LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles
The Eyemouth Motor Fishing Boat Spes Bona
MARCH 13TH. - ST. ABBS, and EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. The Royal Observer Corps saw signals of distress and reported them to the police, who informed the St. Abbs Life-boat station at 2.30 in the afternoon. A whole northerly gale was blowing,...
For the Price of An Anchor
THE following report, sent in by the honorary secretary of an inshore rescue boat station, is just another example of failing to face up to the fact that the sea is unpredictable.
Apparently two men went out in a homemade...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fleet
THE review of the Institution's Motor Fleet, which it is usual to make at this time of the year, reveals the fact that we are feeling our way slowly, but surely, in the use of Life-boats installed with motor power. Ten years ago there...
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A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services
A Magnificent Model of a Galleon Made By Mr G Ritchie
A magnificent model of a galleon, made by Mr G. Ritchie of Whitehills, Banffshire, was the star prize in a raffle run during a coffee morning organised by the local ladies guild. The raffle raised £405 and here Mr Ritchie draws the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lines on Seeing a Life-Boat In An Inland Town
GOD speed thee, thou life-boat! for blest is thy mission— To save poor weak man from the wild ocean's rage; When the heavens are black, and the dark waves are roaring, And dread is the war which the elements wage.
All...
Category: Poetry
The Port Isaac Irb Standing By As the Crew Attempt to Right Their Dinghy.
The Port Isaac IRB standing by as the crew attempt to right their dinghy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...
Category: Articles
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
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