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Notes of the Quarter

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

THE FOURTEENTH International Lifeboat Conference was formally opened by HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden on June 5 in Gothenburg. More than 50 papers on subjects of mutual interest were presented to delegates from 24 lifeboat societies from all...

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

Salcombe, Torbay, and Plymouth, Devon.—15th-16th October. A call for an aeroplane in distress was picked up but a prolonged and exten- sive search was unsuccessful. The origin of the call is a mystery and is believed to be a...

An Aircraft

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Broughty'[Ferry, Angus.—7th September, 193'J. Shortly after 10 F.M.information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Lightvessel.

The life-boat found nothing, spoke...

Pilot

Date: November 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 206

WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—A telephone message was received from the coastguard at Galloways, stating that a ketch was ashore, on the morning of the 23rd February. The Life-boat John William Dudley was launched at 8.40, in a rough sea, a strong S....

September (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...

Category: Services

Voices

Date: Summer 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 581

VoIces Awe and wonder Garden designer Chris Beardshaw is passionate about the earth, the sea – and the RnLi, as Liz Cook fi nds out ‘What is your idea of Paradise?’ that is Chris’s question to everyone for whom he designs a garden. there is...

Category: Articles

Fund Raisers

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...

Category: Articles

Fig 5: (Right) Each End of the Three Securing Straps Are Attached to Brackets Bolted to Cabin Sides With Stainless Steel Retaining Pins Although Brackets Make Allowance F

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

Fig. 5: (Right) Each end of the three securing straps are attached to brackets, bolted to cabin sides, with stainless steel retaining pins.

Although brackets make allowance for six possible positions, it is normal to use... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...

Category: Articles

Rnli news

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...

Category: Articles