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

VOL. XXX. OCTOBER, 1937. No. 331.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320

An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From the Bay of Naples to Solway Firth. By Mr. William Robson, a Member of the Kirkcudbright Life-boat Crew. [Mr. Robson has been a member of the us safely in the turmoil of winds and Kirkcudbright crew for over twenty waves—it is then yo.u see her in all her years. He retired this year on reaching glory and wonder. the age limit and was awarded a certificate of service. At the presentation of the I found my early sailing in the Bay certificate the coxswain said: " We are of Naples. I had a studio on the all deeply sorry to part with Mr. Robson, island of Capri, in a garden where the better known to us as ' Old Bill.'' Not clustering vines grew on the white- only did we look on him as our mascot, washed pergolas. The sweet-scented but as one of the mainstays of the boat. flowers, lovely girls amongst the peach No matter how the wind blew, or whether bloom, and a background of blue it rained or snowed, ' Old Bill' was amethyst sea, made that southern isle always there to do his duty, and he did an artist's Paradise. it well. During these twenty years we have had many happy times together, Sardines and Sharks. ashore and afloat."] I made many friends amongst the fishermen, joined with them in their The life-boat—our Lady of the Sea— labours—pulling in the nets during the calm and dignified in her station, day with catches of sardines, and at looking lovely in her colours : Blue, the night, south of the island, in a bit of depths of the ocean, the reflection of the water called La Cattena, fished with sky on the waters ; White, the spray ; lines in the glare of a grid full of lighted Red, that gives the touch of life, that pinewood, for a squid-like fish called inspires in the hearts of the stout Tortori, considered a great delicacy. fellows who sail her a sense of love. Upon several occasions the work was Her shelter—our shrine. brought to an abrupt finish—visits of Vital and terrible as she forces her sharks being the cause. Their un- bow through the gale-swept ocean, wonted presence was detected by the quick and responsive to the touch of odour long before they made them- the drogue, in a following sea, through selves visible by their fins. The nets, as shallow waters, her crew clinging to her a rule, were torn, the light in the grid with trust and happiness, as she bears was dipped, and extinguished (the boats 322 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. were small, used to take tourists into Storms in the Solway Firth. the Blue Grotto) and now, with 1 cwt. On the Solway it is different. No of Tortori, two men and tackle on girl with a rose in her hair—no man- board, and five miles to row—and dolin or guitar. Great music, dramatic, against La Tramantana—it was nice, Wagnerian, full orchestra, trumpets, once in the lee of the island, to rest on bassoons, cymbals and big drums—a your oars, light a cigar—one of those man endowed with the life-boat spirit black Neapolitan! cigars that men who loves it—it appeals to him—it is the think good tobacco only grows in expression of great doings in the sky Cuba call Stinkadore. and sea, and the voice of the tempest. At times the fishermen and a bunch And you are right in it, one of the of pretty Capri girls would visit the actors ; up on the crest of a wave; studio. A cosmopolitan crowd of banged down—with a thud that racks artists had gathered there, all good your body—down into a thirty-foot fellows. By the light of the moon and valley; smashed against the mast or the stars, on the terrace, dancing under tackle, rattling your bones; stung by the vines the Tarantella until the dawn. the needle-like spray that blinds; De Capua and De Curtis, both artists drenched to the skin; numbed to the and song-writers, were there from bone—doing your job, merry and Naples, and their songs—II Sole Mio bright. Only a privileged few are and Dormi Carme—echoed amongst actors in this drama—only the few who the olive trees—lovely Capri night. dare. We endure this and smile. The Old Vesuvius, too, joined in our Flying Dutchman, an impression of the midnight gambols by giving us a grand sea by a Master—coloured lime-lights firework display. shine upon the stage as radiant sun- I enjoyed sails in Dr. Munthe's yacht shine. If blasts of wind and showers —the author of San Michele. C. C. of water were shed, as a touch of Colman, the American artist, was an realism, I fear there would be many intimate friend of the doctor's. I vacant seats in the stalls. recollect a refreshment we enjoyed so I expect all life-boats have difficult much after pulling, in the dinghy, the bits of water to negotiate, somewhere yacht into her moorings. It was in their locality, frequently at the called Canadian Club. I have never entrance to the harbour. Our gamble tasted it since. We have something is the shallow water on the bar in a very like it here in Galloway—called southerly gale. Friends and well- Scotch. It, too, is good. wishers in the daylight rush to the Torrs Cliff to see us crossing the bar, The Loveliness of Santa Lucia. and they get thrills when we disappear, My boating at Capri was, in a sense, blotted out from the seascape, en- pleasure. I could hardly term it Work— veloped in a thirty-foot wave. One of floating around sketching, 'mid beauty our crew, James Shack!eton, remarked, and bewilderment, from dawn to dusk. in a Southerly gale: " I have never seen I had always a friend along with me. anything a patch on that "—and he Henry Neville Maugham, brother of had just returned from a voyage Somerset Maugham the distinguished round the world in a small three-man writer, often joined me—he wrote plays. yacht. Over the bar, clear of the No matter what part of the Bay— boiling cauldron, into the deep blue Cunalfi, Sorrento, Capri, Ischia—we water, we are with the good fairies, always made for Naples for the night, having escaped the demon king in his lowered our mast, and pulled into watery lair—for the moment. Santa Lucia. There in the soft velvety darkness of All Round the Horn. night the boats slip out and row I enjoyed the service in the pulling quietly around. Lovely girls—man- boats. We had two stations—Balcarry, tillas, fans—a rose in their blue-black and the Lake. Nearly all the men of tresses—music—singing—the playing of the crew had rounded the Horn in passionate love songs in perfect har- sailing ships—great lads. Jim Jardine— mony with the scene and surroundings who was three days and three nights in of the one and only Santa Lucia. an open boat, torpedoed during the OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 323

Mr. WILLIAM ROBSON. For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew. (From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.) 324 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. war—could build a full-rigged ship and Parkhill, whom we proudly accom- put it into a bottle. That was unique. panied to Edinburgh to act as Guard Any other member of the crew would of Honour to H.R.H. the Prince of have found it quite easy to put a bottle Wales ; and all the fine fellows I have or two bottles in a full-rigged ship. sailed with, in sunshine and big seas. The sailing and pulling boats have And lastly I would speak of the highest nearly all disappeared, and many of esteem we certainly all accord to the the men who formed their crews, with inspectors who visit the station, bring- their chanties and yarns. In that ing along with them that sincerity and class of boat you slipped over the crest true regard for the boats and the men of a wave, high and dry, and in comfort. who sail them, and that care for every In the motor boat of to-day you go minute detail, making it so easy, 'mid bang into the wave awash—and enjoy the tempest and its horrors, to carry all the consequences. back the most precious cargo to the The twenty years—all too short—I warmth and sunshine of life. have enjoyed in the service will remain As time moves along and the years a fond and cherished memory—the pass wonderful changes take place in kindness from our local honorary the service, always for the best. But secretaries, Mr. Campbell, who has left it possesses something that it will never our district, and now Mr. Allan, whom seek to change—the undaunted spirit we all revere; our coxswain, Mr. George of the life-boatman.

The Life-boat. [These verses on an unsuccessful life-boat launch, with their most dramatic ending, were written after a visit to the Kirkcudbright life-boat station by a company of five poets. Their names are recorded in the first stanza and their ages were from six to ten years.]

The life-boat she went out to sea And inside her there were but we, Biddy Paddy, John and Ant' David, William Charles and Jan't.

Inside her, too, there was the crew, Coxswain, helmsman and others too, Gallant sailors full of dare That sailed upon the ocean clear.

We found a wreck, the crew was drowned, We went on deck and looked around, We found a little lap dog true, Its owners were drowned in the ocean blue.

So we went home downhearted and sad Because we had rescued none, But the next morn we were spirited and glad Because they'd been pirates, ever so bad. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 325

By courtesy of\ rSimon Reid, Dumfries COXSWAIN GEORGE PARKHILL, OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

By courtesy of} [Simon Reid, Dumfries THE KIRKCUDBRIGHT LIFE-BOAT CREW. Left to right: James Poland, A. Allan (honorary secretary), George Parkhill, Junr. (winchman), James Parkhill, A. J. Hastings, F. Gallacher (second-coxswain), George Parkhill (coxswain), J. Maxwell (signalman), Angus Fairweather (motor mechanic), Ian Wemyss (helper), William Robson, John Poland. 326 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

Literature of the Life-boat." IN October of last year a supplement to I, under the heads of construction, The Life-boat was published, written by organization and rescues. Further Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a research has revealed many more vice-president of the Institution. The tributes in verse. There is, unfortu- supplement, under the title of " Liter- nately, not space for them in the new ature of the Life-boat," gave an supplement, but it is hoped to include account of all books and articles in them in an anthology of life-boat verse periodicals on life-boat work from to be published later. 1806 to 1936, which the Institution A copy of Part II is being sent to all had in its library, or which Sir John who asked for a copy of the original Gumming had been able to discover supplement. Of this the Institution elsewhere. During the past year he Still has copies, and it will be sent, with has discovered additional material and a copy of Part II, on application to any the record of this is being issued this readers of The Life-boat who have not month as Part II of " Literature of the already asked for it and would like to Life-boat." It is arranged, like Part have it.

Life-boat at Sea talks to London. ON 22nd July last there took place the the land-line, Coxswain Robert Cross, first telephone conversation between a when at sea, a mile and a half east life-boat at sea and the head office of of the Bull light-vessel, was able the Institution in London. On that to ring up head office and have a day the representatives of the Marconi conversation with the deputy chief International Marine Communication inspector of life-boats. Each could Co. visited the life-boat station on the hear the other clearly and there was Humber to test the radio telephony no interference by the engines of set which they had installed in the the life-boat, which were running at life-boat. By means of this set and 800 revolutions.

Portrait on the Cover. THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain square-rigged sailing ships, and had William Hughes, of PorthdinUaen, been running to South American ports. Caernarvonshire, who was appointed His photograph was taken by Mr. coxswain in 1933. He was then a Hughes, manager of the National Pro- retired master mariner who had been vincial Bank, Nevin, and is reproduced brought up in coasting and deep-water by his kind permission.

Gift from a Whaling Ship. A GIFT has been received of £15 3s. from whaling factory ship Southern Empress the British members of the crew of the on her return from the Antarctic. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 827

Life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar.

SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the more are ordered, no charge will be hundredth anniversary of the rescue made for printing the name and by Grace Darling and her father address. William Darling, of the Longstone Owing to the customs duties, it will Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the not be possible to print in names and nine survivors of the Dundee steamer addresses for the Irish Free State. Forfarshire. The Institution has there- As in previous years, the calendar will fore chosen for its Christmas card this have the record of lives saved printed year, and its calendar for 1938, the on the front and other particulars on painting of the rescue, by Thomas the back. Musgrove Joy, which hangs in the Art It will be 11 \ inches long by 9 inches Gallery in Dundee. The painting is wide, and can be obtained from the the property of the Fraternity of Institution in any quantity, post free, Masters and Seamen in Dundee, and Is. each, or 105. a dozen, this price has been reproduced by their kind including an envelope with each calen- permission. The reproduction on both dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, card and calendar will be in colours. just under four ounces, so that it can The card will be an eight-page card be sent through the post, with the with the Institution's crest embossed envelope open, for Id. on the outside; and inside, particulars Those who wish to order calendars of the painting and Christmas and New and cards can do so at once. The Year greetings. The price will be 4d. cards are ready and the calendars each, with envelope. If twenty-five will be ready early in November. or more are ordered, name and address Orders should be sent to the Sec- can be printed under the greetings. retary, Royal National Life-boat The price with name and address Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, printed will be 6d. each for quantities London, S.W.I, and postal orders or from twenty-five to fifty. If fifty or stamps enclosed. 328 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

The Wreck of a Finnish Motor Ship. Thirty Lives Lost in the Orkneys. IN the early morning of 12th January, returning to Longhope pier a third 1937, a Finnish motor ship, the Johanna message came that one of the ship's Thorden, passed through the Pentland boats was still missing. The life-boat Firth, between the north of Scotland put to sea again, making for the east and the Orkneys, on her way from New side of South Ronaldshay. On his York to Gothenburg. She had thirty- way the coxswain came across wreck- eight on board, among them women and age, remembered the flashes reported children. A whole gale was blowing, in the morning which had been taken with a very heavy sea, and the weather for lightning, and followed up the was very hazy and cold. wreckage, searching for survivors. The Shortly before six o'clock she struck wreckage led him to the Tarf of the Tarf of Swona, the southernmost Swona, where he found the Johanna point of that island, but, as appeared Thorden almost submerged. He from the accounts of survivors later, searched along the weather shore of the captain believed that he was on Swona, and then went round to the lee the Pentland Skerries, between five and shore, which he hailed, asking if any six miles to the south-east of his actual people had come ashore. The reply position. The vessel's wireless was was " None." He then made for the put out of action, but rockets were east side of South Ronaldshay, but the fired. Then, as there was no response, life-boat could barely stem the strong the captain decided to abandon ship ebb tide. With the heavy sea running and two boats were launched. Shortly and the poor visibility, it would have before noon one of the boats came been impossible to see a boat more ashore near Kirkness, on the east side than a quarter of a mile away. When of South Ronaldshay, ten miles from darkness began to come the coxswain, where the Johanna Thorden had been realizing the hopelessness of the search, wrecked. She capsized when near the made for Longhope, and arrived there shore, and the thirteen men aboard her at five in the evening. were thrown into the sea. Eight suc- ceeded in getting ashore alive. This Wick and Thurso Launch. was six hours after the ship had struck. Meanwhile, just before four in the Her rockets had not been seen by afternoon, the Wick life-boat station anyone at Swona, nor by any of the received a message from the Wick neighbouring look-out stations, on coastguard that a vessel was ashore account of the very poor visibility. on the Pentland Skerries and that one At Longhope, five miles away, flashes of her boats was missing. The motor had been seen in the direction of life-boat Frederick and Emma was Swona, but they had been taken for launched at once and searched the lightning. whole area of the Skerries, but found nothing. She returned to her station Longhope Life-boat Launches. at 10 P.M. At noon a message was received at An hour after the Wick life-boat had Longhope from the coastguard at been called out, the Thurso station Broughness on South Ronaldshay: was informed by the Wick coast- " Ship ashore east side of South Ron- guard that the Johanna Thorden had aldshay. Crew attempted to land in struck the Lother Rock, which lies their own boat, which swamped. Some off the south-west of South Ronaldshay, ashore, some drowned." The life- three miles from the Pentland Skerries, boat station asked for more information where the Finnish captain had believed and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn himself to be, and the same distance was launched at once. Twenty from the Tarf of Swona, where the minutes later another message was wreck actually lay. The message con- received, this time from the Kirkwall tinued that one boat had got ashore, coastguard, that she was not wanted, but that another boat, with twenty- and she was recalled. Just as she was two men on board, two women and OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 329

By courtesy of] [The National Life-saving Association of Iceland ON THE COAST OF ICELAND. Rescue of the crew of the Grimsby trawler Trocadero, 6th September, 1936. (See page 346.)

By courtesy of] [Daily Express THE WRECK OF THE JOHANNA THORDEN. (See opposite page.) 330 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

two children, was still adrift, possibly point where the other boat had come in the Pentland Firth. The Thurso ashore. Of the twenty-five who had motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched at been in her, all were drowned. Thirty 6.10 P.M., and searched the western ap- lives had been lost of the thirty-eight proaches to the Pentland Firth, but on board the Johanna Thorden. found nothing. She returned to her It was expected that a Fatal Acci- station at 11.40 that night. dents Enquiry would be held at Kirk- The three life-boats had been out on wall, but after investigating the the search altogether for sixteen hours. matter, the Procurator Fiscal decided The next day the missing boat and that an enquiry was not necessary. some bodies came ashore in Dingy- Rewards (already given in the last showe Bay, on the south side of issue of The Life-boat): Longhope, Deerness, some eighteen miles from £12 Os. Qd. ; Wick, £18 16s.; and the wreck, and eight miles beyond the Thurso, £17 17s.

Services of the Life-boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management. Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.

April Meeting. blowing, with a moderate sea, and the life-boat was the only suitable boat Aberdeen.—During the very bad available. She was launched at 11.50 storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- A.M., and put the crew on board; she ary the motor life-boat was launched then anchored under the lee of the three times, the pulling and sailing life- north breakwater, as it was impossible boat was launched once, and her crew to rehouse her until the weather assembled twice. The Institution's life- moderated. During the afternoon she saving apparatus companies at North was hailed and asked to take a crew to Pier and Tony were also assembled a Great Western Railway tug which nine times.—Rewards: Silver and also was lying in the harbour. This bronze medals, thanks inscribed on she did and was made fast to the vellum, binocular glass, letters of stern of the tug for the night. The thanks, and increased money awards. crew remained on board. Next day Total rewards, £170 7s. 9d. the weather moderated and the life- (A full account of these services boat was rehoused at 6.15 P.M. The appeared in the last issue of The owners made a donation to the Insti- Life-boat.) tution.—Rewards, £7 7s. Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the 30th January the crew of the Abertay light- Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.50 P.M. on vessel were rescued.—Rewards: Thanks the 8th March the Kirkwall coastguard inscribed on vellum and £9 12s. reported that distress signals had been (A full account of this service, seen off Mull Head, Papa Westray, and appeared in the last issue of The that the life-boat was wanted. The Life-boat.) motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. put out at 12.15 A.M. on the 9th. Meanwhile Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the vessel had gone ashore at Aikerness the morning of the 28th February the Holm, Westray, and the life-boat found Great Western Railway local marine her there at 5.30 A.M. The wind was superintendent asked if the motor life- light, but there was a heavy ground boat White Star would place a crew on swell. The vessel was the steam traw- board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, ler Loch Buie, of Aberdeen, homeward which was lying at a mooring-buoy in bound, with a crew of eleven on board. the harbour. She had parted her She had washed over the reef on which cable and was being held only by a she had struck, and was lying in shallow wire rope. A whole northerly gale was water, leaking in the stokehold. Owing OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 331 to the darkness, and the outlying reefs, Pioneer had repaired her engines, and the life-boat had some difficulty in finally returned to her station at 9.30 getting alongside, but she succeeded A.M., twenty-one and a half hours and rescued the eleven men. The after she had first put out. The skipper and engineer were put ashore owners expressed their thanks and at Westray and the others were taken made a donation to the Institution and back to Stromness, where the life-boat a gift of money to the crew.—Rewards, arrived at 11.45 A.M. She had been on £34 5s. service for eleven and a half hours.— Rewards, £23 17s. Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put to sea early in the morning of the Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.52 A.M. llth March, but the weather got bad, on the 10th March the coastguard and by 11 A.M. all but three boats reported that the s.s. Jeannette, of had returned. A strong east breeze Rotterdam, bound for Coleraine with was blowing, with a heavy sea and a cargo of chemical manure, had been heavy showers of snow. The motor holed in trying to enter River Bann, life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was and was making for Portrush escorted launched at noon, when the motor by two shoreboats. The wind was fishing boat Gallilee could be seen off light, and the sea calm. It was found the harbour, and escorted her in impossible to beach the Jeannette in through the dangerous entrance. She the harbour or the bay, and it was put off again and this time brought in decided to take her to Moville, Loch the Victory. She was then moored Foyle. The master asked for the to the Fish Quay until 2.45 P.M., when motor life-boat T.B.B.H. to escort her, the third boat, the Provider, was seen, and she was launched at 10.12 A.M. and going out for the third time She accompanied the Jeannette to she escorted her in. She returned to Moville, and there the Jeannette was her station at 3.30 P.M.—Rewards, safely beached, her after-hold then £9 4s. Qd. being nearly three parts full of water. The life-boat crew went ashore and Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the had a meal before returning home, and afternoon of the 12th March the weather the life-boat eventually arrived back got very bad, and several of the local at her station at 5.15 P.M.—Rewards, boats at sea returned to harbour. One £11 195. 9d. boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morn- was launched, at 4.35 P.M. A moderate ing of the llth March the mail E.S.E. breeze was then blowing, with steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Port- a very rough sea, and visibility was askaig for West Loch Tarbert. She poor, owing to heavy rain. After the had mail and twenty-two persons on life-boat had been at sea for half an board. When she was about eight hour the coastguard signalled that the miles east of Macarthur's Head light- Margaret was approaching. The life- house her engines broke down, and she boat met her about a mile to the N.E., signalled for help. A strong east gale escorted her safely into harbour, and was blowing, with a very heavy sea and returned to her station at 5.40 P.M. showers of snow. The signals were seen —Rewards, £19 Qs. by the coastguard, and the motor life- boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched Clovelly, Devon.—Shortly before half- at noon. She found the Pioneer past eight in the morning of the 14th drifting. The master dropped anchor, March the Hartland Point coastguard but she continued to drag until a second telephoned that a small cabin cruiser anchor was dropped. Two other was flying what appeared to be a large steamers arrived, but as the Pioneer red flag, and was drifting S.W. two was in a dangerous position the life- miles from Hartland Point. She was boat stood by. She put back to her the motor vessel Lerina, of Instow, station at 12.50 A.M. on the 12th to with a crew of three on board, taking refuel, and set out again at 1.30 A.M. stores to Lundy Island. Her engine She continued to stand by until the had broken down. A strong N.N.E. 332 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, moderate sea. As no one was on and the weather was thick and cold. board the yacht, the motor life-boat The motor life-boat City of Nottingham J.H.W. was launched at 2.45 P.M. to was launched at 8.30 A.M., and found secure her. She found that she had the Lerina off Bude, with two small grounded about two and a half miles sails set. The life-boat hailed her and west of the pier, and returned to her was asked by the master to stand by, station at 4.30 P.M. to wait until flood as he was trying to make Padstow. tide. At 11.30 P.M. she put out again, Later on the fife-boat took her in tow, towed the yacht back, and returned to and Padstow was reached at 4.20 P.M. her station at 2 A.M. on the 17th:— The life-boat arrived back at Clovelly Property Salvage Case. early in the morning of the 15th, but could not be rehoused until 5.30 A.M. Appledore, Devon.—During the even- owing to low water and heavy seas.— ing of the 16th March Croyde coastguard Property Salvage Case. reported that a vessel between Morte Point and Lundy Island was burning Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 A.M. flares. A moderate and increasing on the 15th March a message was re- south breeze was blowing, with a ceived that a barge about half a mile moderate sea. The vessel was the south of Low Way buoy had been dis- motor fishing boat Kenilworth Castle, masted. A west breeze was blowing, of Ilfracombe, which had left Appledore with a very rough sea. The reserve for Ilfracombe earlier in the evening motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on with two men on board. Her engine temporary duty, was launched at 10.15 had broken down and, having no sails A.M., and found the barge to be the or oars on board, she was drifting, Norseman with two men on board. helpless. The motor life-boat V.C.S. All her sailing-gear was over the side. was launched at 8.2 P.M. and found her She towed her into safety, and returned four miles N.N.E. of Baggy Point. to her station at 3.35 P.M., but owing She towed her into Ilfracombe, arriving to the heavy seas, could not be rehoused at 11.35 P.M., and it was decided that until 6 P.M.—Property Salvage Case. the life-boat should not return to Appledore immediately, as she had Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.50 A.M. damaged her steering-gear. She was on the 16th March the Civic Guard taken back to her station on the 19th. telephoned that a man had reported a —Rewards, £36 2,9. 7d. sailing vessel in difficulties in Bally- Teignmouth, Devon.—At 3.25 P.M. on croneen Bay. A moderate southerly the 17th March the coastguard reported gale was blowing, with a very heavy that a small boat, with one man on sea and squalls of rain. The motor board, had been carried out of the har- life-boat Mary Stanford was launched bour by the strong ebb tide, and was at noon, shipping very heavy seas on in difficulty. A strong S.S.W. breeze her way to the bay. Three miles was blowing, with a rough sea and W.S.W. of Ballycotton lighthouse she heavy rain. The pulling and sailing found the motor ketch Garlingstone, life-boat Henry Finlay put out at of Milford Haven, trying, with the 3.30 P.M. and found the boat about help of her auxiliary engine, to beat three miles S.E. of Teignmouth. The out of the bay. The life-boat stood by man was rescued, but his boat was while she managed slowly to get away smashed in the heavy seas, and had to from the shore, and kept with her until be abandoned. The life-boat returned she was about three miles out. The to her station at 5 P.M.—Rewards, Garlingstone was then out of danger and £14 12s. the life-boat made for her station, arriving at 3 P.M.—Rewards, £7 7s. 6d. Holyhead, Anglesey.—On March 22nd the motor life-boat A.E.D. rescued Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—Early 59 men from the s.s. Marie Moller, of in the afternoon of the 16th March the Shanghai, when she was on fire.— auxiliary yacht Chantecler, of Lytham, Rewards, £10 18s. 6d. (A full account broke away from her moorings. A of this service appeared in the last strong east breeze was blowing, with a issue of The Life-boat.) OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 333

Holy Island, Northumberland. — On until 5 A.M. on the 3rd and then ran the morning of the 25th March the out a kedge anchor with 150 yards of coastguard reported that a small boat wire rope. At 8 A.M. the Reja was belonging to the tug Dunelm, with a successfully refloated and anchored in boy on board, was drifting seawards the bay. The life-boat returned to from the harbour. A N.N.W. breeze her station again at 9 A.M.—-Property was blowing, with a rough sea on the Salvage Case. bar. At 9.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Milburn was launched, and after search- Thurso, Caithness-shire. — The ing for a short time she found the boat Grimsby trawler Thomas Thresher, in difficulties near rough water. She bound for Iceland, put into Scrabster towed it back to harbour and returned- harbour at 9 P.M. on the 2nd April to get to her station at 10.30 P.M.—Rewards, medical attention for one of her crew. £15 7s. 6d. She left again at 11.15 P.M. and shortly after rah ashore on Holborn Head. A Filey, Yorkshire.—The pulling and sail- moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, ing life-boat Hollon the Third was with a rough sea, and visibility was launched at 7.55 A.M. on the 26th March, poor. The Thomas Thresher's signals as two fishing cobles were at sea in a were seen, and the motor life-boat dangerous position and the weather had H.C.J. put out at 12.10 A.M. on the 3rd. got bad. A moderate north breeze was She found that the trawler had refloated, blowing, with a very rough sea. The life- but had gone aground again on Scarf boat met the cobles a little north of Brig Rock. The life-boat took off nine of End, escorted them into harbour, and the crew, but the captain and four returned to her station at 10 A.M.— others stayed on board. With the Rewards, £15 14s. 6d. life-boat's help the trawler refloated. She was leaking badly, but managed Appledore, Devon.—During the after- to get into Scrabster, with the life-boat noon of the 29th March the motor barge in attendance. The life-boat stood by Invincible, of Appledore, was swamped until she was safely moored, and re- when between Middle Ridge and Bar turned to her station at 2.45 A.M. The Buoy in the Torridge estuary. She Grimsby Steam Fishing Vessels Mutual carried a crew of three, and was bound Insurance and Protecting Co., Ltd., for Appledore, laden with sand. The made a donation to the Institution.—• Westward Ho coastguard reported that Rewards, £10 4s. she was flying distress signals, and the motor life-boat V.C.S. was launched Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the at 4.40 P.M. She found the barge night of the 3rd April a doctor asked submerged, rescued the three men, one for the services of the motor life-boat of whom had been injured by being William Evans to take a patient to the thrown against the companion by a mainland for an immediate operation. heavy sea, and returned to her station A moderate east breeze was blowing, at 5.5 P.M.—Rewards, £9 6s. Qd. with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The life-boat put off at Flamhorough, Yorkshire.—At about 9 P.M., landed the patient at Galway, 10 P.M. on the 2nd April the coxswain where an ambulance was waiting, and received information of a steamer arrived back at her station at 4.30 blowing, and believed to be ashore. A.M. on the 4th.—Expenses paid by The weather was very foggy and a S.E. the County of Galway Board of Health. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. Searchers found the vessel about a Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on mile and a half west of the station, and the 4th April the coastguard reported the No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat, that a steamer off the Calf of Man was Jane Hannah MacDonald, was launched sounding her siren, as if in distress. The at 10.45 P.M. She was rowed to the wind was light and the sea smooth, but position and there found the motor there was a very thick fog. The motor vessel Reja, of Groningen, carrying a life-boat Ethel Day Card-well was crew of about six, and bound with a launched at 3.30 A.M. and found the cargo of scrap-iron from London to s.s. Ben Varrey, of Ramsey, making for Grangemouth. The life-boat stood by Port Erin, going very slowly. She 334 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. was bound from Garston for Peel with quarters of a mile west of St. Catherine's a cargo of coal, but had struck the Point. She was the Italian Luigi Stack Rock and was leaking badly. Accame, of Genoa, bound with a cargo The life-boat escorted her into harbour, of iron ore from Bona to Rotterdam, and returned to her station at 4.20 and carrying a crew of twenty-nine. A.M.—Rewards, £13 16s. She had gone aground in thick fog and was badly holed. A light southerly Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.38 P.M. on breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, the 6th April the Donna Nook coast- and visibility was nil, owing to fog and guard reported that a vessel was rain. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was ashore north of Donna Nook beacon. launched at 10.15 P.M., and found the A gentle breeze was blowing, with a •Luigi Accame aground at Rocken End, slight swell, but there was a very waterlogged. The crew were just get- dense fog. The motor life-boat City ting the ship's boats away. They were of Bradford II was launched at 8.15 taken into the life-boat, which returned P.M., and feeling her way through the to her station at 5.15 A.M. on the 7th. fog, found the steam trawler Sir John The Luigi Accame was refloated about Lister, of Hull, hard aground on Haile two months later. The Italian Consul Sand, with her head to sea. The life- sent a letter to the coxswain, expressing boat stood by, and later she ran out the thanks of the Italian Government, an anchor from the trawler. The and the Institution also sent a letter trawler then heaved on it with her of appreciation. The owners made a winch and hauled herself off into deep donation of £25 to the Institution.— water. Owing to the dense fog, the Rewards, £8. master decided to remain at anchor, and as the trawler was no longer in ^ Selsey, Sussex.—At about 8.25 A.M. danger, the life-boat made for her on the 8th of April the coastguard re- station. She got back at 1.30 A.M. ported that the fishing boat L.I.47 on the 7th.—Property Salvage Case. had capsized about two miles W.S. W. of Selsey Bill, and that another Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 3.20 fishing boat was near - by. A A.M. on the 6th April the coastguard squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, telephoned that a vessel was ashore with a slight swell, and visibility N.E. of Crammag Head. The wind was very poor, owing to fog banks was light and the sea smooth, but there and rain squalls. The motor life- was a thick fog. The new motor life- boat Canadian Pacific was launched at boat Jeanie Speirs was launched at 8.40 A.M. and found that the two men 3.45 A.M., and found the s.s. Lairdsbank, who had been thrown into the sea from of Glasgow, on the rocks. The the capsized boat had been rescued by Lairdsbank was bound laden from the other fishing boat. One of the Londonderry for Heysham and carried men was ex-Coxswain Frederick Barnes, a crew of twenty-two. At the master's of the Selsey life-boat, aged 67, and the request the life-boat took off seven other was 80 years old. The life-boat men, and stood by while an attempt towed the boat with rescuers and was made to refloat her. The attempt rescued back to Selsey, and then went was unsuccessful, and the life-boat out again and towed in [he capsized returned to her station at 11 A.M. to boat. She arrived back at her station refuel and land the seven men. At at 10.30 A.M. — Rewards, life-boat 12.45 P.M. she put out again. She took £5 17s. 6d., shoreboat £2, and 2s. 6d. off one more man, stood by for some for fuel used. hours until the Lairdsbank refloated, and returned finally to her station at Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of 10.10 P.M. She had been at sea for the 9th April a message was received nearly seventeen hours.—Rewards, from the Royal Naval Shore Signal £23 7*. 6d. Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.55 P.M. the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with on the 6th April the coastguard reported about 200 persons on board, and was that a steamer was ashore three- bound for the Belgian Congo. A fresh OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 335

S. by E. breeze was blowing, with a ashore, but the watchman aboard her choppy sea. The No, 2 motor life-boat got ashore without help.—Rewards, Charles Cooper Henderson was launched £6 17s. 6d. at 11.40 P.M., and found the Anvers- ville listing to port, and in danger of Penlee, Cornwall.—25th March. The capsizing with the ebbing tide, as she engine of a fishing boat had broken was on the edge of a bank. She stood down, but the boat was towed in by by all night, and at 9.5 next morn- another fishing boat. — Rewards, ing the Anversville was refloated by £21 8s. tugs. The life-boat returned to her Sheringbam, Norfolk.—On the 27th station at 9.15 A.M., having been on March, at the request of the Chief service for over nine and a half hours.— Constable of Bedfordshire, the motor Rewards, £32 9.y. 6d. life-boat Foresters Centenary put out The following life-boats were to search for the Duchess of Bedford launched, but no services were rendered who, some days before, had set for the reasons given :— out on a short trip by aeroplane, alone, and had not returned. A wide search Portaskaig, Isle of Islay.—9th Feb- for her by land had already been made ruary. A trawler had struck a reef without success, and on March 24th off Ardbeg, but a coasting steamer two Sheringham fishing boats found picked up her crew.—Rewards, £7 2s. pieces of wood, four miles off Shering- ham, which were part of an aeroplane Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—llth March. of the type which the Duchess was A schooner had gone aground, but piloting. The life-boat searched for became high and dry when the tide seven hours and found nothing. Some ebbed.-—Rewards, £8. days later parts of an aeroplane which Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — llth- were definitely identified as the 12th March. The steam trawler Duchess's were found at sea. The Belgaum, of Reykjavik, wirelessed for a Duke of Bedford made a donation to doctor, but in the heavy snow she could cover the rewards. — Rewards, not be found.—Rewards, £16 Us. 6d. £23 8s. 3d. Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — 12th Plymouth, Devon. — 9th April. A March. The motor life-boat J. and W. yacht was overdue, and the life-boat was launched at 1.30 P.M. as the coast- searched for her, but could not find her, guard had reported that a vessel in as she had no lights. The owner sent Luce Bay was flying distress signals. a letter of thanks and a donation.— A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a Rewards, £9 Is. very heavy sea and a blinding snow- storm. The life-boat searched for some May Meeting. hours without finding any sign of a vessel in distress, and put in to Port- Ramsgate,' Kent.—At 10 A.M. on the william for further information. It 7th April the motor life-boat Prudential was learned that the s.s. Fermanagh, put out for her monthly practice run. of Belfast, had grounded in Auchen- A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, malg Bay, about six miles north, and with a moderate sea. The life-boat did not then want any help. The life- made towards the Brake light-vessel, on boat therefore set out for her station, the Goodwin Sands, and saw a vessel and arrived at 12.30 A.M. on the 13th, at anchor near the Middle Brake. She having been on service for eleven hours. was flying a Dutch ensign at half mast, A letter of appreciation was sent to the and flames were seen coming through branch.—Rewards, £19 15s. 6d. the hatchway. The life-boat went to her and found her to be the auxiliary Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — 12th yawl Valross, bound, with two persons March. A steamer had gone ashore, on board, from Denmark to Dover. but got off.—Rewards, £15 18s. Her engine had broken down and she had anchored. Later her propeller had Falmouth, Cornwall.—16th March. become fouled and a faulty petrol-feed An obsolete destroyer had driven pipe had caught fire. The life-boat 336 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. towed her in to Ramsgate harbour, and made for home and arrived at her returned to her station at 11.20 A.M.— station again at 6.10 P.M.—Rewards, Rewards, £2 10s. £5 19s and Property Salvage Case. Ramsgate, Kent.—During the morn- Aberdeen.—At 9.27 P.M. on the 15th ing of the 10th April the Brake light- April the Gregness coastguard tele- vessel, on the Goodwin Sands, reported, phoned that a vessel was in distress off through the coastguard, that a steamer Berryhill. A later message said that was aground about a mile and a half E. she was about a mile N.E. of the Bridge half S. from her. A moderate S.S.W. of Don, apparently aground, and was breeze was blowing, with rain showers. firing rockets. A moderate easterly The sea was smooth. The motor life- breeze was blowing, with a moderate boat Prudential was launched at 11.54 sea, and the weather was thick. The A.M., and found the s.s. Siidsee, of No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance Bremerhaven, at anchor about three was launched at 9.50 P.M., and found miles E. by S. of the light-vessel. She the vessel to be the steam trawler Paul had hit the sands, but had screwed off Rykens, of Aberdeen, on her way home into deep water again. The life-boat from Iceland. She carried a crew of stood by for some time, while the thirteen. The life-boat anchored, Siidsee hove up her anchor and got veered in, and passed two lines to her. clear of the sands. She returned to her The master said that he wished to station at 3.20 P.M.—Rewards, £5 8s. remain on board, and asked the life- boat to stand by. This she did. On Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.20 A.M. the flood tide she took on board a tow- on the 13th April the coastguard rope from the trawler, and after about telephoned that an SOS had been an hour, with both vessels working received from a vessel ashore on May their engines, the trawler was refloated. Island. She was the steamer Island, During the whole of this time heavy of Copenhagen, bound, with about breaking surf was washing the trawler's sixty-seven passengers and crew on decks. She made for Aberdeen under board, from Copenhagen for the Faroes her own steam, and the life-boat and Iceland. She had struck in a bad returned to her station, arriving there position on the S.E. side of the island, at 2.30 A.M. on the 16th.—Property and was making water. The motor Salvage Case. life-boat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 6.38 A.M., and reached the Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M. steamer about half an hour later. on the 25th April the motor fishing She took off twenty-five passengers and coble Enterprize, with a crew of three, landed them at Anstruther at 8.45 A.M. put to sea. A stiff breeze was blowing, At 10 A.M. she put out again, taking and the sea was moderate. During the back two men, members of a scientific morning the sea rose rapidly, and made expedition, who had valuable apparatus the entrance to the harbour very and records on board, and who wanted dangerous for a small coble. At about to see to the recovery of them. She 11.30 A.M. the Enterprize was seen about took off two more passengers and the three miles northward, and the No. 2 greater part of the passengers' luggage, pulling and sailing life-boat, Jacob and and returned to Anstruther at 12.45 Rachael Vallentine, put out to meet her. P.M. The captain of the Island had When rowing out of the harbour the asked the life-boat to return to him, life-boat shipped some big seas, and an and so at 1.55 P.M. she put out for oar was broken. She lay to for about the third time. She found that the half an hour and then rowed out, met Fishery Board cruiser Brenda had the Enterprize, and handed life-belts to arrived some time earlier and was her crew. She escorted her safely into taking off the remaining passengers, harbour, and returned to her station at crew and mail-bags. The life-boat 1.45 P.M.—Rewards, £8 18s. stood by, and later took the captain, mate and two of the crew of the Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M. Avrecked steamer from the Brenda and on the 25th April the coastguard landed them on May Island. She then telephoned that a motor yacht was in OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 887

By courtesy of] [G. M. Cowie, St. Andrews RESCUED FROM A DANISH STEAMER. Miss Anne Lise Verndal and her mother. Twenty-seven in all were rescued by the Anstruther motor life-boat. (See opposite page.)

By courtesy of] [Southcnd Standard A LAUNCH AT SOUTHEND-ON-SEA. Going to the rescue of the barge Norseman on March 15th, 1937. (See page 332.) THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. trouble and was drifting ashore. She Spain. The motor life-boat Charles was the San Toy, of London, bound Cooper Henderson put out at 8 A.M., the there from Ramsgate, with a man and weather being foggy, with a moderate a boy on board. Her engine had sea and a light E.N.E. wind. The broken down, and her propeller fouled, Willesden—which had been in collision and she was drifting towards the rocks. with another British steamer—the A strong E.N.E. breeze was blowing, Thistteglen—was badly holed, with with a rough sea. The motor life-boat water in the stokehold and engine-room. Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) Two boats were over the side with was launched at 10.5 A.M. and found part of the crew in them. Sixteen men the San Toy about a mile east of were taken into the life-boat. Later Margate pier. She put two men on tugs arrived and, with the help of the board and towed her into safety. In life-boat, got the Willesden in tow and boarding the yacht one of the men fell beached her at Jury's Gap. Her crew into the sea, but he was not hurt and then returned to her. The life-boat was quickly hauled back into the life- left, reaching her station again at 10.30 boat. The yacht was moored in the P.M.—Property Salvage Case. harbour, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.35 A.M., although she Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of could not be rehoused until 4.15 P.M. the 10th May signals of distress were on account of the rough sea.—Property seen by the coastguard, and the reserve Salvage Case. life-boat City of Bradford I, on tempo- rary duty at the station, was launched Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At about at 10.18 A.M. Visibility was poor, and 9 A.M. on the 2nd May the coastguard a light E.S.E. wind was blowing, with reported that a motor vessel was ashore a moderate ground swell. The life-boat near Johnshaven. A gentle south found a motor boat, belonging to breeze was blowing, and the sea was H.M.S. Fitzroy, engaged on survey smooth, but there was a dense fog. work. She had been badly holed by The motor life-boat Margaret Dawson striking a submerged groyne, and her was launched at 9.15 A.M., and found crew of eight men were trying hard to the motor vessel Dr. Colyn, of Delfzyl, keep her afloat. Some of the life-boat bound from Rotterdam to Aberdeen crew went aboard to help in the work with a cargo of superphosphate, ashore of baling. The leak was stopped as opposite the north end of Johnshaven far as possible with canvas and sacking, village. The life-boat stood by for and, lashed to the life-boat, the motor some time and, as the Dr. Colyn was boat was taken to Lowestoft, where she not in immediate danger, returned to, was handed over to H.M.S. Fitzroy. Gourdon at 11.35 A.M., so that the men The life-boat returned to her station at could get dry clothes and provisions. 11.30 A.M.—Rewards, £14 10s. She put out again at 2.15 P.M., and stood by until the Dr. Colyn refloated, The Humber, Yorkshire.—The motor under her own power, at 6.53 P.M. The life-boat City of Bradford II was life-boat then got a rope on board and launched at 10.30 A.M. on the llth May kept her from regrounding until she in response to a message received from got an anchor secured. The life-boat the Humber Conservancy that a vessel escorted her towards Aberdeen until the had collided with the Bull light-vessel master said that he was not in need of during a fog. The sea was moderate, further help, and returned to her station with a fresh E.N.E. wind blowing. at 8.15 P.M.—Rewards, £19 18s. 6d. The life-boat found that the light- vessel had been damaged, but above the Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.25 A.M. on the water-line. She returned and reported 8th May news was received from the to the Conservancy.—Permanent paid coastguard that an S O S

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — llth Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—The motor May. It was reported that rockets had life-boat Langham was launched at been seen and that a boat was in 11.22 A.M. on the 22nd May, as inform- difficulties, but nothing could be found. ation had been received through the -—Rewards, £11 4s. coastguard that the yacht Bendilaw, of Portsmouth, was in a dangerous posi- Cromer, Norfolk. — 12th May. A tion near Sandown pier. A moderate steamer had stranded, but got off S.S.W. gale was blowing, the sea was unaided.—Rewards, £8 14s. very heavy, and sleet was falling. The life-boat reached the Bendilow at 12.15 Cromer, Norfolk. — 13th May. A P.M., rescued her crew, two men and a French steamer had been in collision woman, and landed them at Bembridge with the Cromer Knoll light-vessel, but at 2.25 P.M.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d. . a Trinity House steamer had gone to her help.—Rewards, £8 14s. Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 26th May the motor Lowestoft, Suffolk.—17th May. A vessel Ross, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, boat belonging to a Government ship bound from Glasgow to Liverpool, ran engaged on survey work had got into on the rocks on the north side of the difficulties, but a fishing boat took her Calf of Man. She had a crew of in tow.—Rewards, £14 10s. twenty-six, seven passengers, and a cargo of grain. The sea was calm and Anstruther, Fife.—18th May A vessel there was no wind, but there was a had gone ashore near Fife Ness, but got thick fog. A Port Erin fisherman off again.—Rewards, £5 16s. reported the wreck, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was June Meeting. launched at 8.30 A.M. She took off the seven passengers, and then stood by Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on until 11.15 A.M., when the .Ross floated the 21st May a local boatman reported off. She was badly holed, but, with the a small motor yacht in difficulties. A life-boat escorting her, was able to get moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, to an anchorage in Port Erin bay. with a rough sea. The yacht was the There the life-boat landed the pas- Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been sengers, and reached her station again taken in tow by a Dutch motor yacht, at 2 P.M.—Rewards, £11 7s. the Vigilanter, of Rotterdam, but when they were about half a mile off the Cloughey, Co. Down. — During the lighthouse she had broken adrift and night of the 2nd June a small yacht was her mast had carried away. The seen to be in difficulties off North Rock, motor life-boat Charles Cooper Hender- and the motor life-boat William May- son was launched at 3 P.M. She found nard was launched at 11.5 P.M. There the Hyperion waterlogged and swept was no wind, and the sea was smooth. by heavy seas. Her crew of two had The life-boat found the yacht Silveium, been taken on board the Vigilanter, and with two men on board, aground the only man on board the Hyperion among the North Rock group with her was one of the Vigilanter''s crew. The rudder jammed. She stood by and the life-boat rescued him. In the lee of Silveium floated off on the rising tide, Dungeness Point she returned him to but her owner found that he could not the Vigilanter, took on board the two clear the rocks, and asked for a tow to men of the Hyperion, and, after picking a safe anchorage. The life-boat towed up their yacht, returned ashore at the yacht into Cloughey bay, and 4.25 P.M. returned to her station at 3.15 A.M.— The Institution sent a letter to the Rewards, £13 15s. 6d. coxswain, D. Oilier, expressing appre- ciation of this smart service, and an Staithes, Yorkshire. — Early on the increase in the usual money award on morning of the 3rd June five local the standard scale was granted to him fishing cobles put out to the fishing and to each member of the life-boat ground to haul crab pots. The weather crew.—Rewards, £14 18s. 6d. was fine, but there was a strong sea OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 341 running. The sea increased until there returned, but after an unsuccessful was considerable risk to the cobles in search it was found that she had been making harbour, and the pulling and at anchor in the river.—Rewards, sailing life-boat John Anthony was £22 8s. launched at 9.45' A.M. She stood by until all the cobles had got safely in, July Meeting. and returned to her station at 11.30 A.M.—Rewards, £7 15*. Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the The following life-boats were R.A.F. Training School were thrown launched, but no services were rendered into the sea by the swamping of their for the reasons given : open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the Watchet, Somerset.—llth May. A River Southesk. The weather was boat from the s.s. Niord, of Gothen- fine, with a moderate S.E. breeze burg, had tried to reach the harbour in blowing, but there was a rough sea on a N.E. gale. She got into difficulties, the bar. The motor life-boat was off but made Minehead without help. service for overhaul and the surf Later the life-boat put the men back pulling and sailing life-boat Marianne on their ship.—Rewards, £18 7s. Atherstone was launched at 3.50 P.M. One man was picked up unconscious Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 18th by the life-boat and landed. A search, May. A search was made for a fishing in which other boats joined, was made boat which had been last seen twenty- for the other two men, but without seven miles to the N.N.E. She could success, and the life-boat returned at not be found, but she made Buckie 6 P.M.—Rewards, £13. safely next morning.—Rewards, £9 135. Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—21st May. 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were A small yacht had been seen appar- received from the coastguard and the ently in difficulties, but she entered Royal Naval Signal Station that a Chichester Harbour without help.—• steamer with 120 passengers on board Rewards, £4 13s. had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy, following a Ramsgate, Kent. — 21st May. A collision. Wind and sea were calm, steam trawler had been reported ashore' but there was a dense fog. The reserve on the Brake Sands, but she had motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on refloated arid gone on her way.-—• temporary duty, was launched at 8.25 Rewards, £5 8s. P.M., and found the steamer to be the Royal Archer, of Leith. She had been Holybead, Anglesey.—22nd May. A badly holed. The life-boat took off small boat had been lost sight of during forty-nine of the passengers and landed a squall. She had got ashore in a small them at Southend. She then returned cove.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d. to the Royal Archer and stood by for some time in case her help was wanted. Kirkcudbright.—24th May. A yacht She arrived back at her station at 5.30 had been disabled by an engine break- A.M. on the 13th. Later in the day the down, but her crew had beached her Royal Archer was towed to London by and got safely ashore.—Rewards, tugs.—Rewards, £17 4s. £4 19s. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the Bembridge, Isle of Wight—26th May. night of the 18th June the coastguard A small yacht had been reported in reported that a motor yacht off the difficulties, but it was found that she harbour was in need of help. A did not need any help.—Rewards, moderate to fresh S.W. breeze was £5 5s. 6d. blowing, with a fairly rough sea. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Exmoutb, Devonshire.—26th May. A Lunn was launched at 10.30 P.M., and small dinghy was reported as not having found the motor yacht Sea Girl, of 342 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

Shoreham, with a crew of four, a mile from another service call (which will and a half S.E. of the harbour. Her be reported in a later issue), put out at propeller and steering-gear had been 5.15 A.M. After a very rough passage fouled and she was out of control. The she reached the scene and found that life-boat towed her into harbour, and the Admiralty tug St. Just had taken returned to her station at 11.15 P.M.—• in tow the converted life-boat Pau- Property Salvage Case. Amma, which had been in great danger of driving ashore. The Pau-Amma was Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.30 A.M. bound for Yarmouth, and had two on the 22nd June the coastguard people on board. The St. Just passed reported that four visitors, two men the tow to the life-boat, which made and two women, had put out in a motor for Weymouth. Twice the line parted, boat during the previous afternoon and but eventually the life-boat got the had not returned. A light breeze was Pau-Amma safely into Weymouth har- blowing, and the sea was smooth. bour. After the crew had had some Enquiries were made along the coast, refreshment the life-boat made for but nothing could be learned, and the home, arriving at 4.20 P.M. She had motor life-boat The Three Sisters was been absent for over eleven hours. In launched at 1 A.M. She found the view of the length and arduous nature motor boat, helpless owing to a broken of the service a letter of appreciation propeller shaft, about a mile south of was sent to the coxswain and crew, and Blackhead. The four people were in an increase in the usual money award a very distressed condition. The life- on the standard scale was granted to boat took them on board and towed the coxswain and each member of the the boat back to harbour. She returned crew.—Rewards, £13 6s. to her station at 2 A.M.—Rewards, £10 6s. Margate, Kent.—The reserve motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot. on temporary Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morn- duty at this station, was .launched at ing of the 27th June a motor boat left 8.20 A.M. on the 4th July as the coast- Methil, with seven people on board, guard had reported that a small sailing pleasure fishing. At 9.48 A.M. the boat, with her sails blown away, was coastguard reported that she had gone flying a signal of distress, about a mile ashore in Largo bay, but as the coast- and a half east of Margate jetty. A guard life-saving apparatus was in W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a attendance, the motor life-boat Nellie choppy sea. The life-boat picked up and Charlie was not launched. At the boat—the Lulu, of Broadstairs, 12.9 P.M. the coastguard asked that the with one man on board-—and towed life-boat might be launched, and she her into harbour. She returned to her put out six minutes later. A moderate station at 9.20 A.M.—Rewards, £6 4s. W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell. The life-boat found the The following life-boats were motor boat west of Kincraig Point. launched, but no services were rendered The seven people had been taken for the reasons given : ashore by the life-saving apparatus, but the boat was entangled in salmon Southend-OD'Sea, Essex. — 8th June. nets. The life-boat freed her, towed A boy was adrift in a small boat, but her into Elie harbour, and returned to was picked up by a passing vessel.— her station at 2.30 P.M.—Rewards, Rewards, £10 Is. 6d. £5 16s. Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.— Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.30 A.M. on 10th June. A small yacht was in the 4th July the coastguard reported distress, but was towed in by a motor that a vessel five miles west of Portland boat.—Rewards, £17 9s. 6d. Bill was firing rockets. A strong breeze to moderate gale was blowing from the Skegness, Lincolnshire. —• llth June. S.W., with a very heavy sea. The An aeroplane had been reported to have motor life-boat Thomas Markby, which come down in the sea, but nothing had returned only a few hours before could be found.—Rewards, £6 11s. 6d. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 343

THE WHITBY PULLING AND SAILING LIFE-BOAT APRIL 25th, 1937.

UP! (See page 336..

OVER! Both photographs are reproduced by courtesy of Edgar Colling, of Whitby. 844 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—12th June. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 22nd A small boat with three young men on June. A motor boat had been reported board had been reported overdue, but on fire, but nothing could be found.— eventually made land at Carrickfergus. Rewards, £3 17s. 6d. —Rewards, £8 18s. 6d. Moelfre, Anglesey.—23rd June. A Walton and Frinton, Essex. — 14th boating accident had been reported in June. Flares had been reported, but Cemaes Bay, but it was found that nothing could be found.—Rewards, what had appeared to be a capsized £15. boat was a shoal of porpoises.— Fowey, Cornwall. — 15th June. A Rewards, £10 5s. man and a woman in a rowing boat had been reported overdue. Their boat Fleetwood, Lancashire.—27th June. capsized, but they had managed to get A canoe containing two men had ashore and sheltered for the night in a capsized off Rossall Point. One got cave.—Rewards, £8 155. ashore, but before help could reach the other he was drowned.—Rewards, £5 Is. Wick, Caithness-shire.—21st June. A steam trawler had gone ashore during Coverack, Cornwall.—1st July. A dense fog, but got off without help.— steamer had run aground in a fog, but Rewards, £10 12s. got off without help.—Rewards, £10. 6s.

Shoreboat Services. For which Rewards'were given at the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

April Meeting. Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 6 A.M. on the 19th October, 1936, three canoes, about Selsey, Sussex.—On the 8th April two 24 feet long, narrow in the beam, and men in a fishing-boat rescued the crew made of canvas over wood, each with of two of another fishing-boat which had three men on board, put to sea to haul capsized—Rewards £2; and 2s. 6d. for their fishing nets. They had to go fuel used. (For full account see page 334). through a dangerous channel to get to their nets, but it was safely negotiated. May Meeting. Conditions were bad and worsening, and by the time the canoes were ready Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 6.50 to return a moderate N.N.W. gale was P.M. on the 15th April, Coxswain Mur- blowing, with an exceptionally rough field, with three other men, put off in and broken sea, and showers of rain. his motor fishing boat, the Noel II, in The first canoe got safely through the a thick fog, as the coastguard had channel, but a very big sea struck the reported that, during a lift of the fog, second, carrying it on to the rocks and they had seen a coble about a mile throwing the three men into the water. E.N.E. of the coastguard station flying The first canoe turned back and a signal of distress. The wind was rescued one man, another man clung very light and the sea smooth. The to the submerged rocks, and the third men found the motor fishing coble was being washed towards the open Mayflower, of Whitby, in difficulties, sea, clinging to a canvas buoy and as her crab-pot ropes had fouled the entangled in fishing nets. propeller and stopped the engine. Her The men in the third canoe, which crew were unable to reach the ropes to was still outside the channel, seven or cut them away. The men in the Noel eight hundred yards away, rowed with II cut the ropes and towed the coble all speed into the channel and rescued back to Whitby harbour.—Rewards, the man who was being washed £1 10s., and 4s. for fuel used. towards the sea. The canoe then went OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 345 and rescued the man who was clinging of Granton, capsized in the Firth of to the rocks. He was injured and Forth off Hound Point, about a mile exhausted, and could not have lived east of Forth Bridge, and her crew of much longer. four, all Edinburgh University students, It was reported that the sea was so were thrown into the water. A strong rough and broken at the point where S.W. breeze was blowing against the the first man was rescued that no boat flowing tide, and the sea was rough. of the kind used by Quilty fishermen A motor pilot boat with a boatman and could have lived in it, unless most a pilot on board, going off to an inward- skilfully handled, and the men on bound steamer, saw the men in the board the third canoe ran great risk.— water and went to their help. Two of Rewards, £7 10s. (men in the first them were hauled on board, but the canoe 10s. each and men in the third others were entangled in the yacht's canoe £2 each). running-gear and it was difficult to Thomas Boyle, who was in command reach them. One was seized with a of the third canoe, was awarded the boat-hook and dragged in, but the other bronze medal, the thanks of the sank and was not seen again. The Institution inscribed on vellum and rescued men were in a critical condition, £6 (including a sum for damage to but were revived by artificial respiration boat) in March, 1928, for his share in on shore.—Rewards, £l. the rescue of three men marooned on The pilot returned his award as a an island, and a silver watch, £2, a letter donation to the funds of the Institution. of thanks and £3 for damage to his boat, Clovelly, Devon.—During the even- in May, 1934, for his share in the rescue ing of the 9th June four men who were of a crew of three men from a capsized on the rocks about a quarter of a mile canoe. west of Clovelly pier were cut off by Padstow, Cornwall.—On the night of the tide. The life-boat shore-signalman the 24th April the fishing boat Aileen, was told, and he put out in a 12-feet of Padstow, was disabled by a broken rowing boat. A moderate N.W. breeze petrol pipe. She was seen by a man was blowing, with a fairly rough sea. on shore, who reported to the life-boat The signalman backed in to the rocks, coxswain. As the weather was fine which were awash by this time, and and calm, the life-boat boarding boat rescued the four men.—Rewards, 7s. 6d. went out, manned by the permanent Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7 P.M. on the life-boat mechanic and the man who 13th June the East Pier watchman had reported the boat to be in difficul- reported that a canoe with one man on ties. The Aileen was brought into board had capsized about five hundred Padstow.—Rewards, 5s. yards outside the harbour. The wind was light and the sea smooth. A speed- June Meeting. boat, manned by the life-boat assistant Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — Shortly motor mechanic and three other men, after noon on the 23rd May five boys put out, rescued the man and towed the put to sea in the hired pleasure rowing ' canoe into harbour.—Rewards, £1. boat Jeanette. A moderate, squally, New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 4.20 S.W. breeze sprang up, with a moderate A.M. on the 22nd June the life-boat sea, and the boys tried to get back. coxswain received a message from the Their efforts were unsuccessful, and the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on boat was driven out to sea. A fisher- Burbo Bank. As the weather was fine man saw it, and, with his son, put off and the sea smooth, he and the whole- at 1.30 P.M. in his motor yawl. They time motor mechanic put out in the picked the boat up two miles E.N.E. motor boarding dinghy and found the from Dunbar harbour, and towed it vessel to be the Girl Pat, of Grimsby, back to harbour.—Rewards, 10s., and with a crew of five on board. She was Is. 6d. for fuel used. in no danger, however, and after the coxswain had advised her skipper about July Meeting. laying out an anchor, the boarding Leith, Midlothian. — At about noon dinghy made for home, arriving at on the 23rd May the'yacht Kingfisher, 6.45 AJM.—Rewards, 10s. 346 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

Foreign Life-boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels in 1936, and Numbers of the Fleets. DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign The German fleet has 32 motor life- life-boat services to 45 British vessels. boats and 57 pulling life-boats. Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Holland. Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United States. On llth August the motor life-boat of Oostmahorn piloted in the British Belgium. steamer Staghound, which was following a very dangerous course by attempting On May 23rd two motor life-boats to enter the wrong fairway. On 4th from Zeebrugge went out to the help December the motor life-boat of Ter- of the English yacht Lady Betty in a schelling helped to refloat the British choppy sea. There had been an ex- trawler William Hanbury, of Grimsby. plosion in the yacht's engine-room and The North and South Holland Society she had lost two anchors. The yacht has a fleet of 12 motor life-boats and was towed into Zeebrugge. On 10th 24 pulling and sailing life-boats. It July the English yacht Islander was in has also 19 life-saving apparatus. The distress off Ostend. The yacht was South Holland Society has 7 motor life- completely disabled and her two occu- boats and 4 pulling and sailing, making pants exhausted. A tug went out and a total fleet on the Dutch roast of 19 brought her in. On 16th October the motor life-boats and 28 pulling and motor vessel Alpheus, of London, was sailing life-boats. in distress between Blankenberghe and Zeebrugge, with her motor broken Iceland. down. One of the Zeebrugge motor life-boats brought her in. On 23rd March the English steam The Belgian life-boat service has fishing boat Hilaria, of Grimsby, 7 stations, with 5 motor life-boats, stranded on the south coast of Iceland 7 pulling life-boats and 1 tug. Each and her crew of 14 were brought station has a life-saving apparatus and ashore. The vessel herself became a there is one station with this apparatus wreck. On 26th June the steam only. trawler Wigmore, of Grimsby, stranded in a fog and a coastguard vessel towed Denmark. her off. On 4th September the steam trawler Evelyn, of Aberdeen, stranded There were no services to British on the north coast of Iceland and her vessels. crew of 12 got ashore in their own life- The Danish life-boat service has 63 boat. On 6th September the steam stations, with a fleet of 22 motor life- trawler Trocadero, of Grimsby, stranded boats and 38 pulling and sailing life- on the south coast and her crew of 14 boats. Twelve of these stations have were rescued from the shore by the life- life-saving apparatus only. saving apparatus. The trawler became a wreck. France. Iceland has 1 British-built pulling There were no services to British and sailing life-boat of the self-righting vessels. type and 7 other pulling and sailing The French life-boat fleet has 42 life-boats. motor life-boats and 65 pulling and sailing. Latvia. There were no services to British Germany. vessels. The motor life-boat of the Norderney The Latvian fleet consists of 4 motor station rescued the crew of nine of the life-boats, 7 sailing life-boats and 6 yacht Hepatica, which had run aground, pulling life-boats. It also has 2 life- and saved the yacht herself. saving apparatus.. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 347

Norway. The Government maintains 12 pulling There were no services to British and sailing life-boats. Eight of its 12 vessels. stations have also life-saving apparatus, The Norwegian fleet consists of 12 and there are 6 stations with this motor cruising ketches and 13 sailing apparatus only. This makes a total cruising ketches. There are also 32 Swedish fleet of 11 motor life-boats shore stations with life-saving apparatus and 17 pulling and sailing life-boats. or surf-boats. Turkey. Portugal. There were no services to British There were no services to British vessels. vessels. The Turkish fleet consists of 7 pulling The Portuguese fleet consists of 7 and sailing life-boats. motor life-boats and 40 pulling life- boats. The United States. Spain. The life-boat service of the United The Secretary of the Spanish life-boat States went to the help of 35 British society writes : " Up to the month of vessels, with passengers and crews on July 1936 our stations had no occasion board numbering 299. It also went to to render any service to English vessels, the help of 46 Canadian vessels. and from the above month until to-day The United States fleet consists of we do not know if they have effected 2 large motor life-boats, 141 self- any, because, owing to present circum- righting motor life-boats, 177 motor stances [the civil war], the news which surf-boats and 284 pulling surf-boats, a we have received from the local councils total fleet of 604 life-boats. is very meagre." The Spanish fleet consists of 18 motor Japan, Roumania and Russia. life-boats and 27 pulling and sailing. No information has been received There are also 15 stations provided with from Japan, Roumania and Russia. life-saving apparatus only. British Services to Foreign Vessels. Sweden. During the year British life-boats On 1st November in a dense fog a helped 31 foreign vessels belonging to British steamer, which had lost her 14 different countries and rescued 161 bearings, had anchored in the open sea lives from them. They were also called outside Goteborg. The patrolling life- out to 18 other foreign vessels, but their boat found her, gave the captain her help was not needed. Of the 31 vessels position and brought her a pilot. to which help was given, 7 were French, The fleet of the Swedish Society 4 were Dutch, 3 Norwegian, 3 Spanish, for Saving Life from Shipwreck con- 3 Latvian, 2 belonged to the United sists of 3 cruising motor life-boats, States of America, 2 were Finnish, 8 motor life-boats, and 5 pulling .and 2 Esthonian and one each from Belgium, sailing life-boats. One of its motor Denmark, Germany, Iceland and Italy. life-boat stations, and its 5 pulling and The British life-boat fleet at the end sailing life-boat stations, have life- of 1936 consisted of 131 motor life- saving apparatus, and there are 3 boats and 37 pulling and sailing life- stations with this apparatus only. boats.

Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-boats. DURING the summer eleven new motor shire), St. Abb's (Berwickshire); in life-boats have been named : In Eng- Ireland, at Howth (Co. Dublin), Kil- land, at Boulmer (Northumberland), more (Co. Wexford); in the Channel Cromer (Norfolk) two boats, Cullercoats Islands, at St. Heliers (Jersey). (Northumberland); in Scotland, at Accounts of these ceremonies will be Eyemouth (Berwickshire), Fraserburgh published in the next issue of The (Aberdeenshire), Portpatrick (Wigtown- Life-boat. 348 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904. IT is fifty years this year since George large life-boats intended to go well out Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of to sea, and in these boats to aim at a Glasgow, was appointed consulting greater buoyancy, stability and speed naval architect to the Institution. than is possible in the self-righting Looking back over these fifty years, boats. one can say that Mr. Watson's appoint- During his seventeen years as ment was one of the outstanding events consulting naval architect, Mr. in the-development of the life-boat, and Watson designed many life-boats of that he more than any other man, was different sizes, of which the outstanding the designer of the life-boat fleet as it boat was his large sailing life-boat, 43 is to-day. feet by 12 feet 6 inches. When he When Mr. Watson was appointed, all died in 1904, there were 203 self- but a very few of our life-boats were of righting life-boats in the Institution's the self-righting type. His appoint- fleet and 82 which were not self- ment was made shortly after the righting. Of these, 31 were of the disaster on the Lancashire coast when Watson type. the life-boats at Southport and St. Watson Life-boats in the Modern Fleet. Anne's capsized. Both were self- Mr. Watson lived just long enough to righting life-boats. The Southport advise the Institution in its first boat failed to right herself. What experiments in 1904 with a motor life- exactly happened to the St. Anne's boat boat. He did not live to see the success is unknown, for all her crew were of these experiments, but the principle drowned. As a result a sub-committee on which he worked, that the larger of the Institution carefully examined types of life-boat should not be self- the whole question of the design and righting, has become still more im- construction of its life-boats, and among portant since motor power has given its recommendations was the appoint- the life-boat a greatly increased range ment of a consulting naval architect. of action. The First Watson Life-boat. To-day, of the Institution's 138 Mr. Watson's first act was to design motor life-boats, only 32 are self- a new sailing life-boat, 42 feet long by righting. Of the remainder, 53 are of 13 feet 3 inches wide, and the following the Watson, or Watson cabin types, year this boat was stationed at South- and 16 of the Barnett type, designed port. She was the first of the Watson by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., type, and her lines are given on page who was associated with Mr. Watson in 351. This was the beginning of a new the design of all his life-boats, is now policy in design. It was explained by the head of his firm, and succeeded Mr. Watson himself in giving evidence him as the Institution's consulting before the Select Committee of the naval architect. These 69 motor life- House of Commons ten years later: boats of the Watson, Watson cabin, " In the case of the smaller pulling and Barnett types, are all developments boat, certainly, and possibly even in of Mr. Watson's design. the case of the larger pulling boats, too, A Famous Yacht-builder. it would be unwise and unsafe to Mr. Watson's life-boat work, abandon the self-righting principle. important though it was, represents With the larger sailing boats I think only a small part of what he did. He we can get a better boat by abandoning was known the world over as a designer the self-righting principle." of steam yachts and of racing yachts. That has been the steady policy of The most celebrated of the latter was the Institution ever since: To set the famous Britannia, the yacht of King aside the self-righting principle (which, Edward VII and King George V, designed while it enables a boat to right itself, for King Edward VII when Prince of makes her less easy to handle, and more Wales, which in her career won 360 liable to capsize) in the case of the prizes, of which 231 were first prizes. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 349

THE LATE Mr. G. L. WATSON. Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution, 1887 to 1904. 350 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1987. Mr. Watson was best known, chiefly on his yachts, he is still however, as the designer of a number remembered far beyond our own shores of challengers for the America Cup. as a designer of life-boats. In recent The first was the Thistle, built in years the Institution has had enquiries 1887. She was foliowe,d by the two from San Francisco, British Columbia, Valkyries, built for 'Lord Dunraven and North Queensland, from men who in 1893 and 1895. The last was Sir wished to know where they could Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II, built get boats built to the design of the in 1901. most successful of his sailing life-boats, Though Mr. Watson's fame rests the 43-feet Watson type.

A Launching Accident. ON 10th June the motor life-boat at the left shoulder and arm, and the Port St. Mary, Isle of-Man, was launched arm had to be amputated. on exercise at low 'water. The life- In the case of John Evans, whose boat and carriage had been lowered weekly wages as a labourer were two down the slipway to the limit of the guineas, the Institution has paid the wire, and chocks had been placed funeral expenses and the cost of a under the wheels, while additional wire gravestone. He was unmarried, but was shackled on. These chocks were was the sole support of his mother, removed, to let the boat run slowly who is blind, and whose only income down and take up the slack of the was an Old Age Pension. Under the wire. In a yard or two they were Institution's pension scheme, which replaced, but boat carriage and chocks is the same as the. scheme for men skidded down the wet slipway until in the Navy, Army and Air Force, brought up suddenly when the end of killed in action, the mother would the wire was reached. Four men were receive ten shillings a week. In the working the winch, and when the life- special circumstances, the Institution boat was pulled up by the wire, the has made her a weekly pension of winch handles flew round and flung twenty-five shillings as from the day two of them a distance of twelve feet. of the accident. They were badly injured and were In the case of James Crebbin, the rushed to hospital. One of them, John Institution has paid his medical ex- Evans, died the next morning of a penses, given him a gratuity of £50, fractured skull. The other, James and made him an allowance of one Crebbin, a man seventy years old, was pound a week for life, this being the found to have a compound fracture of average amount of his weekly earnings.

A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-boats Destroyed. ON 18th June a fire at the building Reserve motor life-boats were sent yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, to Yarmouth and Selsey, and new Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats motor life-boats, already under con- and a quantity of the Institution's struction, will replace them early next timber. The life-boats were those from year. Cloughey has a motor life-boat, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, which, on the arrival of the new boat, Sussex, which were undergoing over- was to be transferred to Newcastle, Co. haul, and a new motor life-boat for Down, to replace a pulling and sailing Cloughey, Co. Down, which was waiting life-boat. Another motor life-boat, in to be shipped to her station. The new place of the one destroyed by the fire, motor life-boat for Blackpool had is to be built for Cloughey, and the been launched only about fifteen motor life-boat at present there cannot hours before the fire, and another be transferred to Newcastle until this vessel which had taken her place on new boat is ready. (Photograph on the slip was damaged beyond repair. page 353), iHiVti.uriyiS.lST w THE WATSON LIFE-BOAT.

tn i—r> 1887.—The lines of the first of the type, a 42-foot pulling andjsaiimg life-boat, built for Southport, Lancashire a

1937.—The lines of the modern 46-foot Watson cabin motor life-boat. (See page 348.) 352 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry. AT the beginning of June a launch of the boat-house. In this way he was the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, able to broadcast all the noises, not only Dundee, was successfully broadcast. of getting the life-boat ready, but of The broadcaster first discussed the the actual launch. work of the station with Mr. Hunter, The launch was radiated in Scotland the honorary secretary, and described and on the Empire transmitters. Later the scene outside the boat-Tiouse a letter was' received by the coxswain and the interior of the house. He from Auckland, New Zealand, in which then went all over the life-boat, the writer said: " I listened to the very talking with the coxswain and motor end of the very interesting broadcast... mechanic. Might I mention, being a Scotsman This was followed by a telephone myself, although many years out here— call for the life-boat. The maroon was thirty, to be exact—the tongue accent fired ; the crew hurried in; and within of yourself and your friend, the en- five minutes the boat was in the water. gineer, very much appealed to me, The broadcaster was on board with the although the land of Burns was where microphone attached to him and a I spent most of my schoolboy days, hi cable 180 feet long connecting it with Ayr."

Life-boat Photographs in Birmingham. THE exhibition of life-boat photographs ham branch has for years been active which was shown last year in London and flourishing, and contributes on an and Edinburgh was shown in Birming- average £2,000 a year. It has been ham from February 12th to 20th of responsible for the provision of thirty- this year, through the kindness of five life-boats. Why should Birming- Messrs. Lewis's, Ltd., of Liverpool, ham, an inland city, take this interest Manchester and Birmingham, who lent in the saving of lives from the sea ? rooms for it on their premises. The Birmingham may be an inland city on exhibition was opened by the Rt. Hon. the map, but not in any other sense. L. S. Amery, M.P. for the Spark- Birmingham is a great world city. Her brook division of Birmingham, a former goods go out to the ends of the earth. First Lord of the Admiralty, and a Her necessary supplies come from every vice-president of the Birmingham habitable country of the world over branch. Sir Frederick Marquis, chair- the 80,000 miles of the sea-lines of the man of Messrs. Lewis's, came specially British Empire. Our great city is from Liverpool to preside, and was directly interested in the men who supported by the Lord Mayor of carry these goods and supplies. Their Birmingham, president of the Birming- safety is of as much interest to us as the ham branch, the Chief Constable, a safety of the men in our streets. That number of magistrates, Major W. is why I can commend the good works Shaw, D.S.O., vice-chairman of the of the Royal National Life-boat Insti- branch, and Mr. T. O. Gray, the tution confidently to the citizens of honorary treasurer. Life-boat workers Birmingham." from many branches in the Midlands The Lord Mayor supported him, were present, and the speeches were pointing out that Birmingham had broadcast throughout Messrs. Lewis's many maritime associations, and gave premises. many recruits to the Royal Navy. After paying a tribute to the work Sir Frederick Marquis said that his of the Institution, Mr. Amery said : firm would always be willing to help " The life-boat service is a great the life-boat service. national institution, but it is also a After the opening Sir Frederick Birmingham institution. The Birming- Marquis entertained the principal guests OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 353

By courtesy of] t/»an Kittle, Loaestofl FROM THE BUILDING YARD TO HER STATION. The new Watson cabin motor life-boat for Fraserburgh entering Lowestoft harbour in February last, on her 600-mile journey from Cowes to Fraserburgh.

THE FIRE AT COWES. The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room of the Yarmouth boat, and beyond it is the steel cabin top of the Selsey boat, falling over, and behind it the top of her engine-room with the capstan on it. (See page 350.) 354 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. to luncheon, and made a donation on that lie battered against the rocks. behalf of Messrs. Lewis's to the Institu- Not least interesting, however, are the tion. portraits of the rugged, weather beaten Of the photographs the Birmingham veterans who outdare all that the sea Post wrote : " They are of a character can do." to stir the imagination of the most During the eight days of the exhibi- casual beholder. In some the life- tion some 15,000 people visited it. boatmen are shown returning in the The photographs have since been cold grey dawn after a night of toil shown in York, Bradford and Sunder- and stress, while the seas sullenly land, and are to be shown in Leeds in subside. In others they are seen setting November. An account of these ex- out in the fury of the gale, while great hibitions will be given in the next waves pound and roar against ships issue of The Life-boat.

Eastbourne Life-boat Museum. MKS. ASTLEY ROBERTS, the president legacy into an immediate gift, if "a and chairman of the Eastbourne clock for the Museum would be accept- Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has presented able to the Institution and would be of the Institution with a four-sided illu- use to the town. The offer was grate- minated electric clock, to stand on the fully accepted by the Institution and roof of the old life-boathouse, which is warmly welcomed by the town, for now the Eastbourne Life-boat Museum. there was no prominent public clock With the clock is a plaque bearing this near the Wish Tower end of the parade. inscription : On 16th July Mrs. Astley Roberts " This clock was presented to the formally presented the clock and un- Eastbourne Life-boat Museum in 1937 veiled the plaque. to commemorate the Coronation of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, president of His Majesty King George VI, Patron the branch and a member of the com- of the Royal National Life-boat Insti- mittee of management of the Institu- tution, by Mrs. Astley Roberts, Presi- tion, thanked Mrs. Astley Roberts on dent and Chairman of the Eastbourne behalf of the branch and the Institu- Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a life-boat tion. The clock would be a lasting worker since 1895, and an Honor- record of her splendid service for the ary Life-Governor of the Institution." life-boats. The Mayor thanked her on behalf of the town and said that the Years ago Mrs. Astley Roberts pro- clock would be a reminder of a very vided in her will for a legacy to the gracious lady who was taking part Institution. When she heard that the not only in the great work of the old life-boathouse was to become a life-boat service, but in many other Museum she thought of turning her charitable causes.

The Fishwives of Cullercoats. THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year £68, and the total of her individual collected £139 at their quarterly road collections is now over £730. In exercise and launch of the life-boat. addition to the sum collected at the This is their sixteenth annual collection, launch, the Cullercoats and Whitley and they have collected altogether over Bay branch received from the Coast £2,260. Charity Organization at Whitley Bay Nearly thirty fishwives took part in a donation of £1 11*. Qd., raised at the the appeal, and Mrs. Polly Donkin, local Donkey Derby, at which a number who is now eighty years old, again of the fishwives who had collected at headed the list. She collected over the launch again gave their help. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 355

"Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast." Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, stantly turn to for enjoyment—when by Ernest Read Cooper, F.S.A. (" Suf- I have a moment's peace to read for folk Coast"). With a Foreword by the sake of enjoyment." the Secretary of the Royal National Now Major Cooper has again earned Life-boat Institution. Heath Granton, the gratitude, not only of all interested Ltd. : Ss. 6d. in Suffolk, but of all interested in the life-boat service, by collecting in this MAJOR COOPER has spent a lifetime in book the records of some of the most the study of the life and history of the famous of the life-boatmen on the Suffolk coast. He has also taken a Suffolk coast during the past hundred most active part in its life. For twenty years. Here will be found names years, from 1900 to 1920, he was the already very familiar to readers of honorary secretary of the Institution's The Life-boat: James Cable of Aide- station at Southwold, and was often burgh, and Jack Swan of Lowestoft, out in the life-boat on exercise and whom Major Cooper calls " the king service. He has been many other of longshoremen." Here, too, are things besides. He was Town Clerk earlier names which also deserve to and Clerk to the Magistrates. During be remembered with honour: Joshua the war he was also Clerk to the Chard, and Ben Herrington, Jack Military Tribunal, Secretary of the Craigie and Bob Hook. Water Company, Secretary of the Some of them are men whose families Ferry Company, Captain of the Fire go back for centuries. For over three Brigade, the Officer Commanding the hundred years the name of Herrington 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Suffolk is found in the annals of Southwold. Regiment, the Manager of the Harbour, So, too, is the name of Craigie. Major Deputy Lloyd's Agent, the Sub-Com- Cooper has found it in the records of missioner of Pilotage, and the Secretary Southwold in the seventeenth century, of the Canadian Relief Fund. He is a but he thinks that it goes many cen- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, turies farther back than that, to the and a member of the Society for Nautical Crageir of the Icelandic sagas. Research, of the Royal United Service Institution, and of the Council of the A Strange House-moving. Suffolk Archaeological Institute. He There are stories in his book of is an honorary member of the Great more than life-saving—of wrecking, Yarmouth Archaeological Society, and smuggling and piracy, for he has wished the Ipswich and District Natural to show every side of that hard but History Society, Trustee of Dunwich indomitable race of seafarers which Trusts and a Vice-President of the has given us the life-boatmen of the Suffolk Preservation Society, East Coast. One story will show their quality. A Book of "Infinite Pleasure." It is a story of Harry Waters, When one adds to that long list that reputed to be the last survivor of the he has been a yachtsman for over forty Royal George, which sank at Spithead years, is a member of the Royal in 1782 : Harwich Yacht Club and Vice-Com- His little wooden cot still stands in the modore of the Deben Yacht Club, it back street at Southwold, although when built will be realised what a wealth of it was on the front. Being uneasy at the experience he has brought to his books sea encroachment he said he was going to on the Suffolk coast. Of one of these move it inland, but nobody thought he was books, his Suffolk Coast Garland, a serious until one day someone looked out of the Cliff house and let out a shout, for there well-known writer on the sea wrote was old Harry's home trundling along by to the Institution a short time ago : itself, and Mrs. Waters shaking a duster out " I always regard that as one of the of her chamber window. Harry had got best books of its kind ever written, his cottage on to rollers, buried an anchor with a good tackle on it and carried the fall and it has given me infinite pleasure. through the window to a Spanish windlass It is one of the books that I can con- which he had rigged up inside, and there was 356 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

Harry's home rolling gently along as the with the knowledge which Major Cooper owner hove on the windlass indoors, while has of the coast of Suffolk, what a his missis got on with her cleaning up aloft. story could be written ! " As the secretary of the Institution says in his Foreword to the book : " If there could be found, for every part of The book can be bought from the the coast of these islands a historian Institution, price 3s. 6d. post free.

The Coronation. LIFE-BOAT HOUSE. LONDON, was decor- from the Branches," some financial ated and illuminated in celebration branches arranged life-boat tableaux. of the Coronation of Their Majesties A number of gifts were sent to the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Institution to mark the Coronation. Patrons of the Institution. An anonymous gift of £25 comes from Sixty life-boat stations were supplied " Esperanto" in Scotland. Several with sets of the international code of came from Christian Science churches signals and house flags so that they in this country, and one from a could be dressed on Coronation Day. A Christian Science group in India. number of them gave displays in the local Yet another anonymous gift came pageants or took part in the process- with the quotation "To save life ions, and, as will be seen from " News is better than building a pagoda."

Obituary. Coxswain George Cromarty, Holy Island. The Rev. Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwitb, Coxswain George Cromarty, of Holy By the death on 16th January of the Island, who died on 14th January at the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, age of seventy-six, was second coxswain Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the from 1897 to 1911, and coxswain from Institution has lost one of the oldest 1911 to 1932, so that for over thirty- and most distinguished honorary secre- four and a half years he served as taries of life-boat stations. When, in an officer of the life-boat. During his 1898, he came from York to Cornwall twenty years as coxswain the life- as rector of Grade and Ruan parishes, boat rescued 113 lives, and Coxswain he became honorary secretary of the Cromarty himself twice won the In- station, and he continued as its honor- stitution's silver medal for gallantry. ary secretary until his death. During He won it first in 1916, when on the these thirty-eight years the station has night of 16th November the life-boat rescued 282 lives. Mr. Vyvyan himself rescued the whole crew of fourteen of won the silver medal of the Institution the barque Jolani, of Gothenburg, in for his personal gallantry in 1907, when a hurricane, with a very heavy sea the White Star liner Suevic was wrecked running. The second occasion was on at the Lizard, and the Cadgwith life- the night of 15th January, 1922, when, boat rescued 227 lives, while the life- in a gale with blinding snowstorms, the boats at the Lizard, Coverack and life-boat rescued the whole crew of Porthleven rescued 229. In 1908 he nine of the trawler James B. Graham, was awarded an inscribed binocular of Hartlepool. She had gone ashore, glass, and in 1933 an inscribed aneroid and in order to reach her Coxswain barometer in gratitude for his many Cromarty had to take the life-boat, in services to the Institution. the darkness and snowstorm, between two rocks. When he retired in 1932 Captain David Rees, New Quay (Cardigan). at the age of seventy-two he was Captain David Rees, of New Quay awarded a pension and a certificate (Cardigan), who died in February, of service. 1937, at the age of eighty-nine, was OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 357

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE AT THE CORONATION. The. decorations were designed by a member of the Institution's staff, and at night the house was lit up with the floodlights^used at its boathouses. 358 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. one of the oldest of the honorary Mr. Charles Livingston, Liverpool. secretaries of stations. He had held Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on that post at New Quay for forty-seven 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth years. In recognition of his many year, was equally prominent as a ship- services he was awarded inscribed owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey. binoculars in 1901, and in 1933 an He was for forty years managing inscribed barometer. director of Messrs. David Maclver & Mr. Edward Dean, Oldham. Co., was a member of the Mersey Mr. Edward Dean, honorary sec- Docks and Harbour Board, and of the retary of the Oldham branch, who died Royal Yacht Squadron, and was Vice- on 3rd March of this year, had been Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht associated with its work for forty-one Club. For forty years he was associ- years. In 1931 he was awarded the ated with the Liverpool branch of the Institution's gold badge for his long Institution. He had been its deputy and distinguished services. chairman for ten years when, in 1933, ill health compelled him to resign, and Mr. Francis le Boulanger, The Mumbles. he was vice-president of the New Mr. Francis le Boulanger, of the Brighton life-boat station. Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who died on 18th April of this year, at the age of Miss Ethel Hopkins, B.A., Folkestone. seventy-seven, had been the honorary By the death of Miss Ethel Hopkins, secretary of the life-boat station for B.A., on 21st June last, the Institution thirty-seven years. During that time has lost one of its most devoted and suc- its life-boats had rescued 70 lives. In cessful honorary workers. For nearly 1903 he was awarded the thanks of the ten years she was the honorary sec- Institution inscribed on vellum for his retary, first of the Women's Auxiliary services when the life-boat capsized, of the Folkestone branch, and then of with the loss of six of her crew, the branch itself. She brought to the returning from a vessel which did not work great ability and whole-hearted need her help. In 1909 he was awarded enthusiasm. Difficulties only inspired inscribed binoculars in recognition of her to greater efforts and when one his general services to the station and year-the permission to hold a life-boat five years later he was specially day was refused she set herself to get thanked for his help when the life-boat the money in other ways, with such at the neighbouring station of Port success that, without the help of Eynon twice capsized when going out the life-boat day (which would to a vessel in distress, with the loss of have brought in over £100) she col- three of her crew. In 1933 he was a- ected £130 more than in the previous warded an inscribed aneroid barometer, year. In 1933 she was awarded the and two years later his long and very Institution's gold badge, given only for distinguished services were recognized distinguished honorary service. Her by his appointment as an honorary last gift to the Institution was a legacy life-governor of the Institution, the of £100. highest distinction which it can give an Coxswain Adam McLeod, Thurso. honorary worker. Mr. le Boulanger Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, was a distinguished figure in Swansea, who died in June of this year, had then both as a shipowner and as a yachtsman. been coxswain for two years, and had Mrs. Robert Carpenter, Brighton. previously been second coxswain for Mrs. Robert Carpenter, who died on thirteen years. During those fifteen 24th April of this year, was one of years the Thurso life-boats had rescued the founders of the Ladies' Life-boat 117 lives. When serving as second Guild of Brighton and Hove in 1921, coxswain he was awarded the thanks of and was its first honorary secretary and the Institution inscribed on vellum for treasurer. She held that post until his share in the daring service to the 1930, when ill health compelled her to crew of the schooner Pet, of Chester, who resign. During the ten years of her were rescued on a foggy night, with a work she helped to raise over £2,500, heavy ground swell running, when their and in 1932 she was awarded the gold vessel was lying among submerged rocks badge of the Institution. and the remains of an old wreck. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 359

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 15th April, 1937. slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. Included in the above were :— Reported the receipt of the following special £76 9s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat contributions :— £ s. d. services ; Lloyd's collection . . 1,510 3 0 £126 2s. to pay the rewards for life-boat The late Mr. John Milroy, dona launches tion from executors . 174 1 6 (Accounts of these services and launches The Rt. Hon. Lord Glanely 57 14 5 appear on pages 335-340) ; Mrs. E. Duvison . . 50 0 0 £5 4s. for the assembly of a crew, etc. ; Mrs. M. Bromley, in memory of £47 5s. 6d. for services previously reported ; the late Mr. G. R. Barker . 25 0 0 £27 9s. 2d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men Paid £35,942 12s. 3d. for the total charges who had lost their lives in, the life-boat of the Institution during the month, including service at Rye Harbour ; rewards for services, payments for the con- £14 Is. to men for injury in the life-boat struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and service at Hartlepool and Sunderland. slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to stations. Matthew Connor, assistant motor mechanic Included in the above were :— at Wicklow, who had retired on account of £381 8s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- age and ill health after twenty-five years' boat services ; service. £152 6s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life-boat Voted £9 9s. to pay the rewards for shore- launches boat services at Padstow, Quilty, Co. Clare, (Accounts of these services and launches and Whitby, accounts of which appear on appear on pages 330-335) ; pages 344 and 345. £72 8s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £1 12s. 6d. for a service previously reported; Thursday, 10th June, 1937. £28 4s. 4d. on account of pensions already Sir GODFREY BASING, Bt., in the chair. granted to the dependent relatives of men Paid £20,242 13s. lid. for the total charges who had lost their lives in the life-boat of the Institution during the month, including service at Caister and Rye Harbour ; rewards for services, payments for the con- £27 17s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and boat service at Hartlepool and Sunderland. slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat Voted £36 10s. on account of additional stations. rewards to the crews of the Aberdeen and Included in the above were :— Holyhead life-boats. £49 6s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat Decided that the special weekly allowance services ; now being paid to James Bultitude, an ex- £75 Is. to pay the rewards for life-boat member of the crew of the Caister life-boat, launches who was injured at a launch in November, (Accounts of these services and launches 1929, be continued until March, 1938. appear on pages 340-341) ; Decided that the special weekly allowance £16 lls. 6d. for a service previously now being paid to Henry Marchant, who reported ; has been incapacitated by illness since £315 17s. 6d. on account of pensions already going out on -service in the Newhaven life- granted to the dependent relatives of men boat in November, 1929, be continued until who had lost their lives in the life-boat service March, 1938. at Aldeburgh, Caister, Fethard, Filey, Voted a compassionate grant of £5 towards Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, The the funeral expenses of W. Williams, an ex- Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, Pad- life-boatman at Moelfre. stow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, Voted £2 2s. 6d. to pay the rewards for Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, Troon, Whitby the Selsey shoreboat service, an account of and Wells ; which appears on pages 334 and 344. £40 12s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Moelfre and Newhaven. Thursday, 27th May, 1937. Voted £3 15s. on account of additional Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair. rewards to the crew of the Dungeness No. 2 Reported the receipt of the following motor life-boat. special contributions :— (An account of this service appears on £ s. d. page 340.) Anonymous . . . . 50 0 0 Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to David Mrs. Yerburgh . . . 50 0 0 Griffiths, ex-bowman of the Cardigan life- Major C. B. Lee-Warner, J.P. . 26 5 0 boat, who is now old and in poor circum- stances, to help him towards the repair of Paid £13,791 8s. 8d. for the total charges his fishing boat, which was damaged by of the Institution during the month, including storm in February, 1937. rewards for services, payments for the con- Voted a further compassionate grant of struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and £22 10s. to Charles Laeeck, ex-coxswain of 360 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937. the Caister life-boat, who, after twenty-five of the Institution during the month, including years' service in the life-boat, is in straitened rewards for services, payments for the con- circumstances. struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and Voted 11s. 6d. to pay the rewards for a slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat shoreboat service at Dunbar, an account of stations. which appears on page 345. Included in the above were :— £61 6s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; Thursday, 8th July, 1937. £106 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. boat launches Resolved that the services of the chief (Accounts of these services and launches inspector of life-boats, Commander E. D. appear on pages 341-344) ; Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., be extended £1 17s. for the assembly of a crew ; for one year after he attains the age of sixty, £2 10s. additional rewards for service on the 18th July, 1938. previously reported ; Co-opted Lieut.-Commander the Rt. Hon. £27 9s. 2rf. on account of pensions already Lord Teynham, R.N., a member of the granted to the dependent relatives of men committee of management. who had lost their lives in the life-boat service Reported the receipt of the following at Padstow and Rye Harbour ; special contributions :— £14 to men for injury in the life-boat £ s. d. service at Port St. Mary and Redcar. Governors of the Skelton Voted £4 10s. on account of additional Bounty (to defray the cost rewards to the crew of the Swanage life-boat. of the engines and general (An account of this service appears on machinery equipment of the page 342.) new motor life-boat for Voted £2 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for Blackpool) . . 700 0 0 shoreboat services at Clovelly, Leith, New Miss J. G. Allison . . . 60 0 0 Brighton, and Ramsgate, accounts of which Paid £34,110 3s. Id. for the total charges appear on page 345.

News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937. Greater London. BURNT OAK, EDG WARE .—Visit to the Life-boat day was held throughout Greater Southend life-boat station. London on 25th May. The amount raised CHELSEA.—The branch has suffered was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936. severe losses by the deaths of Lady Chetwode, Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the branch since 1935 and chairman of the Institution, of the challenge previous to that honorary secretary since shield for Greater London in the life-boat 1933, and Lady Edith Drummond, who was essay competition for elementary schools, awarded the Institution's gold badge in 1932 won by Edward Leonard Cox, of the Hither in gratitude for her many services. Green Senior Boys' School, Lewisham, the CHISLEHURST.—Branch reconstituted. challenge shield for the South-East of President, Mrs. Marsham-Townshend ; chair- England, won by Albert Turner, of the man, Mrs. Marriott ; honorary secretary, Mrs. Kingsley Senior Boys' School, Croydon, and Leighton ; honorary treasurer, Mr. H. Monk. the individual prizes won by Greater London CLAPHAM.—Fun fair opened by the schools. The Mayor of Westminster presided, Mayor and Mayoress of Wandsworth. Canon supported by Mr. H. G. Williams, M.P. for Durell, C.B.E., president of the branch, in South Croydon, the Mayoress of Lewisham, and members of the committee of manage the chair. Whist drives. ment. Mr. Frederick Woodhouse gave a EAST LONDON.—Address to All Hallows programme of sea songs. Women's Guild, Poplar, by Miss Davies, honorary secretary. BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND HAMMERSMITH.—Swimming gala. Pre- CARSHALTON.—Entertainment and garden sentation of prizes by the Mayor and party, through the kindness of Mrs. South- Mayoress. Lecture at H.M. Prison, Worm- well. Address by the district organizing wood Scrubs, by the district organizing secretary. secretary. BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on ST. ALBANS.—Annual meeting on 29th 3rd May, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman, June, the Bishop of St. Albans, patron of the presiding. Speaker : The district organizing branch, presiding. Speakers : Admiral of the secretary. Efforts of the past year : Whist Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Bt., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., drives, life-boat day. Amount collected in C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P., the Mayor, Lieut.-Col. 1936, £44. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Garden meeting, through the kindness of Institution, and Miss Silvester, honorary Mr. H. P. Russell. Speaker: Sir Godfrey secretary. Efforts of the past year : Dance, Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. life-boat day. Amount collected in 1936, Visit to the Southend life-boat station. £365. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 861

Garden party at Abbey Gate House by the Bootle. Preacher : The Rev. Canon E. E. kindness of the Bishop and Mrs. Furse. Mayson. SOUTHEND.—Life-boat day in Southend. Presentations of prizes won in the life-boat Special launch of the motor life-boat for the essay competition for elementary schools by visits of the Bexleyheath and Burnt Oak fourteen schools in Aintree, Birkenhead, branches. Bootle, Liverpool, Moreton, Rock Ferry and TOOTING.—Lecture to the Rotary Club Wallasey. by Captain E. S. Carver, R.D., R.N.R. LYTHAM ST. ANNES.—Annual meeting WELLING.—Whist drives. Address to on 4th June, the Mayor, president, in the St. Mary's Guild. chair. Speaker: The district organizing WIMBLEDON.—Mrs. Whyham appointed secretary. Amount collected in 1936, £174. honorary secretary. MACCLESFIELD. — Presentation by Lectures in the City and St. Marylebone. Councillor W. Hulme of a prize won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary North-West of England. schools. ASHTpN-UNDER-LYNE. — Life-boat MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- days. Life-boat films shown. TRICT.—Civic welcome by the Mayor of Salford to the new Blackpool motor life-boat BARNOLDSWICK. — Life-boat films Sarah Ann Austin on her visit to the Man- shown, with collections. chester Ship Canal. Speakers : The Mayor BARROW-IN-FURNESS.—Life-boat day. of Eccles, the Mayor of Stretford, Sir Fred- Address by the district organizing secretary erick J. West, C.B.E., J.P., chairman of the to the Rotary Club. Manchester Ship Canal Company, Mr. P. M. BLACKPOOL.—Civic reception by the Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary of the Mayor and Corporation of the new motor branch, and the district organizing secretary. life-boat Sarah Ann Austin. Collections made. BOLTON.—" Kitchen shower," organized Supper given by Alderman Joseph Crookes by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Garden Grime, O.B.E., J.P., chairman of the branch, party, arranged by Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. to the crew of the new Blackpool motor life- Dunion. boat, to representatives of the Corporations BURNLEY.—Life-boat day. of Salford, Eccles and Stretford, and officials and workers of the branch. The chairman COCKERMOUTH, CONGLETON, AND presided, supported by Miss Molly Grime, CREWE.—Life-boat days. and the speakers were the Mayors of Salford, DALTON - IN - FURNESS. — House-to- Eccles and Stretford, the secretary of the house collection. Presentations of prizes Manchester Ship Canal Company, Mr. and won in the life-boat essay competition for Mrs. Henry Bronnert, Mrs. Bayfield and the elementary schools. district organizing secretary. DARWEN.—Presentation by the Mayor Collections on the occasion of the visit of of a prize won in the life-boat essay com- H.M. Warships Blanche and Brilliant to the petition for elementary schools. Manchester Ship Canal Company's Trafford EARBY.—Special meeting at the house of wharf. Dance, at which the commanding Mrs. G. C. Foulds. Speaker : The district officer and officers of H.M. Warships Blanche organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Brilliant, and officials of the Manchester formed. Chairman, Mrs. Joe Hartley; Ship Canal Company, were present. honorary treasurer, Mrs. A. Manning; Life-boat exhibit at the Ideal Homes' honorary secretary, Miss M. Hartley. Exhibition, arranged by the Manchester FARNWORTH.—Presentation by Mrs. J. Evening News. Collections made. Johnston, president, of a prize won in the Dance, attended by members of the crews life-boat essay competition for elementary of H.M. Warships Blanche and Brilliant, and schools. by the Cotton Queen of Britain. The demonstration life-boat Edwin Kay GARSTANG.—Life-boat day. on exhibition during coronation week. HEYWOOD.—Whist drive. Collections made. KIRKBY STEPHEN.—Special meeting. CHEETHAM HILL.—The Edwin Kay Mr. W. Bainbridge and Mrs. E. M. Highet demonstration life-boat on exhibition and appointed honorary treasurer and honorary an entertainment given by Mr. G. Cusworth. secretary respectively, in succession to Mr. Collections made. R. H. Hunter and Miss E. Loadman, resigned. MARPLE.—" Bring-and-buy " sale, or- LAKE DISTRICT.—Life-boat day. ganized by Mrs. G. W. Whitfield, president LANCASTER.—Garden fete at Howe of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Ghyll. SALE, ASHTON-ON-MERSEY, AND LITTLEBOROUGH. — Presentation by BROOKLANDS.—Presentation by Miss Councillor R. S. Schofield, J.P., C.C., of a Lomax, president of the Ladies' Life-boat prize won in the life-boat essay competition Guild, of the challenge shield for the North- for elementary schools. West of England in the life-boat essay LIVERPOOL.—Presentation by the Lady competition for elementary schools, won Mayoress of the gold badge awarded by the by Betty Selcon, of Springfield Girls' Institution to Mrs. Sidney, honorary secretary Senior School, Sale, Cheshire. Speaker: and treasurer of the Formby Ladies' Life-boat The district organizing secretary. Guild. WALKDEN, WORSLEY AND Life-boat Sunday service at Christ Church, DISTRICT.—Visit of Ladies' Life-boat 362 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1987.

Guild committee to Llandudno for short SOUTHPORT. — Presentation by the cruise in the motor life-boat. Mayor of Southport of a prize won in the MILLOM.—Annual meeting on 26th May, life-boat essay competition for elementary Mrs. R. Grice, J.P., president, in the chair. schools. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. TOTTINGTON. — Coronation " kitchen Amount collected in 1936, £51. shower." MILNTHORPE.—Special meeting on 6th WARRINGTON.—" Bring-and-buy "sale. May. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Milnthorpe and District branch WHITEHAVEN.—Annual benefit per- formed. President, the Lady Ashton ; formance at Gaiety Theatre, arranged by Sirs. honorary secretary, Mr. W. Iniff; honorary Halliwell. treasurer, Miss E. Rhodes. WIGAN.—Bridge tea. MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM. — Prizes won in the life-boat essay compe- Special meeting on 13th July, the Mayor, tition for elementary schools were also president, in the chair. Miss Catterall presented at Atherton, Chester, Douglas, Isle appointed joint honorary secretary in place of Man, Fairfield and Droylsden, Knutsford, of Miss Livesey, resigned. Ormskirk, Preston, and Rawtenstall. Concert by the Morecambe fishermen. NANTWICH.—Life-boat day. North-East of England. NEW BRIGHTON.—Annual life-boat ser- AKWORTH, ASKERN, AND BAWTRY vice at St. James's Church, conducted by the AND AUSTERFIELD.—Life-boat days. vicar, the Rev. W. S. Coad, M.A. Preacher : The Rev. F. Davies, vicar of St. Paul's, BERWICK.—Dancing display. Seacombe. The Navy League Band accom- BEVERLEY.—Life-boat day. panied the crew of the life-boat to the church, BLYTH.—Whist drive. and the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Wallasey, representatives of the council and BOULMER.—A member of a distinguished members of the local life-boat committee life-boat family has passed away by the death of ex-coxwain Robert Stephenson. When he were present. retired in 1922 he had been an officer of the NORTHWICH.—Life-boat day. Bridge life-boat for over twelve years. drive, arranged by Mrs. Batty, Mrs. Gillbert and Mrs. Harper. BRADFORD. — Exhibition of life-boat ORRELL.—The branch has suffered a photographs. (A full report will appear in severe loss by the deaths of Mrs. Clough the next issue.) and Miss Arrowsmith, both of whom were BRAHAM.—Life-boat day. members of the committee and had joined BRIDLINGTON.—The death of Mrs. the branch when it was formed in 1927. A. E. Gray, for many years honorary sec- Golf competition, organized by the Dean retary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, is a Golf Club. great loss to the branch. PEEL.—Annual life-boat sacred service. Life-boat day. Golf competition, organized by the Peel Golf Club. Presentation of a prize won in the CONISBOROUGH. — Life-boat day. life-boat essay competition for elementary Bridge drive. schools. CRESSWELL.—House-to-house collection. PORT ERIN.—Annual sacred service. CULLERCOATS.—Naming ceremony of Dinner-table collections. the new motor life-boat. (A special report PORT ST. MARY.—Concert organized by will appear in the next issue.) the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Annual dinner- DARLINGTON.—Life-boat day. Whist table collections. Presentation of a prize and bridge drives. won in the life-boat essay competition for DEWSBURY.—House-to-house collection. elementary schools. DRIFFIELD.—Fete. RADCLIFFE.—Presentation by the dis- trict organizing secretary of a prize won in DURHAM.—House-to-house collection. the life-boat essay competition for elementary EAST BIERLEY, AND FERRYHILL.— schools. The secretary of education, school Life-boat days. managers and members of the Ladies' Life- FLAMBOROUGH.—Presentation of the boat Guild committee attended. thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, RAINFORD.—Presentation by the vicar awarded to each member of the life-boat of Rainford, the Rev. A. E. Bass, M.A., crew for the service to the Grimsby trawler chairman of the branch, of a prize won in the Lord Ernie on 2nd March, 1937. life-boat essay competition for elementary The station has lost two of its coxswains schools. The Rev. R. H. Dowthwaite this year by the death of Mr. John Leng, presided. coxswain for 17 years from 1898 to 1915, ROYTON.—Annual meeting on 7th June, and Mr. Robert Knaggs, coxwain for 12 the Rev. Canon W. Rowe, chairman, pre- years, from 1915 to 1927. siding. Speaker : The district organizing GATESHEAD.—Fete. secretary. Amount collected in 1936, £37. SANDBACH.—Life-boat day. GOLCAR, AND HALTEMPRICE.—Life- SILVERDALE.—The gardens of " Grey boat days. Walls " opened to the public in May and HARROGATE. — House-to-house col- July on behalf of the Institution. lection. Dancing matin6e. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 363

HARTLEPOOL, HECKMONDWIKE, Midlands. AND HEMSWORTH.—Life-boat days. ALFORD, AND ALFRETON.—Life-boat HEPWORTH AND SCHOLES.—Annual days. meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. BARTON-ON-HUMBER.—Life-boat day HOLMFIRTH.—Life-boat day. at South Ferriby. HONLEY.—House-to-house collection. BIRMINGHAM.—Life-boat day. Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. HUDDERSFIELD. — Life-boat day. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. American sale. Collections at the West End and Gaumont HULL, AND ILKLEY.—Life-boat days. Cinemas. Address by the district organizing KEIGHLEY.—Annual meeting on 24th secretary to Leigh Road and Ada Road May, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Senior Boys' Schools. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, BLOCKLEY, AND BRIERLEY HILL.— works appeal. Amount collected in 1936, Life-boat days. £290, an increase of £36 on 1935. BRISTOL.—Annual meeting on 19th KIRBY MOORSIDE, KIRKBURTON, July, the Lord Mayor presiding. Speaker: AND KIRKHEATON. — House-to-house Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the collections. Institution. Amount collected in 1936, £1,211, an increase of £34 on 1935. LEEDS.—Life-boat day. Latern talk on life-boat work, by Mr. G. MALTON.—Life-boat day. Sale of work. F. Igglesden, honorary treasurer, to British NEWBURN, AND NEWMILL.—House- Legion at Clifton. to-house collections. BROADWAY, AND BROMSGROVE.— Life-boat days. NORTHALLERTON.—Fete. CHELTENHAM.—Annual meeting, the NORTON AND STUBBS WALDEN, Mayoress presiding. Speaker : Captain G. OUTWOOD AND STANLEY, AND PAT- Leigh Jackson. Amount collected in 1936, RINGTON.—Life-boat days. £160, an increase of £21 on 1935. PONTEFRACT.—House-to-house col- CHESTERFIELD. — Life-boat day. lection. " Riders of the Storm " film shown. PRUDHOE, QUEENSBURY AND COLESHILL.—Life-boat day. SHELF, AND REDCAR.—Life-boat days. COVENTRY.—Presentation by the Mayor RIPON.—Drawing-room meeting at Long- of the challenge shield for the Midlands in meadows. the life-boat essay competition for elementary SCARBOROUGH.—Whist drive. Treasure schools, won by Leslie Robinson, of Broad hunt. Street Senior Boys' School, Coventry, and the prizes won by four other Coventry schools. SEAHAM HARBOUR.—Naming cere- Speaker : The district organizing secretary. mony of the new motor life-boat. (A Life-boat day. Dance at Rialto, by kind special report will appear in the next issue.) permission of Mr. Orr. SELBY.—The Ladies' Life-boat Guild has CRADLEY.—Lecture. suffered a great loss by the death of Mrs. DAVENTRY, DROITWICH, DUDLEY, Stainland, its president for the last ten years. ECCLESHALL, GAINSBOROUGH, AND Life-boat day. GRANTHAM.—Life-boat days. SHEFFIELD.—Life-boat day. HOLBEACH.—" Riders of the Storm" SOUTH SHIELDS.—Whist drive. film shown, with collection. IRTHLINGBOROUGH.—Life-boat day. SOWERBY BRIDGE, AND STOCKTON. KIDDERMINSTER. — Life-boat day. —Life-boat days. " Riders of the Storm " and " Heroes of the SUNDERLAND.—Life-boat day. Visit Sea" films shown, with collections. Life- of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to Whitby boat day at Stourport. life-boat station. LANGWITH, LICHFIELD, AND LONG THORNE AND MOORENDS.—Life-boat EATON.—Life-boat days. day. LOUTH.—" Riders of the Storm " film THURNSCOE.—Whist drive. shown, with collection. TINGLEY, AND UPTON.—Life-boat MABLETHORPE AND SUTTON-ON- days. SEA.—Life-boat days. MARKET HARBOROUGH. — House-to- WAKEFIELD.—Whist drive. house collection. WEST HARTLEPOOL, WHITLEY BAY, MATLOCK.—Life-boat day. WHITLEY BRIDGE, AND WITHERN- NEW MILLS.—Life-boat day. " Heroes SEA.—Life-boat days. of the Sea " and " Riders of the Storm " WORMESLEY. — House-to-house col- films shown, with collections. Dance at lection. Hayfield, organized by Mrs. Hatton. YORK.—Life-boat day. Exhibition of OAKHAM, OUNDLE, AND PERSHORE. life-boat photographs. Visit of the motor —Life-boat days. life-boat from the Humber. (A special PETERBOROUGH.—Concert, organized report will appear in the next issue.) by Mr. Fowler. Lecture. 364 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

RUGBY.—Life-boat day. Address to Guild. Dance at Hailsham. Golf com- members of Toe H by the district organizing petition at Willingdon, and lecture to the secretary. Women's Institute. Half proceeds of a RUGELEY.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. W. garden fete at Langney Priory. Bush, J.P., chairman, presiding. Speaker : Unveiling of a clock on the Life-boat Eng.-Commander H. B. McGhie, D.S.O., Museum, presented by Mrs. Astley Roberts. R.N., president. Amount collected in 1936, (See special report on page 354.) £57, an increase of £4 on 1936. EPPING.—Life-boat day. "At Home" SHIRLEY, SLEAFORD, AND SPILSBY and American tea. (CONINGSBY).—Life-boat days. ESHER.—Life-boat day. FOLKESTONE.—The branch has suffered STOKE-ON-TRENT, AND STOUR- a severe loss by the sudden death of Miss BRIDGE.—Presentation of prizes in the Ethel Hopkins, B.A., for nearly ten years life-boat essay competition for elementary honorary secretary of the Women's Auxiliary schools. of the Institution's branch at Folkestone, and STRATFORD-ON-AVON, SUTTON-IN- later of the branch itself. (See " Obituary.") ASHFIELD, TAMWORTH, TEWKES- Life-boat day. BURY, UPPINGHAM, AND UPTON-ON- GRAYS.—Golf competition at Orsett. SEVERN.—Life-boat days. GREAT BENTLEY.—Life-boat day. UTTOXETER. — House-to-house col- HARWICH.—Collection on cross-Channel lection. steamers. WALSALL.—Life-boat day. HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS.— WOLVERHAMPTON.—" Riders of the Blessing of the Sea service. Lectures at Storm" film shown, with collection, at Fairlight and Netherfield Women's Institutes. Willenhall. HIGH WYCOMBE.—Golf competition at Flackwell Heath. South-East of England. HUNTINGDON AND DISTRICT.—Life- boat day. BEDFORD.—Life-boat day. HYTHE.—Life-boat day. BOGNOR REGIS.—Golf competition. ISLE OF SHEPPEY.—Life-boat day at BOXMOOR AND HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, Queenborough. House-to-house collection at BRENTWOOD AND DISTRICT, BURY Sheerness. ST. EDMUND'S, AND BYFLEET AND KING'S LYNN.—Joint street collection PYRFORD.—Life-boat days. with Hull Sailors' Orphanage. Presentation CAISTER. — Another member of the of prize won in the life-boat essay competition famous Haylett family has passed away, by for elementary schools. the death of Mr. Charles Haylett at the age LEATHERHEAD.—Life-boat day. of 67. For 47 years he was a member of LEWES AND DISTRICT. — Life-boat the crew. days. Lectures at Kingston, Lewes St. CATERHAM AND DISTRICT.—Life- John's, and South Mailing Women's Insti- boat day. Golf competition. tutes. CHELMSFORD.—Life-boat day. LITTLEHAMPTON. — Life-boat day. " Heroes of the Sea " and " Riders of the CHICHESTER. — House-to-house col- Storm " filmsshown . lection at Compton. LOWESTOFT.—Two golf competitions. CLACTON-ON-SEA. — Life-boat day, MAIDSTONE.—Golf competition at Bear- church collections, and dance at Jaywick, sted. Lecture at the Farleighs Women's arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Institute. Lecture at Little Clacton Women's Institute. MARCH.—Life-boat day. CLAYGATE.—House-to-house collection. MIDHURST.—Special R.A.O.B. church CROWBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— service, with address by Captain Basil Hall, Tennis tournament. Lectures at Crow- R.N., and collection. borough St. John's, and Forest Row and MISTLEY, MANNINGTREE AND DIS- Coleman's Hatch Women's Institutes. TRICT.—Life-boat day. DARTFORD. — " Bring-and-buy " sale, NEWHAVEN.—The branch has suffered with address by Colonel A. C. Barnby, a severe loss by the death of its chairman, O.B.E., honorary secretary of the Rochester Mr. R. W. Dewdney, the Marine Manager branch. and Harbour Master. DORKING.—Life-boat day. Life-boat day. RAMSEY HEIGHTS. — House-to-house DOVER.—Life-boat day and tennis tour- collection. nament, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. RYE AND WINCHELSEA.—Garden sale. " Heroes of the Sea" film shown, with EASTBOURNE.—Annual meeting of the collections. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Astley Roberts, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district SEAFORD.—Life-boat day. organizing secretary. SHOREHAM HARBOUR. — Life-boat Life-boat days in Eastbourne and country days at Shoreham and Southwick. " Heroes districts, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat of the Sea " film shown at Southwick. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 365

SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON Amount collected in 1936, £623. Presenta- REGIS.—Life-boat day. Life-boat tableau tion to Alderman F. S. Mate of the life-boat in coronation procession. picture awarded to him by the Institution on SOUTHBOROUGH. — House-to-house his retirement as chairman. collection in Southborough. Life-boat tab- BRADFORD-ON-AVON.—Life-boat day. leau in Southborough and Tunbridge Wells BREXHAM.—Life-boat day and stalls. coronation processions. BURNHAM-ON-SEA.—Life-boat day at TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—Address to the Rotary Club by the district organizing Highbridge. secretary. CHARD.—Life-boat day, with films at WALTON - ON - THAMES, WELWYN cinemas. GARDEN CITY, AND WEYBRIDGE.— CHIPPENHAM. — Life-boat day at Life-boat days. Corsham. WINDSOR, ETON, AND DISTRICT.— CLEVEDON, EASTLEIGH, AND EMS- House-to-house collection. Lantern lecture WORTH.—Life-boat days. to the Windlesham Young People's Service EXETER.—Open-air whist drive. League, by the rector, the Rev. J-. Archibald. Life-boat day at Windlesham. EXMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Budleigh Salterton. WOLVERTON.—Collection at L.M.S. Rail- FARNBOROUGH AND FLEET, FROME, way Company's works. GUERNSEY, AND ILFRACOMBE.—Life- WOODBRIDGE. — House-to-house col- boat days. lection. ISLE OF WIGHT.—Annual meeting of the WORTHING AND DISTRICT. — Life- Isle of Wight Life-boat Board, Major- boat days. Lecture at Goring Women's General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, Institute. Presentation of prize won in the P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a vice-president life-boat essay competition for elementary of the Institution, in the chair. Amount schools. collected in 1936, £949, an increase of £214 GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLE- on 1935. STON.—Life-boat day, whist drives at Great Annual meetings of Cowes and Ryde Yarmouth, Mautby, and Gorleston, and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds. tennis tournament arranged by the Ladies' Presentation by Lady Baring at Newport Life-boat Guild. Presentation of prizes won of prize won in the life-boat essay com- in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- petition for elementary schools. Address by tary schools. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Lectures were also given to the Gravesend Sisterhood, at the Garden School, Lane End, MARLBOROUGH. — Life-boat day at High Wycombe, and to the Women's Pewsey. Institutes at Albourne, Bell Hill, Great NEWTON ABBOT.—Life-boat day at Amwell, Greenstead Green, Horsted Keynes, Moretonhampstead. Kirby-le-Soken, Lindfield, Little Common, Mannings Heath and Nuthurst, Patcham, OKEHAMPTON, AND PAIGNTON.— Small Hythe, Takeley, Tilford, Underriver, Life-boat days. West Horsley and Winslow. PENZANCE. — Life-boat day. Bridge Prizes won in the life-boat essay competi- drive, arranged by Ladies' Life-boat Guild. tion for elementary schools were also pre- PETERSFIELD. — Life-boat days at sented at Bramford, Croxley Green, Deal, Petersfield, and in Liss and district. East Runton, Faversham, Ipswich, Lydd, PLYMOUTH.—Life-boat days at Ply- Marshland St. James, Redhill, Salhouse, and mouth and Saltash. Annual dinner to Stone. life-boat crew, given by Mrs. Bowen, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. South-West of England. Social and concert at Bere Ferrers. ALDERSHOT. — Special meeting. POOLE.—Life-boat days at Poole and Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Wimborne. Life-boat day. PORTSMOUTH.—Life-boat days at Ports- ALTON.—First life-boat day. mouth, Southsea, and in Havant district. ANDOVER.—Life-boat day in Andover and villages, in Whitchurch and district, and REDRUTH.—Bridge and whist drive. at Kingsclere. ROMSEY.—Life-boat day in Romsey and BANBURY.—Life-boat day in Banbury villages. and villages. SALISBURY.—Life-boat days at Gilling- BASINGSTOKE. — Life-boat day at ham, and in Fordingbridge and district. Odiham. SEATON.—Life-boat day at Beer. BLANDFORD.—Life-boat day. SHAFTESBURY, AND SIDMOUTH.— Life-boat days. BOURNEMOUTH.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Sir Godfrey SOUTHAMPTON. — Life-boat day at Baring, Bt., • chairman of the Institution. Southampton and in surrounding areas. 366 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

ST. IVES.—Presentation by Mrs. F. H. Life-boat Guild was formed. Speakers : Houck, wife of the United States vice-consul Councillor D. O. Maclean, Mr. S. Graham at Plymouth, of the awards made by the Mickel and the Scottish organizing secretary. United States Government, for the rescue, Badges were presented to Guild members by on 2nd November, 1936, of the crew of the Mrs. Stewart, of Millhills. Bessemer City. Life-boat day. Life-boat day, with film at cinema. CUPAR, AND DARVEL.—Life-boat days. SWINDON.—Life-boat day at Cricklade. DUNBAR.—In recognition of services to TEIGNMOUTH.—Life-boat day. the fishing community of East Lothian the TIVERTON.—Life-boat days at Tiverton honour of O.B.E. was conferred upon Mr. and Hampton. William Bertram, J.P., the honorary sec- retary of the station, at the coronation. TORQUAY. — Presentation by the Mayoress to Mrs. Thackrah of the life-boat DUNDEE.—Life-boat day and flower stall. picture, awarded to her by the Institution, Broadcast of the launching of the Broughty at a special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Ferry life-boat. (See special report on Guild, Mrs. F. Callard presiding. Speaker : page 352.) The district organizing secretary. EDINBURGH.—Presentation by Harriet, TOTNES.—Life-boat days at Buckfast- Lady Findlay, D.B.E., president of the leigh and Stoke Gabriel. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of the challenge shield for Scotland in the life-boat essay TRURO.—Life-boat day. competition for elementary schools, and of WANTAGE.—Life-boat days at Wantage the special prize for the best essay in Great and Faringdon. Britain and Ireland, won by Osmond P. H. WATCHET.—Dance. Robb, of the Royal High School, Edinburgh. The Lord Provost presided and the school WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Annual meet- was addressed by Emeritus-Professor J. ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Graham Kerr. Porcher presiding. Speaker: The district Presentations by a member of the branch organizing secretary. committee of three certificates won in the Life-boat day. life-boat essay competition for elementary WEYMOUTH.—Special meeting of the schools. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker : The Open golf meeting at Longniddry, arranged district organizing secretary. by Miss E. H. Sawers, a member of the YEOVIL.—Life-boat day at Martock and Ladies' Life-boat Guild. villages. ELGIN.—Presentation by the Rev. J. M. M. Madill, in the absence of the Lord Provost, Lectures at Kingham, Shrivenham, Steeple of the life-boat picture awarded by the Aston and Totland (I.W.). Institution, to Mr. J. Davidson Dickie, M.A., L.C.P., the honorary secretary. Life- Scotland. boat day. ABERDEEN.—Coronation procession in FORTROSE, AND GIRVAN.—Life-boat which the life-boat and crew took part. days. Life-boat day. Presentations of four certifi- cates won in the life-boat essay competition GLASGOW.—Annual meeting on 14th for elementary schools. May, Mr. William Henderson presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, ALLOA.—Life-boat days at Alloa, Alva mannequin parade, ball. Amount collected and Tillicoultry. in 1936, £6,086. The resignation of the ANNAN.—Life-boat day. chairman, Mr. James Bryce Allan, was ANSTRUTHER.—Life-boat days at An- received with regret. struther, Pittenweem and St. Monance. Life-boat day. ARBROATH, ARDRISHAIG, AND GRANGEMOUTH, GRANTOWN-ON- ARRAN.—Life-boat days. SPEY, GREENOCK, HELENSBURGH, AND INVERBERVIE.—Life-boat days. AYR.—Presentations of three certificates won in the life-boat essay competition for INVERKEITHING. — Life-boat day. elementary schools. Presentation of certificate won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools. AYTON AND BURNMOUTH.—Life-boat day. INVERNESS. — Presentations of three BANFF. — House-to-house collection, certificates won in the life-boat essay organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. competition for elementary schools. BUCKHAVEN, AND BURNTISLAND IRVINE.—Another member of a famous AND ABERDOUR.—Life-boat days. life-boat family has passed away by the CAMPBELTOWN.—Golf tournament at death at 78 of Mr. Duncan Sinclair. Carradale, arranged by Mr. P. McKinven. Life-boat day. CARRONBRIDGE, CARSTAIRS, AND ISLE OF BUTE.—Life-boat day. COLDSTREAM.—Life-boat days. ISLE OF ISLAY.—Life-boat days, and CRIEFF.—Special meeting on 19th May, visit of Port Askaig life-boat to regattas at Provost Hunt presiding, at which a Ladies' Colonsay, Port Ellen, Craighouse and Jura. OCTOBER, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 367

JEDBURGH. — Presentation by Mr. DROGHEDA, AND DUBLIN.—Life-boat Thomas H. Prudden of a certificate won in days. the life-boat essay competition for elementary DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Annual meeting, schools. Mr. Gerald Byrne, chairman, presiding. KILMARNOCK, AND KINGUSSIE.— Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Life-boat days. Amount collected in 1936, £242, an increase of £34 on 1935. KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Coronation pageant Life-boat day. Golf competition. and procession in which the life-boat took part. ENNIS.—Life-boat day and house-to- house collection. KIRRIEMUIR, LADYBANK, AND LARBERT.—Life-boat days. HOWTH.—Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (A full account will appear LARGS.—Life-boat day at Wemyss Bay in the next issue.) and Skelmorlie. KILMORE.—Naming ceremony of the LERWICK, LEVEN, LOCHGELLY, new motor life-boat. (A full account will LOCHGILPHEAD, AND LOCHMABEN.— appear in the next issue.) Life-boat days. LARNE, AND LONDONDERRY.—Life- LOCKERBIE. — Presentation by Mr. boat days. David Cormack of a certificate won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary MULLINGAR.—Life-boat days. Tennis schools. tournament. MARKINCH, AND METHIL.—Life-boat NEWCASTLE (DUNDRUM), AND days. PORTRUSH.—Life-boat days. MONTROSE.—Coronation carnival and ROSSNOWLAGH.—Golf competition. procession in which the No. 2 life-boat took STRABANE, AND TRALEE AND part. KILLARNEY.—Life-boat days. NEWTONMORE, AND NORTH BER- WEXFORD.—Annual meeting, Major- WICK.—Life-boat days. General B. J. C. Doran, C.B., vice-president, OBAN.—Life-boat days at Ballachulish, in the chair. Speaker : The district organ- Easdale, Mallaig, and Oban. izing secretary. Amount collected in 1936, £56, an increase of £13 on 1935. PERTH.—Life-boat days. The branch has lost an old friend by the PETERHEAD.—Coronation ball, organ- death of Mr. Michael J. O'Connor, who was ized by the life-boat dance committee. its honorary secretary from 1911 to 1921. Life-boat day. PORTPATRICK, AND ROSEHEARTY. Wales. —Life-boat days. (Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, ST. ABBS.—Naming ceremony of the new and Shropshire.) motor life-boat. (A full account will appear in the next issue.) Life-boat day. A conference of North and Mid-Wales and Shropshire branches was held at ST. ANDREWS, SALTCOATS, SAN- Llandudno, on the 15th June. Sir Godfrey QUHAR, AND STIRLING.—Life-boat days. Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, STORNOWAY. — Life-boat day. Golf presided, supported by Lieut.-Col. C. R. competitions. Satterthwaite, O.B.,E. secretary of the Institution. A civic welcome was given the STRANRAER, THURSO, TOBER- delegates by Councillor A. J. Needham, MORY, TROON, AND VALE OF chairman of the Llandudno Urban District LEVEN.—Life-boat days. Council. WICK.—Procession in connexion with The conference was attended by sixty the crowning of the Herring Queen ; part delegates. Life-boat films were shown, and proceeds given to the life-boat station. at the end of the conference delegates went afloat in the Llandudno and Moelfre motor life-boats. Ireland. ABERTILLERY.—Presentation of prize ARKLOW.—Golf competition at Wooden- in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- bridge Golf Club. tary schools by Mrs. A. L. Dolman, president BAGENALSTOWN, AND BALLY- of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Address by COTTON.—Life-boat days. the district organizing secretary. BANDON AND COURTMACSHERRY.— AMLWCH.—Life-boat day. Whist drive, organized by honorary secre- BARRY.—Life-boat day. taries of both branches. Presentation of prizes in the life-boat essay BANGOR, AND BELFAST.—Life-boat competition for elementary schools by Mr. days. E. V. Swallow, chairman of the branch, and BRAY.—Golf competition. by Mrs. T. Rowlands, chairman of the CLOGHER HEAD, CLOUGHEY, Ladies' Life-boat Guild. COHRTMACSHERRY, DONAGHABEE, BRIDGNORTH.—Life-boat day. 368 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1937.

CARDIFF.—Life-boat day. MONMOUTH.—Life-boat day. The grounds of St. Pagan's Castle opened to the public, by kind permission of the NEATH.—Presentation by Miss F. M. Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, P.C.; Pole, honorary secretary of the Ladies' proceeds in aid of the Cardiff branch. Life-boat Guild, of prize won in the life-boat The Lady Mayoress of Cardiff (Lady essay competition for elementary schools. Elizabeth Hiles) made a tour of the Cardiff Address by the district organizing secretary. schools and presented prizes in the life-boat Life-boat day. Special meeting of the essay competition for elementary schools, at Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The nine schools. Addresses were given at each district organizing secretary. Mrs. Webb school by the district organizing secretary. elected chairman. CLEOBURY MORTIMER. — Life-boat NEWPORT (MON.), AND OSWESTRY. day. •—Life-boat days. HEREFORD.—Life-boat day and cinema PENARTH.—Life-boat day. Lantern lec- collection. ture to the Fuchsia Club. HOLYHEAD.—Life-boat day. PORTHCAWL, AND ROSS.—Life-boat LEOMINSTER.—Life-boat day. days. LLANELLY.—Presentation by the Mayor SHREWSBURY.—Silent appeal. of the challenge shield for Wales in the life- SWANSEA.—Life-boat day. boat essay competition for elementary schools, won by John Thomas, of the Bynea TENBY.—Whist drive, organized by the Council School. Address by the district Ladies' Life-boat Guild. organizing secretary. TOWYN.—Life-boat day. Box opening and tea at Stradey Castle, by Prizes won in the life-boat essay com- kind permission of Mrs. C. R. Mansel Lewis, petition for elementary schools were also chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. presented at Holywell, Maesteg, Mold, LLANDOVERY, AND LLANIDLOES. Oswestry, Penygraig, Saltney, Sebastopol —Life-boat days. and Shifnal.

Notice. THE LIFE-BOAT is published quarterly and is sent free to all honorary secretaries of branches and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to coxswains, honorary workers, subscribers of ten shillings and over, libraries, the principal hotels, and the Press. It is the current record of the work of the life-boat service, and the chief means by which it keeps its workers, subscribers, and the general public informed of its activities. Unless you are keeping a complete set of the journal you will help the Institution if, after reading this number, you will pass it on to a friend. All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to Lieut.-Col., C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I. All enquiries about the work of the Institution or about the journal should be addressed to the secretary. The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in December, 1937.