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 life-boats in 1930. He had been for seventeen years with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany, had held a master's certificate for nine years, was a second officer, and a lieutenant-commander on the active list of the Royal Naval Reserve. Dur- ing the 1914-1918 war he had served in the Tenth Cruiser Squadron in the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea and then, as first lieutenant of destroyers, in the North Sea, the Dover Patrol and the Mediterranean. When the war ended he was in hospital in Gibral- tar with Spanish influenza and cordite poisoning. It was decided to send him home. His destroyer was at Gibraltar, She also was on her way home, and he was given permission to travel in her. No sooner was he on board than her orders were countermanded, and Commander Michelmore found him- self on his way to the Black Sea.

When he should have been in hospital in England, he was engaged in stren- uous operations in South Russia against the Bolshevists.

On joining the Life-boat Service, Commander Michelmore was posted to the Northern District where he served until the end of 1941. He was then transferred to the Eastern District where he served through the remainder of the war of 1939 to 1945. In the summer of 1945 he was appointed deputy chief inspector of life-boats..