother, Oakley, Brede, Atlantic, C Class, D Class.
I find defamatory information about any of the crews of such should be looked into,they deserve better than that.
JS

[j.sabourn]

Bill you probably know but in1990 the Fraserburgh ‘s latest boat was the 17 knot Tyne class vessel.A low profile boat which was ideal for the stormy seas around the NE coast of Scotland. This’ small Scottish fishing port has lost 3 vessels in the 20 th. Century.
JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I remember the brave men from the Mumbles lifeboat who lost their lives trying to rescue the crew of the Samtampa.
Des
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[j.sabourn]

These crews do not need aspersions cast on them by ignorant people calling them for picking up helpless people . As soon as boat is launched they are in constant touch with the coast guard who give them advice. These crews are volunteers and only receive out of pocket expenses which was 6 pounds a day compensation for their loss of pay at their proper jobs .So don’t think you will see any strikes there. Good job the world today still has such people , whilst others pull the blankets over their heads. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

The problem here is pure ignorance.
Unless you have been involved with them, live close to one or have been at sea most would have no idea about them.

Like many such services, bad news from ignorant people.

[thomas michael]

hi john sabourn #4
good afternoon, Whilst there has been a tendency to call for the lifeboat institute into account, and i being one whom has wrote on this subject, at no time have i voiced any disrespect for these guys whom are going out in all weathers and risking their lives for no recompense , It is though a national scandal when a public charitable organisation with its long history of saving lives at sea, such as the lifeboat institute, is being used by this goverment to carry out the movement of fit and healthy individuals mainly young men from france to this country.
I base my argument on the fact that whilst the lifeboat institute where called upon to bring these people into this country, the Royal Navy where tasked with co-ordinating the operation with the french navy, This changed when nigel farage a presenter on GB news showed the world exactly what was happening, and the viewers could see for themselves the french naval ship escorting the dinghies up-to a mid-way channel position for a rendezvous with the british naval vessel whom escorted the dinghies into shallow water or in other cases took them onboard their vessel, After this news was shown the french navy where heard and recorded on a open mike speaking to the royal navy and giving them a lat and long together with a eta for the hand-over in mid-channel for further hand-overs, This is when the goverment stood down the navy because of the outcry by the general public whom where and still are up in arms about these constant flow of dinghies coming to these shores, That is when the border force where stepped up and the RNLI came into full force , and this co-incided with a lot of RNLI volunteers either being sacked or replaced because they did not want to be seen as taxi drivers for illegal immigrants into this country, Todate there is still the same operations being carried out by the border force and the RNLI as there was with the Royal Navy and it is common knowledge that the french set up rendezvous with these two for dinghies they have escorted to mid-channel,
As for what are the goverments reasons in what is being played out mid-channel are. One only has to look at what is happening in ireland at this very minuet where the same proceedure is being carried out there, except that the illegals are being brought in by plane with no passports or identification and immediatly being housed in local hotels,But except in ireland the housing shortage is even more drastic than here but the difference is the irish public are protesting on the streets about what is happening to their country, There is a concerted effort by the european union to desperse hundreds of thousands of displaced people around europe andi the uk is being used for that same purpose. Even though we are supposed to no longer be a member,
Sadly everybody is vertue signalling in todays world even the great RNLI and in my town southport we have a brand new purposely built lifeboat station, its huge, its for a inshore rib, though i would hate to be depending on it at low water springs,as the shore dries for miles.
tom

[Johnny Kieran]

Do we ever see how many of these "Illegals" have been processed, how many fail the processing, or don't fail. It's been going on for years, with truckloads coming in, but I never see how many get sent back. As far as I know, none ever get sent back, but I stand to be corrected on that.
I believe gov.uk welcome them on behalf of the fatcats as cheap labour, thus keeping the working classes in their place.
These strike we're experiencing are a direct result of cheap labour being poured into the employment (and unemployment) system since we joined the EU, I've seen it, and experienced it coming for many years.
The above has been going on with all shades of gov.uk, so I don't see why it should change any time soon.

[Bill Morrison]

John S. #2 The lifeboat service in Northern Scotland has suffered a few losses over time. The Arbroath lifeboat ROBERT LINDSAY capsized on retuning to harbour 27/10/'53 with the loss of six crew members. The Longhope lifeboat in 17/3/'68 seven crew members lost, I remember this one as one of the Jnr/ Eng's on board ship came from Orkney and knew those crewmen.
As to the Fraserburgh lifeboats this article tells it all.
Bill.

[Ralph Knowles]

Please do not forget the Broughty Ferry lifeboat 'Mona' which was lost with all hands in early December 1956 when she foundered on the Gaa Sands at the bar of the River Tay Estuary and rolled up on to the beach to the south of Carnoustie in a SE storm. She had a 'shout' to assist the light vessel off Fife Ness which had broken adrift. Eight Broughty Ferry crew, all unpaid volunteers, perished that night.

[Colin Wood]

The RNLI are wonderful people who should be supported at all times. Well done the RNLI. The French are backstabbing bast stewards who are paying back UK for brexit as they now have to pay their own farmers and not use UK Taxes.
Fight for Briton and Saint George. (Will not use the ginge and whinge word).