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THE LIFE-BOAT. the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. VOL. XXXI. MARCH, 1939. No. 337. THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 142 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 20 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1939 - 66,142 The Great Gale of 23rd November, 1938. ON 23rd November, 1938, the severest signal the life-boat, William and Kate gale since the great gales of the winter Johnston, was away. It was then of 1929 to 1930, struck the British Isles. 9.55. The life-boat was drawing near The wind reached a speed of 108 miles to the position given about 10.30 and an hour. Much damage was done on could see a fishing boat. She appeared land. Cattle were swept out to sea; to be labouring heavily in the sea. telegraph poles, trees, hoardings and It was the Progress, of Hoylake, with a walls blown down; roofs torn off; crew of three. At the same time, the roads flooded; a railway bridge washed life-boat saw a schooner drifting away; and thirteen lives were lost. towards the shore with her sails blown Life-boats were launched all round away. She was the Loch Ranza Castle. the coast; on that one day there were of Annalong, laden with stone and 27 launches. Life-boats rescued 36 carrying a crew of four. lives. Life-boatmen at New Brighton, The coxswain had to decide at once Aldeburgh, and Great Yarmouth and which of the two vessels was in the Gorleston won six medals and four greater need of help. As the fishing vellums for gallantry, and the Institu- boat was the smaller of the two, and tion made rewards and other pay- as she was anchored and in deeper ments to life-boat crews- amounting to water, he decided to go to her help nearly £500. first. The life-boat went alongside, and after two or three attempts, rescued NEW BRIGHTON. the three men. Shortly afterwards The outstanding service of the day the fishing boat sank. was at New Brighton on the Mersey. At 9.15 in the morning, news was Right in tjie Surf. received at the life-boat station that a The life-boat then set course for the fishing boat was in difficulties E.N.E. schooner. The weather had become of the Crosby Light-vessel; it lies steadily worse, and a very heavy sea about 6i miles from the life-boat was now running. The squalls were berth. A whole west gale was blowing, terrific, and the spindrift and spray with a rough sea. There were gusts made it very difficult to see. By this of wind at 108 miles an hour. There time the schooner was right among the were frequent and very heavy squalls of surf. She was drifting rapidly ashore. rain and hail. Her crew had taken to the rigging. Within eight minutes of the assembly The surf was breaking between 200 and THE LIFE-BOAT. [MAK.CH, 19S9. 300 yards from the shore, and the to one. The life-boat was down coxswain took in the life-boat until she nearly three feet by the head. Her was between 150 and 200 yards from two forward compartments and the the schooner. There he took sound- cabin were flooded. It was clear ings, headed seaward again, and let that she had been severely damaged go his anchor. Those on the life-boat when she was taken over the wreck to could see now that the Loch Ranza rescue the three men in the starboard Castle had sunk. The crew were in the rigging. The life-boat would normally starboard and port rigging. have gone to her moorings, and the crew and the rescued would have been The Life-boat Over the Wreck. landed in the boarding boat, but in The coxswain veered the life-boat view of the damage to the life-boat, down, with the engines working, took and in view, too, of the condition of the her over the wreck, and after several last man to be rescued (he was sixty- attempts, succeeded in rescuing the five years old), the coxswain decided two men who were in the starboard to go alongside the landing-stage, a rigging. The other two men were on manoeuvre calling for great skill and the port side. One of them was seen seamanship. It was successfully to climb further up and cross over to carried out and the rescued were the starboard rigging. The other was landed. seen to get rid of his seaboots, but he The life-boat was taken next day to a remained where he was. Again the yard at Birkenhead for repair, and coxswain took the life-boat over the there it was found that, besides much wreck and rescued the third man. other damage, there was a hole three From him it was learnt that the fourth feet by three inches in the skin of the was too exhausted to do anything. He fore cabin, and another hole nine was in a very critical position, and the inches in diameter in the skin of coxswain realized that there was no another compartment, while the skin way of helping him unless he could take of a third compartment was also holed. the life-boat round under the port rigging where the man was clinging. The Rewards. The rescue of the three men had It was a service in which the cox- taken an hour; the tide had eased; but, swain showed great gallantry and by this time, none of the deck fittings, tenacity, and exceptional seamanship. not even the gunwale, were showing, The way in which he handled his boat and blocks, yards and rigging were after she had been damaged is worthy falling from the masts. of the highest praise. He was ad- mirably supported by his crew, Rescued Unconscious. especially by the second coxswain and The second anchor cable of the life- the two motor mechanics. The In- boat was bent on to the cable by which stitution has made the following awards: the life-boat was already anchored, and To Coxswain W. H. JONES, the the coxswain veered her down stern silver medal for gallantry, accom- first, passed under the bowsprit of the panied by a copy of the vote inscribed wreck, and so, with the help of the on vellum; engines, got right alongside the port rigging. The man by now was To the second coxswain, J. NICHOL- scarcely conscious and was quite in- SON and the motor mechanic, W. capable of helping himself. The cox- GARBUTT, second-service clasps to the swain kept the boat alongside the bronze medals for gallantry which they rigging and, after some very anxious already hold, accompanied by copies minutes, the crew succeeded in getting of the votes inscribed on vellum; the half-conscious man into the life- To the second motor mechanic, J. boat. There he was at once given first MASON, the bronze medal for gallantry, aid by the second motor mechanic. accompanied by a copy of the vote The coxswain then manoeuvred the inscribed on vellum; life-boat clear, cut his cable, and made To the bowman, W. S. JONES, and the for the New Brighton landing stage, other members of the crew, J. STONALL, where she arrived at seven minutes H. STONALL and W. DOUGLAS, the MARCH, 1939.] THE LIFE-BOAT. thanks of the Institution inscribed on running rigging of the mainsail had vellum; parted; the sprit (the heavy spar which To the coxswain and each member of supports the mainsail) was swinging the crew a reward of £3 in addition to violently about; and the barge herself the ordinary scale reward of 19s. was sheering about so wildly that the Standard rewards to the crew, £5 14s.; coxswain had to make five attempts additional rewards to the crew, £24; before he could get the life-boat's total rewards, £33 4s. 6d. stem alongside the barge's rigging and the two men were able to jump aboard. Four days after the service Mr. J. The life-boat's stem was slightly Stonall collapsed while out fishing and damaged. died of heart failure. He left a widow The life-boat then went to the and two children. As he had not died Decima but she declined help and ran on life-boat service, or as a direct north; so the life-boat returned to the result of it, his widow was not eligible Grecian and this time her crew of two for a pension, but the Institution were very glad to leave her. They decided to make her an allowance of were rescued in the same way as the fifteen shillings a week during her crew of the Astrild. widowhood, and five shillings a week It was impossible for the life-boat for each of the children until they were to be brought ashore at Aldeburgh in sixteen. the heavy seas, so she ran for Lowestoft where she arrived at 1.15 P.M. The motor life-boat, Oldham, of It was a fine service, very skilfully Hoylake, was also launched on the same carried out, and the Institution has service. It was known that the New made the following awards: Brighton life-boat had put out, but it To Coxswain GEORGE E. CHATTEN, was thought that in the very heavy the bronze medal for gallantry, accom- weather the Oldham might also be panied by a copy of the vote inscribed wanted. She was launched at 11.13 on vellum; A.M.
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