David Butler on Saving Lives at Sea
In those days there was a few rigid inflatable Coast Guard boats dotted around various places, not on this part of the coast.
We relied on the lifeboats and the inshore lifeboats like Sandown inshore lifeboat and the Coast Guard more recently had a couple of cutters which they’d been reduced down to sort of big sized ribs, but I don’t think they’ve got any boats at all now.
Andy Butler: We certainly didn’t have anything like that. As I say, it was very much a continuation of how it had been since it started and through the Victorian era and into the early 20th century.
