LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.

The St. Ives life-boat...

IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.

For many years, indeed since 1899,...

Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF

A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF

NO NOISE - NO POISON - NO HARM TO ANIMALS Keep Animal Pests off Your Prope Just place the Sonic Pest Repeller in your garden and keep foxes, dogs, cats, rats, rodents, deer and other pesky animal pests away with no noise and no harm to the...

Safety and Survival at Sea by E. C. B. LEE OBE, C.ENG, FRINA and KENNETH LEE MBBS, LRCP, MRCS, DIH An anthology of first person accounts of man's ability—or inability—to survive at sea by the victims of all types of sea...

One of the first questions to spring to mind meeting comedian, TV and radio presenter, actor, adventurer, author, playwright and journalist Sandi Toksvig is whether there’s anything she’s not good at. ‘Oh, I’m rubbish at so many things –...

IT was life-boat day in Greater London, and it was my privilege to help at a depot which was housed in one of London's famous churches. A busy day was coming to a close and the last collector had handed in her box. It only remained for...