LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Quiz Answers (From Page 18)
Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (2)
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off shore. At three o'clock the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a...
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER,...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 2.15 p.m. on I9th June, 1966, a report was received that a capsized yacht was adrift one mile east of the lookout. There was a strong southerly wind with a choppy sea. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded at...
A Steamer (9)
1st March.
A steamer ran on the rocks, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the master did not wish to leave.
Heavy seas struck the life-boat, flinging her against the steamer, and one of her...
(Rightl ... a Far Cry from That Day In October Last Year
(Rightl ... a far cry from that day in October last year when the couple and their cousin were snatched to safety in Storm Force winds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescued? By a G L Hardy
IT WAS THE YEAR I joined the lifeboat crew, and the second world war was nearly upon us. It was a bright early summer morning with a brisk breeze and I was sailing my dinghy through wavelets sparkling with the sun's jewels on their...
Category: Articles
Lt Cdr PEC Pickles Mbe Jp Rnvr
NOVEMBER 1990 Lt Cdr P.E.C. Pickles MBE JP RNVR, elected to the Committee of Management in 1968 and appointed a Vice-President in 1975 and a Life Vice- President in 1986. Cdr Pickles served on various committees and was Deputy Chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
A United States Aircraft
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a United States aircraft was in difficulties off Orfordness and that her pilot might have to bale...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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