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THE LIFE-BOAT the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution VOL. XXXII DECEMBER, 1949 No. 352 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ... 76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the afternoon of the 13th of Sept- life-boat's fuel was getting low, a wire- ember, 1949, the Jersey airport rang up less message from St. Helier recalled her the St. Helier life-boat station and and she set her course for home. At asked that the life-boat should help in midnight she passed the beacon Demie the search for a French military aero- de Pas. She was then less than two plane which had come down in the sea miles from St. Helier. She had been to the south-east of St. Helier. Just out for nearly nine hours. Her crew before half past three she put out. were very weary; they had been She was the life-boat Hearts of Oak, knocked about a lot in those heavy from the reserve fleet, doing temporary seas; but they were expecting, in less duty at the station. Coxswain Thomas than half an hour, to be home. King was in command, and Mr. L. P. Stevens, the honorary secretary of the A Yacht in Grave Peril station, went as a member of the crew. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, They had just passed the beacon with heavy squalls. There were heavy when another wireless message came. showers of rain. The sea was rough. A light had been seen near Demie de The St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat Pas. The life-boat turned about at also went out. once to search for it. Though her crew did not know it A Long Search until later, the light was on board a The life-boat travelled some twenty St. Helier yacht, the Maurice Georges. miles south-east of St. Helier. She She was a 10-ton cutter with an searched a wide area, hampered by the auxiliary engine, and she had four on rain squalL and by fog, which at times board. She had left St. Malo that prevented her from seeing more than day for St. Helier on her engine. At 400 yards. She searched for six hours, dusk, when she was off the Demi de but found nothing. Later it was learnt Pas beacon, the engine had failed. She that the aeroplane had come down in anchored there, off a lee shore. It was the area where she was searching, and the only thing that she could do, but had sunk immediately, taking down six in the heavy seas the cable very soon of the crew with her. Three others got parted, and before she could get out a ashore on the French island of Chausey. second anchor she was right among Shortly after half past nine, when the the rocks. There her second anchor 878 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1949 held for a little, but it would not hold that it would be a rather smaller risk for long, and when it failed it would not to try to tow her out than to venture be many minutes before the yacht was further in. As he passed her a tow- broken into pieces on the rocks. Such rope, her men made it fast, and cut was her position and her plight when the their own cable; the life-boat towed life-boat turned about to look for her. her out. Again all the odds were that life-boat, or yacht, or both would run Into The Dragon's Mouth on the rocks, but they both came into It was not easy to pick up her light, the open sea without touching them. deep among the rocks, and when at last The rescue had taken only fifteen the life-boat saw it, everyone on board minutes, but every minute they had her realised at once into what a terrible been on the edge of destruction. If place they were to go. The chart the life-boat had grounded on a rock gives some idea of its perils. But on in those heavy seas—and all on board the chart the rocks are plain to see. knew it—that would almost certainly- On this very dark night nothing could have been the end of her, and her crew be seen, except the light from the yacht. would have been beaten to death The coxswain could not be certain between the seas.and the rocks. where he was. His knowledge of the Half an hour after midnight the life- coast went for nothing. The strong boat entered St. Helier. She had west wind was blowing against the been out for nine hours. tide, making a very rough sea, and the When the district inspector went in sea was breaking heavily among the the life-boat to the scene of the wreck, rocks, so that from moment to moment it was a flat, calm sea. They lay about the rocks were changing, some out of a mile off. The inspector asked the the water, some awash, some beneath coxswain to get him a bit closer so that it. The tide was ebbing, and the rocks he might see exa'tly where the life- each moment -became more dangerous. boat found the yacht. On this lovely To go among them was to go blindfold, day the coxswain answered: "Oh, no, right into the dragon's mouth. sir, I wouldn't like to go in there now. We might hit something." All the Odds Against Them It added to the dangers that the The Rewards Hearts of Oak, unlike the double- For this most gallant and reso- engined Queen Victoria, had one engine lute service, carried out against the and one screw. But the coxswain did gravest perils by a crew already weary not hesitate. He put men in the bows from a long-and heavy strain, the Insti- of the life-boat with the searchlight to tution has made the following awards: warn him of such rocks as could be seen, To Coxswain THOMAS J. KING, the and went straight in. He well knew gold medal, which is given only for con- the risks; and he took them. He went spicuous gallantry, with a copy of the in faith, trusting to the strong build of vote inscribed on vellum and framed. the life-boat to save him and his crew, This is the first gold medal to be if she should hit anything. All the awarded since 1944; odds were that she would. To each of the seven members of the As he came near the lights of the crew, PHILIP BOITELL, acting-second yacht, he turned her up to throw a line coxswain, KENNETH S. GUBBEY, on board the yacht, and at that moment reserve motor mechanic, B. TALBOT, a very big sea took hold of the life-boat acting assistant mechanic, C. KING, G. and washed her right over a ledge of STAPLEY, R. J. NICOLLE, life-boatmen, rock; but the only remark made was and Mr. J. P. STEVENS, honorary sec-- by one of the crew: "That's one of the retary of the station, the bronze medal, . passed anyhow." with a copy of the vote inscribed on The line was thrown, and was seized vellum and framed; by the men on the yacht. The normal To the coxswain and crew a special course would then have been for the reward of £5 each, in addition to the life-boat to stand in close enough to reward of £2 15*. on the ordinary scale; the yacht to be able to take the men ordinary rewards, £18 3s.; additional off her. But the coxswain decided rewards, £40; total rewards, £58 3*. DECEMBER, 1949] THE LIFE-BOAT 879 ST. HELIER SERVICE TO THE MAURICE GEORGES, 13th 14th SEPTEMBER, 1949 Scale: 1J inches to the mile 380 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1949 A Bronze Medal Service at Holyhead ON the night of the 25th of October, head to wind and held her there while 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- seven of the steamer's crew jumped in ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at her. forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea The chief engineer of the Mayflower was very rough; the night dark with was still drawing his fires, and the heavy squalls of rain. master would not leave him. As the A small Liverpool steamer, the May- tide was falling, and as the coastguard flower, with a crew of seven, had had rigged a breeches buoy on shore, anchored off Salt Island Point. The the life-boat did not wait, but left the gale was then blowing from the north- steamer about a quarter to three, and west, but it flew round to the north- the master and engineer were rescued east. The Mayflower was riding to a later by the coastguard. single anchor and when the wind It was a rescue carried out with changed it began to drag. At 1.40 great skill in a heavy gale, and the in the morning the coastguard rang up Institution made the following rewards: the life-boat station. The Mayflower To COXSWAIN RICHARD JONES, a had gone ashore on Salt Island Point. clasp to the bronze medal, which he At five minutes past two the reserve won in 1943, with a copy of the vote life-boat M.O.Y.E., on temporary duty inscribed on vellum and framed; at the station, was launched, and in ten To MAcDoNALD HADDOW, reserve minutes she reached the Mayflower and motor mechanic, who had been in the found her on the rocky spit of Salt service of the Institution only three Island with her stern to the gale.
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