THE LIFE-BOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

VOL. XXIX. NOVEMBER, 1934. No. 320.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862

On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor Mechanic at Maryport, Cumberland. IT was a showery morning, with very in High Street, I saw the coxswain come strong winds. A gale had blown all running out. He had his sea-boots on, through the night and was increasing and was pulling on his pilot jacket. all the following morning, reaching Before I could reach him he waved his its maximum at high water that after- hand, and I heard the word " ower " noon. I had put on my sea-boots and which is " Cumberland " for " away." oilskins, and gone down to the boat- Without waiting to hear more, I set off house to run the life-boat engine. The back to the boat-house at the double. second mechanic arrived at the boat- Passing the fishermen, I gasped out house, and together we cleaned the that the boat was wanted and set off sparking plugs and gave the engine a running once more. The s.s. Rathmore short final run. We left the boat- was in the dock. Steve, the mate, house about 11.15 A.M., and stopped to asked what was the matter. " A talk with a group of fishermen. I steamer aground near Workington," I cracked with the bowman of the life- replied. I must have got it from the boat, and we passed remarks about coxswain, for it was a correct message. the seas that were running outside the The coxswain and honorary secretary, harbour. He said : " It's not to be with helpers, arrived in Jackson's lorry wondered at if somebody wants us at the boat-house at the same moment to-day." I said : " We could not as myself. grumble if we did get a call in such a The rockets were fired, and five sea. It'll be the worst that we have minutes saw the rollers out on the run- been out in." way and lined up. In that five minutes the head launcher had left his untouched " Ower." midday meal and arrived at the boat- I left the group of men at about house. In another five minutes the 11.30 A.M. to go home to dinner. boat was down on the permanent slip- Getting near to Coxswain Reay's house way. Soonthemastwasupand rigged. 1 The service described in this article was the service to the s.s. Plawsworth, a 2,500-ton steamer of Newcastle- on-Tyne, which went ashore at Workington, on 17th January last. A south-west gale was blowing, so that the wreck was six miles to windward of Maryport. Coxswain Thomas Q. Keay was awarded the bronze medal, in recognition of the conspicuous skil] with which he bandied the life-boat; and the motor mechanic, Mr. A. E. Jolly, the author of this account, received the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum. A letter of thanks was sent to Mr. Walker T. Moore, the honorary secretary of the Maryport station, and the coxswain and each member of his crew received an award of £2 8*. Bd. An account of the service appeared in The Life-toot for last June. 350 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. The second mechanic cranked the engine then out by way of the relieving valves. while I was setting the controls. Turning my head a little to port, I Another quick swing on the starting- could see the end of the south pier, a handle and then the engine fired and welcome sight. That part of the was soon running smoothly. The hum business was over. We were clear of of the engine fixes the crowd's atten- the piers. tion. It gives life to the boat. With The coxswain and second coxswain a final look round at each man's life- now had a moment to spare, and I belt to see that they are all correctly heard the second coxswain say : " She strapped on the shoulders, the coxswain seems to be making a little headway. gives the signal to the head launcher to Will you keep her off ? " I heard no slip the boat from its cable. We are reply. The coxswain was weighing in off. The boat gathers speed as it slides his mind the chances of his next move. down the slipway; the air rushes at Then he sang out to the men forward your face ; a joy ride, giving promise of to stand by to stay her. He was more fun to follow. Splash ! We are going over on the other tack. At the afloat; the launch is a good one, one same time he put his helm over and of the quickest, perhaps a record for brought the boat round. The shackles the boat. The time is approximately drummed on the canopy again as the twelve o'clock noon. wind came to the sail. The second mechanic got a blow from one of them. A 60-Miles-an-Hour Gale. I heard him say that it would leave a The coxswain immediately ordered mark. The wind was south-west, blow- " ahead." I put the gear into the ing full gale at the shore, and we were " ahead " position and speeded up the now heading slantingly for the shore. engine to full throttle. In a few One thing was certain—we were making seconds we were abreast the red turning headway. buoy in the new dock basin. Here the The coxswain sang out again for the coxswain ordered the men forward to men to stand by for the other tack, put a reef in the sail and make ready to which would take us out to sea again. hoist it. Half-way along the south pier All was bustle as we came about. The the boat began to pitch and roll, the sail caught the wind, and slowly, very spray breaking right over us. In the slowly, at times almost at a standstill— run from the bottom of the slipway to when the waves curled up in front of the harbour-mouth the coxswain was us and filled the boat—she fought her able to fix his mica shield to his sou'- way out to sea once more. We tacked wester, a device to protect the eyes again before getting very far from the from the slashing wind and spray. shore, and then made another and We were at the end of the south pier, longer tack out to sea. the sail was hoisted, and warning shouts were sung out. The hoisting of the Getting Rid of Seasickness. sail in such conditions can be extremely I had been sitting on my stool since dangerous. It calls for good seaman- we left harbour, three-quarters of an ship combined with speed. This can hour before, when my head began to be readily understood when one realizes swim ; the heaving, rolling boat was all the force that a 60 to 70-miles-an-hour mixed up with the seas and clouds. It wind can exert on all shackles and sheets was the first symptom of seasickness. that hold the sail to the wind. I saw I was annoyed, and I decided it should very little of this operation, as I was not get me. I stood up to help me in sitting down on my stool pumping up my decision, there being now no the air pressure under the canopy by immediate need to stand by the engine which the engine controls are pro- controls. No sooner had I raised my tected. I saw little, but I heard the head above the canopy than—smack! straining ropes and shackles con- came the sea in my face. It was a tinually drumming on the canopy. good tonic. It cleared away any Then we got the full force of the wind thought of the sickness and it did not and sea. The boat was pitching and return. rolling, with seas coming in over her While I was standing up the cox- port shoulder, running right aft, and swain, knowing that my watch was on NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 851

my wrist, asked me the time of day. I nearer. Will it curl and-break in over sang it out, and again at intervals of a us, or will the boat rise to it ? The quarter of an hour, and he commented bow of the boat goes up at a steep favourably on the progress we had angle, a gradient of one in one and a made. half. Will the wave knock her off ? By this time we were well off the No, there is a man at the wheel. We land, shipping seas one after another. are at the top ; and what a sight from Some had spent their force by the time the top there is ! We can see the they had reached aft to me, but occa- mighty seas ahead of us. Now we are sionally we received them full weight, scooting down the other side, the wind- which made us hang on to whatever ward side. The trough of this sea is was handy. longer. The wave in front of us is The coxswain now gave orders for a building up, but has not yet reached look out to be kept for any signs of its maximum. Now we are sailing the steamer down towards Working- up its side. This wave is peculiar to ton, and also a look out towards Mary- me; it is like sailing over the South port for recall signals; but at the Downs. It has a nice easy slope, but moment there was nothing of either it is a moving one. We appear to be steamer or signal to be seen. Visibility sailing houses high. This may be an was poor, about four miles at the best illusion, but I do not think so. Our of times, and we were lucky if we got a boat is 35 feet 6 inches long. The side clear view at all. It was generally a of the wave we are now sailing up is blurred picture, due to the constant two and a half times the length of the slashing in the face by the wind and boat. The gradient is approximately sea. Such expressions as " It washes one in four. Occasionally a wave my eyes right out of me," and " I've would come along that was father of no eyes left in me," were given out. them all. There is time to look round on a wave like this. Over our stern is Climbing Walls of Water. the last wave that we rode, already Just a word about the coxswain's yards away, with the tops of others mica eye-shield. He had worn it beyond it. I thank my lucky stars since leaving the harbour and was that I can enjoy this majestic scenery. receiving a good deal of protection to his eyes. About this time he decided The Value of Beards. to take it off, or it may have been a By this time I was wet to the skin. little later, when the bowman sang It is surprising how the water finds its out that he could see the steamer. I way past our splendid oilskins. It can remember at various times when I cannot pass through them, but it had glanced round that the shield was creeps in at the neck and past the flattened by the force of the wind storm cuffs when the arms are raised against his face. His reason for re- above the level of the shoulder. I moving it was to get a clearer view think there is a remedy, but it is out of than was possible with it on, owing fashion at the present time. It is the to the constant water striking it and natural protection of the whiskers to be running down it. seen on the throats and chins of the We were now in very big seas, the veterans of the life-boat service. biggest so far encountered, approxi- We are seven all told in the boat. mately half-way between Seaton Scar Standing up in the bows, with his back and Siddick Slag Banks, and a mile or to the mast, using it as a stay to steady so off shore. When in the trough of himself, is the bowman. He faces the a sea all that we could see was a wall oncoming waves. His duty at the of water. We were looking up at it. moment is to keep a sharp look out. We saw its crest merged into the Next in order coming along the boat stormy sky. We approached each are the two extra volunteers. It is other. It is a thrilling experience to the first trip in a life-boat for one of sail against one of these huge walls of them. On a service call such as this water—David meeting Goliath. The one the actual qualification for a boat appears to be almost stationary, position by the extra fishermen is the but the wall of water comes rapidly simple one of being first down to the 352 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. boat-house and securing a life-jacket. everyone knows, but I do not remember These two fishermen sit on thwarts ever before to have realized it so much. facing aft, in a rowing position, as in It gave every man a chance to take a the old pulling and sailing boats, but long-awaited breather. The first part in our boat the oars are stowed away, of the battle was over. It had lasted and will only be used in exceptional an hour and twenty-five minutes. Now circumstances. One of them holds the for the second. end of the main sail-sheet, which is Someone said that the wreck was given a turn round the thwarts, and deserted, but as we drew nearer we then held in the hand, so that it can could see the crew in the sheltered parts be let go in case of emergency. Each of the ship. Very soon we were man also holds on to a life-line. Many abreast, and I sat down to the engine a time when the seas came on board controls, saying to the coxswain that these two were for a few seconds up to I would do my best to give him all the their waists in water. power he wanted. Next in position comes the second The wreck was bow on to the wind mechanic, sitting down the side. Next and sea, so that there was no lee side in the aft part of the boat is myself at on which to shelter while we took the the controls of the machinery. Behind men off. We came down, passing her me stands the second coxswain, and starboard to starboard, with fifty or the coxswain, who is at the wheel, and sixty yards between us, and then many a time his body is brought into turned to come round under her stern use to jam it on the course that he has to her port side. We had a glimpse of set. the slag banks, with the spray flying high over the heads of the men of the The Wreck Seen. life-saving apparatus and people as- As I look round me I can see how the sembled there. Then once more we buffeting of the wind and the slashing were battling head to wind and sea. of the water is telling on every man. As we came up the port side the first All would have welcomed a five minutes' wave that struck us swept us away. breather, but in an open boat there is Another like that at once would have no shelter—except the canopy—and no carried us on to the rocks, but before referee to call time. We were beginning it came the boat had recovered herself. to feel spent. Conversation dropped. She was under control and took it Any chance remark was answered by a bow on. Then, inch by inch, as it nod or a shake of the head. . . . Then, seemed, we crept along the steamer's unexpected, but not the less welcome, side, at the same time closing in to came a shout from the bowman that he her, making progress between waves, could see the steamer. The effect on losing it again as the waves struck us us all was wonderful. Had the rum and carried us back. ration been dished out, it could not have been more effective in reviving Closing in. our spirits. The wreck was clearly As we closed in towards the stern we defined, but as yet too far away for us received signals to come farther ahead to see any of the crew. to the forward-deck. This surprised As we had kept well off shore since the coxswain, who had intended to get passing Seaton Scar, our course would alongside the after-deck, where there was take us wide of the steamer. When we more shelter, but he sang out : " All got level with her we were about a right," and again we struggled ahead, mile out to sea, sO that the coxswain with the engine all out. Then someone could drop down to her with the wind called out that the steamer was split on our starboard quarter instead of in two amidships, and the plates rent ahead. This meant that we could lower open above the water-line. the sail well before we reached the The coxswain took the boat on until wreck, and what headway we had to we had got some distance ahead of the make could be made by the engine steamer, then he gave orders to the alone. The coxswain made for the bowman to drop anchor. He obeyed, wreck. The wind blew us down to it. but the anchor did not hook.' It was It was easy going with the wind. That hauled in again, but the life-boat had NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 353

By courtesy of] [K. Bonnington, WorUngtan THE s.s. "PLAWSWORTH" ON THE ROCKS.

THE MARYPORT LIFE-BOAT AND HER CREW. The Priscilla Macbean, a 35-ft. self-righting life-boat, with a 15 h.p. engine. This boat, which rescued the crew of the Plauisworth, has now been replaced by a 35-ft. 6-in. Liverpool life-boat, with a 35 h.p. engine. The new boat was named on 27th September. (See page 381.) 354 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. now lost the right position. We had without knowing the results, or even to do it over again. The coxswain gave the why or the wherefore. no sign, except that he put a sharper It was only next day that I learned edge to his orders, and I heard him say that a rope securing the life-boat to that he " would have to take a round the steamer was continually snapping turn out of her." in two, due to the strain it had put When the life-boat came into position upon it, and also that one of the crew once more he ordered the anchor to be when jumping missed his footing and thrown overboard and not paid out as finished up sprawling half in and half before. This time it held. He ordered out of the life-boat, from which dan- me to stop the engine. Then, with the gerous position he was quickly hauled men paying out the cable, the life-boat into safety. This last item I first was carried by the wind nearer and heard on the radio in the second news nearer to the steamer. We were tossed bulletin that night, while I was enjoying and carried hither and thither like a a comfortable smoke by the fire, after cork—in fact, more than a cork, for a a hot bath and a change into dry life-boat is more exposed to the wind clothing. and is just as buoyant. We would be swept broadside against the wreck. The Rudder Damaged. Ten seconds later we would be as many I believe it was when the rope parted yards away. for the second time that the life-boat Most of the crew of the steamer were was dashed hard up against the now on the forward-deck. All of them steamer. The breaking of the rope wore life-jackets. At least two were had caused her to swing out from the standing on the taffrail and clinging to steamer. The next wave lifted her up the rigging, ready to jump at the first and swung her in by the stern. She chance. Our coxswain warned them received the blow on her aft end-box not to rush it; to come one at a time ; and rudder yoke. Her steering gear and I think they soon saw that they was damaged, the yoke being bent could not rush it, for when the oppor- down and falling foul of the end-box tunity came it came from a combination casing, so that the steering gear was of circumstances, and in a second it had out of action for starboard helm. The gone again. second coxswain came down aft to inspect the damage, but as nothing The Difficulties of Keeping Alongside. could then be done with it, the cox- swain ordered him forward again to From now onwards, as I sat under the the assistance of the men there. canopy at the controls, I could only see I remember one of the first men to in fragments what was happening. I jump came aft, partly for shelter—none was receiving orders from the coxswain of the rescued had oilskins on—and thick and fast: "Ahead," "Stop," partly to give all the available deck " Astern," and I could only see above space forward for the crew to jump on. and at right angles. The canopy cut This man called out the Christian name off my view forward. On the star- of a man who was still on board the board side was the huge bulk of the steamer, and as it was also my name, steamer ; on the port was the open sea. I naturally turned to look at him. He From what I could gather from the said : " Where are you from ? " I orders of the coxswain to the men answered : " Maryport." Just then I forward, things were not turning out got a dig in the back from the cox- to his liking. The two vessels had swain. " I gave you astern. Mind separated, and could not come close your work," he jerked out. I obeyed with each other. All the manoeuvring the order and took the hint. Ques- of engine and helm failed to place and tions could wait until there was more keep the life-boat where the ship- time for them. wrecked crew could jump aboard her. So much I gathered, but I was feeling Waiting to Jump. out of the game. I refer to the robot- Some ten or twelve men had now been like way in which I was working, transferred to the life-boat. How they altering the controls to the orders given had fared when taking the leap, I can- NOVEMBER, 1984.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 355 not say, but of the last one I have a behind the bulwark. One of them, clear impression. He would be a man cupping his hands to his mouth, sang getting up in years, between fifty and out: " That's the lot; the rest are sixty, probably more. As the life- staying on for the present." " How boat dipped in the trough of the sea many ? '' asked the coxswain. '' Five,'' he appeared in my angle of view over came the reply. "Sure you won't the canopy. He had climbed up on to come ? " asked the coxswain. The the steamer's taffrail, and was hanging answer was again negative. So the on to the rigging for balance. As the coxswain ordered the rope to be cast life-boat rose on the next wave he was off, and " ahead " with the engine. At cut out of my view, but as we came the same time that we steamed up to up on the top of the wave I heard a our cable the men forward pulled it in, warning shout:'' Not yet.'' The warn- and then finally the anchor was hauled ing was justified, for the life-boat swept on board. aft and away from the side of the " Give the engine full speed," said the steamer, and the man was still in the coxswain to me. I replied that she was same position when I saw him again; already " full out." We made very and there he had to remain, buffeted slow progress as we tried to make by the wind and drenched by the spray, headway without the aid of the sail. until we manoeuvred into position Eventually we drew away from the again, a matter of some minutes. What steamer, and once more I was free to his thoughts were, I do not know, but stand up, stretch my legs, and take a if he were anticipating his coming jump look round. into a small boat that was tossed like a cork moving in three directions at once, A Gift of Tobacco. it would test his nerve. Up or down, We received many thanks and there backwards or forwards, in towards the were many expressions of gratitude— steamer or away from it. Imagine all " Thank God for that," and such-like— three, and then add to them a rolling from the rescued men. One man deck, always inclined one way or the gave the coxswain a half-pound packet other, and you will see that it was a test of shag tobacco, and this the coxswain for a young man's nerve, let alone for gave to me to stow away. It was an elderly man's. already saturated with sea-water, so I placed it under the canopy, which pro- The Moving Wreck. tected it from the spray and the occa- What made matters worse was that sional waves that broke over us. To we were gradually but definitely becom- protect the rescued men from these ing the weather side of the ship. This waves, a canvas dodger had been spread was due to her dragging her anchors. over them, and was doing good service. As her stern was aground, she could They now began to tell us about their only 4nove sideways. That was what bad luck after eight days of gales from was happening; her bows were very Hamburg, through the Channel and slowly moving to starboard. Every Irish Sea; three days overdue, with minute was making our position more consequent shortage of food ; two days difficult and more dangerous. on biscuits and such-like emergency I have held you in a state of sus- rations; and how they had arrived off pense as to the old man's fate. Well, Workington the night before with a that was just how he was kept as he gale still blowing. And then the finish waited for a chance to jump. Time when she was swept fore and aft by one after time, as we dipped, did I catch huge wave that put her steering out of sight of him still clinging to the rigging. action, leaving her at the mercy of At last his chance came. " Now," the storm; her anchors failing to shouted the coxswain—and down he hold, and her final grounding on the came into the life-boat, falling plump bank; how she was quickly going to on the second mechanic—a nice soft pieces; her plates bursting, some of fall. her holds full of water, her after-deck No more men climbed on the taffrail, working under their feet; and how they but two officers in their gold- and abandoned that deck for the better silver-badged and peaked caps stood half of the ship. 356 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1984.

Steering a Crippled Life-boat. waves breaking right over her bridge. Our coxswain still had his hands full, To get over the bank and under her for the life-boat was crippled. The lee was hopeless. Our coxswain could helm jammed when put over to star- judge the amount of water round the board, making steering more difficult, steamer by the height of her propeller and adding to his responsibility, but arch, which was showing above the the handicap did not prevent him from breakers. making a good position from which he Our signalman attempted to com- could run for the harbour, which we municate by semaphore with those left reached in some fifteen or twenty on board. He was not successful in minutes from the time of leaving the getting their attention, but we saw wreck. Over the bar we safely passed signals passing in the International into calmer water. Up Workington Code between the wreck and a steamer harbour we steered for a landing. in the harbour. The coxswain decided People appeared everywhere and to return to Workington to get the cheered heartily. latest information, and we found that We put the men—thirteen in number the message sent was that the wreck —ashore, into the care of the Ship- would be dry in an hour's time. In wrecked Mariners' Society. Then we an hour the men still on board would inspected the damage to the steering, be safe, unless—which fortunately did and checked over the machinery to see not. happen—the steamer went to that everything was in order. The pieces in the meantime. damage to the steering required imme- There was nothing more that the diate attention, so the bolts securing life-boat could do, but we had still to the yoke to the stock were removed and make our passage home. We bowled the *y°ke lifted off the rudder. The along in a following wind, a reef in coxswain was told of a firm of ship- our sail, and the engine at about three- repairers who could straighten the quarters throttle. There was every damaged yoke, and the blacksmith who promise of a quick passage ; and we got was detailed for the job made it the it. There were still two thrills left next one to go into his forge. for us after all the events of the after- We had now time for a smoke, and noon. some of us would have enjoyed a little Two Monstrous Waves. refreshment, but the coxswain was at the ship-repairers' supervising the work, A great wave swelled and then curled so the opportunity passed. as it raced up behind us. I must have felt it coming, for I looked round as it was rearing and roaring high above Off Again. the stern—then down it came, flooding A shout from the other side of the the boat, and almost broaching her to. harbour attracted our attention as we I was lifted off my stool, but I held fast were replacing the yoke and screwing to the canopy. The wave buried up the securing bolts. A man was everything. As I was lifted to my waving his hand towards the position feet it passed on. The men forward of the wreck, and shouting that we were buried in it, then their heads and were wanted. We hurried up with the shoulders came into view, and as it work ; replaced our life-belts, which we raced ahead it left us partly broadside had removed to obtain a little free- in the trough of the sea, and the boat dom ; started up the engine; reversed filled to the gunwale with water, the a little; then ahead; and off we went men sitting amidships above their again from the calm and shelter of the waists in it. harbour out into the raging storm. Before the next wave reached us the This time the wreck was to leeward of coxswain had again got the life-boat us. We bore down towards her, but end on, and the relieving valves had the coxswain could see that it was emptied out half the water; and then impossible to get alongside. She was a surprising thing happened. This now broadside on, lying in the broken wave lifted us. but it did not race past water of the receding tide, her sides us. Instead it carried us along with it. reaching high out of the water, and the Faster and faster we sped on the back NOVEMBEE, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 357 of the monster. The speed took the There is very little more to tell. The wind out of the sail. The wave swelled bar at. the harbour-mouth did not worry and crested, but still it held us, carrying us, although I believe it troubled a few us on wings of foam. We looked at on shore, but the coxswain judged there each other, thrilled with the spectacle. to be ample water, and by this tune Then the wave left us without any fuss, we were ready to face anything. but a good deal nearer to Maryport, Dusk was falling by the time we and we had a good laugh at these two approached the harbour. The cox- experiences in quick succession. I swain headed her between the piers. noticed that while we were on the crest Over the bar it was broken water, but of the wave the water still in the boat we were through it in quick time, and from the past wave was kept there ; I we sailed up the harbour to the cheers suppose by the pressure of the wave of the patiently waiting crowd. One against the relieving valves. Later we little girl shouted down to her daddy, judged the distance we had been carried and he heard it with delight above all at several hundred yards. the other voices.

Rescued ! ON 20th August the Runswick motor Whitby life-boat. Whitby was a long life-boat, Robert Patton—The Always way away and I did not expect that Ready, rescued a man whose yacht was the yacht would live until the boat in distress in Runswick Bay. The came. account of that service appears on " When I saw the life-boat coming page 364. Here is another account of out of Runswick Bay I could not the same service—by the man who was believe that it was true. How the rescued. crew saw a little yacht like Ariel three or four miles out at sea, in all that "It is very difficult indeed to write welter of spray and sea, I do not know, this letter when it is almost certain that but see her they did. To manoeuvre I owe my life to the Institution and the boat beside the yacht was very the men who manned the life-boat. It difficult indeed in such a wind and sea, seems silly to say that my appreciation but after circling round they managed of your work has increased enormously, to place her alongside in such a way but I had no idea of the perfection of that I was able to jump on board. your, organization. But perhaps you That this in itself was a feat of seaman- would most like to hear of the way in ship, considering that a full gale was which the life-boat was handled by the blowing, you will readily understand. crew. " The crew were extraordinarily kind " When Ariel, the small yacht in to me and did everything in their power which I was sailing, became unman- to help me, both while I was at Runs- ageable off Runswick Bay on Monday, wick Bay and while I was on board the 20th August, I had very little hope boat. They are amongst the finest that I would live. The storm jib, the and most independent lot of fellows I only sail that it was possible to hoist have ever met. in such a gale, had blown out, and the " I have suffered considerable finan- yacht was lying broadside on to the cial loss through the sinking of the wind and sea and was rapidly drifting Ariel and cannot send you as large a away from the land. I knew that there subscription as I would like to, but I was a life-boat at Whitby but it did not am enclosing a cheque for £3 3s. for occur to me that there was also one at the time being, and if you will forward Runswick Bay, so that the only hope a bankers draft I will complete this so I had was that someone might see that you will have a regular subscrip- me from the shore and send out the tion from me." A* 358 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

Life-boat Calendar and Christmas Card

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The Calendar. The Christmas Card. THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card. The Christmas card will be a four- The calendar will have on it a page card with a reproduction in reproduction in colours of a picture by colours of the same picture. The the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the card will have the Institution's crest rescue by the Cromer motor life-boat of inside and Christmas and New Year the crew of two men of the barge Sepoy greetings, but no other printing. The in December, 1933. This was one of price will be 3d. each, including the the three outstanding services of the envelope. If twenty-five or over are year. Coxswain Henry Blogg was ordered the name and address can be awarded the silver medal for it, and printed under the greetings. The price each member of the crew the thanks of of the cards, with name and address the Institution inscribed on vellum. printed, will be 5d. each for quanti- The calendar, as in previous years, ties from twenty-five up to fifty, will have the record of lives saved and 4td. each for quantities from fifty printed on the front and other particu- up to one hundred. If a hundred or lars on the back. over are ordered no charge will be It will be 111 inches long by 9 inches made for printing the name and wide, and can be obtained from the address. Institution in any quantity, post free, Those who wish to order calendars Is. each, or 105. a dozen, this price and cards should do so at once. Orders including an envelope with each calen- should be sent to the Secretary, Royal dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, National Life-boat Institution, 42, Gros- just under four ounces, so that it can venor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and be sent through the post, with the postal orders or stamps enclosed with envelope open, for Id. them. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 359 Services of the Life-boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management. September Meeting. North Berwick. She stood by until Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 the trawler was refloated with the aid A.M. on the 18th June the honorary of a tug, and returned to her station secretary received a telephone message at 4.15 P.M. She had been on service that an aeroplane had been seen to fall for nearly seven hours.—Rewards, £5. into the water near No. 6 buoy, off Shanwell Sands. The motor life-boat The Lizard, Cornwall.—On the night John Ryburn was away within five of the llth July the steamer Runnel- minutes, and found that the steamer stone, of London, ran aground under Charles Barrie had picked up the pilot, Hot Point in a dense fog. She was who had come down by parachute. He bound, in ballast, from London to was uninjured, but suffering from Swansea, and carried a crew of twelve. shock, so the life-boat took him to Her SOS signals were heard, and the Tayport, where an ambulance was motor life-boat Duke of York was waiting. The life-boat arrived back at launched to her help at 10.45 P.M. A her station at 1.15 P.M. The service light south wind was blowing and the was carried out in fine weather, and the sea was smooth, but the steamer's sea was smooth.—Rewards, £4 16s. captain asked the life-boat to stand by, as he feared that with the rising tide Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning the steame'r would sink. A signal was of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a made for a tug, but before one arrived yacht, about three and a half miles the steamer refloated under her own south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress power on the flood tide. The life-boat signal. A moderate west gale was accompanied her until the captain re- blowing, and the sea was rough. As ported that she was not making any the motor life-boat was undergoing water, and then returned to her station. overhaul, the No. 2 pulling and sailing She got back at 5 A.M.—Rewards, £16. life-boat James Leath was launched, at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 11.58 A.M. She found that the yacht morning of the 12th July the Fraser- was the Albion, of Burnham-on-Crouch, burgh coastguard telephoned that the in difficulties owing to stress of weather. watchman at Cairnbulg had reported The life-boat drew alongside and the a steam drifter ashore on Cairnbulg yacht's crew of three jumped aboard Briggs. The sea was smooth, with her and asked to be landed. This was a light S.E. breeze, but a dense fog done, and then the life-boat returned had settled, and the fishing fleet was to the yacht. As there was not suffi- due in from sea. A few minutes after cient water to get into Southwold the first call a message came that a harbour, some life-boatmen were put fishing boat was ashore near Kinnaird. on board the yacht and both vessels The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was made for Lowestoft, which was reached launched at 11.5 A.M. She found that at 5.15 P.M. The life-boat returned to the fishing boat, which had gone ashore her station at 9.30 A.M. next day.— near Kinnaird, had refloated, and that Property Salvage Case. the drifter Ophirland, of Portknockie, had also been ashore, but she, too, Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — The had got off under her own power. The steam trawler Pelagos, of Granton, ran life-boat then went on to Cairnbulg and ashore on South Carr rocks in a dense met the Fraserburgh steam drifter fog on the morning of the llth July, Sprig o' Heather, which had just re- while returning to Granton from the floated. The life-boat escorted her into North Sea fishing grounds. A moderate harbour, and returned to her station at east breeze was blowing, and the sea 12.10 P.M.—Rewards, £5 3s. was smooth. The motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched at Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning 9.30 A.M., and found the Pelagos on of the 13th July a visitor set out from the rocks about three miles east of Boscombe in a small boat with the 360 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. object of rowing to Swanage. He had her help at 4.5 P.M. The life-boat came no knowledge of the tides and got into up with her about two and a half miles difficulties. At 3.20 P.M. he was seen S.S.E. of the life-boat station, took her by the Swanage coastguard between in tow and brought her back. The Peveril Ledge buoy and Durlston Head, life-boat returned to her station at but he was not then in danger. Later 4.50 P.M.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d. the weather became bad for a small boat, and the motor life-boat Thomas Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—Late on Markby was launched at 5.42 P.M. A the evening of the 18th July informa- strong S.W. breeze was now blowing, tion was received that a small rowing and a heavy ground swell was running. boat, with a man and a woman on About half-way between St. Aldhelm's board, appeared to be unmanageable Head and Anvil Point the boat was and was drifting out to sea with the seen ashore on a most dangerous part strong ebb tide. A moderate westerly of the coast. The man had tried to breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea climb the cliffs, but had found it im- and showers of rain. Darkness was possible. The life-boat anchored and setting in and it was decided to send dropped in as near as possible, and then the motor life-boat George and Sarah a line was got ashore by means of the Strachan out before the boat was lost line-throwing gun. The man made the to sight. The life-boat got away at line fast to the bow of his boat and 9.24 P.M., came up with the boat about the life-boat towed her off and took her two and a half miles S.E. of Dunbar, back to Swanage. The life-boat arrived and towed her back. The life-boat back at her station at 6.50 P.M.—Re- returned to her station at 10.30 P.M. wards, £5 12s. —Rewards, £9 8s. St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor life- Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—The Brix- boat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M. ham fishing boat Replete, with a crew on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock of four, was trawling off the Wolf lighthouse was making flag and rocket lighthouse on the night of the 14th signals, but, owing to the misty weather, July. She caught fire, and the crew, the flags could not be read. A strong after trying to get the flames under W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a control, had to abandon her in their rough sea. An urgent message for small boat. The flames were seen from Trinity House was thrown to the life- the shore, and the motor life-boat The boat, which brought it ashore. She Newbons was launched at 12.15 A.M. on arrived back at her station at 5.35 P.M. the 15th. A moderate N.N.W. breeze —The Trinity House defrayed the was blowing, with a moderate sea. The expenses of this launch. life-boat found the Replete ablaze from stem to stern. Her crew had gone on Padstow, Cornwall.—On the evening board another Brixham boat. They of the 29th July the coastguard re- were transferred to the life-boat, which ported that a yacht was in distress in stood by until, at 4.30 A.M., the Replete Constantine Bay. A strong S.W. sank. The men were then landed at breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. Sennen and the life-boat returned to The No. 2 motor life-boat Princess her station at 7 A.M. The skipper of Mary put out at 7.10 P.M., and found the Replete wrote to the coxswain the motor fishing boat Only Two, of thanking the life-boat's crew—Re- Newquay, anchored just clear of the wards, £15 8s. 6d. breakers on a lee shore. She carried a crew of four. Both her engines had Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July broken down and she was helpless and four visitors, two men and two women, in great danger. A line was passed to put out in a small boat from Benllech. her, and she and her crew were towed A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, safely back to Padstow. The life-boat with a moderate sea. The boat soon returned to her station at 10 P.M. The got out of control and was carried away captain of the Only Two wrote a letter from land into rough water. Luckily, expressing his high appreciation of the she was seen from the shore, and the life-boat's services and the kindness motor life-boat G.W> was launched to shown to him*—Rewards, £5 12s. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 361 Moelfre, Anglesey. — Shortly after found the boat at anchor about 150 noon on the 31st July a small boat, yards off the shore with the seas which had put out from Benllech with breaking over her. Her motor had two men on board, was seen to be failed and her mast had been carried in difficulties. A strong S.W. breeze away. The life-boat was anchored was blowing with a rough sea, and the dropped down to the boat and rescued boat was in great danger. The motor her crew of two. The life-boat reached life-boat G.W. put out at 12.30 P.M., her station again at 9.45 A.M. The and found the boat waterlogged. She fishing boat was left at anchor, but later could not have remained afloat much drifted ashore.—Rewards, £14 12s. 6d. longer. The two men were rescued, and their boat was towed back to Moelfre. Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 4 P.M. on the The life-boat returned to her station at 10th August the coastguard reported a 1.30 P.M.—Rewards, £5 12s. small yacht at anchor about a mile to the south of the station. As the wind T e n b y , Pembrokeshire.—On the was rising, a close watch was kept. evening of the 1st August the coast- Later another yacht was reported at guard reported that a motor boat in the anchor off East Lane. By 7.30 P.M. a bay was dragging her anchor towards moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with the beach. A strong S.E. breeze was a rough sea and rain, and the moto. blowing, and it was raining. The sea life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. was heavy. The life-boat crew were She found the first yacht to be the assembled, and as the motor boat was Jackdaw, of Wallasea Bay, with a crew still driving ashore, the motor life-boat of three aboard, bound from Southwold John R. Webb was launched at 7.35 P.M. to Walton. She had been dragging her She found that the boat was the Help, anchor and her crew had decided to with two men on board. Her engine leave. The life-boat took them off and had broken down, and her sails had shortly afterwards she sank. The life- blown away. The two men were res- boat went on to the second yacht off cued and landed at the pier, and the East Lane. She was the Chanticleer, life-boat returned to her station at 9.30 of London, with a crew of five on P.M. She could not be rehoused at board, and bound from Lowestoft to once, however, owing to the state of the Gravesend. At the request of the sea. The Help was later blown ashore owner the life-boat took her in tow to and wrecked.—Rewards, £14 14s. Harwich, which was reached just before midnight. The life-boat returned to Bridlington, Yorkshire.—The motor her station next morning. A donation life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched of £20 was received by the Institution at 4 P.M. on the 2nd August to the help from the owner of the Chanticleer.—Re- of the fishing boat Hyperion, with a wards, £34 8s. crew of five, which was in difficulties owing to engine trouble. A moderate Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.35 S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough P.M. on the 10th August a telephone sea, and the tide was ebbing. The life- message was received from the Hon. boat came up with the Hyperion about George Colville, deputy chairman of the a mile to the S.S.E. of Bridlington, and committee of management, directing escorted her into harbour at 6.35 P.M. the life-boat to proceed at once to a —Rewards, £6 12s. 6d. position between Gurnard Ledge and Saltmead, where several dinghies, Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.45 A.M. on which were taking part in the Town the 7th August information was re- Regatta at Cowes, had capsized. The ceived by telephone that the Great weather was thick, with rain squalls, a Yarmouth fishing boat Handy Billy rough sea and strong W.S.W. breeze. was in distress about one and a half At 1.49 P.M. the motor life-boat miles to the northward. A fresh E. by B.A.S.P. put out, and reached the S. breeze was blowing and the sea was position at 2.30 P.M. She saved four very heavy in the broken water. The dinghies, Shearwater, Fillister, Departure pulling and sailing life-boat Charles and another, by towing three into Burton was launched at 7.5 A.M. and harbour, and hauling the fourth on 362 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

board. Their crews had been rescued anchored, but the anchor had parted, before the life-boat arrived.—Property and she was driving towards the shore. Salvage Case. With the help of the life-boat the Gloamin' took her in tow and brought Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman re- her into Bridlington Harbour. The ported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M. life-boat was taken ashore on the South on the 10th August that a yacht had Beach at 11.15 P.M., the operations been dismasted a mile south of Dun- being watched by a large crowd of geness. She was the Bluebird, bound visitors.—Rewards, £14 10s. for Portsmouth from Dover, with an officer of the Royal Marines and an Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the officer of the Royal Artillery on board. afternoon of the 14th August the At noon the motor life-boat Charles coxswain was told that some people Cooper Henderson put out into a rough were in danger of drowning in Thorn- sea, with a moderate, but increasing, wick Bay. about two miles north of south-westerly gale. The crew of the Flamborough Head. The wind was Bluebird found that they could make only light, from the north, but a very no progress in the heavy seas, and heavy sea was running, and as, no accepted the life-boat's help. With the other suitable boat was available, the yacht in tow she arrived at Folkestone No. 1 pulling and sailing life-boat about 2.15 P.M. and then, having seen Forester was launched at 5.15 P.M. The the yacht moored, returned to Dun- life-boat found four men clinging to eness, arriving at 5.30 P.M.—Rewards, the cliffs with the seas breaking over f 11 10s. 6d. them. It was impossible to reach them from above, as the cliffs overhung con- Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 10th siderably, and the men could climb no August the paddle steamer Clacton higher. As the flood tide had still two Queen, of Rochester, left Clacton to hours to run they were in great danger. visit Chatham, where Navy Week was The coxswain dropped anchor and being held. She carried a company of veered in as near as possible. With several hundred people. She did not great difficulty a line was thrown to the return as expected, and when she was men and they were pulled through the several hours overdue the motor life- water to the life-boat. Then the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched boat hauled out on her cable and the to investigate. It was then 1.48 A.M. rescued men were taken to Flam- on the llth. The weather was fine, borough, where they received medical although the sea was rough, with a attention. The life-boat arrived back strong south-westerly breeze. The at her station at 7 P.M. This was a life-boat found the steamer abreast of very smart service, and the committee the Swin Middle, and learned from the decided to award a framed letter of skipper that he had been unable to thanks to the coxswain, George Leng, find the Bell Buoy, which would give and additional monetary rewards to him his course into Clacton. The life- each member of the crew.-—Rewards, boat piloted her in, and they reached £17 2s. Clacton pier at 4.15 A.M.—Rewards, £11 3s. St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secre- Bridlington, Yorkshire. — During a tary of the station was out fishing near moderate N. by E. gale with a heavy Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, sea and rain, on the 13th August, in- in the motor boat Penguin. The engine formation was received from the coast- broke'down, and owing to the strong guard that the fishing vessel Protect Me ebb tide it was impossible to row the II was signalling for help about three boat home, although the sea was calm and a half miles off Hornsea. The and there was no wind. The honorary motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was secretary signalled with a morse lamp launched at 7.15 P.M., and went to the to Bishop Rock lighthouse and the St. vessel, followed by another fishing boat, Agnes coastguard, and news was passed the Gloamin'. She found that the to St. Mary's. The motor life-boat Protect Me II, with a crew of four, had Cunard was launched at 9.40 P.M., but NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT.

By courtesy of} [ Central Press Photos. THE RESCUE OF A YACHT. The Southwold motor life-boat towing in Wild Duck II on 22nd September. (See page 372.;

By courtesy of] [H. Wood, HuMersfidd. TRAPPED UNDER THE CLIFFS. The Flamborough life-boat rescuing four men on 14th August. (See opposite page.) 364 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. found on arrival that a motor boat had Dunwich Bight which were trying to put out from St. Agnes and had taken make Southwold harbour were in the Penguin in tow. The life-boat took danger. A moderate to strong S.S.W over the rope and brought the Penguin breeze was blowing and the sea was home. She returned to her station at rough. The motor life-boat Mary 11.30 P.M.—The expenses of this service Scott was launched at 11.15 A.M. and did not fall on the Institution. came up with the boats, the Emma, with two men on board, and the Boy Dover, Kent.—-On the night of the Billie, with one man, about one mile 17th August Ramsgate coastguard south of Southwold. The men were telephoned that South Goodwin light- taken into the life-boat and their boats vessel had reported SOS signals and were taken in tow. Owing to the state flares about two and a half miles south- of tide and sea at the harbour entrance east of the light-vessel. The sea was it was decided not to attempt the smooth and the weather was fine. The crossing with the boats in tow, and the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary put life-boat took them to Lowestoft. She out at 10.20 P.M., and found-the motor returned to her station at 4.45 P.M. yacht Romantic, with three people on —Rewards, £8 8s. board. She was on passage from Ostend to Ramsgate, but her engine Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — Dur- had broken down. At the request of ing a south-westerly gale on the 20th her master two of the life-boat crew August the yacht Mizpah, of Liverpool, went on board and then the life-boat which had been anchored in the bay towed her into Dover. The life-boat overnight, dragged her anchor and was arrived back at her station at 1 A.M. quickly driven out to sea. A rough sea on the 18th.—Property Salvage Case. was running and the weather was squally. The motor life-boat Thomas Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —On the 20th and Annie Wade Richards was launched August the motor barge Mardy, of to her help at 10.30 A.M., and overtook King's Lynn, ran ashore on the outer her about four miles out. The three shoal at the entrance to the River Aide. men on board were rescued and the She carried a crew of six, and was bound Mizpah was towed back to a safe with a cargo of coal from Boston to mooring. The life-boat returned to her Aldeburgh. News was received from station at 1.30 P.M. The Llandudno the coastguard, and the No. 1 motor life-boat had previously saved this life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched yacht and rescued her crew of three on at 1.15 P.M. A moderate south gale the 6th May last. —Rewards, £7 17s. was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the Mardy awash, but Runs wick, Yorkshire.—At about 1.45 her master did not wish to abandon P.M. on the 20th August a small sailing ship. The life-boat anchored and stood yacht, with one man on board, was by until the tide ebbed. Then, as the seen trying to make Staithes harbour. master said that he would signal for A gale was blowing from the south-west. the life-boat if he needed her at the After several unsuccessful attempts the next high tide, she returned to her yachtsman apparently decided to give station, arriving at 8.25 P.M. The it up, and ran south before the wind, Mardy refloated on the next tide and which had increased in strength and went on her way. The call for the life- veered to west by north. Some time boat had been expected ; the crew had later the yacht's only sail was carried assembled ; and the boat was launched away, and she began rapidly to drift in what is claimed to be record time. seawards. The Runswick motor life- Only two minutes forty-eight seconds boat Robert Potion—The Always Ready elapsed from the firing of the first was launched at 3.40 P.M., and came maroon until she was let go.—Rewards, up with the yacht, which was the £19 8s. 6d. Aerial, of Sunderland, about three and a half miles off shore. The man was Southwold, Suffolk.—On the morning taken into the life-boat, and shortly of the 20th August the coastguard re- afterwards his yacht foundered. The ported that two motor fishing boats in life-boat returned to her station at NOVEMBER, 1984.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 365 4.45 P.M. (An account of the service manned by two life-boatmen, the doctor by the rescued man will be found on and the policeman, and was rowed in page 357.)—Rewards, £10 Is. 6d. towards the cliff, where the man was seen floating. One of the life-boatmen St. Abbs, Berwickshire. — On the went overboard with a line and got morning of the 20th August a strong him into the boat, but he was found gale blew up from the south-east, with to be dead. The life-boat brought the driving rain and a rough sea. As the body to Swanage and returned to her local motor fishing boats Victory and station at 7 P.M.—Rewards, £5 17s. Billows Crown were still at sea, the motor life-boat Helen Smitton was Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—The No. 1 motor launched at 9.45 A.M. The Victory was life-boat Abdy Beawlerk was launched found south of Fast Castle Point. Her at 2.58 P.M. on the 21st August, as the engine was giving trouble, and she was coastguard had reported that a yacht shipping water from the heavy seas. about three-quarters of a mile S.E. Her owner, who was on board with his of Orford was signalling for help. A young son, managed to re-start the moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, engine and the life-boat escorted her and the sea was rough. The life-boat back to harbour. No sign of the other found the yacht to be the Ilka, of boat had been seen, so the life-boat put London, with six people on board. out again immediately. She found her The owner said that he did not want making very slow progress towards to be taken off, but asked the coxswain harbour, having had to abandon her to get him into safety. A rope was lines about ten miles out, and accom- passed, and the Ilka was towed to panied her in. The life-boat returned Slaughden quay. Some of the life- to her station at 12.45 P.M.—Rewards, boat crew went aboard the Ilka and none, as no rewards are desired by moored her, and then a doctor was the life-boat crew for services to local fetched, as a woman on the yacht was fishing boats. ill. On his advice the life-boat took her ashore. The life-boat then re- Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex. — On the turned to her station, arriving at evening of the 21st August a message 8.45 P.M. The Institution received a was received from the pier head that donation of £10 in recognition of the a barge was in a dangerous position service.—Rewards, £18 9s. Qd. west of the pier. She was the Florence Montrose, Angus.—Retween eight and Myall, of Rochester, with a crew of two, nine on the morning of the 27th August and her sails had been blown away. A the wind increased to a strong S.S.E. strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with gale. In the face of a strong ebb tide a rough sea. The motor life-boat this set up a heavy sea on the bar, and Greater London put out at 9.55 P.M., made the entrance into harbour very to wed'the barge to safety on the other dangerous. Six local motor fishing side of the pier, and returned to her boats, with crews numbering twenty- station at 11.5 P.M.—Rewards, £11 16*. four, were at sea, and the motor life- boat John Russell was launched at Swanage, Dorset.—At 6 P.M. on the 9.15 A.M., in case her help was wanted. 21st August the coastguard telephoned In the absence of the coxswain and that the police had reported that a second coxswain at sea, an ex-second man had fallen 150 feet over the cliff coxswain took command. She stood near Old Harry Rocks, and was badly by at the bar until all the boats were injured. Owing to the difficulty of safely in, and returned to her station trying to haul him up the cliff it was decided to send out the motor life-boat at 11.30 A.M.—Rewards, £6 7s. Thomas Markby. She left at 6.4 P.M., Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the taking a small boat in tow, and carrying, 28th August three men, with two small in addition to her crew, the honorary boys and a boatman, put out from secretary, a doctor and a policeman. Totland Bay in the motor launch A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with Oberon to go fishing. The boat's engine a moderate sea. When the life-boat broke down and she drifted on to arrived at the scene, the small boat was Shingle Bank, which is in an exposed 366 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. position about half-way between the Cromarty.—Three boys went out in western end of the island and the the fishing yawl Chrissie Jane, of Hampshire coast. As a moderate Cromarty, on the 29th August, but S.S.W. breeze had sprung up, making found themselves unable to manage the the sea rough, and rain began to fall boat, and were carried towards the heavily, signals of distress were made. dangerous King's Sons' Reef. A The signals were seen on shore and the moderate W.S.W. wind was blowing, motor life-boat B.A.S.P. was launched with a heavy ground swell, and the at 2.37 P.M. Lord Mottistone, a tide was ebbing strongly. The motor member of the committee of manage- life-boat James Macfee put out at ment of the Institution and coxswain 7.50 P.M. and reached the Chrissie Jane of the Brooke life-boat, who happened when she was about 100 yards from the to be in Yarmouth, went with the life- rocks. After taking the boys on board boat as an extra hand. On approaching the life-boat took their boat in tow and the bank the life-boat reduced speed returned to her station, arriving at and soundings were taken continuously, 9 P.M.—Rewards, £7 10s. as with the strong ebb tide there was danger of the life-boat herself running Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the, after- aground. The six people had, by this noon of the 2nd September a small time, landed on the bank and were boat, with a woman and her son on walking up and down to keep warm. board, capsized one and a half miles On the direction of the coxswain they S.S.W. of Ramore Head, in a strong got back into their boat and pushed S.S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea. off, and the life-boat intercepted her The accident was seen by several people, as she drifted away before the wind. and the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was The six people were taken into the life- launched at 4.45 P.M. She was quickly boat and their boat was towed back to on the scene. The woman and boy, Yarmouth. The life-boat returned to who were swimming, were taken on her station at 4.30 P.M. Only a few board and given rum. The life-boat days before one of the rescued boys had landed them at Portrush and returned put his week's pocket money in the to her station at 5.45 P.M.—Rewards, life-boat collecting box, after his father £4 16s. 6d. had explained to him what the box was for.—Rewards, £3 18s. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— coxswain, who knew that the motor The motor life-boat Westmorland was launch which attends on the residents launched at 10.25 P.M. on the 28th of Steep Holm Island was away at the August, as information had been re- island, kept a look out for her, as a ceived from the coastguard that a fresh S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with vessel was ashore on Goswick Sands. heavy rain showers and squalls, and a Rain was falling continuously; a moderate sea. He sighted her about a moderate S.S.E. wind was blowing ; and mile N.E. of Steep Holm, and after the sea was moderate, but rough watching for some time warned the on the bar. The life-boat found the honorary secretary that she appeared stranded vessel at 11.30 P.M. She to be in difficulties. The new motor was the steam trawler Dorileen, of life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched Aberdeen, carrying a crew of nine and at 4.40 P.M., and found that the launch making for North Shields with fish. At was leaking badly and that her engine the master's request the life-boat took had broken down. There were three a deck-hand to Berwick, to get into people on board, a boatman and two touch with the owners, arriving at passengers, a man and a woman. They 1.15 A.M. She left again at 2.45 A.M., were exhausted with baling, but the in order to stand by the trawler as the water was gaining on them. They were tide made, but before she could arrive taken into the life-boat—the launch the Dorileen had got off and gone on being taken in tow—and were safely her way. The life-boat returned to landed at Anchor Head, but the launch Berwick, arriving at 5 A.M.—Rewards, sank. The life-boat returned to her' £9 13s. station at 6.30 P.M. One of the rescued NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 367

men wrote a letter of thanks and sent in tow. The Shoreham life-boat re- a donation and another promised to be- turned to her station at 1.45 P.M. One come a subscriber.—Rewards, £5 8s. 6d. of the rescued men sent a letter of thanks to the Institution, and has be- Piel (Barrow), Lancashire.—On the come a subscriber.—Rewards : Shore- 2nd September the yacht Wallaroo, ham Harbour, £7 15*. 6d. ; Newhaven, which was pleasure-cruising with five £5 16«. people on board, was overtaken by bad weather. She got into difficulties and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the was eventually anchored in a dangerous morning of the 4th September the position about two miles W. by N. from Needles Royal Naval Signal Station Walney Light, on a lee shore. Her telephoned that a small yacht had signals for help were seen, and the capsized about one mile west of the motor life-boat N. T. was launched at Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P. 8.45 P.M. A moderate and increasing was launched at 10.33 A.M., in a strong south gale was blowing, and a heavy S.W. breeze, with a rough sea. The sea was running. The life-boat fired a coxswain got a bearing from the line over the Wallaroo, but it parted. Needles by means of searchlight signals. A second attempt was successful, and Soon afterwards she found the yacht the life-boat towed her in to Barrow. awash, with two men clinging to her. But for the promptness with which the She was being rapidly carried out to coxswain and crew acted the yacht and sea. The life-boat went as near as those on board would almost certainly possible and rescued the men by means have been lost in the increasing gale. of life-buoys on' lines. One of them The life-boat arrived back at her was in a very exhausted condition. station at midnight. In recognition of They were given restoratives and taken to Yarmouth quay, where a doctor was the life-boat's services the owner of the waiting. The life-boat returned to her Wallaroo later entertained the life-boat station at 12.30 P.M. After warm crew and helpers at a dinner. He has clothing had been provided for them also become an annual subscriber to the two men were taken home by the Institution.—Rewards, £10 17s. Captain A. G. Cole, R.N.R., the Institu- Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, tion's honorary secretary at Yarmouth, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat and given refreshment. Next day they Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was called on him to thank him and the launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd life-boat's crew, and they made a September, as the coastguard had re- donation to the branch funds.—Re- ported red flares some distance W.S.W. wards, £3 185. of the harbour. A strong south gale Cromarty.—On the night of the 4th was blowing, with a very heavy sea. September the coastguard at South The Aveather was thick. No sign of Sutor telephoned that a vessel, pre- any vessel in distress could be seen, and sumably the local motor fishing boat after searching for two and a half hours Prevail, which was overdue, was the life-boat returned to her station. showing distress signals six to seven As she entered the harbour the coxswain miles due east. A moderate and was told by the coastguard that a freshening S.W. breeze was blowing, yacht was in distress off Brighton pier. with a moderate ground swell. The The life-boat at once put about, and motor life-boat James Macfee left her this time found the Betsy, of Ports- moorings at 10.10 P.M., and after mouth, with two Army officers on searching for some time found the board. One of her masts was broken, Prevail about four miles S.E. of Rock and her sails had been blown away. field. She had a crew of five and had The two men were taken into the life- been seine-net fishing. Her engine had boat and their yacht was towed to broken down, and, as she did not carry Newhaven. The Newhaven motor life- enough sail to make headway, she was boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was also drifting helplessly. The life-boat launched, at 7 A.M., but returned to towed her back to harbour, and re- her station when she found that the turned to her station at 1.30 A.M. on Shoreham Harbour boat had the yacht the 5th.—Rewards, £8 15s. 368 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. Fowey, Cornwall.—On the 5th Sep- he was immediately taken to hospital, tember two men and two women, and arrived back at her station at visitors to Polruan, put out from 7.30 P.M.—Rewards, £6 13s. Polruan in the hired motor boat Ken to go for a trip to the beach on the The following life-boats were west side of Atlantic Bay. When the launched, but no services were rendered motor boat neared the beach a heavy for the reasons given : swell carried her on to the rocks, at the foot of very high and almost sheer Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — 3rd June. cliffs, where she was bumping heavily. Rockets were reported, but nothing One of the party managed, with great could be found.—Rewards, £8 4s. 6d. difficulty, to scale the cliff, and went for help." The motor life-boat C.D.E.C. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — 25th June. was launched at 1.49 P.M., taking Rockets were reported, but nothing a small boat with her. A moderate could be found.—Rewards, £11. S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. Three of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. crew manned the small boat, and rowing —-1st July. A steamer stranded on in, rescued the two women and the East Holm Sands, but refloated without man. Then, taking the Ken in tow, help.—Rewards, £16 Is. the life-boat returned with them to Fowey. She got back to her station at Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—llth July. 2.55 P.M.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d. A small boat was supposed to be drifting, off Ryde, but nothing was Gourdon, Kincardineshire. — On the found.—Rewards, £13 10s. morning of the 7th September the majority of the local fishing fleet put Peel, Isle of Man.—13th July. An to sea. Later rain began to fall and upturned boat was reported drifting off the strong S.E. to E. breeze gradually Niarbyl Point, but nothing was found. increased until at noon half a gale was —Rewards, £25 7s. blowing. A heavy sea was running and the harbour entrance was now dan- Portaskaig, Islay. — 16th July. A gerous. The pulling and sailing life- fishing boat was in difficulties, but got boat Moss was launched at 12.20 P.M., to safety without help.—Rewards, and went to the harbour entrance. £13 14s. 6d. Four of the boats ran for Stonehaven The Lizard, Cornwall.—25th July. and the life-boat stood by until the A small boat was in distress, but was rest had got safely in. She returned picked up by a steamer.—Rewards, to her station at 3 P.M.—Rewards, £11 14s. 6d. £17 6s. Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — 26th Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the after- July. A yacht was in difficulties, but noon of the 9th September the coast- managed to get to a safe anchorage. guard telephoned that a man had fallen The mother of one of the boys in the over the cliffs at Pen las Rocks, about yacht sent a letter of thanks and a ten miles from Holyhead, and was donation to the branch.—Rewards, lying seriously injured. All attempts £11 15s. 6d. to rescue him had failed. The motor life-boat A.E.D. put out at 5.15 P.M., Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 26th in a moderate S.W. breeze,, with a July. A motor launch got into diffi- ground swell, and reached the spot culties, but was taken in tow by a pilot about an hour later. She dropped tender.—Rewards, £6 13s. anchor and veered down to the jagged and dangerous rocks. With great care Cromer, Norfolk.—27th July. A and skill the boat was taken into a fishing boat capsized, and the two men creek so narrow that there was only on board were drowned before the life- about two feet to spare on either side, boat could reach her. (See September and the man was rescued. The life-boat number of The Life-boat, page 318.)— brought him back to Holyhead, where Rewards, £7 11s. NOVEMBER, 1984.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 369

Humber, Yorkshire. — 1st August. Mumbles, Glamorgan.—24th August. A motor boat developed engine trouble A fishing boat ran aground, but her and started to drift, but managed to crew got ashore.—Rewards, £8 9s. restart the engine again.—Permanent Donaghadee, Co. Down. — 28th Au- Crew.—Rewards, 6s. gust. A motor yacht caught fire and Plymouth, Devon.—1st August. Dis- foundered, but the crew got ashore in tress signals were reported off Burgh a small boat.—Rewards, £8 18s. 6d. Island, but nothing was found.—Re- Barra Island, Hebrides.—3rd Septem- wards, £9 Is. ber. A fishing smack began to drift, but eventually anchored safely.—Re- Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—1st August. wards, £8 15s. A small sailing boat was reported to be BIyth, Northumberland. — 7th Sep- drifting in the bay, but nothing was tember. A small boat sank in Hartley found.—Rewards, £11 6s. Bay, but her crew were rescued by men Hythe, Kent.—5th August. A motor from St. Mary's Island lighthouse.— boat was reported missing from Little- Rewards, £8 8s. stone, but it got safely ashore.—Re- Swanage, Dorset.—9th September. wards, £20 15«. 6d. A man was reported to be marooned near Old Harry Rocks, but no trace of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—8th August. him could be found.—Rewards, £13 19s. Flares were seen, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £11 3s. October Meeting. Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the after- Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—12th August. noon of the 6th September the coast Four people who were marooned on the watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned rocks near Pendine refused to be taken that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was off by the life-boat, although warned making SOS signals. A moderate that they would not otherwise be able S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather to get away for some hours.—Rewards, was thick. The sea was rough. The £14 85. motor life-boat Elizabeth Elson was launched at 2.45 P.M., and eventually Howth, Co. Dublin.—16th August. found the flying-boat S.1423 about A trawler caught fire and foundered, fourteen miles S.S.W. of Sheep Island, but her crew got ashore in their own in tow of a steamer. She had broken a boat.—Rewards, £14 18s. 6d. wing, and asked the life-boat to stand Holy Island, Northumberland.—20th by her. Shortly afterwards she sig- August.—A motor coble got into diffi- nalled that her crew of six wished to culties, but made harbour without help. be taken off. With great difficulty, —Rewards, £5 15s. owing to the wings and the tow-rope, the life-boat got alongside. The first Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. •—Cork. man fell into the sea, but was rescued 20th August. A small yacht dragged by lines, and the remainder of the crew her anchors and went aground, but her were taken into the life-boat without crew swam ashore.—Rewards, £5 Os. 6d. mishap. Shortly afterwards the flying- boat sank. When the life-boat got back St. Mary's, Scilly.—21st August. A into the smoother waters of Milford yacht was in distress, but was taken in Haven she was met by a Royal Air tow by a steam launch.—Rewards, Force tender. The six men were trans- £5 2s. 6d. ferred to her, and the life-boat returned Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—21st Au- to her station at 8 P.M. The Institution gust. Flares were reported, but nothing received a letter of thanks from the Air was found.—Rewards, £20 9s. 6d. Commodore Commanding Coastal Area, Royal Air Force, in which he wrote that The Humber, Yorkshire.—24th Au- the " promptness with which the SOS gust. A man on the sands was cut call was answered and the seamanlike off by the tide, but managed to get manner in which the boat was handled ashore.—Permanent Crew.—Rewards, was admired by all."—Rewards, 6s. £9 13s. 6d. 370 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On the 7.45 A.M. The fishing vessel was later morning of the 8th September the coast- towed off by a tug and taken into the guard telephoned that a vessel was Humber. — Permanent Crew. -— Re- ashore at Dundonnie Head, about one wards, 9s. mile south of Buchan-ness lighthouse. A moderate south gale was blowing, Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th with a heavy sea, and rain was falling. September a party of three men and The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught two women left Fleetwood in the motor was launched at 11.20 A.M., and found yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine the Grimsby steam trawler Dagon high trouble developed, and the Moonbeam up on the rocks, close to the cliffs. She ran ashore on the North Lighthouse carried a crew of eleven, and was on bank at the entrance to Wyre Channel. her way to the fishing grounds. The She was carrying no sails or oars, and life-saving apparatus company had as a heavy storm broke, with thunder arrived, and it was thought wiser for and lightning, and threatened to swamp the apparatus to get the men off, as her, distress signals were made. Wyre the life-boat could only approach the lighthouse warned the life-boat station, Dagon with great difficulty and danger. and the motor life-boat Sir FitzRoy The life-boat stood by until all the men Clayton was launched at 8.40 P.M. The were landed, and returned to her station two women were taken into the life- at 2.30 P.M.—Rewards, £5 10s. 6d. boat, which then towed the Moonbeam back to safety. The life-boat arrived Stromness, Orkney.—A southerly gale back at her station at 9.40 P.M. A sprang up on the 8th September, and letter of thanks and a donation were as a small motor fishing boat did not received from the owner of the yacht. return home when expected, some —Rewards, £9 19s. anxiety was felt for her safety. Mes- sengers went to Yesnaby and Skaill, Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the but the boat was not sheltering in either afternoon of the 15th September the place. It was decided to send out the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W., and she returning to harbour after her quarterly put off at 2.40 P.M. A whole gale was exercise when a small rowing boat was then blowing, and a heavy sea running. seen near Foreland Point. Owing to The life-boat found the fishing boat in cross currents this is a dangerous place, Hoy Sound and escorted her through and as the tide and current were very the storm to Stromness harbour. The strong, and the sea was very rough, life-boat returned to her station at the boat and the people in her would 3.30 P.M., but could not be rehoused probably have been lost had not help for some hours on account of the been at hand. The life-boat quickly weather.—Rewards, £4 16s. 6d. ran alongside and took off the man and two women who were on board. They Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the were visitors to Donaghadee and did morning of the 8th September the life- not know the danger they had been in. boat watchman saw rockets in the With the small boat in tow the life- direction of Kilnsea, and the motor boat put back to her station, arriving life-boat City of Bradford II was at 4.45 P.M.—Rewards, £4 10s. launched at 5 A.M. A moderate S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the night of sea, and the weather was misty. The the 19th September flares were seen life-boat found the Danish motor fishing about three miles N.E. of the life-boat vessel Noordstjernan, of Fredericks- station. They were repeated shortly haven, ashore two and a half miles after and the motor life-boat Abdy north of the life-boat station. She Beauclerk was launched at 10.30 P.M. carried a crew of four and was returning to investigate. A strong S.W. by S. from the fishing grounds. At the re- breeze was blowing, with a rough sea quest of her skipper the life-boat ran and rain. An hour later the life-boat out an anchor, and stood by her until found the motor barge Gwynronald, of after high water. The life-boat then London. She was bound from Keadby returned to her station, getting back at to Shotley, with a cargo of coal and a NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 371

By courtesy of] [Pelman, AdelpTii, Aberdeen. WRECKED NEAR PETERHEAD. The trawler Dagon, of Grimsby, on the rocks on 8th September.

By courtesy of} [Pelman, Adelphi, Aberdeen. THE RESCUE. Hauling up the Dagon s crew by the life-saving apparatus. (See opposite page.) 372 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1984. crew of three, but her steering gear was slight swell running, and found the out of order, her propeller was broken Lizzie about four miles east of Seaham and she was leaking. At the request Harbour. The two boys, both in a of her master the life-boat tried to tow state of collapse, were taken on board her into Lowestoft, but owing to the and given food, and their boat was impossibility of steering her the attempt towed back to Sunderland. The life- had to be abandoned. The master then boat arrived back at her station at asked the coxswain to go for a tug. 6.15 P.M.—Rewards, £5 3s. This the life-boat did. She then re- turned to the barge at 2.30 A.M. on the Southwold, Suffolk.—The coastguard 20th. Three life-boatmen went aboard telephoned at 12.50 P.M. on the 22nd the barge, set the staysail and finally September that a small yacht about dropped anchor. At 6.30 A.M. the tug half a mile south of the coastguard arrived. A line was passed between station was making signals of distress. tug and barge, and then the barge, A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with the life-boat astern, steering her, with a rough and increasing sea and was towed into Lowestoft at 8.45 A.M. rain squalls. The motor life-boat Mary The life-boat sustained slight damage Scott put out at 1.10 P.M. and came up on this service and was left at Lowestoft, with the yacht—the motor yacht Wild the crew returning home by train.— Duck II, of Woodbridge—about two Property Salvage Case. miles south of Kessingland. Her en- gine had been put out of action by The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the after- heavy seas breaking on board, and she noon of the 19th September the was drifting towards the dangerous pleasure motor boat Sunbeam, of Barnard Sands. Two women and a Cleethorpes, took a party of fourteen man were on board. The women were to Spurn. Shortly after she had left taken into the life-boat, and three life- on the return journey the signal-station boatmen went aboard the yacht, which watchman reported that she appeared was taken in tow. Owing to the falling to be in difficulties, and the motor life- tide and southerly gale it was im- boat City of Bradford II was launched possible to take her into Southwold, at 5 P.M. A strong S.W. breeze was and she was towed to Lowestoft. The blowing, and the sea was very choppy. life-boat returned at 6 P.M., but was The Sunbeam was seen to be lying unable to get into harbour until 7 broadside on to the swell and in the P.M., owing to low water.—Rewards, full strength of the tide. She was £9 Os. 6d. shipping water and all the people on board were wet through. The life-boat Appledore, Devon. — On the 22nd ran alongside and took off thirteen of September two men and a woman were the fourteen on board. Then a rope cruising off Instow in the sailing yacht was passed to the remaining man and No. 7, belonging to Instow Sailing Club. the Sunbeam was towed back to Clee- During the afternoon the wind fresh- thorpes. The life-boat arrived back at ened, until a moderate W.N.W. gale her station at 6.45 P.M.—Permanent was blowing, with a rough sea. Some Crew.—Rewards, 6s. of the life-boat crew who were watching the yacht suddenly saw her over- Sunderland, Co. Durham.—Two boys whelmed by heavy seas, and disappear. put out from Sunderland in the small The motor life-boat V.C.S. put out at boat Lizzie on the night of the 19th 7 P.M., within five minutes of the alarm September, but soon got into difficulties, being given. The three people were and their boat drifted about all night. found floating in the sea about one mile Next day the second coxswain of the N.N.W. of Northam Burrows coast- life-boat was returning from fishing and guard look-out. They were taken on saw the boat still drifting, out of control. board, and the woman soon recovered, He had not sufficient petrol on board but although artificial respiration was to go to the help of the boat, so he tried both in the life-boat and after- called the life-boat out as soon as he wards on shore, neither of the men reached port. She put off at 3.55 P.M., could be revived. The life-boat re- in a moderate W.N.W. breeze with a turned to her station at 8.60 P.M. At NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 873 the inquest which was held on the 24th miles N.W. of Portland Bill was firing the coroner remarked on the very distress signals, and the motor life-boat prompt dispatch of the life-boat, and William and Clara Ryland was launched the jury handed their fees to the at 2.10 P.M. A strong and freshening honorary secretary of the station as a S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough donation to the Institution's funds. sea. The life-boat came up with the The committee of management sent a yacht about six miles off Portland Bill, letter to the branch expressing appre- and found her to be the Lavinia, ciation of the smart manner in which bound, with a crew of two, from Fal- the service was carried out.—Rewards, mouth for Shoreham. Her steering £11 18s. 6d. gear was disabled and her engine out of order. A line was got on board her Wicklow.—On the afternoon of the and she was towed into Weymouth. 29th September a pilot reported to the The life-boat returned to her station at coxswain that two fishing boats, about 4.20 P.M.—Rewards, £19 15s. 6d. a mile east of Five Mile Point, were flying signals of distress. A strong The following life-boats were S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a launched, but no services were rendered heavy sea. The motor life-boat Robert for the reasons given : Theophilus Garden was launched at 3.40 P.M., and found the boats to be Portrush, Co. Antrim.—16th July. Congress Bell and Nancy, of Wicklow, A small boat was reported to be in with crews numbering nine. The Con- difficulties, but it got into safety un- gress Bell was leaking badly, and the aided.—Rewards, £9 7s. crew of the Nancy were exhausted by their efforts to get into safety. The Selsey, Sussex. — 21st August. A men were taken into the life-boat and small sailing boat capsized, but the their boats towed back to harbour. The three men on board got ashore without life-boat returned to her station at help.—Rewards, £5 17*. &d. 5.30 P.M.—Rewards, £6 0*. 6d. Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—6th Sep- The Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the tember. A rowing boat was blown morning of the 3rd October the life- to sea, but was picked up by a fishing boat watchman saw a vessel ashore boat.—Rewards, £10 18s. on the Inner Binks. The weather was then fine, with fog patches. The motor St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—12th Sep- life-boat City of Bradford II was tember. A motor fishing boat caught launched at 5.35 A.M., and found the fire and foundered, but her crew were vessel to be the steam drifter Silver rescued by another fishing boat.—Re- Prince, of Lowestoft, aground in a very wards, £6 4s. awkward position. Nothing could be done* to get the trawler oft until the Boulmer, Northumberland.—13th Sep- tide began to rise, so the life-boat stood tember. The life-boat searched un- by. With the turn of the tide the successfully for a steamer which was wind freshened and the sea began to sounding her siren continuously in a make. The Silver Prince swung round fog.—Rewards, £13 4s. and her skipper wanted the life-boat Anstruther, Fifeshire.—14th Septem- to run out an anchor. On the cox- ber. A trawler ran ashore, but her swain's advice, however, he started his crew were rescued by a motor boat.— engines and she refloated under her Rewards, £8 18s. own power. After she had gone on her way to Grimsby, whither she was Filey, Yorkshire.—14th September. bound from the fishing grounds, the life- A drifter went ashore in a fog, but was boat made for home. She arrived back towed off by motor cobles.—Rewards, at her station at 1.30 P.M.—Permanent £20 14s. 6d. Crew.—Rewards, 13*. 6d. Fowey, Cornwall.—16th September. Weymouth, Dorset.—On the^after- A yacht got into difficulties, but was noon of the 3rd October the coastguard taken in tow by a motor boat.—Re- reported that a smallJyacht about four wards, £2 12s. 6d. 374 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1984. Appledore, Devon.—17th September. liner, to be in distress, but nothing A schooner ran ashore, but her crew could be found.—Rewards, £5 15*. Gd. were not in danger.—Rewards, Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The £13 3*. 6d. Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in Ramsgate, Kent.—19th September. the Channel, and broke in pieces, all A small boat got into difficulties, but seven on board being killed.—Rewards, was taken in tow by a motor boat.— £2 17s. Rewards, £11 16s. Plymouth, Devon.—4th October. A Weymouth, Dorset.—24th September. yacht got into difficulties and ran on a The life-boat searched for a catamaran, sandy beach, but the two people on which got ashore without help.— board managed to get ashore. Later Rewards, £7 16*. Qd. one of them, a lady doctor, gave a present of money to the crew, and a Margate, Kent.—28th September. A donation to the branch.—Rewards, sailing vessel was reported, by an air £13 11s. 6d.

Shoreboat Services. For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management. Bunbeg, Co. Donegal.—At about 5 Staxigoe saw a trawler off Noss Head P.M. on the 14th April Thomas Boyle, making what he thought were signals of Bunbeg, who had come in from of distress. He at once put off in a Innishinney Island earlier in the day motor boat with two other men. A with a load of seaweed, heard shouts, strong north-easterly wind was blow- and saw that another seaweed boat ing, and on getting out of the shelter had sunk in making the harbour. A of Noss Head the rescuers met a rough S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and ran some risk of being sea, and the tide was running strongly. swamped. They found the trawler to Boyle, with his son and another man, be the St. Pauli, of Cuxhaven. She at once put off in his boat, still with was not in distress, but her skipper two tons of seaweed, on board, and wanted a telegram taken ashore.— rowed to the rescue. Owing to the Rewards, £1 2s. 6d., and 2s. Qd. for heavy load the boat was difficult to fuel used. pull, and when they got near the capsized boat the rescuers were much Filey, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon hampered by its seaweed which was of the 1st July information was floating in the water. Two of the four received that some visitors had been men in the ca sized boat were already cut off by the tide at Speeton. Two drowned, but with great difficulty the cobles put off in a calm sea, only to other two were rescued. So little free- find that the visitors had been rescued board had the rescuers' boat that one from the shore by a human chain.— of the three men had to lean out of Allowance for expenses, 10s. her on one side while the other two men, on the other side, dragged the Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the two drowning men on board. Even afternoon of the 26th July a man who then water was shipped. This was a was fishing from a small boat about gallant and skilful rescue carried out at two miles east of Sunderland pier was great risk.—-Rewards : To each of the overtaken by a W.N.W. gale. He three men, Mr. Thomas Boyle, Mr. pulled up his anchor and tried to come Charles Boyle, Mr. John Barr, a letter ashore, but was unable to make head- of thanks and the sum of £2. way, and drifted farther out. He let go the anchor again, but it failed to Stazigoe, Caithness-shire.—On the find bottom, and he signalled for help. afternoon of the 14th May a man at The bowman of the life-boat put NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE I LIFE-BOAT. 375 off in his motor boat with two other service took about one and a half hours. men. With some difficulty, and at One of the rescued men became a slight risk, they rescued the man and subscriber to the Institution.—Re- towed in his boat.—Rewards, £l 10s. wards : To Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, a and 3*. for fuel used. letter of thanks; 10s. to the owner of the motor boat for fuel used, and 12s. 6d. Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the each to two of the rescuers who are not morning of the 27th July three visitors, members of the permanent life-boat two men and a woman, put out in a crew. small boat. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing and outside the bay the sea Hayling Island, Hampshire.—At 12.30 was rough, but close inshore the water P.M. on the 10th August a sailing boat, was smooth and sheltered. The boat with one man on board, capsized in went out too far, and catching the full Chichester harbour, in a moderate force of the gale, was blown rapidly out south-westerly gale, with a rough sea. towards the open sea. The men sig- The man was able to cling to the nalled for help, and the life-boat cox- upturned boat. A boatman, with a swain, the bowman and another man passenger, was fishing about three- put out in a motor boat. When they quarters of a mile away. The two reached the small boat she was in great men saw what had happened and danger near the breakwater and those rowed to the rescue. They got to on board in extreme difficulties and windward, dropped anchor, and veered unable to manage her. They were down to the capsized boat. At slight rescued and their boat towed back to risk they got the exhausted man Port St. Mary.—Rewards, £1 2s. 6d., on board and brought him ashore. and Is. 6d. for fuel used. —Rewards: To Mr. L. P. Nolais, the boatman's passenger, a letter of thanks, Filey, Yorkshire.—At about 5.30 P.M. and 10s. to the boatman. on the 30th July a report was received that a rubber mattress with a man on Skerries, Co. Dublin.—On the night it was being washed out to sea off of the 15th August a motor trawler, St. Reighton Gap. Eight cobles went out Nicholas, of Dublin, caught fire about to search. The mattress was found, fifteen miles E. by W. of Rockabill but there was no trace of the man.— lighthouse. Her crew of seven aban- Allowance for expenses, £2. doned her and went to the lighthouse. Later they left to row to Skerries. A Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On moderate westerly breeze was blowing the afternoon of the 8th August the with a heavy ground swell and the motor yacht Colleen, of Carne, with four night was very dark. The men were people on board, got into difficulties unable to get into harbour and shouted about six miles E.S.E. of Rosslare pier. for help. Four men who were at a Her motor had failed, and her sailing dance heard the shouts, launched a gear was fouled. Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, rowing boat and guided the men the branch secretary, with the life-boat safely in.—Rewards: Letters of thanks coxswain, a member of the crew, and to Dr. Norman May, Mr. Vincent two other men, put off in a motor boat McGowan, Mr. John Brady, and Mr. to her help at 6.53 P.M. A strong west Ivan Heeney. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The rescuers overtook the Douglas, Isle of Man.—On the after- yacht midway between the Lucifer noon of the 15th August the motor boat lightship and Tuskar Rock. She was Seafisher, which was putting off with a drifting rapidly out to sea and was boatman, with thirteen passengers who unmanageable. There were two men were going out to fish, was hailed by and two women on board. The two the harbour-master, who said that a women were taken into the motor boat. rowing boat off Douglas Head appeared Three of the rescuers then went on to be in danger. A strong S.S.W. board the yacht, lowered her sails, breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. made fast a hawser, and towed her to The motor boat went after the rowing Rosslare. Some risk was run and the boat and on the way out shipped 876 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NoVEMfeEfc, 1934.

several heavy seas which soaked all on Mr. W. Watterson, who went ashore, board. Just as she got near the rowing the sum of £l; and to the other fisher- boat capsized and the two men on man 12s. 6d. board were flung into the water. One man was able to swim and the other Howth, Co. Dublin.—Two yachts got clung to the. upturned boat. The into difficulties during a race on the swimmer was picked up, and a rope afternoon of the 15th September, when a was thrown to the other man, who was strong south-easterly breeze sprang up. pulled through the water into the One managed to get into harbour close motor boat. It was impossible to keep reefed, but the other, the Rita, with a the rowing boat in tow and she drifted crew of three, was dismasted, and began off. The two men were put ashore at to drift in a choppy sea. The honorary the pier steps, and the boatman's secretary of the life-boat station saw passengers also landed, with the result what had happened and sent two men that he lost an afternoon's takings, off in a motor boat. She came up with amounting to 26s.—Rewards, £1 6*. the yacht about a mile N.W. of the to make good the boatman's loss. harbour, rescued the three men and towed her back to safety.—Rewards, Cresswell, Northumberland.—On the £1. morning of the 22nd August, when a very strong S.W. wind was blowing, the Teignmouth, Devon.—On the 19th second coxswain of the life-boat learned September a small sailing boat, with a that a rubber bathing raft had drifted man and his sister on board, was seen away from the shelter of the cliffs and to capsize about a mile off the harbour was being blown out to sea. The in a squall. A strong S.W. breeze was coxswain and second coxswain put off blowing, with a moderate sea. Four in a rowing coble, with three other fishermen at once put off in a motor men, and overtook the raft about a boat and rescued the two people, who mile off shore. A woman and child had then been swimming for about were on it. With great difficulty they twenty minutes. They would un- were taken into the coble. They col- doubtedly have lost their lives but for lapsed but were revived, and brought the prompt action of the fishermen.— ashore.—Rewards, £3 2s. 6d. Rewards, £1. Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.15 P.M. on the 27th August the honorary Poole, Dorset.—While out fishing secretary, Mr. T. A. Coole, learned that with a party on the afternoon of a small boat about a mile north of Sunday, the 20th May, the second Bradda Head, and three-quarters of a coxswain of the life-boat saw a sailing mile out at sea, was in difficulties. A dinghy which had capsized in the strong S.S.E. breeze was blowing and it Wytch Channel, throwing the two men was raining. The sea was rough. Mr. on board into the water. He went at Coole got a motor boat, manned by once to their help, rescued them when two fishermen, and put out with them. they were almost exhausted, and saved They found the rowing boat on the their boat.—Reward, a letter of thanks rocks at Bradda Head and a man and to second coxswain Thomas J. Wills. two women in a very dangerous position on the cliffs. At great risk, in Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.30 P.M. the heavy swell, one of the fishermen on the 7th July two boys capsized their succeeded in jumping into the rowing boat in the Outer Harbour while they boat, and so to the cliffs. Then, with were changing places. They were great difficulty, he got the three people, thrown into the water. They could not who were powerless to help themselves, swim. Two Boy Scouts who were near first into the rowing boat and from rowed at once to their help, got them there into the motor boat, and they out of the water and brought them were brought to Port Erin. The whole ashore.—Rewards, letters of thanks service took two hours.—Rewards : To to Assistant Scoutmaster Gordon Mr. T. A. Coole, a letter of thanks ; to Williams, and Scout Alan Roberts. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 377 The Princess Royal at Runswick. Inaugural Ceremony of " Robert Patton—The Always Ready." H.R.H. The Princess Royal named and can take thirty people on board in the new motor life-boat at Runswick rough weather. Bay, Yorkshire, on 20th September, Runswick has had a life-boat station in the presence of over 5,000 people since 1866 ; its life-boats have rescued from all parts of Yorkshire. 199 lives ; and Runswick life-boatmen The new boat has been built out of a have won one gold, one silver, and two legacy from the late Mrs. E. Boldren bronze medals for gallantry. Brown, of Scarborough, and the name The Hon. Geoffrey Howard, Lord intended for her was The Always Lieutenant of the North Riding of Ready, but the name has been changed Yorkshire, presided. Sir Godfrey Bar- to Robert Patton—The Always Ready. ing, Bt., chairman of the Institution, in honour of the late coxswain, Robert presented the life-boat to the Runswick Patton, who died of injuries received and Staithes branch. The Rev. Frank in rescuing a lame man when the row Read, Hon. C.F., C.C., J.P., rector of life-boat went out to the help of the Easington, received her, and the life- steamer Disperser, of West Hartlepool. boat was dedicated by the Bishop of which was sinking in a gale on February Whitby (the Right Rev. H. St. J. S. 8th last.1 Woollcombe, D.D.), assisted by the Rev. Joseph Toyn, Methodist minister of the Staithes Circuit. Robert Patten's Gold Medal. Among those who took part in the For his gallantry and self-sacrifice ceremony were the Marquess of Nor- he was awarded the Institution's gold manby, president of the branch ; the medal, the highest award which it can Marchioness of Normanby, vice-presi- make, and this medal was presented to dent ; Captain Stainthorpe, chairman of his widow by H.R.H. the Prince of the Whitby Rural District Council ; Wales, K.G., President of the Institu- ex-Provost James Norval, chairman of tion, at the annual meeting held in the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund ; Lieut.- London on 20th April last. At the Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., ceremony at Runswick the Princess secretary of the Institution ; Com- Royal presented to Mrs. Patton the mander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., thanks of the Institution inscribed on R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats, vellum which accompanies the medal, Mr. W. James, secretary of the station, and a memorial certificate awarded to and Commander L. G. D. Way, R.N., her by the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust. divisional coastguard officer. The new boat is one of the light Liver- pool type of motor life-boat, 35 feet 6 Three Motor Life-boats Present. inches by 10 feet, designed for stations The motor life-boats from Whitby, where the life-boat has to be launched Teesmouth, and Redcar were present, off a carriage or the open beach. On and in the audience were representa- service, with crew and gear on board, tives from nineteen other Yorkshire she weighs 7 tons. She is divided into life-boat stations and branches. The six water-tight compartments, and is singing was led by the Hinderwell and fitted with 115 air-cases. If a sea District Prize Choir, accompanied by breaks on board she can free herself in the Port Mulgrave Silver Band. A twelve seconds. She has one screw, bouquet was presented to the Princess driven by a 35 h.p. engine in a water- Royal by Mrs. Patton's daughter. tight compartment. The engine itself Besides the programmes, there was is water-tight, so that it could continue on sale a ballad called " Bob Patton of running even if the engine-room were Runswick Bay " describing the service flooded. Her speed is 7£ knots, and to the Disperser and Coxswain Patton's she carries'enough petrol to be able to gallantry. It had been written by the travel 97 miles at full speed, without Rev. Joseph Toyn, who not only refuelling. She carries a crew of seven, dedicated it to the Institution but 1 See The Life-boat tor June, 1934. generously had it printed for sale on 378 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. behalf of the Institution. A birthday Robert Patton: a gallant sailor and cake had also been made, the gift of member of the life-boat crew who Mr. Timothy Patton, which was on gave his life to save another. O God view by the boat-house, and after the of the spirits of all flesh, we praise and ceremony, was cut up and sold. The magnify Thy Holy Name, for the life ladies of Runswick and Staithes under- and service of Robert Patton and for took the sale of the programmes and his example of self sacrifice. We afterwards provided tea for the guests beseech Thee that, encouraged by his and the crew. By the sale of the example, we may be ready to forget programmes and cake £50 was made. self in the service of others. Grant The Hon. Geoffrey Howard, in him Thy peace and Thy great reward opening the proceedings, welcomed the through Jesus Christ our Lord." Princess Royal. He spoke of the There followed a prayer by the Rev. pride of Yorkshire in the splendid Joseph Toyn, and after the benediction gallantry of Coxswain Robert Patton, by the bishop "Eternal Father, strong and their pride also in seeing his name to save " was sung. on the new life-boat, and so still associated with the work in which so H.R.H. The Princess Royal. , much of his life had been spent. H.R.H. the Princess Royal broke a After the singing of " O God our help bottle of wine over the bows of the in ages past," Commander Drury, chief life-boat and said : inspector of life-boats, described the " I name this life-boat Robert Patton life-boat, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., —The Always Ready, and I wish her presented her to the Runswick station. all success in all calls that are made He spoke of the fine life-boat record of upon her." the station, and said that in providing The Princess Royal then presented Runswick with the best life-boat that to Mrs. Robert Patton the thanks of could be designed and built he felt the Institution inscribed on vellum that the Institution was giving the awarded with the gold medal to her station a life-boat worthy of the husband, and the memorial certificate crew. of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust. She The Rev. Frank Read, in receiving also presented to Mr. W. James, secre- the life-boat, said that in the record of tary of the station, the inscribed Coxswain Robert Patton the Runswick barometer awarded to him by the crew had an example which would Institution. always inspire them. A vote of thanks to the Princess The Bishop of Whitby then dedi- Royal was proposed by the Marquess cated the life-boat " to the honour and of Normanby and seconded by Lieut.- glory of Almighty God, and for the Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, secretary of noble purpose of rescuing those in peril the Institution. on the sea." The dedication was A rocket was fired, the life-boat was followed by a prayer which the bishop launched, and, after the singing of had specially written in remembrance the national anthem, cruised in the of Robert Patton: bay with the three other motor life- " Let us remember before God, boats.

Obituary. SINCE the last number of The Life-boat ward Bensley, for many years a member appeared there have died Mr. R. O. of the Gorleston life-boat crew, and a Hill, for many years honorary secretary silver medallist; and Mr. William at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) Mowat, for twenty-eight years second and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas coxswain at Longhope, in the Orkneys. McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and silver Accounts of their life-boat services medallist of the Institution; Mr. Ed- will be published in the next issue. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 379

Bv courtesy of} [ Yorkshire Post THE SERVICE OF DEDICATION. Front row—left to right: The Marquess of Normanby, The Rev. Frank Read, the Bishop of Whitby, the Hon. Geoffrey Howard, H.R.H. The Princess Royal, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Ex-Provost James Norval.

By courtesy of] [ Yorkshire Post THE LAUNCH. 380 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1984.

"The Always Ready."

By the REV. JOSEPH TOYN.

These verses were written in October of last year before the death of Coxswain Robert Patton, to whom they were dedicated, and before the name of the Runswick life-boat was changed. They are printed here by very kind permission of the author, and the editor of the Whitby Gazette, in which paper they were first published.

" Always Ready " when on the bay Summer sunshine and shadows play. O'er calmest sea oft fog wraiths creep, And cover up the mighty deep. Many vessels have come to grief Through swirling mists and treacherous reef, But " Always Ready " to dare and do, Is the Runswick boat and her gallant crew.

" Always Ready " when storms sweep down, And seas run high 'neath the tempest's frown. When mighty billows toss and roar, As they break on our rocky northern shore, We pray that God will Protector be To all who sail the stormy sea. Then " Always Ready " to dare and do, Is the Runswick boat and her gallant crew.

" Always Ready," no better name, Could tell our life-boat heroes' aim ; " Always Ready " since the day A life-boat came to Runswick Bay. As their fathers were the sons will be " Always Ready " on land and sea. Yes, " Always Ready " to dare and do Is the Runswick boat and her gallant crew. NOVEMBER, 1984.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 881 Inaugural Ceremony at Maryport. ON 27th September the inaugural in 1878 by Coxswain John Webster, ceremony took place of the new motor and the bronze medal this year by the life-boat which has been built for the present coxswain, Thomas Q. Reay.1 station at Maryport, Cumberland. The Col. G. J. Pocklington-Senhouse, J.P., new boat was welcomed by the Earl of president of the branch, presided, and Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L., Mr. Wilson G. Nixon, J.P., chairman of Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of the Maryport Urban District Council, Cumberland and Westmorland, and was welcomed the visitors. After the named by Lady Lonsdale, C.B.E. hymn " Lord in the hollow of Thine Over 20,000 people were present at the Hand," and a reading by the Rev. ceremony and the whole town was Percy Jackson, of the Methodist Church, decorated. The ceremony was the first Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., event in a three days' carnival. Among district inspector of life-boats, described those taking part in the ceremony the new life-boat. were Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman Mr. Edward Moser, on behalf of his of the Institution, Mr. Wilson G. uncle, trustee to Mr. Joseph Braith- Nixon, J.P., chairman of the Mary- waite, presented the life-boat to the port Urban District Council, the Bishop Institution. The donor, he said, came of Barrow-in-Furness and Col. G. J. of an old Kendal family, and was bom Pocklington-Senhouse, J.P., president at Wigton in 1836. He thanked the of the branch; and among those Institution for perpetuating Mr. Braith- present were the Mayor and Mayoress waite's name by stationing his life-boat of Whitehaven, the Mayor of Working- so near his birthplace. ton, the Mayor of Birkenhead, Mr. The life-boat was received by Sir Walker T. Moore, honorary secretary Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the of the station, Mr. J. M. Mawson, Institution, who said that he was a J.P., honorary secretary of the Piel Cumbrian by birth. He paid a tribute (Barrow) station, Major A. D. Burnett to the life-boatmen of Maryport, and Brown, M.C., deputy-secretary of the formally handed the life-boat to the Institution, and Mr. John Murray, only branch. She was received by its survivor of the crew of the first life- president, Colonel G. J. Pocklington- boat stationed at Maryport in 1865. Senhouse, J.P., who recalled that at the last inaugural ceremony of a life- The New Motor Life-boat. boat at Maryport there were a hundred The life-boat has been built out of a people present. The audience, two legacy from the late Mr. Joseph hundred times as large on this occasion, Braithwaite, of Westmorland and Hove, showed the immense interest of the Sussex, who died in 1883, but the people in their life-boat service. legacy' has only just come to the Lord Lonsdale, in welcoming the Institution as his widow had a life life-boat to the coast of Cumberland interest in it. It was left to provide a and Westmorland, said : " It is with life-boat for either Sussex or Cumber- the greatest pleasure that I welcome land, the boat to be named Joseph this life-boat to these shores. It was Braithwaite after the donor. a most kindly thought of the donor, The new boat has replaced another for there is no greater service than that motor life-boat and is of the light of the life-boats. Maryport has a crew Liverpool type described on page 377. worthy of their new boat. I congratu- There have, at various times, been late them on the honours of the past, five life-boat stations on the coast of and wish boat and crew the best of Cumberland, and they have rescued luck for the future." 160 lives from shipwreck. Maryport The life-boat was then dedicated by is now the only Cumberland' station. the Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness (the It was established in 1865, and its life- Right Rev. H. S. Pelham, M.A.), in boats have rescued 124 lives. One the absence, through illness, of the silver and one bronze medal have been Bishop of Carlisle, and after the singing awarded to Maryport coxswains for of " Eternal Father, strong to save," gallantry. The silver medal was won 1 See page 349. 382 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. and a prayer by the vicar of Maryport, the Maryport Urban District Council, the Rev. E. H. H. Hymas, M.A., Lady and seconded by Mr. T. Carey, J.P., Lonsdale named the life-boat Joseph Maryport's oldest inhabitant, who will Braithwaite. be 102 in December. A vote of thanks to Lord and Lady The life-boat was then launched, and Lonsdale and the others who had taken a life-saving display was given by part in the ceremony was proposed by Maryport swimmers, with the new Mr. J. H. Rich, J.P., vice-chairman of Daily Dispatch life-saving line.

Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno. THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno holds the Institution's gold badge, and which has replaced a pulling and sailing T. E. Purdy, J.P., C.C., president of the life-boat, was formally inaugurated on Colwyn Bay branch and an honorary 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, life-governor of the Institution, and having been built out of legacies Major A. D. Burnett Brown, deputy- received from the late Dr. Thomas secretary of the Institution. There Richards, of Llangadock, and the late were also present Mr. William Jones, of Miss Sarah Lewis, of Aberystwyth. Llandudno, and Mr. Richard Thomas, of Dr. Richards's legacy has also helped Conway, who had attended the launch to provide the motor life-boat at of the first Llandudno life-boat seventy- Moelfre, Anglesey, built in 1930. three years ago. The new life-boat is of the light self- Lord Mostyn opened the proceed- righting type, 35 feet 6 inches by 9 feet ings, and Commander G. R. Cousins, 3 inches, and on service, with crew and D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats, gear on board, she weighs 6f tons. described the new boat. Miss A. E. She is divided into six water-tight Lewis, cousin of Miss Sarah Lewis, one compartments, and is fitted with 115 of the two donors, then presented her air-cases. If a sea breaks on board to the Institution. Sir Godfrey Baring, she can free herself in twelve seconds, Bt., chairman of the Institution, and if she were capsized, even with a received her and expressed the grati- hole in her bottom, she could right tude of the Institution to the two herself in four seconds. She has one donors. He then formally presented screw, driven by a 35 h.p. engine, in a the life-boat to the station and she was water-tight compartment. The engine received by Mr. G. A. Humphreys, J.P. itself is water-tight, so that it could The life-boat was dedicated by the continue running even if the engine- Rev. Canon T. J. Rowlands, M.A., room were flooded. Her speed is 7J B.D., Rector of Llandudno, assisted by knots, and she carries enough petrol to the Rev. W. H. Compton and the Rev. be able to travel ninety-four miles at H. Harris Hughes, B.A. Miss A. E. full speed without refuelling. She Lewis then named the life-boat Thomas carries a crew of seven, and can take and Annie Wade Richards. thirty people on board in rough A vote of thanks to Lord Mostyn, weather. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and Miss The Llandudno station was estab- A. E. Lewis was proposed by Mr. lished in 1861 and has rescued 114 T. J. Jones, J.P., chairman of the lives. In 1919 the then coxswain, Llandudno Urban District Council, John Owen, won the bronze medal. and seconded by the Hon. Mrs. H. Among those taking part in the Lloyd Mostyn. ceremony were Lord Mostyn, president After the singing of " Hen Wlad Fy of the branch, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Nhadau " (Land of our Fathers) and chairman of the Institution, and Mr. the National Anthem, the life-boat was G. A. Humphreys, J.P., chairman of the launched. When the life-boat returned branch; among those present were Mr. the crew were presented with woollen J. J. Marks, M.A., honorary secretary of helmet-scarves, the gift of Mrs. E. the branch, Mrs. J. J. Marks, J.P., who Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire. NOVEMBEB, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 383

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A Starving Crew. ON 27th October, when the motor food; they could not launch a boat; life-boat from Pwllheli was out on and when the life-boat appeared the practice in half a gale, with a heavy weather was getting worse and there sea running, she was hailed by the was no prospect of a change for the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, better. The life-boat at once returned anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The ashore, brought out a bagful of food, Marjorie was on her way to Cardigan, and after some manosuvring, succeeded with a cargo of coal, and she had been in getting the bag on board the steamer. wind-bound for four days in the roads. A letter of thanks was received later Her crew had come to the end of their from the master of the Marjorie.

The Portrait on the Cover. THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain 1925, after serving for a few months as Addison Brown, of Cresswell, Northum- second coxswain, and he has served berland. He was appointed coxswain in in the life-boat for thirty-one years. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 885 Grace Darling and Her Home. Grace Darling and Her Islands. earlier chapters, with their charming By Constance Smedley (The Religious account of Grace Darling's happy life Tract Society. Is. 6d. net.) on the Longstone Lighthouse, in her wind-swept garden and among the Miss SMEDLEY did a public service sea birds, which nested in thousands two years ago when she wrote Grace round her home. They show us what Darling and Her Times. It was the it is of most, interest to know—the first full and accurate story of the upbringing and way of life of a girl wreck of the Forfarshire and the events who, when the crisis of her life came, which followed it, and the first full met it with such determination and and accurate life of Grace Darling courage, and afterwards remained herself. It corrected the popular story unspoilt and undisturbed by fame. in several important particulars, doing Miss Smedley has found space to justice to the other actors in the include particulars of the Institution's wreck and rescue, who had been work and she has corrected an omis- neglected or misrepresented. sion, serious so far as the Institution is concerned, in the first book. She Miss Smedley has now written a now makes it clear that the North shorter life. It is the first book very Sunderland fishermen who also went much abridged. By writing it Miss out to the wreck, and reached it to Smedley has done the memory of find that the survivors had already Grace Darling a still greater service. been rescued, were rewarded by the It is intended for children, but older Institution. There are, however, one people should read it with equal or two slips in the references to the pleasure. Because it is much shorter, earliest efforts at life-saving on our and is published at a very modest coasts. Lionel Lukin converted a price, within the reach of all who buy coble into an " unimmergible " boat books, it should induce thousands, to to be stationed at Bamburgh for whom Grace Darling at present is life-saving in 1786, not 1876. The only a heroic name, to learn what Captain Mamby mentioned as the she did and what she was. inventor of the rocket apparatus for The story of the actual rescue of firing a line to a wreck should be the survivors of the Forfarshire is told Captain Manby, who invented—not a fully, the story of the after-events, rocket—but a mortar for this purpose; and Grace Darling's fame, much more and Mr. Denman, who is also men- briefly ; but the part of the book for tioned as inventing a rocket apparatus, which we are most grateful is the should be Mr. Dennett.

The late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I. BY the death of Mr. Charles Dixon, life-boat service—is being used for the R.I., the marine painter, on 12th Christmas card this year, and for the September, at the age of sixty-one, the 1935 calendar. A reproduction of it Institution has lost a valued and will be found on page 358. Mr. Dixon •generous friend. Mr. Dixon painted had previously painted a series of five two of the outstanding life-boat services pictures called " Ships the Life-boats of recent years, the Cromer service to Serve," showing the liner, the warship the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso on and aeroplane, the tramp steamer, the 14th, 15th, and 16th October, 1932, and sailing ship and the fishing smack. the Cromer service to the Dover barge Two of these have been reproduced on Sepoy on 13th December, 1933. The calendars, so that no artist's work has, first of these was reproduced on the in recent years, been more widely used Institution's Christmas card for 1933, to make the public familiar with the and its calendar for the present year. life-boat service ; and all these pictures The second—one of the frldst graphic were painted on terms which made pictures which the Institution has df a them almost gifts to the Institution. 386 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 23rd August, 1934. St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rhoscolyn, Runs wick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St. Davids, Paid £18,054 10s. 5d. for the total charges Troon, Wells and Whitby ; of the Institution during the month, includ- £73 15s. to men for injury in the life-boat ing rewards for services, payments for the service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, construction of life-boats, life-boathouses Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven and and slipways, and the maintenance of the Walmer. life-boat stations. Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Included in the above was :— the widow of the late Coxswain Richard £19 4s. 6d. on account of pensions already Owen, of Moelfre, who is old and in very granted to the dependent relatives of men poor circumstances. who had lost their lives in the life-boat Voted £13 3s. to pay the rewards for service at Rye Harbour. shoreboat services at Cresswell, Douglas, Filey, Port Erin, Port St. Mary, Rosslare Thursday, 13th September, 1934. Harbour, and Sunderland, accounts of Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. which appear on pages 374-376. Co-opted Mr. James Napier a member of the committee of management. Thursday, llth October, 1934. Resolved that the request of the Rou- manian Life-boat Society that an officer of Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. the Institution be sent to Bucharest to advise Reported that H.R.H. The Prince of the Society on the technical problems con- Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, nected with the establishment of their life- would attend a gala performance of the boat stations be complied with, and that Citroen film at the Plaza Theatre on the Lieut.-Commr. P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., 13th November, in aid of the Institution. eastern district inspector, be selected for Resolved that the cordial and most re- the duty. spectful thanks of the committee of manage- Reported the receipt of the following special ment be tendered to H.R.H. The Princess contributions : Royal for her kindness in attending the £ s. d. inaugural ceremony of the new motor life- Donation from the executors of boat at Runswick on the 20th September, the late Mrs. Emily Fawcett - 500 0 0 1934. Trustees of the late Mr. William Reported the receipt of the following Thorngate - - - 80 0 0 special contribution : The Cunard Steamship Company, Anonymous gift to provide the new Ltd. (grant from steamer col- Broughty Ferry motor life-boat, £7,000. lections) - - - 40 0 0 Paid £21,498 19s. 3d. for the total charges Buckie Town Council (towards of the Institution during the month, including cost of providing and main- rewards for services, payments for the con- taining Buckie motor life-boat) 25 0 0 struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and Mr. H. W. Kolle - - - 25 0 0 slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat White Star Line Steamers stations. Charity Fund - - 25 0 0 Included in the above were :— Mr. W. H. Rickinson - 20 0 0 £87 16s. to pay the rewards for life-boat Paid £13,521 19s. 8d. for the total charges services ; of the Institution during the month, including £132 15s. 6d to pay the rewards for life- rewards for services, payments for the con- boat launches ; struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and (Accounts of these services and launches slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat appear on pages 369-374); stations. 19s. 6d. for the assembly of a crew ; Included in the above were :— £25 12s. 8d. on account of pensions already £376 Os. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- granted to the dependent relatives of men boat services ; who had lost their lives in the life-boat £303 19s. 6d to pay the rewards for life- service at Rye Harbour ; boat launches ; £14 10s. to men for injury in the life-boat (Accounts of these services and launches service at Caister and Lerwick. appear on pages 359-369) ; Voted a compassionate grant of £20 for £10 12s. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; the benefit of the widow of the late Coxswain £424 2s. lid. on account of pensions Michael Hamilton, of Blackrock, who is in already granted to the dependent relatives straitened circumstances. of men who had lost their lives in the Voted £9 15s. to pay the rewards for life-boat service at Aldeburgh, Caister, shoreboat services at Bunbeg, Hayling Eastbourne, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Island, Howth, Skerries, Staxigoe and Holyhead, Johnshaven, The Mumbles, Teignmouth, accounts of which appear on New Brighton, Newhaven, Padstow, Port pages 374-376. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 387 Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. Coxswain's Certificate of Service. awarded to the following, on their retire- The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF ment : SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been RICHARD W. JOHNS, second coxswain for 14 awarded to the following, on their retire- years, bowman for 4 years, and a member ment : of the crew of the Penlee life-boat for 3J years. JOHN WATSON, 17} years coxswain of the Cromarty life-boat. RICHARD B. RICHARDS, bowman of the Penlee life-boat for 14 years, and a member of the T. D. LEWIS, 12£ years coxswain of the crew for 7J years. Fishguard life-boat. HUGH MALCOLM, second coxswain of the JAMES WOOD, 8 years coxswain and 3 years Wick life-boat for 11 years, and a member second coxswain of the Whitehills life-boat. of the crew for 28J years. ARTHUR WHEELER, bowman of the Hythe THOMAS HITCHCOCK, 5J years coxswain, 9J life-boat for 12£ years, and a member of years second coxswain, and 15J years the crew for 17J years. bowman of the Teignmouth life-boat. The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE JOHN H. GROSE, 12J years coxswain of the OF SERVICE has been awarded to : Fowey life-boat. As Coxswain Grose was WILLIAM SWANSON, a member of the crew seriously ill, the pension was commuted to of the Thurso life-boat for 46J years, on a gratuity. He died shortly afterwards. his retirement. The widow of ABRAHAM JOHNSON, who Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. retired on the closing of the Broadstairs The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE station, after serving as a member of the OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been crew for 28 years.

Awards to Honorary Workers. The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum. Records of Thanks. The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, The RECORD OF THANKS has been INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, has been awarded to the following : awarded to Mr. EDWARD BONING, on Mr. SAMPSON BENNETT, collector, Exmouth his retirement, after 15J years as honorary branch. secretary of the Caister branch. Mr. E. W. CLEASBY, honorary treasurer, Newport (Shropshire) branch. Mr. C. J. GREENE, honorary secretary at Herne Bay, for his help both there and Life-boat Picture. at Broadstairs. Mr. A. G. OWEN, life-boat day organiser, The LIFE-BOAT PICTURE has been Abergele branch. awarded to Mr. G. BURTON FRASER, on his The FISHERWIVES OF CULLERCOATS, who, retirement from the honorary secretary- since 1922, have made an annual collection ship of the Reading branch. for the Institution.

"Royal "Help. The honorary secretary of one of the " Fortunately I am lucky in this Institution's branches in the Midlands respect, as I have been ' King Carnival' writes that he has had difficulty in here for seven years, and I have been getting helpers for the work of the able to utilize the services of some of branch, but he adds : my ex-Queens."

Fair Exchange ? THE Institution recently advertised chaser rang up to say that he would for sale the motor life-boat at Maryport like the boat but had not the money which has now been replaced by a new to pay for her. Would the Institution motor life-boat. One prospective pur- accept in exchange a motor coffee-stall ? 388 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1934. Greater London. LIVERPOOL.—Annual meeting of the CLAPHAM.—Whist drive. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker : Lieut.- Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of HAYES.—Annual meeting on 25th Octo- the Institution. ber. Speaker: The district organizing LYMM AND HEATLEY.—Annual meet- secretary. Amount collected in 1934 £129, ing on 1st October. Amount collected in as compared with £119 in 1933. 1934 £87, as compared with £129 in 1933. HORNSEY.—Special meeting to introduce MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND the new honorary secretary, Mr. J. L. R. DISTRICT.—Special meeting of the City Webb. Whist drive. of Manchester Ladies' Life-boat Guild. MITCHAM.—Annual meeting on 18th CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY. — Annual October. Speaker : The district organizing whist drive. secretary. Amount collected in 1934 £106, CRUMPSALL.—Annual whist drive, as compared with £128 in 1933. arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. NEW MALDEN.—Two whist drives. ECCLES.—Meeting held to reconsti- ST. ALBANS.—Special meeting of life-boat tute the Life-boat Guild, the Mayor of day organizers and helpers, the Mayor, Eccles presiding. Presidents : Th« Mayor chairman of the branch, presiding. Life-boat and Mayoress of Eccles ; vice-presidents, day in St. Albans and Harpenden. Miss Dowzer, Mrs. R. Holland, Mr. W. F. In The Life-boat for September it was Milnes, J.P., Mrs. Moore, Alderman J. stated that the branch had collected £254 in Peacock, Councillor G. G. Senior, O.B.E., 1933 as compared with £313 in 1932. It J.P., Mr. W. Waterhouse and Mrs.Watson ; should have been added that the life-boat honorary treasurer, Mr. E. Beaumont day in Harpenden is held every other year. Crowther ; honorary secretary, Mrs. It was held in 1932 and not in 1933. Crowther. WESTMINSTER.—Ex-coxswain Plumer, MOSS SIDE.—Whist drive, arranged by of Hastings, appeared in life-boat dress on Mrs. Shepherd of the Ladies' Life-boat the stage at the Alhambra, in a scene called Guild. Meeting to constitute a Life-boat " Trafalgar Square " which was played for a Guild Dramatic Society. Two perform- fortnight in celebration of Trafalgar Day. ances of " The Donovan Affair " given. Lectures at Bethnal Green, St. Fancras, Social evening, arranged by Mrs. Ireland, Welling and Woodside. member of the Life-boat Guild Dramatic Society. North-West of England. OLD TR AFFORD.—Annual meeting of BLACKBURN.—Annual meeting on 23rd the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 9th October. October, Mrs. W. Carmichael, chairman, SALFORD. —Demonstration life-boat, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat the Edwin Kay, exhibited at the Domin- day, works collections. ions, Industrial and Trades Exhibition, and BLACKPOOL. — Life-boat day, with collections made. launch of the life-boat. Night practice Life-boat Sunday service held in the launch with collection in connexion with the grounds of the Dominions, Industrial and town's firework display. Trades Exhibition. Preacher : The Rev. BOLTON.—Whist drive, arranged by the A. Wasey, B.A., assisted by the Rev. S. F. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. James. The South Salford Silver Prize Band, conducted by Mr. W. Owen, CARNFORTH.—Life-boat day. accompanied the hymns, and gave a CULCHETH-WITH-KENYON. — Bridge musical programme. and whist drive. WALKDEN, WORSLEY AND DIS- DOUGLAS AND FLEET WOOD.—Life- TRICT.—Annual dance, which the Lanca- boat days. shire Cotton Queen attended. HEYWOOD.—Whist drive. WEST SALFORD.—" American tea," HINDLEY.—Whist drive and dance. arranged by Mrs. Delves, at which a HOLME.—House-to-house collection. concert was given by the Salford Gas HORWICH.—Annual meeting on 25th Company's concert party, under the patron- September. Efforts of the past year: age of the Mayor and Mayoress. House-to-house collection, works collections, WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORL- and jumble sale. Amount collected in 1934 TON-ON-MEDLOCK.—Annual meeting £69, as compared with £50 in 1933. of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 10th HYDE.—Annual meeting on 18th October, October. the Mayor, president, in the chair. Efforts of MARYPORT.—Naming ceremony of the the past year : Life-boat day, cinema col- new motor life-boat. (See special report on lections. Amount collected in 1934 £86, as page 881). Life-boat day. Tea and social, compared with £97 in 1933. arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. LANCASTER.—Jumble sale. Two dances. LITTLEBOROUGH.—Whist drive and MORECAMBE.—Life-boat day. Lantern dance. lecture by Mrs. G. A. Wolfenden, chairman. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 389

MOTTRAM AND BROADBOTTOM.— DARLINGTON.—Two whist and two Annual meeting on llth October. Mrs. bridge drives. Home, honorary secretary, elected president FILEY, FLAMBOROUGH, HARRO- in succession to Mrs. Herbert Parkes, GATE, HAUXLEY, AND HEBDEN resigned. Amount collected in 1934 £17, as BRIDGE.—Life-boat days. compared with £15 in 1933. HIPPERHOLME AND LIGHTCLIFFE. PEEL.—Life-boat day and annual sports. —Bridge drive and mannequin parade. PIEL (Barrow).—Whist drive and dance, HORNSEA AND HUDDERSFIELD.— organized by Miss Mawson, honorary sec- Life-boat days. retary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. KEIGHLEY.—" American tea" at Gar- PORT ERIN.—Annual meeting on 22nd grave. October. Amount collected in 1934 £328, as KIRKBURTON.—Annual meeting and compared with £323 in 1933. lantern lecture. Amount collected in 1934 Life-boat day. £25, as compared with £20 in 1933. PORT ST. MARY. — Life-boat day. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. — "Bring- Annual life-boat sacred service. and-Buy " tea. Bridge drive. RADCLIFFE.—House-to-house collection. NORTH SUNDERLAND.—Fete on pier. RAMSEY. — Life-boat day. Annual OUTWOOD AND STANLEY.—Special dinner-table collection. meeting and lantern lecture. ROCHDALE.—Annual meeting on 26th POCKLINGTON.—Whist drive. October, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, PONTEFRACT, RIPON, AND ROTH- O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts BURY.—Life-boat days. of the past year : Mayoress's " American ROTHERHAM.—Collection by crew of tea," works collections. Amount collected the Bridlington life-boat in cinemas, at in 1934 £148, as compared with £146 in 1933. the football ground, etc. ROMILEY.—Annual meeting on 12th RUNSWICK.—Naming ceremony of the October, Mrs. Kinsey, president, in the chair. new motor life-boat. (See special report on Speaker : The district organizing secretary. page 377.) Life-boat day. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, SALTBURN.—Life-boat day. works collections. Amount collected in SCARBOROUGH.—Annual meeting of 1934 £35, as compared with £45 in 1933. the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Geoffrey ST. ANNE'S-ON-SEA, SEASCALE, AND Unwin, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the SILLOTH.—Life-boat days. past year : Bridge drives and rummage sale. STOCKPORT.—Annual meeting on 8th Life-boat day. Presentation to the life- October, the Mayor, president, in the chair. boat crew of woollen scarf-helmets from Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days, Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire. whist drives, works collections. Amount SLEIGHTS.—Bridge drive. collected in 1934 £161, as compared with £185 in 1933. Presentation of the life-boat STAINLAND.—Whist drive and dance. picture awarded by the Institution to Mr. STOCKTON.—Annual meeting of the L. Lainton, honorary secretary of the branch. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Efforts of the past Life-boat days. year : Life-boat day, dinner dance, bridge ULVERSTON.—Life-boat day. drive and garden meeting at Norton Hard- WARRINGTON.—Annual meeting on wicke. 17th October, Mrs. Brereton Fairclough, SUNDERLAND.—Life-boat day at Burn- chairman, presiding, in the absence of the moor. Mayor. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, tennis tournament, works collections. WHITBY.—Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1934 £176, as compared WITHERNSEA.—" Bring-and-Buy " tea. with £185 in 1933. Midlands. North-East of England. BARTON-ON-HUMBER. —Life-boat day. ALNWICK.—Fete at Loan End. BIRMINGHAM.—Address to the branch BLYTH.—Annual tea and concert. Pre- committee. Lantern lectures at Balsall sentation by the Mayoress to the life-boat Heath, Hockley and Ladywood. crew of woollen scarf-helmets knitted locally under the scheme of Mrs. E. Manby, of BRIERLEY HILL.—Life-boat day. Codsall, Staffordshire. COALVILLE.—House-to-house collection. BRADFORD.—Bridge drive, arranged by COSELEY.—Life-boat day. " Heroes of Mrs. T. Obank. " Bring-and-Buy " sale at the Sea " film shown. Bingley. DERBY.—Life-boat days in Derby and BRIGHOUSE.—Bridge and whist drive. Heanor. CONISBOROUGH.—Whist drive. CRIGGLESTONE. —House-to-house col- EVESHAM.—House-to-house collection at lection. North Littleton. Life-boat day. CULLERCOATS.—Annual meeting on GLOSSOP AND HADFIELD.—House-to- 30th October. Amount collected in 1934 house collection. £257, as compared with £247 in 1933. GLOUCESTER, GRANTHAM, AND Life-boat day. GRIMSBY.—Life-boat days. 390 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

KIDDERMINSTER.—" Heroes of the BIRCHINGTON AND BLAKENEY.— Sea " film shown at two cinemas. Life-boat Life-boat days. days at Bewdley, Kidderminster, and BOGNOR.—Life-boat day, with visit of Stourport. the Selsey motor life-boat. LEAMINGTON.—Annual meeting, Col. H. N. Byass, a vice-president, in the chair. BOXMOOR AND HEMEL HEMP- Speaker : The district organizing secretary. STEAD.—Address to the Rotary Club by Amount collected in 1934 £224, as compared Captain H. E. Holme, R.N. (ret.), honorary with £192 in 1933. secretary of the branch. LEEK, LEICESTER, LINCOLN, LYE BRANCASTER.—Life-boat day. AND WOLLESCOTE, AND MALVERN.— BRIGHTON AND HOVE.—Life-saving Life-boat days. demonstration by the Shoreham Harbour MANSFIELD.—Life-boat days at East motor life-boat and the coastguard during Kirkby, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Mansfield Wood- Safety Week, with collection. house, and Warsop. CAISTER.—Life-boat day. MARKET RASEN.—Life-boat day. CHATHAM.—" Heroes of the Sea " film PETERBOROUGH. — Life-boat day. shown, with collection. Lantern lecture at Clinton Women's Institute. CHATTERIS.—Life-boat days at Mepal RETFORD, RIPLEY, ROTHWELL, and Sutton. AND SCUNTHORPE.—Life-boat days. CLACTON.—Annual meeting of theXadies' SKEGNESS.—Life-boat day, with launch Life-boat Guild, Mrs. P. Coleman, J.P., of the life-boat. Presentation by Dr. Henry president, in the chair. Speaker: The Haslam, D.S.C., M.P. for Horncastle, of a district organizing secretary. Efforts of the purse, the gift of local admirers, to ex-Cox- past year : Life-boat day, dance, sales, etc. swain Matthew Grunnill, who retired two Amount collected in 1934 £117, as compared years ago after thirty-two years as an officer with £118 in 1933. of the life-boat. He holds the thanks of the Whist drive and special effort, arranged by Institution inscribed on vellum, and a silver the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Life-boat day. medal from the King of Norway, and on his Life-boat Sunday. retirement was awarded a certificate of service and a pension. CRANBROOK AND HAWKHURST.— Life-boat day at Cranbrook, Hawkhurst, SOUTH NORMANTON, SPALDING, Sandhurst, and Sissinghurst. SPILSBY, STAFFORD, AND STAMFORD. —Life-boat days. CROMER.—Life-boat day. STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE- CROWBOROUGH. — Branch formed. UNDER-LYME.—Life-boat day. Presen- Honorary secretary, Captain A. P. Stone. tation at three schools of prizes won in the Life-boat service and collection at Sweethaws life-boat essay competition for elementary Mission Church, with address by Mr. John schools. Glynn. WALSALL.—Life-boat day. DOVER AND DISTRICT.—Life-boat day. WEDNESBURY.—House-to-house collec- Tennis tournament. Carnival, organized by tion. the Dover and District Unemployed Associ- WELLINGBOROUGH.—Jumble sale. ation, of which part proceeds were given to WORKSOP.—Life-boat day. the branch. Lantern lectures at Coventry, Guild- EASTBOURNE.—Life-boat days at East- borough, Kineton, Knowle and Dorridge, and bourne and Hurstmonceux. Wednesbury. FARNHAM.—Competition at Hankley South-East of England. Common Golf Club. ALDEBURGH.—Annual meeting, Captain FELIXSTOWE.—Life-boat day. Dance, F. C. U. Vernon Wentworth, C.B., R.N., organized by the Sea Scouts. president, in the chair. Efforts of the past FOLKESTONE.—Life-boat day. year : Life-boat days in Aldeburgh and district. Amount collected in 1934 £199, as GODALMING.—Bridge tournament. compared with £179 in 1933. GOODWIN SANDS AND DOWNS.— Life-boat days in Aldeburgh district. Life-boat day. AMPTHILL.—Life-boat day. HASBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— ARUNDEL AND DISTRICT.—Life-boat Life-boat days at Bacton, Happisburgh, days, with visit of the Selsey motor life-boat. Smallburgh, Stalham, Worstead, and Wrox- ASHFORD.—House-to-house collection at ham. " Heroes of the Sea " film shown at Charing. North Walsham, with collection. BEXHILL.—Annual meeting, Commander HARWICH.—Presentation to the Mayor of R. D. B. Haddon, D.S.O., R.N., chairman, the service boards of the station, which was presiding. Efforts of the past year : Special closed in 1918, to be hung in the Guildhall. appeal, life-boat day. Amount collected in HASTINGS AND ST. LE9NARDS.— 1934 £242, as compared with £52 in 1933. Annual meeting, the Mayor, president, in the Life-boat day, with visit of the Hastings chair. Speaker: The Right Hon. Lord motor life-boat. Eustace Percy, M.P. Efforts of the past BIGGLESWADE.—Bridge drive. year: Life-boat days, cinema collections, NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 391

APPEALS FROM THE LIFE-BOAT.

By courtesy of] [B, L. Knight, Barnstable. THE CHURCH. The Bishop of Exeter (the Right Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil) preaching from the Ilfracombe life-boat at the annual service in the grounds of SS. Philip and James's Church to a congregation of over 1,200.

By courtesy of] [" Topical" Press. THE STAGE. Miss Gracie Fields at Blackpool. 392 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934. house-to-house collections, etc. Amount WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA. — Presenta- collected in 1934 £551, as compared with tion of certificate of service awarded to ex- £373 in 1933. Coxswain W. Grimes, by the district Life-boat days at Hastings and St. inspector of life-boats, Mr. F. Raven, chair- Leonards, and Battle. man of the branch, presiding. HERNE BAY.—Life-boat day, with visit Life-boat day. of the Margate motor life-boat. Cinema WELWYN GARDEN CITY.—Life-boat collections. day. HIGH WYCOMBE.—Visit of party to WEYBRIDGE.—" Heroes of the Sea" Bassetsbury Manor. film shown, with collections. HOLT.—Life-boat day. WHITSTABLE.—Life-boat day. HUNSTANTON.—Life-boat days at Hun- WITHAM.—Life-boat day. " Heroes of stanton, Ringstead and Sedgeford. the Sea " film shown, with collection. HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH, WOODBRIDGE AND DISTRICT.— LEATHERHEAD, LOWESTOFT, AND Annual meeting, Mrs. Alfred Capel-Cure MARGATE.—Life-boat days. presiding. Efforts of the past year: NEWHAVEN.—Life-boat day at New- Church collection, house-to-house collection. haven and Peacehaven. Amount collected in 1934 £67, as compared PALLING AND RAMSGATE.—Life-boat with £66 in 1933. days. Presentations of prizes won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools at ROCHESTER.—Visit of the Southend Balsham, Faversham, Ipswich, Longstowe motor life-boat on the occasion of the annual and Potton. rally of the Motor Boat Association. Lectures at Berkhampsted and Bledlow ST. IVES.—Annual meeting, Mrs. G. (Bucks.). G. G. Wheeler, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and South-West of England. theatricals. Amount collected in 1934 £118, as compared with £76 in 1933. ANDOVER.—Life-boat day at Whit- Life-boat day. church and villages. BASINGSTOKE AND DISTRICT.— ST. NEOTS.—Life-boat day. Life-boat day. SANDWICH.—Church collection on Tra- BATH.—Life-boat day at Midsomer Nor- falgar Day. ton. SEAFORD.—Annual meeting. Efforts of BRADFORD-ON-AVON AND BRIX- the past year : Life-boat day, American tea, HAM.—Life-boat days. sale, cinema collection. Amount collected in BUDE.—Life-boat day. Visit of the 1934 £149, as compared with £135 in 1933. Padstow motor life-boat. " Blessing of the SELSEY.—Life-boat day. Golf com- Sea " service, with collection. petition. BOURNEMOUTH.—Life-boat day. At SHEERNESS.—Life-boat day. House-to- Home, given by Lady Lyle, president of the house collection at Queenborough. " Heroes Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to members of the of the Sea " film shown at Queenborough, Guild. with collection. BRIDPORT.—Life-boat day, and visit SHERINGHAM.—Regatta and life-boat of the Weymouth motor life-boat. day. CAMBORNE.—House-to-house collection. SHOREHAM. —Bridge drive, arranged by Whist drive. Bridge drive. Collections at the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Presentation of cinemas. Collection with barrel organ in the prize won in the life-boat essay competition street. for elementary schools. CHIPPENHAM.—Life-boat day. SITTINGBOTJRNE AND MILTON COVERACK.—Life-boat day and dance. REGIS.—Life-boat day and fancy-dress cricket match. DAWLISH.—Special visit of Exmouth motor life-boat. SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.—Life-boat days at Canvey Island, and Hadleigh. DIDCOT.—Presentation by Commander I. G. Bower at Didcot Senior school of cer- SOUTHWOLD.—Annual meeting, Mr. tificate won in the life-boat essay competition A. J. Critten, chairman, presiding. Efforts for elementary schools. of the past year : Life-boat day, church collections. Amount collected in 1934 £118, EXMOUTH AND BUDLEIGH SAL- as compared with £94 in 1933. TERTON.—Annual meeting, Admiral Fisher Life-boat days at Dunwich and Southwold. presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days at Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, SUDBURY.—Life-boat day. and house-to-house collections. Amount WALTON AND FRINTON.—Life-boat collected in 1934 £380, the same as in 1933. day. Life-boat Sunday. Cinema collections. Presentation to the crew of woollen scarf- WATFORD.—Life-boat day. Address to helmets from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Watford Men's Own, by Captain H. E. Staffordshire. Holme, R.N. (ret.), honorary secretary of the FARNBOROUGH.—Concert at Fleet by Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead branch. the " Fleet Follies." NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 393

FOWEY.—Life-boat day, with flower and ST. IVES.—Life-boat day, with launch of produce stalls in the streets. the motor life-boat. GUERNSEY, HENLEY AND SHIP- SALCOMBE.—Life-boat day. LAKE, HONITON, AND HOPE COVE.— SALISBURY.—Life-boat days at Fording- Life-boat days. bridge, Gillingham, Ludgershall, Shrewton, ILFRACOMBE. — Life-boat day, and and Wilton. Whist drive. special service from the life-boat on the St. SCILLY ISLES, SEATON, SENNEN James's Church ground, with address by the COVE, AND SHAFTESBURY.—Life-boat Bishop of Exeter (Lord William Gascoyne- days. Cecil, D.D.). SIDMOUTH.—Life-boat day, with visit of the Torbay motor life-boat. Life-boat day at ILMINSTER.—Life-boat day. Ottery St. Mary and Sidbury. ISLE OF WIGHT.—Life-boat days at East and West Cowes, Freshwater, Newport, SWANAGE.—The branch has suffered a Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Yarmouth, and severe loss by the death of Mr. E. W. Mill- villages. Whist drive at Sandown. A life- ward, joint honorary secretary since 1928. boat took part in the Ryde carnival. Life-boat day, with launch of the motor life- Presentation at Yarmouth by Major boat. General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, TAUNTON. — Presentation by the P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a vice-president Mayoress at Holy Trinity School of certificate of the Institution and coxswain of the won in the life-boat essay competition. Brooke life-boat, of the thanks of the TAVISTOCK.—Life-boat day. Institution inscribed on vellum awarded to Lieut. A. Smith, R.N.R., on his retirement TEIGNMOUTH.— Life-boat day, with from the honorary secretaryship of the launch of the life-boat. station. TRURO.—Life-boat days at St. Agnes and JERSEY.—Life-boat day, with visit of the Perranporth. Guernsey motor life-boat. WATCHET.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. K. Hole, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the LISKEARD, AND THE LIZARD.— past year : Life-boat day and aquatic display. Life-boat days. Amount collected in 1934 £85, as compared LOOE.—The branch has suffered a serious with £63 in 1933. loss by the death of Mr. W. F. Phillips, who WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — Presentation had been the honorary secretary since 1925. to life-boat crew by Mrs. Poreher, president Life-boat days at Looe and Polperro. of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of woollen LYME REGIS.—Life-boat day. scarf-helmets received from Mrs. E. Manby, LYMINGTON.—Life-boat days at Lym- of Codsall, Staffordshire. Life-boat day at ington, Milford-on-Sea, New Milton, and Weston and villages. villages. WEYMOUTH.—Life-boat days at Port- MELKSHAM, MINEHEAD, AND land and Lulworth. NEWBURY.—Life-boat days. WINCHESTER.—Life-boat day. NEWQUAY.—Life-boat day, with pro- YEOVIL.—Life-boat day at Yeovil and cession and special launch of the life-boat. Martock. OXFORD.—Life-boat day. Lectures at Fritwell, Shipton-under-Wych- PADSTOW.—Life-boat day, and whist wood and Wimborne. drive and dance, prizes presented by Colonel C. R. Prideaux-Brune, D.L., J.P., president Scotland. of the branch. Meeting of the Scottish Life-boat Council Life-boat day at Wadebridge and villages. in Edinburgh on 25th October, the Duke of PAIGNTON.—Annual meeting of the Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., a vice- Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Vick, chairman, president of the Institution and chairman of presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat the Council, presiding. Speakers : Sir God- day, house-to-house collections, dance, bridge frey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institu- and whist drives. tion, Commander the Hon. A. D. Cochrane, PENZANCE.—Life-boat day. D.S.O., M.P., vice-chairman of the Council, PLYMOUTH.—Annual meeting of the and Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Commander-in- consulting naval architect of the Institution. Chief at Plymouth, Vice-Admiral Sir E. J. A. Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., honorary Fullerton, C.B., D.S.O., presiding, supported secretary of the Council, and Rear-Admiral by the Mayoress. Efforts of the past year : E. J. Hardman Jones, O.B.E., Commanding Life-boat day, garden party, gymnastic Officer, Coast of Scotland, also took part in display and dancing revue. Amount col- the meeting. lected in 1934 £433 as compared with £355 in ABERDEEN.—Production of " The Best 1933. People " in the Beach Pavilion. Procession Presentation to the crew of woollen scarf- and flower stalls. helmets, from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, ARBROATH.—Annual meeting of the Staffordshire. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Chapel, RINGWOOD.—Life-boat day. president, in the chair. Efforts of the past ST. AUSTELL.—Life-boat day organized year : Life-boat day and Sunday evening by the Rotary Club. concert. 394 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBEE, 1934.

AYR.—Life-boat day. ISLE OF ARRAN.—Annual life-boat AYTON AND BURNMOUTH.—First concert at Whiting Bay, organized by Mrs. annual meeting on 3rd October. Efforts of Graham. the past year : Concert and life-boat day. ISLE OF SKYE, JOHNSTONE, KIL- Amount collected in 1934 £32. WINNING, AND KINROSS.—Life-boat BANFF, MACDUFF AND WHITE- days. HILLS.—Annual meeting on 18th October, KIRKCALDY.—Dunbar motor life-boat Mr. Adam Walker, chairman, presiding. open to public inspection. Life-boat day. Speakers : The district inspector of life-boats KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Life-boat days at and the Scottish organizing secretary. Colvend, Dalbeattie, and Kirkcudbright. Amount collected in 1934 £79, as compared KIRKINTILLOCH.—Life-boat days at with £117 in 1933. Kirkintilloch, and Lenzie. Special meeting, Sir George W. Aber- cromby, Bt., presiding, at which a Ladies' KIRRIEMUIR, KYLE, LARGS AND Life-boat Guild was formed. Speakers : The LAURENCEKIRK.—Life-boat days. district inspector of life-boats and the Scottish LERWICK.—Presentation by ex-Provost organizing secretary. Guild badges were J. T. J. Sinclair, chairman of the branch, of presented by the Countess of Seafleld. the challenge shield for Scotland in the life- Life-boat days at Banff, Cornhill, Macduff, boat essay competition for elementary schools Portsoy, Turriff and Whitehills. won by H. C. Eva Jacobson, of Gruting BATHGATE, BIGGAR, AND BUCKIE.— Public School, Bridge of Walls. Life-boat days. LESLIE AND LOCKERBIE.—Life-boat BURNTISLAND AND ABERDOUR.— days. Life-boat day at Aberdour. LONGHOPE.—Life-boat day at South CAMPBELTOWN.—Golf tournament. Ronaldshay. CARSTAIRS, COATBRIDGE, CRO- MAYBOLE, MILLPORT, MONTROSE, MARTY, CULLEN, CULROSS, DUMBAR- NAIRN, AND NEWTON STEWART.— TON, AND DUMFRIES.—Life-boat days. Life-boat days. DUNDEE.;—Bridge drive, organized by NORTH BERWICK.—Annual meeting on the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. 29th October, Captain J. B. Whitelaw, president, in the chair. Speaker : Harriet, DUNFERMLINE AND ROSYTH.— Lady Findlay, D.B.E., honorary secretary of Annual meeting on 24th September, Mr. the Scottish Council. Efforts of the past Archibald Frederick, chairman, presiding. year : Life-boat day. Amount collected in Efforts of the past year : Concerts, dramatic 1934 £112, as compared with £104 in 1933. entertainments, Christmas party, and life- Life-boat day. boat days. Amount collected in 1934 £137, as compared with £108 in 1933. OBAN.—Life-boat days at Benderloch, Pageant at Rosyth. Connel Ferry, Easdale, Kinlochleven, Mal- laig, and Taynuilt. EDINBURGH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 25th October, PAISLEY AND PEEBLES.—Life-boat Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., president, days. in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, PERTH.—Annual meeting on 12th Sep- Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of tember, the Rev. P. R. Landreth, chairman, the past year : Orchestral concert, bridge and presiding. Speakers : Mr. F. Norie Miller, whist drive, life-boat day and procession, and Colonel William Gray, Major Lewis Gibson golf competition. and Mr. William Munro. Efforts of the past Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., to year : Life-boat days in twenty-six districts. George Watson's College. Amount collected in 1934 £264, as compared ELIE.—Annual meeting, Lady Nairn, with £284 in 1933. president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in Life-boat days at Blairgowrie, Pitlochry the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat and Crieff, and Rattray. day, with visit from the Anstruther motor ST. ABBS.—Swimming gala. life-boat. Market stall at Lundin Links. SELKIRK, TARBERT, AND WIG- Amount collected in 1934 £127, the same as in TOWN.—Life-boat days. 1933. Life-boat day, with visit of Anstruther WISHAW.—Life-boat days at Wishaw and motor life-boat, Market stall at Lundin Links. Shotts. Ireland. EYEMOUTH.—Life-boat day and display ARMAGH.—Golf competition. Life-boat by the Berwick, Eyemouth and Holy Island life-boats. Swimming gala organized by day. Eyemouth Town Improvements Committee BALLYCOTTON.—Presentation by Mr. at which Sir Christopher Furness, president Wilson Strangman, the patron of the branch, of the branch, presented the prizes. to the late chairman, the Very Rev. Dean Wilson, of " Britain's Life-boats " inscribed FORFAR.—Life-boat day and procession. by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., in HA WICK, INVERARAY, AND appreciation of his twenty-five years' work INVERGORDON.—Life-boat days. for the branch as chairman. Life-boat day. INVERNESS.—Life-boat day and market Dance. stall. Life-boat day at Fort William. BALTIMORE.—Life-boat day. NOVEMBER, 1934.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 395

BANGOR.—Dance, Mayor and Mayoress Wales. attending. (Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire BELFAST. —Presentation of prizes won and Shropshire.) in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- tary schools. Flannel dance. ABERAYRON.—Life-boat day. BRAY.—Dance, at which the Lord Mayor ABERCYNON.—Presentation by Mr. D. J. of Dublin presented the record of thanks Price, director of education of Mountain Ash awarded by the Institution to Mr. A. F. U.D.C., of a prize won in the life-boat essay McNulty, the late honorary secretary. competition for elementary schools at Carne- Competition at Woodbrook Golf Club. town Junior Mixed School. Address by the district organizing secretary. BUNDORAN.—Golf competition. ABERDOVEY.—Life-boat day and hotel CARRICKFERGUS.—The branch has suf- collections. fered a severe loss by the death of Mr. C. M. Legg, J.P., its president. Life-boat day. ABERGAVENNY.—Two whist drives. ABERYSTWYTH.—Life-boat day, with CLONES.—Cinderella dance, organized by launch of the life-boat and hotel collections. Miss O. Knight. BANGOR.—Life-boat day. CLOUGHEY.—Golf competition. BARMOUTH.—Life-boat day and hotel COBH.—Presentation by Mr. H. P. F. collections, with launch of the life-boat. Donegan, honorary secretary of the Cork BARRY.—Annual meeting of Ladies' branch, of the record of thanks awarded by Life-boat Guild, Mrs. J. R. Llewellyn, the Institution to Mrs. W. R. Harman. chairman, presiding. Speaker : The district COURTMACSHERRY. — Life-boat day organizing secretary. Efforts of the past and tennis tournament. year: Life-boat day and whist drives. Amount collected in 1934 £81, as compared CORK.—Annual meeting, Mr J. J. with £77 in 1933. Horgan, chairman, presiding. Speakers : The honorary secretary and the district organizing BLAENAU FESTINIOG.—Life-boat day secretary. Amount collected in 1934 £421, and cinema collection. as compared with £407 in 1933. Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat BORTH.—Life-boat day and hotel col- Guild. Miss E. Hamilton appointed honor- lections. ary secretary in place of Mrs. Scott, who had BRIDGEND AND BRIDGNORTH.— resigned. Life-boat days. Presentation of prizes won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools, at BUCKLEY AND BISTRE.—Life-boat Model School, Cork, by Coroner J. J. Horgan, day and cinema collections. chairman of the branch. BURRY PORT.—Life-boat day, with DONAGHADEE. — Collection at the visit of the Tenby motor life-boat. Lecture picture house. Presentation of prize won in by the district organizing secretary, Mrs. the life-boat essay competition for elemen- Mansel Lewis, chairman of the Llanelly tary schools. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, presiding. DUNDALK, DUNMORE EAST, GREY- CARDIFF AND DISTRICT AND CAR- STONES, KILLYLEA, KILMORE, DIGAN.—Life-boat days. KINSALE, LIMERICK, LISTOWEL, COLWYN BAY.—Annual meeting on LONDONDERRY, LURGAN, AND MIL- 22nd August, Alderman Thos. E. Purdy, TOWN-jMALBAY.—Life-boat days. president, in the chair. Speaker: The NEWCASTLE.—Annual dance. district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : House-to-house collections and NEW ROSS, PORTRUSH, AND life-boat day. Amount collected in 1934 SKERRIES.—Life-boat days. £280, as compared with £266 in 1933. SLIGO.—Golf competition. Presentation by Canon Thompson of the gold badge awarded to Mrs. T. E. Purdy. TANDRAGEE. — Annual meeting. Presentation by Mr. Thomas Purdy of the Amount collected in 1934 £36, as compared records of thanks awarded to Miss Elizabeth with £33 in 1933. Mrs. V. Bebe elected Howarth, Miss T. Morton-Bailey and Miss honorary secretary, and Mrs. A. R. Foy, Rosetta Franklin. honorary treasurer. Life-boat day. TRAMORE, TUAM, W E X F O R D , WHITEGATE AND WHITEHEAD.—Life- CONNAH'S QUAY.—Life-boat day and boat days. cinema matinee. Life-boat day at Hawarden, Queen's Ferry and Shotton. WICKLOW.—Golf competition. Presentations of prizes won in the life-boat CONWAY, CRICCIETH, AND DYFF- essay competition for elementary schools at RYN.—Life-boat days. Ballyboley, Ballymena, Bunclody, Clare- castle (Ennis), Costelloe (Co. Galway), ELLESMERE.—Lantern lecture to Elles- Curragh Camp (Kildare), Dromakeenan mere Young People's Guild, with collection. (Roscrea), Ring (Dungarvan), Tallow and FISHGUARD AND GOODWICK, AND Woodlawn. HARLECH.—Life-boat days. 396 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1934.

HAVERFORDWEST.—Branch re-formed. PENMAENMAWR.—Life-boat day. President, Mrs. A. F. Middleton ; chairman, Mrs. A. Wigley Jones ; honorary treasurer, PORTHCAWL.—Life-boat day, with visit Mr. Wigley Jones ; honorary secretary, Mrs. of the Barry Dock motor life-boat. Miss D. T. Jones. Olive Jenkins appointed joint honorary Life-boat day. secretary in place of Miss Dowdeswell. KINGTON.—Life-boat day and cinema PORTMADOC.—Life-boat day. collection. PREST AT YN.—Life-boat day and cinema LLANDRINDOD WELLS.—Life-boat collection. day and hotel collections. PWLLHELI.—Life-boat day, with launch LLANDUDNO.—The branch has suffered of the life-boat. a serious loss by the death of Councillor John Roberts, who had been joint honorary RHYL.—Life-boat day. secretary since 1922. ST. DAVID'S. — Life-boat fete and Naming ceremony of the new motor life- carnival ; crowning of the carnival queen by boat. (See special report on page 382.) Lady Ramsey. Life-boat day and hotel collections. ST. PAGAN'S.—House-to-house collection. LLANELLY.—Annual meeting of the SHIFNAL.—Presentation by Mrs. Brook Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Howard- of a prize won in the life-boat essay com- Stepney in the chair. Efforts of the past petition for elementary schools ,at the year : Life-boat day and cinema collections. Shifnal Church of England School. Address Amount collected in 1934 £125. by the district organizing secretary. LLANFAIRFECHAN AND LLYWN- TENBY.—Life-boat day, hotel and cinema GWRIL.—Life-boat days. collections, with launch of the life-boat. MUMBLES.—Presentations of prizes won TOWYN.—Life-boat day and hotel col- in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- lection. tary schools at the Oystermouth Church of TREALAW.—Presentation by Mr. Morris England School by the Ven. Archdeacon Jones, director of education for the Rhondda Harold Williams, with life-boatmen from the U.D.C., of a prize won in the life-boat essay .Mumbles attending, and at the Oystermouth competition for elementary schools at the Council School by Mrs. Biggs. The district Boys' School, Trealaw. Address by the organizing secretary gave addresses. district organizing secretary. NEATH, NEW QUAY, NEWTOWN TREVOR.—Life-boat day. (Mont.), AND OSWESTRY.—Lifeboat days. WHITCHURCH.—Dance, organized by PENARTH.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. formed. Chairman, Mrs. A. T. Yeld- Presentations of prizes won in the life-boat Stephens ; honorary treasurer, Miss B. essay competition for elementary schools at Williams ; honorary secretary, Miss Enid M. Bwlch, Pantydwr (Radnorshire), Swansea Morcom. and Tonypandy.

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