LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...

IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...

BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...

AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...

For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.

Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF

You could hardly find a more hostile environment for a building, surrounded by water and exposed to the full force of whatever the North Sea can throw at it. The old station and slipway at the pier end here at Cromer is beyond repair and its... - View image in PDF

The award-winning British 34-footer." Sadler 34. The Sadler 34 is a rather special performance cruiser.

For one thing, she's British through and through.

For another, she's quite unsinkable. A...

The Duchess of Kent in North Wales Aberystwyth and Barmouth Stations Visited THE Duchess of Kent made a two-day tour through North Wales on the llth and 12th of July. Her tour was comprehensive; she visited places like the National Library...