THREE RNLI lifeboats and their volunteer crews took part in a major safety exercise off the Co Down coast at Orlock Point on Saturday. (March 7) Continue reading →
DONAGHADEE Rugby Club’s Casino Night in December raised £500 for the club’s adopted charity – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Continue reading →
LIFEBOAT volunteers from Donagahadee RNLI battled huge seas and blizzards today to rescue a member of a working party who was injured on the Copeland Islands. The casualty suffered a minor hand injury when scaffolding collapsed at Mew Island lighthouse at the mouth of Belfast lough. The RNLI operations team described the weather conditions in the area as ‘atrocious’. Continue reading →
TWO Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats and volunteer crews were involved in a rescue operation in the Irish Sea today. (January 21). The all-weather lifeboat at Donaghadee was launched at 6.00am after a distress call from a trawler which lost mechanical power east of Ballyhalbert. Continue reading →
The lifeboat was launched at the request of the Coastguard and joined a major search operation after reports of a swimmer in difficulty in the Bangor area. The search involved the PSNI and Irish Coastguard helicopters, Bangor lifeboat and a Continue reading →
The lifeboat was launched at the request of the Coastguard in response to a potential emergency aboard an incoming aircraft. It was stood down within minutes after the plane landed safely
THE RNLI lifeboat from the island of Islay in Scotland called in at the port of Donaghadee on Sunday as the town’s Ulster Scots Festival weekend was coming to a close. Continue reading →
