LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the after- noon of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that two boys in a rubber dinghy were going round in circles three-quarters of a mile off Cliftonville. At 4.58 they telephoned that the boys were...

Ballycotton, Cork - At 2.50 a.m. on 3rd September, 1966, the Garda informed the coxswain that the trawler Virtue Petit, of Milford Haven, was steaming to Ballycotton with a seriously injured man on board. The life-boat Ethel Mary left her...

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Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...

19th January. Flares were found to have been from a steamer with her funnel on fire.—Rewards, £20 185. 6d..

Commander Philip Edward Vaux, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.), died at Lymington on 23rd January, 1966. He was aged 70.

Retiring from the Royal Navy in 1920, Commander Vaux joined the RNLI the following year, and after serving...

Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...