All-weather lifeboat called to an emergency, Salcombe, Devon, August 2018
This was just one of the emergency calls I saw the Salcombe RNLI respond to in my recent stay.
The Salcombe station has 2 boats and is operated by a team of 34 local men and women, 21 sea going, 12 shore- based and 1 Lifeboat Medical Adviser. Salcombe sits on the southern tip of Devon with challenging headlands and waters and close to busy shipping lanes, requiring the Lifeboat Station be permanently manned, so two of the team, the coxswain and mechanic, work full time.
To see the team in action pop over to the BBC where a recent episode of their Saving Lives at Sea series follows the Salcombe team.
Lifeboat returning home with an ailing fishing vessel, August 2018
Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings.
I’ll admit that many of us openly break the numeric rule and share far more words (all excellent of course!) so the key rule is to have a title of six words – and then create around that the post that you desire! Perhaps in bunches of 6 words if you’re feeling inspired.
To join the challenge, please put a link in your post to the URL of this post. Then come back here and leave us a comment. If you have any problems with linking, just put your own URL into the comment. And do feel free to socialise digitally – tweet, instagram, flickr, etc. with the hashtagtags #SixWordSaturday and #6WS.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 1 September 2018
Posted as part of Six Word Saturday
Travel with Intent 
Great photos of great people…here is my post
http://the59club.blog/2018/09/02/design-museum-portland-oregon/
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Growing up on the waters in and around Florida, I am well familiar to the rescues system we have around the world and so thankful for all of them. May they get the well deserved thanks they deserve.
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So grateful that people want to do this job.
http://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2018/09/waiting-on-me-hand-and-foot.html
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Getting my toes wet in #6WS.
https://charlesewaugh.com/2018/09/01/the-weather-cleared-and-what-appeared/
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Very interesting, Debbie!
Here is a bit of whimsy for today : https://outofmywritemind.com/2018/09/01/table-for-one-under-the-pines/
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More great photos, Debbie. I pray I never need to use their services, however!
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I’m with you on that, Tom
Sent from my iPhone
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I went with a very different water theme.
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2018/09/01/quaking-aspens-reflected-in-a-slough/
I had forgotten that the RNLI was a charity service.
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heroes one and all – you had a good view of the lifeboat – the water is deceivingly calm and clear in your captures
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You’re right, this was taken in the calm Salcombe Harbour, the sea they were heading out into wouldn’t have been so calm!
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We usually watch the series, Debbie- with baited breath, sometimes!
https://restlessjo.me/2018/09/01/six-word-saturday-290/
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They are extraordinary the men and women who do this, especially those who juggle it on top of family life and work.
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Yes, absolutely amazing! Their response times are incredible, given that they have to wait for the team to drop everything and run to the boat, donning uniform as they run I think.
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Extraordinary, and so brave too.
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I think I saw one very similar in Fowey, Cornwall. Is the service Nationally or County based?
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It’s a national charity, but run very much as a local service – all key coastal locations have this service. It is an amazing charity service (no government funding)
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A very modern looking lifeboat…..they were all rubber dinghy things when I was young. I probably saw the S alcombe lifeboats when on hols as a kid
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They have a smaller one too – this is their heavy duty one!
And yes, everything changes – I saw another smart boat, probably ferrying tourists around, that seemed to be an ex-lifeboat (logo on front)
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Oh, indeed’
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