LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies - continued from page 55
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan PeacockWednesday 21 April 1993 saw the naming of the first of a new inshore lifeboat design, the Atlantic 75. Developed from the highly successful Atlantic 21 which has been in operation since 1972, the name...
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Contents
V_X)HtCIltS Notes of the Quarter 290 Lifeboat Services 292 Volume XLVIII Number 486 Lifeboat Services, June and July 1983 299 Talking with Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney, by Joan Davies 300 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL 15ft 6in D class inflatable...
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The Institution's First Gold Medallist
AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...
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Menai Packet
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...
Margaret Hobley
During a moderate northerly gale and heavy sea, on the 6th October, a vessel was observed about 7 A.M. to make signals denoting that she required help. She had been riding to anchor in the Princess Channel, but in a heavy squall lost both...
Elizabeth, of Cardigan
On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.
She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and...
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
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Argo
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE—In a light wind, a moderate sea and hazy weather, on the morning of the 28th June, a telephone message was received from the Grunfleet Lighthouse reporting a barque ashore. The crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery...
A Yacht (2)
Eight-hour tow in winds up to Force 9 Rosslare Harbour Ireland Division Rosslare Harbour's Arun class St Brendan was at sea for twelve hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 12 August 1988 when a yacht found herself in trouble more than 50...
Scott Bader
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