A bear thank you Sir -1 should like to thank everyone who has written requesting a personalized teddy bear, (Bear necessities, Summer 1989 issue).
The teddy bears are still available and the letters RNLI can be worked on...
Category: Correspondence
Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations
Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...
Category: Correspondence
MR. D. L. HOBBS has been appointed Organising Secretary for the Midlands district.
Mr. Hobbs served during the war as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. For six years after the war he was in the Colonial Service in Malaya, and...
Category: Articles
The Institution has awarded its bronze medal to Captain James Winter, harbour master of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, who 'is 69 years old, for his gallantry in taking command of the life-boat, when the coxswain was ill, and rescuing the...
Category: Articles
Blue Peter TWO MEMBERS of the North Berwick, East Lothian, inshore lifeboat crew, Benjamin Pearson and Alexander Russell, have both been awarded the RNLl's bronze medal for gallantry for rescuing a man who was in difficulties on July 26...