LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bear Necessities for Number Appeal
(Below) The Humber Lifeboat Appeal's mascot, Bevan Bear, is pictured meeting for the very first time his namesake Brian Bevan (left), and two of the Humber lifeboat crew when he visited the lifeboat station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ann Ritchie In Company With Major-General Ralph Farrant Comes Aboard Arun Class Lifeboat 54-06 the Gough Ritchie for Which She Is Providing the Funds to Be Wel
Mrs Ann Ritchie, in company with Major-General Ralph Farrant, comes aboard Arun class lifeboat 54-06, The Gough Ritchie, for which she is providing the funds, to be welcomed by the builder, William Osborne (r). The Gough Ritchie, which will... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"The Dutch Life-Boat Service."
By H. de BOOY, Secretary of the North and South Holland Life-Saving Society.
No doubt ships have stranded and lives have been lost and saved on the coast of Holland from times immemorial, but it was the year 1824 before a...
Category: Articles
The Royal Commission on the Loss of Life at Sea
THE " First Report" of this Royal Commission shows clearly the necessity for its appointment, for it contains authoritative evidence of an alarming waste of both life and property in the greatest source of the country's wealth...
Category: Articles
Letters
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
Contents
Contents RNLI News.
Volume L Number 496 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services.
Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National...
Category: Contents
First Vellum Award for IRB Rescue
For the first time ever the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded for a service by an inshore rescue boat. The service was carried out by the Eastney IRB on 3ist October, 1965, when six men were saved from a...
Category: Awards
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
SPECIAL DELIVERY
WHITBY MEMORIES
I’ve just read the article ‘Happy birthday, Frammy!’ (Lifeboat, summer 2018). I was born at Whitby in the
1920s and one of my first recollections is watching the crew of the lifeboat trying to...
Category: Articles