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THE LIFEBOAT. the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFEBOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. VOL. XXV.—No. 281.] JUNE, 1924. [PRICE Gd. The Centenary. By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. THE Centenary celebrations began with invention, that not even Lord Chelms- the meeting, in the Guildhall, described ford would wish to convert it into a on another page, on the Institution's Government service, or would not hail hundredth birthday—4th March. They this great Institution as the best means are being continued throughout the year by which the Life-boat Service could be all over the country, and when the year continued in the future as it was ends we shall be able to look back on a originated, and as it has been carried on series of events which will have shown in the past." more notably than any event of the past And we are fortunate in having had how secure is the Life-boat Service in definite statements in the House of the affection of the whole British people, Commons, showing that even a Govern- and the active and generous interest of ment which believes in a wide exten- thousands of voluntary workers. sion of State control is satisfied that ' One can go further, and say how the Life-boats, great national service secure, in spite of the enormous changes though they are, are best left to be of recent years and the growth of the voluntarily manned and maintained. idea of State control, remains the In replying to a question in the House voluntary principle as the basis of the of Commons, asking if the Government Service. Mr. Austen Chamberlain made would consider making a grant from the point with great vigour and truth public funds to render unnecessary the when he said at the Centenary Meeting : raising of money for the service by " If we were sitting down, Lord Chelms- continuous appeals, Mr. Alexander, the ford, or the Prime Minister, and I, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Sir Donald MacLean—if we four were Trade, said: " From the practical point sitting down with a clean slate to devise of view it would be unwise to consider a constitution for a new country, and to making a far-reaching change of this define the sphere of its Governmental kind, which would impose a heavy activities, I suppose there is no subject additional charge on public funds, unless which we should more readily agree was a very strong case were made out for it." more suited to State action, rather than And again, when dealing with the service to individual enterprise, than the organi- to the ketch Lord Hamilton, of which a ;ation of a Life-boat Service round the full account is given elsewhere, Mr. coasts of our country. And yet here we Alexander took the opportunity to say : are all celebrating the Centenary of a " As far as the Board of Trade and the Voluntary Institution which has owed Government are concerned, we have nothing but good will to any Govern- every desire to support the magnificent ment that has existed during the whole voluntary work which has been under- hundred years of its life, and which has taken by the National Life-boat Institu- organized this service, developed it, tion." carried it on so efficiently, with such The celebrations, begun in London on energy, with such adaptation to the 4th March, will be continued in July, march of science and the progress of when we shall hold an International 130 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1924. Life-boat Conference in London. To It has been a fortunate chance for the this Conference we shall welcome, as Institution that the British Empire Ex- guests of the Institution, delegates from hibition should have coincided with our the French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Centenary. That has given us a great Swedish and Norwegian Life-boat Socie- opportunity, and at Life-boat House, ties, and from the United States Coast Wembley, the Institution has a more inter- Guard and the Danish Ministry of esting and more complete display, showing Marine, the Life-boat Services in the the development and work of the Service, two last countries being maintained by than has ever been given before—from a the State. model of the first Life-boat, built on the The Conference will discuss practically Tyne in 1789, to a real Motor Life-boat every question of technical interest, of the latest type. This Life-boat, one of from the construction of Life-boats and the Watson Cabin class, is our central Life-boat engines to the latest mechani- exhibit, and is open to the public, so that cal devices, such as Tractors and Line- many thousands, not only of British throwing guns. At the same time there people, but of those from the Dominions will be held on the Thames what has and foreign countries, will have an oppor- never been held before—an international tunity of seeing what a wonderful inven- pageant of Life-boats. The French tion is a modern Life-boat. They will Society is sending over its Twin-screw have an opportunity of seeing also wort- Motor Life-boat from Calais ; the North ing models showing how Life-boats are and South Holland Life-saving Society launched, and how rescues are carried its latest type of Motor Life-boat, Bran- out, and a model of one of the most daris : the South Holland Life-saving famous services in our history—the ser- Society its Steam Life-boat, Prins der vice to the Hospital Ship Rohilla in 1914. Nederlanden, from the Hook, a Life-boat From Life-boat House, Wembley, we which has saved many British lives. hope that thousands will carry back to Norway is sending one of its cruising their homes in Great Britain and across Life-saving Ketches, Denmark a Motor the seas a clearer understanding of what Life-boat, and Sweden a large cruis- our Life-boat Service is, of its history, ing Life-boat with auxiliary motor. of its place in our national life, and of These boats will lie off the Temple Steps its title to their help. on the Victoria Embankment, near the Of the many celebrations which have training-ship President. They will go up been or are being held by the Institu- the river, and be received in state by the tion's Branches I will say nothing here, Mayor of Fulham, and they will be open because it is intended to publish with the to the inspection of the public, so next number of the Journal an illus- that London will be given a unique trated supplement, giving an account of opportunity of comparing the different what the Branches have done to make methods of life-saving in European this the most notable year in the history countries. of the Institution. The Government is entertaining the On another page is reproduced in foreign delegates to a State banquet, facsimile the Prince of Wales's Cen- and the Institution will hold its Cen- tenary Appeal not to Great Britain only, tenary Dinner on 2nd July. The Prince but to the whole Empire, and to all who of Wales will preside, and the Prime value the Service as a great example of Minister, the Spanish Ambassador, and beroism and humanity, to give it their Mr. Winston Churchill will be among jenerous support. That appeal com- the speakers. All the Institution's Gold pletes the efforts of our Centenary Year, Medallists have been invited to London to extend by obtaining many new as its guests, to attend the dinner, and subscribers and helpers that broad during their visit they will be received foundation of popular support on which by the King. the Life-boat Service rests. JUNE, 1924.] THE LIFEBOAT. 131 S! JAMES'S PALACE S.W There is not a country with a seaboard whose vessels and seafarers have not, at some time during the past century, been rescued from shipwreck by the British Life-Boat Service I would appeal to all, to whatever country they belonf, to remember with gratitude what seafarers of their own race owe to British Life-Boat men. There is nothing in our long and splendid history as a seafaring race of which We have more right to be proud. We are proud that it was the first in the world, and has been the example and model for all other countries Most of all we are proud that it is a voluntary service, provided and maintained, not by the State, but by the people themselves I appeal to the men and women of our Empire, and, indeed, to all those who value the practical example of heroism and humanity, to give generously in support of this great service r^ President FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'S LIFE-BOAT CENTENARY APPEAL. 132 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1924. March 4th, 1824 : March 4th, 1924. THE Institution was founded on 4th meeting was but thinly attended, which March, 1824, " at a Public Meeting of was attributed to the shortness of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and notice given for holding it, as well as to others, held at the City of London the active canvass going on for the East Tavern, His Grace the Archbishop of India Direction." Canterbury in the Chair." Such is the In this way the Institution was brief record in the archives of the launched. Institution, followed by a list of twenty In holding the Centenary Meeting we resolutions, with the names of their tried, so far as was possible, to recon- proposers and seconders, all of which struct that original meeting.
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