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THE LIFEBOAT. the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFEBOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. jl VOL. XXVL—No. 286.] MARCH, 1926. [PRICE 6^. i An International Life-boat Organization. By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. IT will be remembered that at the Inter- It so happened that this Sub-Com- national Life-boat Conference, held in mittee was holding its meetings in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in London from the 21st to 24th July, 1924, which representatives of nine nations and that they therefore received the took part, a resolution was proposed, at! resolution too late for it to become a sub- the suggestion of Count Yoshii, Presi-1 ject of discussion at their meetings. The dent of the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Sub-Committee, therefore, decided to Institution, in favour of the establish-1 postpone any action in the matter until rnent of an International Life-boat j their next meeting, which was due to be Organization, on the lines of the Red (held in 1925. Meanwhile, the Secretary Cross Society, with all the national Life- j of the Advisory and Technical Corn- boat services, whether maintained by j mittee for Communications and Transit private Institutions or by the State, as J asked the Institution to prepare a state- its members.* : ment with regard to the actual condition This resolution was unanimously ap-} of the Life-boat services of the world, so proved, and, at the direction of the Con- j that the Sub-Committee might be better ference, the Institution brought it to ) able to envisage the resolution in favour the notice of all countries with a sea-' of an International Life-boat Organiza- board through their Ambassadors or tion when it came before them, other chief representatives in London, j A. Memorandum was accordingly pre- It was also sent to the League of i pared by the Institution and forwarded Nations Union at Greneva and to the i to the League of Nations. This was cir- International Federation oi the League j ciliated by the Secretary of the Snb- of Nations Societies at Brussels, -with a i Committee on Ports and Maritime Navi- request that the Federation would for-1 gation to all the nations represented on ward it to the individual societies. I tkat Sub-Committee. Subsequently, the Finally, a copy was sent to the Under- i Institution was asked to send a repre- Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs, i sentative to attend a meeting of the Sub- with a request that it might be brought, Committee for Ports and Maritime Navi- officially to the notice of the League of' gation to be held in Paris on the 28th Nations Council by the British Govern-1 No vember, 1925, in order to assist ment. I the Sub-Committee in its deliberations, Thus everything was done to ensure' and the Committee of Management the widest publicity and consideration j authorised me, as the Secretary of the for the proposal, and I am very glad to | Institution, to attend as their represen- be able to record that it has now bee/iftative. given the general support of the League j At this meeting I was asked to intro- of Nations. It was referred by the; duce the subject. In doing so I described League to its Advisory Technical Com- '• the circumstances in which the resolu- mittee for Communications and Transit, j tion came to be passed at the Interna- which, in turn, referred it to its Sub- i tional Conference ; pointed out that the Committee on Ports and Maritime object of the International Organization Navigation. would be both to improve the existing Life-boat Services by facilitating the * See The Lifeboat for November, 1924. exchange of experience, ideas, and 170 THE LIFEBOAT. [MABCH, 1926. technical designs, and to induce those ! It will be seen that, while the resolu- countries with a seaboard which have' tion does not in itself carry the estab- uot yet established a Life-boat Service i lishme»t of an International Life-boat to do so. I also pointed out that some j Organization any further, it does con- Life-boat Services were voluntarily main- j form to the spirit of Count Ybshii's tained ; some were voluntarily main- j resolution, in that the League of Nations tained, but with the help of grants from j will itself draw the attention of the the State ; while a few were entirely , Governments of those States which have maintained by the State ; and suggested j no organized Life-boat Service to the that this difference in the method of desirability of creating such services; control might possibly make it difficult and the second part of the resolution to unite ail the services in the same carried with it a further request to International Organization. Government" ,s t.o induc• -, e thei.,.„.r Nationa. l After a full discussion, lasting the Organizations, whether voluntary or greater part of the day, the following official, to keep in constant touch with resolution was eventually adopted : each other, and to decide from time to " The Sub-Committee suggests that time on the best policy with a view to the League of Nations should draw the improving an existing Service and attention of the Governments of those obtaining the establishment of new Ser- States which have no organized Life-boat vices. This part of the resolution, would Service to the work done in many coun- seem to suggest the desirability of hold- tries, either by voluntary or State ing International Conferences from time organizations, in saving those ship- to time on the lines of the one held in wrecked on their coasts. The Sub- July, 1924. Committee lays great stress on the Finally, the League of Nations Sub- need for the creation of such services Committee expresses its readiness to in countries where they do not already further the general purposes of the exist. original resolution by placing the ser- " The Sub-Committee is of opinion vices of its Sub-Committee and its that the best means to encourage the Secretariat at the disposal of existing promotion, of Life-boat Services is to ask Life-boat Organizations, the Governments to induce their national) This promise is, I feel, of very real organizations (voluntary or official) to i value, for even though no International keep in constant touch with each other, Life-boat Organization properly so-called and to decide from time to time on the is yet established, we have, in fact, in this best policy to follow for improving Sub-Committee of the League of Nations existing services and for obtaining the and its Secretariat, a permanent body establishment of new services. which, we may hope, will come to fulfil " This Sub-Committee and its Secre- the same function and to be the inter- tariat will be willing to assist in realizing I national organ and " clearing house " of these aims." the Life-boat Services of the world. The late Queen Alexandra. BY the death of Queen Alexandra on ' with the Prince and Princess of Wales. 20th November, 1925, the Institution,'In 1913 she became a Patron, with the loses one of its three Royal Patrons, j King and Queen, who had become Patrons Queen Alexandra had been associated on their accession to the throne, with the work of the Institution for! Her sympathy with the work of the forty-two years, It was in 1883, as : Service was shown early in the War when, Princess of Wales, that she became Vice- j with reference to the service to the Patroness of the Institution, Queen! Hospital ship Rohilla in October, 1914, Victoria being Patroness, and the Prince 1 she wrote personally to the Chairman of of Wales and his brother, the Duke of: the Committee of Management, sending Edinburgh, Vice-Patrons. On his ac- a special donation to the Institution, and cession to the throne King Edward VII. j expressing her "utmost sympathy for became Patron, and Queen Alexandra j its great work " and her " deep admira- continued to be Vice-Patron, together[ tion " for its crews ;! MAKCH, 1926.] THE LIFEBOAT. 171 The Record of 1925. Terrible Winter Storms. fact that services were rendered to nine THE year 1925 was, until November, foreign vessels, three of them being unusually calm, and this fact is reflected French, two German, one Dutch, one in the number of lives rescued, 383, as Belgian, one Swedish, and one Spanish. compared with 454 in 1924. la the last From these vessels over a hundred lives nine weeks of the year, however, there were rescued, that is to say, more than a were frequent gales, of unusual severity, quarter of the total. By the end of the all round the coast, and nearly a third year the number of lives for whose of the lives for the whole year were rescue the Institution had given rewards rescued during these nine weeks, the since 1824 was 60,358. During 1925 weekly average being thirteen lives. The twenty boats and vessels were saved or gales were at their worst on the East helped to safety as compared with Coast, where they were reported as the seventeen in 1924, severest ever known, or the worst for many years. Some idea of their severity New Motor Life-boats. may be gathered from the fact that at In other ways 1925 was an active Flamborough Head, on 25th November, year. Five Motor Life-boats were com- the waves were estimated to be 30 and pleted and sent to their Stations at Mar- 40 feet high, and the spray was flying gate, Kent; Dunmore East, Co.
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