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Lifeboat Quiz
1—Which is the most (a) northerly; (b) easterly; (c) southerly; and (d) westerly station of the RNLI ? 2— Which was the first sailing lifeboat ? 3—Which were (a) the steepest, and (b) the longest slipways for lifeboats ? 4—Where were the...
Category: Articles
Pinnace
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 8 a.m. on 30th September, 1969, it was learnt that the cabin cruiser Pinnace had broken down off the Morecambe bay lightvessel and required assistance.
At 9.7 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was...
Charles Parsons
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.55 p.m. on I4th February, 1967, news was received that a member of the crew of the collier Charles Parsons had injured his ankle. The position of the vessel was about two miles east of the harbour...
Kestrel
At 12.35 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a small boat which had been towing a boat with engine trouble had slipped the tow five miles south of the breakwater.
There were three men on board...
A Boat
SHORT OF FUEL At 10.47 a.m. on 22nd December, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary he had received a message from the Royal Sovereign lightvessel that there was a small boat alongside with three men who had not enough fuel to...
Safely Ashore - Two
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
Her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
CAPSIZED DINGHY TOWED IN Torbay, Devon. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 21st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized about a quarter of a mile east of Berry Head and that a sailing yawl...
Adelaide
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.0 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a converted ship's boat had stranded on the revetment in the Crosby channel near C.16 buoy. She was in a dangerous position,...
River Thames
WALMER.—Guns were heard in the direction of the Middle Light Vessel during hazy weather at about 10.15 a.m.
on the 29th June, and shortly afterwards a barque was discerned stranded close to the Light Vessel. The Life-boat...
Mary, of Laxey
The Life-boat Two Sisters proceeded from this port on the 22nd October, and saved the crew of the schooner Mary, of Laxey, during a strong gale from N.N.W. and a heavy sea; the service was promptly rendered in a manner highly creditable to...