Right Shipwrecks

Here are the answers - I take that as there were no answer or tries at tha answers that nobody has any interest or knowledge of the RNLI so I will not post another question on this particular subject!

1. The first All Weather Self Righting life boat to be generally deployed to stations that needed such a boat was the Arun Class. They were operated by the RNLI between 1971 and 2008. Many have been sold to see further service in the lifeboat and coastguard services of other countries. The RNLI's first lifeboat capable of speeds in excess of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) was the 14-knot (26 km/h; 16 mph) Waveney-class boats introduced in 1967. This was based on an American design, but in 1971 it was supplemented by the Arun class which was designed by the RNLI and gave vastly improved accommodation and increased the speed to 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph).

2. The Liverpool Class Life boat to be built to commerate a disaster or lost in 1941 was the RNLB Aguila Wren (ON 892). Aguila Wren was named to commemorate the sinking of the Yeoward Line ship Aguila, and the loss of 22 members of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Aguila had been part of a convoy from Liverpool to Gibraltar when she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-201 in the early hours of 19 August 1941. 152 of the 168 people aboard Aguila were killed, including all 22 WRNS aboard. The new lifeboat Aguila Wren was built in 1951 by Messrs. Groves & Guttridge at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. She served at Aberystwyth Lifeboat Station, Wales between 1951 and 1964, where she saved 14 lives, and at Redcar, North Yorkshire between 1965 and 1972, where she saved another 28 lives. She is a Liverpool-class lifeboat, with her hull formed of double diagonal-skinned Honduras mahogany laid on English oak frames. She is 35ft 6in long, 10 ft 8in beam, weighing around 8.6 tons. She has twin screws, originally powered by twin 20h.p. Ferry diesel engines although these bespoke-made engines were replaced in 1973 with twin Perkins 4.108 diesels.

Aguila Wren was named at Aberystwyth on 28 June 1952. Among those present were Captain Arthur Frith of Aguila and Dame Vera Laughton Mathews, former Director of the WRNS who had selected the 22 Wrens for Gibraltar service. The Aguila Wren was transferred away from Aberystwyth in 1964 following that station’s re-designation to an inshore lifeboat station. After a refit she arrived at Redcar in February 1965. Following her final life-saving rescue on 16 November 1972, to a yacht which had lost her propeller, she was replaced at Redcar by a new boat on 22 November 1972.


Just a little piece of maritime history there shipmates.



Cheers




Pat

If nobody has a go at this one I will post the answer tonight

Nobody going to have a go at this one ?

Hi Shippers

This time a two part question on the RNLI.

1. What was the first All Weather Self Righting Boat to be operated by the RNLI

2. The RNLI built a Liverpool class lifeboat to comemerate a disaster that occured in 1941. Who can name the Lifeboat and the diasater.



Good Luck


Pat