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

VOL. XXXIV SEPTEMBER, 1957 No. 381

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1957 .... 80,848

Notes of the Quarter THE variety of services performed by finding a motor boat in trouble, life-boats and the variety of vessels boarded her and repaired her engines. which life-boats help have been clearly These various services led to only illustrated during the past quarter. one claim for property salvage, and The first ten services for the month indeed there was only one salvage of May, which are recorded on pages claim throughout the whole month. 500-2 of this number, are instructive. Two of the services consisted of taking sick or injured men off ships, one of COST OF MAINTAINING A STATION the ships being a Dutch vessel in Further extensive repairs, including Yarmouth Roads, the other being an work which has to be carried on under Italian steamer off Barrow in Lanca- water, have been approved by the shire. In five cases Jife-boats towed Committee of Management for the vessels in distress to safety. The Selsey life-boat station. The station Stromness life-boat towed a Norwegian is a busy and important one, and last fishing vessel which had gone aground year the Selsey coxswain, Douglas in Hoy Sound; the Islay life-boat Grant, was awarded the silver medal found a yacht ashore in Islay Sound for a series of outstanding rescues. and towed her off; a motor vessel But because of erosion the cost of which had gone ashore in the channel maintaining this station is an enor- between Anglesey and Puffin Island mously high one. Since the war new was towed to Beaumaris; the Howth construction, including a gangway life-boat found a diver's boat drifting extension, has cost more than £6,000. ashore under the cliffs and towed her The general upkeep, which has in- to safety; and the Walmer life-boat, cluded underpinning slipway piles, after putting out to the help of a small strengthening the boathouse slipway boat which succeeded in continuing and gangway trestles and repairing under her own power, ended by towing damage by storm, has exceeded in three fishing boats. £24,500. In addition the Institution Of the other services a yacht was had to pay more than £1,000 for a escorted to Southend; five canoes were hydrographic survey. The cost of the escorted to Llandudno; and the further repairs now found necessary mechanic of the Humber life-boat, will be between £1,500 and £2,000. 474 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 REFLECTING MATERIAL ON BUOYS LIFE-BOATS AT AGRICULTURAL AND LIFE-BELTS SHOWS The Committee of Management have Life-boats of the Institution were decided to fit Scotchlite reflecting exhibited at three of the major agri- material on to all life-buoys in life- cultural shows during the summer. boats and all life-belts worn by The Broughty Ferry life-boat was seen members of life-boat crews. at the Highland Show at Dundee from Scotchlite is a specially coated the 18th to the 22nd of June; the material which has exceptional powers Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life- of reflection. The reflective property boat at the Royal Show at Norwich is caused by the action of large from the 2nd to the 5th of July; and numbers of microscopic crystals with the Redcar life-boat at the Great which the material is coated. The Yorkshire Show at Harrogate from the beam of a searchlight is picked up by 9th to the llth of July. Arrangements these tiny lenses and reflected through were made to ensure full operational a wide arc. The reflected light is a efficiency while these life-boats were brilliant one, and trials have shown away from their stations. Members that Scotchlite enables a man in the of branches and guilds in the areas water to be seen in the beam of a gave up many hours to collect money searchlight at far greater distances and sell souvenirs at all these shows. than would otherwise be the case. The life-buoys will be fitted with two gaiters of Scotchlite, and the life- belts will have strips of Scotchlite on HISTORY OF THE LIFE-BOAT the shoulder straps. SERVICE The first full-length book on the DUNKIRK MEMORIAL Life-boat Service as a whole to The part played by the Margate and appear for nearly thirty-five years is Ramsgate life-boats at the time of the being published in October, 1957. evacuation from Dunkirk was recog- H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President nised when H.M. Queen Elizabeth the of the Institution, has written a fore- Queen Mother unveiled a memorial at word to the book. The book, which Dunkirk to commemorate those who is entitled The Life-boat Story, has gave their lives during the 1939-1945 been written by Mr. Patrick Howarth, campaign. Two members of the crews Publicity Secretary of the Institution, of the Ramsgate and Margate life- and is published by Messrs. Routledge boats which went to Dunkirk were & Kegan Paul. It has more than invited to take part in the ceremony. thirty illustrations and will cost one They were Mr. E. D. Parker, D.S.M., guinea. On every copy sold through who was coxswain of the Margate life- the Institution the funds of the boat at the time, and Mr. J. T. Hawkes, Institution will benefit by 7s. A who went over to Dunkirk as a mem- review of the book will appear in the ber of the Ramsgate crew. December number of the Life-boat.

Birthday Honours HONOURS bestowed on those associated O.B.E. with the Life-boat Service in the Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., Birthday Honours for 1957 included: R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

Knight Bachelor Air Commodore A. V. Harvey, B.E.M. C.B.E., M.P., a member of the Com- Mr. A. P. Weaver, honorary secre- mittee of Management. tary, Bembridge station branch. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 475

Advice to Yachtsmen [The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter as possible if the original distress are used for sea rescue work around the signal is made by R/T. The bearing coasts of the United Kingdom: Syca- (mag. or true) and distance from a mores and Dragonflies, which can fixed object, like a headland or light- rescue up to two persons, and Whirl- house, should be given if possible. The winds which can rescue up to six or rig, colour of sails and hull should be seven persons. These helicopters can included if time allows. operate up to about sixty miles from the coast, but at that distance, because No Obstructions Aft of fuel difficulties, they would not be able to remain very long before return- A helicopter can lower on to or ing to base. They are subject to lift a man from a yacht provided certain operational limitations; they that the yacht has no obstructions are not flown at night; and they cannot aft, such as standing back stays, and be operated safely when the visibility is she either remains stationary head to poor, nor when the wind exceeds wind or steams at a constant speed forty-five knots. head to wind. If the yacht cannot When a "Mayday" message or a comply with these conditions the visual distress signal is received by helicopter may be able to lift a man the coastguard from a yacht in distress, from a boat towed astern on a long steps are at once taken to send all painter. For this purpose it may be possible life-saving assistance. This possible for the helicopter to send may include asking the nearest R.A.F. down a rubber dinghy. On no account Rescue Co-ordination Centre, or heli- should the winch wire, when lowered copter station, to despatch a helicopter to a vessel, be secured to any part of to assist in the rescue. the vessel, or allowed to become entangled with any rigging or fixtures. Importance of Signals A helicopter close above a yacht carrying a large amount of sail may Once the helicopter has become air- i send down sufficient slip stream to borne, how soon it locates the yacht j cause the latter to capsize so that it is and how effective its work can be, | always advisable for the yacht to depends to a large extent on the co- shorten sail before the helicopter operation of the yacht herself. arrives over her. Without sail the From the air, especially if there is a slip stream will have no harmful effect. lot of yachting taking place in the area, it is very difficult for the pilot of a helicopter to pick out the parti- Three Rescue Methods cular yacht he is looking for, from the Helicopters are well practiced in many he can see. unless that yacht rescuing survivors who are floating uses a distinctive distress signal which freely in the water. Three methods can be clearly seen by him. One such are employed. If the survivor is signal is the Wessex daylight coloured able to help himself a strop is lowered smoke signal. This is very distinct to him until it hangs about six inches from the air. A well trained Aldis above the sea and within easy reach. lamp can also be seen except in very The survivor should grasp the loop bright sunlight. The display of these strop, slip one arm and the head signals will save valuable time in the through the loop followed by the other helicopter locating the casualty, and arm. He should then arrange the may mean all the difference between strop around the upper part of the success and failure. body under the armpits, with the It is essential that the yacht's hook and D. ring in front. The toggle position should be given as accurately or webbing loop should then be pulled 476 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 down towards the chest to prevent helicopter working with the life-boat the strop from slipping. When this on a rescue service. If therefore a is done the survivor should give the life-boat is known to be in the vicinity "thumbs-up" sign to the helicopter of a yacht the message for the heli- crew. copter from the yacht should be passed The second and third methods of on M.F. (2182 kilocycles.) to the life- recovery are used when the survivor boat for transmission to the heli- is unconscious or unable to help him- copter. self. By the double winch method a helicopter crew man is lowered by Visual Distress Signals winch cable into the sea for the rescue If the yachtsman in trouble observes of the survivor. In the other method that the helicopter is going to pass a helicopter rescue net is used to him by, or is on a course which will scoop the survivor out of the water. take it away from him, he should continue to make visual distress signals Wireless Contact and, at the same time, if fitted with Helicopters are fitted with very R/T, report the fact to the Coastguard high frequency radio. They cannot stating the present bearing and work on the medium frequencies. If a distance of the helicopter from him. yacht, which is fitted with R/T, wishes The Coastguard will pass this informa- to send a lifesaving message to a heli- tion to the helicopter through its copter which is coming to its assistance control station. and is unable to do so by visual means, It is well to be advised of the parti- the message should be sent by R/T cular dangers to be recognised when through the nearest G.P.O. Coast working with helicopters, in respect of Radio Station, addressed to the Coast- their rotors. Helicopters keep clear guard. On receipt the Coastguard of any obstructions such as masts, will pass it to the R.A.F. Control since any contact by them with the Station for transmission on V.H.F. to main rotor, and particularly the tail the helicopter. In some places the rotor, is disastrous for the helicopter. Coastguard are themselves equipped Similarly, when survivors are landed with M.F. R/T, and maintain constant from the helicopter they must observe watch on 2182 kilocycles. In that closely the instructions given by the ease a yacht could pass the message crew since there is an ever present direct to them on this frequency. danger of walking unwittingly into A large number of Royal National the tail rotor. This warning may Life-boat Institution life-boats are appear to be overstating the obvious, now being fitted with V.H.F. to enable yet it is surprising how simply and the coxswain to speak direct to a how often it is done.

Queen's Commendation THE Queen's Commendation for The attempted rescue in which these Brave Conduct has been awarded four men, who were part-time fire- posthumously to Joseph Bell; men of the Silloth Fire Brigade, Stanley Graham; John Joseph gave their lives, was reported in the Johnstone; and Alexander Black June 1957 number of the Life-boat on Ramsay. page 426.

Ministry of Transport Award THE Minister of Transport and Civil vessel Stephens, of Fraserburgh, after Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has she had gone aground in the early hours awarded the Ministry's shield for the of the 8th of November, 1956. The best rescue service of the year to the Stephens was rolling heavily but contact Collieston (Aberdeen) Coast Life-sav- was made with her by the first rocket ing Company for the rescue by breeches fired. A hawser was manned from the buoy of the crew of ten from the motor top of sand dunes some forty feet high. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 477

Life-boat Christinas Card and Calendar THE Institution will again have a 12s. 6d. for 50 and under 75, 15*. for Christmas card and a pocket calendar. 75 up to 100. The card will be a reproduction in The pocket calendar will have on the colour of the picture below. It is a front a photograph of the Selsey life- photograph of the Hastings life-boat boat being launched. It can be ob- returning from service and is repro- tained in dozens. The price is 2s. for duced by courtesy of the Hastings and the first dozen and Is. 6d. for each St. Leonards Observer. additional dozen.

By courtesy oj] [Hastings and St. Leonards Observer The card will be of four pages, with There will also be a hanging calen- the picture on page one, greetings on dar, with a picture in colour, a repro- page three and the Institution's crest duction of a photograph of the new on page two. Fishguard life-boat Howard Marryat. The price of the card, with the envelope, will be 9d. Name and Because of the high purchase tax address can be printed in, if not fewer which would have to be paid on all than twenty-five are ordered, at an calendars printed if any were sold, added cost of 10*. for 25 and under 50, there will be none for sale.

Award to Master of Steamer THE Minister of Transport and Civil of July, 1956. For the rescue of nine Aviation has awarded a binocular glass other members of the Teeswood, a to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of service which was reported in the Glasgow, master of the coastal tank December, 1956, number of The steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and Life-boat, Coxswain George Tart, of seamanship in rescuing six members of Dungeness, was awarded the Insti- the crew of the motor ship Teeswood, tution's bronze medal for gallan- which sank off Dungeness on the 29th try. 478 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

Search and Rescue Chart Key 1. No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit—two 23. No. 1109 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit- rescue/target towing launches (can be three range safety launches (can be made made available for S. & R.). available for S. & R.). 2. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight 24. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment on duty available for S. & R. duty, from 08.00 from dawn to dusk (Sycamores). hours to sunset. 25. No. 1103 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit de- 3. O.C.U. Shackletons available for long tachment (two rescue/target towing range S. & R. launches) on 24 hour S. & R. duty. R.A.F. mountain rescue team for North- 26. No. 1103 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (one ern Scotland and Island of Skye. rescue/target towing launch) on 24 hour S. 4. No. 1112 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (two & R. duty. range safety launches) on 24 hour S. & R. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment (Whirl- duty. winds) on duty from dawn to dusk. 5. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment (Syca- 27. Two R.N. Dragonflies from station flight mores) on duty from dawn to dusk. available for S. & R. duty from 08.00 R.A.F. mountain rescue team for Central hours to sunset. Scotland. 28. No. 1105 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (three 6. Headquarters No. 18 Group—R.A.F. range safety launches) on 24 hour S. & Northern Rescue Co-ordination Centre. R. duty. 7. 67th Air Rescue Squadron. 29. R.A.F. mountain rescue team for South U.S.A.F. long range S. & R. Skymasters Wales. and Whirlwind helicopters. U.S.A.F. six-man para-medic rescue team. 30. U.S.A.F. Rescue Co-ordination Centre. 8. No. 1108 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (two 31. No. 1103 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit rescue/target towing launches) on 24 detachment (two range safety launches) hour S. & R. duty. on 24 hour S. & R. duty. 9. Coastal Command squadron Shackletons 32. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment (Syca- available for long range S. & R. mores) on duty from dawn to dusk. 10. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight, 33. 66th Air Rescue squadron. available for S. & R. duty from 08.00 U.S.A.F. S. & R. Albatross amphibians hours to sunset. and Whirlwinds. 11. R.N. Dragonfly from station flight avail- 34. R.N. Dragonfly from station flight avail- able for S. & R. duty from 08.00 hours able for S. & R. duty from 08.00 hours to to sunset. sunset. 12. No. 1106 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit, two 35. (S. & R.) Squadron Headquarters (Whirl- range safety launches (can be made winds) on duty from dawn to dusk. available for S. & R.). No. 1107 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit 13. (S. & R.) Squadron Headquarters detachment—one range safety launch (flight of S. & R. Sycamores} on duty (can be made available for S. & R.). from dawn to dusK. 36. No. 1107 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (two 14. Coastal Command squadron Shackletons rescue/target towing launches) on 24 hour available for long range S. & R. S. & R. duty. S. & R. Squadron detatchment (Syca- 37. R. N. Dragonflv from station flight avail- mores) on duty from dawn to dusk. able for S. & R. duty from 08.00 hours 15. No. 1114 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit, two to sunset. range safety launches (can be made 38. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight available for S. & R.). available for S. & R. duty from 08.00 16. R.A.F. mountain rescue team for North- hours to sunset. ern England and Lake District. 39. No. 1111 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit three 17. No. 1104 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (three range safety launches (can be made range safety launches) on 24 hour S. & available for S. & R.). R. duty. 40. Coastal Command squadron Shackletons 18. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment on duty available for long range S. & R. from dawn to dusk (Sycamores). 41. Headquarters No. 19 Group—R.A.F. 19. No. 1110 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (two Southern Rescue Co-ordination Centre. rescue/target towing launches) on 24 42. No. 1101 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit two hour S. & R. duty. rescue/target towing launches (can be 20. No. 1113 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit (two made available for S. & R.). rescue/target towing launches) on 24 43. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment (two hour S. & R. duty. Whirlwinds) on duty from dawn to dusk. 21. (S. & R.) Squadron detachment (Whirl- 44. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight winds) on duty from dawn to dusk. available for S. & R. duty from 08.00 R.A.F. mountain rescue team for North hours to sunset. Wales. 45. No. 1102 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit—six 22. R.A.F. mountain rescue team for Pen- pinnaces (can be made available for S. nines. & R.). SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 479

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MAP SHOWING AIR STATIONS ENGAGED IN SEARCH AND RESCUE WORK This map is reproduced by courtesy of the Air Ministry. 480 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 Sea Rescue Services in Sweden By HANS HANSSON, Director, Svenska Sallskapet for Rdddning of Skeppsbrutne THE first organisation for rescuing sibility for rescue work near the shores, those in danger at sea to come into where the Board helps pilot and light- being in Sweden was established by house stations in service. Rescue work the Swedish Government in 1854, further out at sea has remained the when a life-boat station was set up in primary responsibility of the Svenska the south of Sweden. The service Sallskapet for Raddning of Skepps- was under naval control until 1870, brutne. The Svenska Sallskapet for when it was taken over by the Royal Raddning af Skeppsbrutne continues to Board of Pilotage. be responsible for rescue work where In 1903 a series of disasters occurred there are no stations controlled by the which led to a re-examination of the Board of Shipping; it also undertakes existing arrangements for rescuing the certain duties in the field of ice-breaking shipwrecked. In that year there was and in transporting sick people in the a series of severe storms, many ships archipelagoes. The division of duties were wrecked, and many lives were is not a rigid one, for clearly any boat lost. It became clear that the fifteen belonging to any organisation will go life-boat stations then in existence out to the rescue when its help is needed. were insufficient, and the Swedish Shipping Society made plans for estab- Network of Radio Stations lishing a voluntary organisation com- All along the coast of Sweden there parable with that of the Royal is a network of coastal radio stations National Life-boat Institution. A which receive distress messages from committee was formed to assess public sea, and are in communication by response to this proposal, and it soon telephone overland with the various became clear that contributions would rescue organisations. Although the be forthcoming. The committee began coastal radio stations have no author- the construction of more life-boat ity to order boats or aircraft to go to stations, and on the 1st of June, 1907, the rescue, they are able to ask for the new society formally came into be- help from the life-boat stations, from ing. This was the Svenska Sallskapet the pilot boats of the Royal Board of for Raddning af Skeppsbrutne (Swedish Shipping, from naval vessels, customs Society for Rescuing the Shipwrecked). vessels and aircraft of the Swedish Air Force. The radio stations are Fiftieth Anniversary also in contact with coastal radio This society has just celebrated the stations in other countries, and the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, close and swift co-operation between and an account of the manner in which various rescue organisations of diff- the occasion was celebrated appears on erent countries in the North Sea and page 515. During these fifty years it in the Baltic is a continual source of has established more than thirty new encouragement. The Svenska Sall- life-boat stations. skapet for Raddning af Skeppsbrutne A few years ago a committee was has at present nine 20-metre patrolling appointed in Sweden to consider rescue cruisers and ten 13-metre rescue whether all services to shipping should cruisers which are launched down be put under the general supervision slipways. Smaller boats of the 10- of one board. The same committee metre class are under the control of also had to consider if the sea rescue the Royal Board of Shipping. The service in Sweden was organised in Svenska Sallskapet for Raddning af the best way. As a result a new Skeppsbrutne expects within the next board, known as the Royal Board of few years to have a dozen patrolling Shipping, came into being on the 1st rescue cruisers and a dozen rescue of January, 1956. Among other tasks cruisers of the 13-metre class. this board was given the general respon- The patrolling and rescue cruisers SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 481 are all fitted with radio and most of will be the growth of a helicopter them have radar. They will also be service controlled by the Swedish fitted with homing instruments when Navy. This is expected to co-operate the SARAH system or a system of closely with the other sea rescue ser- a similar kind is more widely adopted vices, but the Svenska Sallskapet for internationally. Raddning af Skeppsbrutne is not con- Another development of the future templating buying its own helicopters.

The Work of a Life-boat Inspector (The following account of the ivork of a life-boat inspector was written by Captain Basil Hall, R.N., on his retirement from the service of the Institution in 1920.) THE perfect Inspector of Life-boats indeed, I have fallen far short of my- should be a man of many parts. First self; but some of all these multifarious and foremost, he must, of course, be duties I have had to perform at a seaman; but he must add some know- various times during my career. ledge of the art of the boatbuilder in The life of an Inspector of Life-boats order adequately to report on the state is in many ways an arduous one. of the boats he inspects, and on any When visiting a station he always necessary repairs to them; of the wheel- launches the life-boat and takes her wright, for he must examine the life- afloat however bad the weather; boat carriages, and be sure of their indeed, the worse the weather the more condition for transporting the boat useful and necessary the exercise; but over rough and uneven ground; of this means that very frequently, the builder, in order to examine and especially in winter, he gets wet to the report on any defect in the life-boat skin, and is unable to change till he houses; of the civil engineer, that he can get back to the place where he is may do the same for the slip-ways; of stopping, which is often not till some the marine engineer, when he is in- hours afterwards, when he has com- specting a steam life-boat; of the pleted his inspection. He has practi- motor mechanic, for motor life-boats; cally no home life; he sees little of his of the accountant, as he has to examine family; he spends his time among the branch accounts, and see that they strangers; he lives in uncomfortable are properly kept; of the orator, for hotels. But there are many compen- he must on occasion speak in public satory advantages. on behalf of the Institution; and lastly, a little of the writer's craft must be thrown on to the heap, if his reports Pick of Picked Body are to be lucid, and clearly understood It is a free, open-air, healthy life; at headquarters. it is full of adventures; it brings him into contact with all sorts and con- Tact and Patience ditions of men. He receives much In addition to such knowledge, he hospitality, and makes many friends, must show tact, and patience in dealing some of whom he keeps for life. Of with all classes of men, from the lord these none stand out more con- of the manor, whom he seeks to inter- spicuously in my memory than the est in the local life-boat, to the fishing- various coxswains of life-boats whom lad whose grievance against the Insti- I have met round the coast. The tution it may be his business to inquire pick of a picked body of men, they into and, if possible, remedy; nor is it combine the simplicity of character of always with men alone that he has to the fisherman with the moral qualities deal, for alas! it is sometimes his pain- which go to make leaders of men. ful duty to call on and condole with Was it not on just such that the great widows whose husbands have been choice fell in Galilee of old ? " Greater lost in the service of the Institution. love hath no man than this, that he I have described an ideal, one which, should lay down his life for a friend." 482 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

Prize-Winning Essay For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Life- boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to boys and girls up to the age of sixteen attending secondary schools in the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic. The subjects chosen for the essay in the past two years were wholly different, on one occasion competitors being asked to write an essay on the general need for a Life-boat Service and on the other to describe an imaginary rescue. Two years ago David Glyn Jones won the prize for the best essay submitted from Wales. His description of an imaginary rescue is reproduced below: WE were a couple of fine sailormen, Nelson "Now we've torn it!" said the cloudy figure Jones and I—damp, cold and miserable in an near me. open boat somewhere between our own coast "Perhaps it will clear," I answered with and the great unknown. We had hired the my voice full of artificial hope. boat at the resort where we stayed and set out, ""Of course it will clear, silly!" he rapped, two gallant and dauntless explorers, in search "but when?" of adventure and discovery. The first dis- Nelson pulled suddenly and the boat covery we made was that we were in trouble, lurched forward, throwing me off balance. I if not in danger; adventure, very real and grabbed hold of the tiller as quickly as I frightening soon followed. could and we were off again. Nelson, in spite of his seaman's name could We found no difficulty in travelling. The only row: he did that quite well. I, on the sea was calm and clear of rocks, and Nelson other hand, when holding the oars, could not rowed with doubled energy and determina- make the boat budge an inch, but I could tion. I knew that he was afraid. I was steer, although with little skill. However, afraid myself—a little. There was fog—fog we managed to travel a good distance up the everywhere. It encased us like a nutshell, I coast; how much, exactly, we still do not could almost feel it between my shirt and my know. The coast on our right was lonely, back. It moved past in ceaseless wisps, dull and uninviting and seemed to offer no stroking our faces mockingly. There was adventure, so we turned out to sea and moved something phantom about it all—so quiet and forward and forward. We were in the fog lonely. I began to miss the company of the almost before we had noticed it. sea birds. Only me, and Nelson there before We were not frightened at first; this was a me like a ghost. change from the monotonous sea and sky and I thought of my home, my relations, my birds. We could neither see nor hear the friends, my possessions. Then my thoughts birds now; it was very quiet. Nelson stopped became very muddled. Then I thought of rowing for a moment and the boat rocked to a nothing but the fog. The fog—the word gentle halt. He looked at me. gave me a choking feeling. It seemed like it "This is something new," I said. would never end. Fog . . . never end . . . fog 'Yes," he answered. . . . never end. I felt sick and I probably 'Doesn't look very exciting though." passed completely out for a moment or so; 'No." everything went blank. However it was not 'What shall we do?" I asked, sensing that for long, I felt the fog again, and saw the fog, Nelson did not feel very happy. and Nelson swaying steadily before my eyes, 'What d'you mean—'What shall we do?'" while the boat went on and on. 'Well, stay here or move away?" "What's the time?" the words came upon 'Get out. I don't like it. I've always my ears unexpectedly from the fog. They been told to keep clear of fog. Anyway, it's rather startled me, and I did not answer. starting to get wet and cold." "What's the time?" It was. I felt it now, and I did not like it "Eh?" very much either. "What is the time?" "Let's go then," I said. 'Er . . . my watch has stopped." " Yes, try to get out as quickly as you came ' When?" in," Nelson answered, a bit peevishly. 'When what?" "I couldn't help it. It came sudden like. 'When did it stop?" You should have stopped rowing if . . ." 'Er . . . twenty past." "All right. Come on," he said sharply. 'Past what?" He pulled at the oars and I turned the tiller. 'Four." The boat swung round and proceeded in an The damp silence came down again, and I unknown direction. He rowed steadily and was left with my miserable thoughts. It was I kept a straight course, hoping to emerge twenty past four. We had been sailing— from the bank soon. But to our dismay, the rowing rather—for two—three—five hours fog grew thicker with every pull of the oars, and . . . about forty-five minutes. How and we could scarcely see each other. How- much longer? ever, we kept straight on for five to ten Then came the sweet shock. We were near minutes, plunging deeper and deeper into the something—this something was neither living fog. Things were now beginning to be serious nor very suggestive of life, but it told us that and we decided to stop again. •we were not very far from people and things. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 483 "Hello!" Nelson exclaimed. was to get out. Quite easily done, we thought "A rock!" I added. —just keep our heads down; the water was "A cliff," he corrected. Then, to make rising quickly. Nelson clutched the oars and sure, he took an oar from the rowlock and gave another of his strong, sudden pulls. reached out to hit the great wall. We were Alas, it was too strong and sudden. The end right by it. Wood chocked against stone. of one of the oars hit something hard, prob- It was real, and I was glad. It seemed that ably a rock, under the water. I could just our troubles were pretty well over; we could see it bending like a bow. I was afraid that follow this coast, for that it probably was, and it would break. arrive somewhere. We were too glad to "Stop pulling so hard!" I exclaimed. speak much, and we automatically turned This was a mistake, a very grave mistake. and followed the wall. The fog was still with Nelson, startled by the impact and my us, but not everywhere; the cliff was one side. sudden cry, let go of the bent oar. It sprung Follow the cliff we did, and we got along back, kicked itself out of the rowlock, and quite well. We must have travelled about plunged into the water. A moment later, it two knots before we made our second dis- reappeared, but we were too stunned to lean covery of the day. This was far more inter- over and catch hold of it immediately. It esting than the first, and it cheered us up a drifted with the water to the dark interior of good deal. We had come across a large cave the cave. in the cliffside. Now we were in the soup—well and truly, The entrance was clear, and with no con- and I had no idea how to get out of it. sultation or discussion, we turned in. We Nelson, fair play to him, acted quickly—or were six or seven yards from the opening tried to act. He made a fair effort to scull the when Nelson first spoke. boat out with one oar, but the oar was too "What are we going to do here?" he asked. short. The boat swung round in the same I really did not know, but I had to think of place, and rocked from side to side. We an answer quickly. Nelson expected an were now bent almost double. answer to every question he asked. We just managed to make one other effort. "We'll explore." We took the other oar out of the lock and "We can't. It's dark; we've no light rammed it against the wall, holding it tightly. either." Thus we hoped to drive the boat backwards, "No. Hard luck. We'll stay in here but the wash of the sea coming in against us anyway; we can shelter from the fog." was too strong. We lurched back again, "Don't be silly. There's as much fog in sickeningly. here as there is outside." No, there was no hope of escape. We "Oh, yes, I suppose," I had to admit. could only lie flat in the boat and hope that the "But we'll stay in. It'll be a change, and tide would not reach the danger level. That a rest." we did, and in about five minutes' time, we The awful silence came down again. Be- could only just see the dull sky between the fore long, I felt that I should prefer to go out roof of the cave and the side of the boat. again; there was something about the cave One last bid. which made me uncomfortable—not afraid— "Let's shout," I said. just uncomfortable. But I did not say any- "They won't hear us. Fog deadens thing, and the first thing to break the silence sound." was a foghorn, mournfully delivering its "We heard the foghorn. Why can't the message to the lonely sea. foghorn hear us ? " I became more and more depressed—and "Don't be silly." oppressed—by what I did not know, but I However, we did shout, but there was little was sure that something—something unde- hope that anyone would hear us. Our voices sirable—was going to happen. would be muffled by both the fog and the Had I but known it, it was already happen- sides of the boat. ing. We were not aware of the peril we were "Help!" was the only word we heard for in until—well, until I hit my head against the around ten minutes, and we were scarcely roof of the cave. I cried out in surprise and aware of the fact that it was we ourselves some pain. who uttered it so steadily and despairingly. "What's the matter?" asked Nelson, I often wonder how we kept it up, but we did. startled. We still shouted even after we had heard the "Hit my head!" low whine that could have been nothing but a " Hit your head ? Where ? " motor-boat, outside. To the accompaniment Then he did the same thing. of our own cries, we heard it purring around, We realized the terrible truth at one. The searching, like a bee in September. The tide was coming in. It was filling the cave. volume of the whine increased . . . decreased Our boat was being lifted by the water, nearer . . . increased again. It came, went, came, and nearer to the roof. We would be crushed went; then we suddenly heard it very close, between the rock and the boat if we did not and coming closer. Then it stopped. But lie flat on the bottom. But then, if we lay we still shouted, until we heard—to our sur- down flat in the boat, we would suffocate if it prise, relief and joy—another live, human remained close to the roof for long. Or else, "voice. the water might enter the boat, sink it, and "Hey, Coxswain!" drown us. Nelson could swim, but not I. A chorus of men's voices soon joined in. Very serious, if we could not get out of the We were now very weak, and the water was cave in time. trickling into the boat; I felt it cold upon my So the obvious—and the only—thing to do face. There was a thud on the wood near 484 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 my head. The boat rocked and I caught a from where we could see across the bay the glimpse of the sky. Not quite knowing cliff which we followed. We did see it—a what I was doing, I clutched at that bit of massive, solid rock wall—with not a trace of a sky. In so doing, my hand came to rest on cave. The coxswain told us to wait a while; the edge of the boat and I felt an iron hook. the tide was ebbing. We waited, until we Nelson suddenly spoke: saw the top of the opening just appearing "We're moving." above the surface of the receding water. The We were. Then—oblivion. only thing we could do was to stare. We stared; and caught sight of something floating out of the cave. It was not big, it was quickly We came round with the smell of oil and borne out to sea and out of sight. We could seaweed in our nostrils. We looked around, have sworn it was an oar. and the first thing we noticed—we could not Then we turned back to the car, went in, have missed it—was a modern and gleaming and drove away. There was a white fog motor-boat, of some size, mounted on blocks. creeping in from the sea. As soon as the There were six or seven rough men in jerseys parting greetings of the villagers had died or oilskins standing around. One of them away, we heard a sad hoot from the direction turned a couple of big eyes upon us and said. of the sea—the farewell of the foghorn. The "Cox'n, they've come to." old horn was only doing its duty; there are The men stirred, and one of them, brawny always clots like us who insist on getting into and bearded, came towards us. I caught few trouble, trouble we could not get out of but of his words, for my head was in a spin. for the life-boat. "Stay 'ere for now . . . We'll see . . . can take you 'till. . . Have to get a doctor . . . I next found myself alone in a warm bed, OTHER PRIZES in a strange room—in the house, as I later understood, of one of the life-boat crew. I Prizes for the best essays in Scotland, also learnt that Nelson had been accommo- Ireland, Wales and six districts of England dated in the same way by another member. I have been awarded to the foil owing: saw two important people that day. One Scotland: ALAN F. MACKINTOSH, Sir E, was a doctor, probably the local practitioner, Scott Junior Secondary School, Tarbert. who informed me that I was to be confined Isle of Harris. to bed for two or three days, to keep my chill company. The other was a newspaper re- Ireland: ADRIENNE LISTER, Alexandra Col- porter with a huge camera and miles of note- lege, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. paper. I let him photograph me, but I could tell him very little about our rescue. I learnt Wales: DAVID GLYN JONES, Ysgol Dyffryn the details when I began to get out and about, Nantlle School, Penygroes. and no sooner. Having completed our term in bed, we England— visited all the interesting places of the district, South-East: M. HADFIELD, The King's with one or more of the life-boatmen as our School, Canterbury. guides. We had an opportunity to examine North-East: JEAN KIRKPATRICK, Falsgrave the boat all over. I can only say that it was County Modern School, Scarborough. a magnificent craft; I cannot go into the details of its construction, for my knowledge Midlands: PATRICIA ANN BUSK, The of such a subject is confined to that of a County High School, Stourbridge Road, rowing boat with room for two. That gallant Bromsgrove. galleon of ours, by the way, was stowed South-West: LINDA CORHIE, Summerleaze away, upside down, in a corner of the life-boat Park Secondary Modern School, Yeovil. hut. There was one oar by its side. While we were seeing things in this way, North-West: JEFFREY SALLISS, Greaves efforts were being made to contact our parents County Secondary School, Lancaster. and the owner of the boat. The car came to London Area: JANET DEAN, Greenway fetch us on the fifth day after the adventure. County School, Uxbridge. We were ready to depart when the cox- swain suggested that, before we left, we should see the cave—our cave—at high tide. He The school which submits the best essay added that the tide was actually higher on in each district holds a shield for the next the night when we were there, but we could year. The Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle school, by have some idea of what could have been our submitting the best essay from Wales for lot. We walked down, with our parents, the three years in succession, has now won its crew and half the village, to a spot by the sea shield outright.

Portrait on the Cover THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- times and have rescued 22 lives. swain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness. From 1934 to 1947 he was second He was appointed coxswain in October coxswain. The photograph is repro- 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats duced by courtesy of Mr. George have been launched on service 47 Greaves. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 485

Services of the Life-boats in April, May and June, 1957 113 Lives Rescued

APRIL boat arrived at Colonsay one hour and DURING April life-boats were launched a half later, and the young woman and on service 46 times and rescued 43 her mother were taken on board. lives. The life-boat then made for Port Askaig, which she reached at three FISHING VESSEL AGROUND ON o'clock. An ambulance was waiting to take the young woman to a local SHOAL airport and thence by air to the Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the hospital. The life-boat arrived back evening of the 2nd of April, 1957, the at her moorings at 5.45.—Rewards to Kilchoman coastguard passed on by the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on telephone a message that the motor shore, £1 4s. Refunded to the Insti- fishing vessel Pride of Erin, of Belfast, tution by the St. Andrew's and Red was ashore in West Loch Tarbert. Cross Scottish Ambulance Service. She was high and dry and appeared to be in no immediate danger. The SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS IN FOG honorary secretary asked to be kept informed of any change in the position. Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- At 8.55 the Southend coastguard re- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- ported that the fishing vessel had guard telephoned that two vessels had begun to list, and at 9.25 the life-boat been in collision one mile north-east of Charlotte Elizabeth put out. There Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, was a smooth sea, with a fresh south- on temporary duty at the station, was easterly breeze blowing, and the tide launched at 7.12 in a smooth sea. was ebbing. The life-boat made for There was a light, variable breeze the position, and with help from the blowing, and the tide was ebbing. General Post Office cable ship Iris, Fog had reduced visibility to fifty which gave the coxswain radar bear- yards. The life-boat found one of the ings, found the Pride of Erin stranded motor vessels, the 3,000-ton Sir John on a shoal some three cables north of Snell. She had a crew of twenty-two, Corran Point. At her master's re- and her master informed the life-boat quest the life-boat ran out an anchor, coxswain that his vessel was only and as no further help was needed slightly damaged, but that the other returned to her station, arriving at vessel, the 900-ton Lizbeth M, had 5.25 the next morning.—Rewards to apparently sunk. He had been calling the crew, £12 7*.; rewards to the her on his radio-telephone but had helpers on shore, £l 4s. received no reply. Shouts had been heard and a boat had been lowered from the Sir John Snell, with seven SICK WOMAN BROUGHT TO men on board, to look for survivors. AIR AMBULANCE The life-boat searched the area and Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the found an oil patch where it was pre- afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the sumed the Lizbeth M had sunk, but no Resident Medical Officer of the Island survivors could be found. The posi- of Colonsay asked if the life-boat tion, approximately one mile north- would convey a young woman suffering west of the north-east Spit buoy, was from appendicitis to Port Askaig in marked by a buoy. The master of the order that she could be taken to a Sir John Snell was by this time becom- Glasgow hospital. At 12.40 the life- ing anxious for his seven men in the boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a ship's boat, which had been away for smooth sea. There was a gentle two and a half hours. A little later south-south-easterly breeze blowing, the Deal coastguard wirelessed that and the tide was flooding. The life- the boat had landed at Kingsgate with 486 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1967 twelve survivors and the bodies of Tay Bridge and towed her to Dundee three men from the Lizbeth M. The harbour. The life-boat then returned life-boat went to Kingsgate, towed the to her station, arriving at 9.40. The boat back to the Sir John Snell, and owner made a gift to the crew. —Re - put her crew of seven back on board wards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to their vessel. She then searched again the helpers on shore, £2 10s. in the fog for two men who were still missing, but found nothing and re- turned to her station, arriving at YACHT TOWED TO ISLE OF MAN 3.20.—Rewards to the crew, £17 9*.; Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — About rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s. eight o'clock on the evening of the 13th of April, 1957, the coxswain told WOMAN INJURED BY COW TAKEN the honorary secretary that the auxili- TO MAINLAND ary yacht Swee, of Port St. Mary, was trying to attract the attention of the Galway Bay, County Galway.—At two Langness lighthouse-keeper, as her o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of crew appeared to be in difficulties. April, 1957, the local doctor reported The life- boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2 that a woman had been attacked by a put out at 8.20 in calm weather. The cow and had been seriously injured. tide was flooding. The life-boat He asked if the life-boat would bring reached the yacht three miles east of her to the mainland. At 2.15 the Langness lighthouse and towed her life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to Port St. Mary, arriving there at out in a choppy sea with a moderate 10.30. The yacht had ran short of easterly breeze blowing. The tide was fuel and was becalmed. The owner ebbing. The woman was taken to the made a donation to the funds of the mainland and then to hospital, and the Institution. — Rewards to the crew, life-boat returned to her station, £8 8*. arriving at 6.45.—Rewards to the crew, £11 4*'.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. Refunded to the Institu- SICK WOMAN TAKEN FROM tion by the Galway County Council. SHETLAND ISLE , Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- MOTOR VESSEL TOWED OFF noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a SANDBANK doctor, after consulting with the Medi- Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.10 on cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- the evening of the 8th of April, 1957, boat would take him to Foula to visit the honorary secretary received a a very sick woman who, he suspected, telephone message from the Air Sea might have to be brought back to the Rescue Unit at Tayport saying the mainland for hospital treatment. No poliee had asked the unit to send a other boat could make the crossing, as motor launch to a position above the there was a strong south-westerly Tay Bridge to help a motor boat wind blowing with heavy seas. At •which had "broken down. The Royal 2.85 the c-boat The Rankin put out. Air Force officer felt that this was a The tide \ as ebbing. . With the doctor matter for the life-boat station, and on board the life-boat reached Foula a"ft"er making enquiries, the honorary at 6.13 after' a very rough crossing. secretary Jearnt'that the engine of the The doctor Was taken ashore, and after- motor Vessel Atlantis had failed and visiting his patient he "returned with she was in1 a dangerous position on a her ''to the lifeboat, \vmeh then brought sandbank.1 ;Her owner had 'come a- them to the mainland, arriving' at shore in a'pram dinghy, but there were Aith at 11.25 at night. An ambulance' seven other people on board the Atlan- was waiting to take the woman to' tis who were unable to come ashore. hospital at Lerwick.— Rewards to the At. 7.30 the life-boat Mono 'wak crew, £19 1*.; rewards to the helper on: launched in' calm weather. The>tide' shore, 12s. Refunded to the Institu- •was flooding. The life-boat came up tidn by' the Stj Andrew's and w-ftri the -Atl'antis two miles above the Cross Scottish A-mbufarree'Serviee. SEFTEMBEH, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 487 ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION GIVEN by radio-telephone and reported TO CANOEIST that owing to engine trouble she had Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on been compelled to reduce speed and the afternoon of the 15th of April, would not be off the Tyne until about 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard 6.30. The life-boat returned to her telephoned a report that a canoe had station and at 5.30 put to sea again. capsized about four hundred yards She met the trawler some four and a from the beach just north of Cock- half miles north-north-east of the Tyne, burnspath. At 2.40 the life-boat went alongside and took the injured George and Sarah Strachan put out. man off. She then returned to the There was a choppy sea, a gentle North Shields Ferry Landing, arriving south-westerly breeze was blowing, at seven o'clock. The injured man and it was nearly high water. The was transferred to a waiting ambu- life-boat reached the position and lance, and the life-boat returned to her found that the occupants of the canoe station, arriving at 7.16.—Rewards had managed to come ashore. One of to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the the men was in a very bad state, and helpers on shore, £4 16s. as the life-boat could not come close enough inshore to land, two of the YACHT AND FISHING VESSEL life-boat's crew were taken ashore by TOWED IN a small fishing boat to try to help him. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At The man was given artificial respira- nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th tion by a doctor and a nurse who had of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- arrived on the scene, and help was also phoned that a motor vessel, which was. given by the coastguard and the two towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought members of the life-boat's crew. They to have ropes entangled in her propellers worked for nearly five hours without and needed help twenty miles west-by- success, and the man died. The two south of Porthdinllaen. The life-boat members of the life-boat's crew went Charles Henry Ashley was launched back to the life-boat, which they re- at 9.25 in a rough sea. There was a turned to her moorings with the canoe strong west-by-southerly breeze blow- on board, arriving at six o'clock.— ing, and the tide was flooding. Visi- Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; reward bility was down two to three miles to the helper on shore, 12s. because of mist and rain. After two and a half hours the coxswain sighted INJURED MAN TAKEN FROM the two boats on his starboard bow. TRAWLER The life-boat came up with the motor Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At fishing vessel 1122, with a crew of 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, three, and a yacht. They were both 1957, the coastguard telephoned to at anchor, as the fishing vessel's say a trawler had reported that one of engines had broken down. A towing her crew had injured his hand badly line was made fast, but it broke seven and urgently needed hospital treat- times before both boats were brought ment. The trawler's position was to Porthdinllaen, which was reached at fifty miles north-north-east of the 8.35.—Property Salvage Case. Tyne, and she was on passage to Hull. She was expected off the Tyne at ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT approximately 4.30 and asked if the Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- life-boat would land the injured man. shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the At 3.4 on the morning of the 17th the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward life-boat Tynesider was launched in a Bound Sea School's ketch Golden slight swell. There was a moderate Valley left Aberystwyth for New south-westerly breeze blowing, and it Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat was low water. While the life-boat Cornelia, of New Quay. At 10.30 the was on her way the trawler, which was New Quay coastguard telephoned the' the Ross Lion, of Hull, with a orew Aberystwyth coastguard' asking for of fourteen, contacted the coxswain information, as neither vessel could be 488 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 seen approaching New Quay. The the life-boat towed both vessels into New Quay coastguard learnt that the Wick harbour, arriving at 6.10.—Re- vessels were close under the land be- wards to the crew, £10 3*.; rewards to tween Llanon and Aberayron. At the helpers on shore, £1 14*. 11.45 the Golden Valley returned to Aberystwyth harbour. She had cast TWO RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED off the Cornelia at her master's request, DINGHY as he intended to continue under sail, Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.8 on the but by 12.30 the Camelia had not come afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, a into sight of the New Quay coastguard. resident of Saundersfoot reported that Visibility was bad and she had last a dinghy had capsized on the east side been seen six miles north-east of New of Monkstone Point. At 5.20 the Quay Head. It was decided to wait life-boat Henry Comber Brown was for half an hour before taking further launched in a moderate sea. There action, and at one o'clock, by which was a moderate south-westerly breeze time the Camelia was still out of sight, blowing, and the tide was flooding. the New Quay life-boat St. Albans When the life-boat reached the posi- was launched. Ten minutes later the tion the sailing dinghy's crew of two life-boat Helen Sutton, on temporary were seen to be in the water. The duty at Aberystwyth, also launched. life-boat rescued them and towed the There was a rough sea, a strong south- dinghy to Tenby harbour, arriving at westerly breeze was blowing, and the 6.30.—Rewards to the crew, £9; re- tide was ebbing. The New Quay wards to the helpers on shore, £5 9s. life-boat found the Camelia, with a crew of two, two miles west of Pen- SICK MAN BROUGHT FROM rhiw, Aberath, and escorted her safely TANKER to New Quay, arriving at 3.55. The Aberystwyth life-boat was recalled and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lanes.—At 7.10 reached her station again at 3.30.— on the evening of the 18th of April, New Quay: rewards to the crew, £7 4*. ; 1957, a Preston firm of shipping agents rewards to the helpers on shore, £8. telephoned to say they had received Aberystwyth: rewards to the crew, a call from the master of the tanker £7 4*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, B.P. Marketer, of London, reporting £8 3s. that a member of the crew had had a stroke and was seriously ill. The master had asked for a doctor to be MOTOR BOAT AND FISHING VESSEL sent as soon as possible. At 7.36 the TOWED TO HARBOUR life-boat Sarah Tovcnsend Porritt was Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the launched in a moderate swell with a afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, doctor on board. There was a light the coastguard reported that a small north-westerly breeze blowing, and it motor boat which had engine trouble was low water. The life-boat came up was sheltering near Reiss Sands and with the tanker off Nelson buoy in the that a motor fishing vessel was stand- Ribble estuary. The sick man was ing by. At 3.8 Wick radio reported transferred to the life-boat, which that the fishing vessel had taken the landed him at eleven o'clock. He was motor boat in tow but was herself in taken to a hospital in Blackpool, difficulties with a broken rudder in where he died the next evening. The Reiss Bay and needed help. At 3.35 owners of the tanker made a donation the life-boat City of Edinburgh was to the funds of the Institution.— launched. There was a rough sea, a Rewards to the crew, £8 8*.; rewards strong north-westerly gale was blow- to the helpers on shore, £3 15*. ing, and the tide was ebbing. The life- boat came up with the motor fishing TWO RESCUED FROM YACHT vessel Economy, with a crew of four, AGROUND and the motor boat Willing Boys, with Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott a crew of three. At the first attempt the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ a line was got aboard the Economy, and the coastguard telephoned to say ft SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 489 German tanker had reported a small life-boat Oldham IF was towed by the vessel drifting near the East Shoebury tractor across East Hoyle Bank and buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater was launched in Hilbre Swash at London II (Civil Service No. 30) was nine o'clock. She reached the fishing launched. There was a moderate sea, vessel Jenny, of Chester, which had a a moderate south-easterly breeze was crew of four. The Jenny's owner told blowing, and the tide was ebbing. the coxswain that the vessel's gear box The life-boat found the yacht Ava, of had broken and asked for a tow to the London, aground inside the East River Mersey. The life-boat took the Shoebury buoy. The life-boat was not Jenny in tow and made for New able to come near enough to rescue the Brighton, where the coxswain had yacht's crew of two, and she returned intended to leave her at anchor. On to Southend to collect a small boat. arrival there the owner asked if the She reached the position again, and Jenny could be taken into Brunswick the small boat took off the two people dock. The life-boat reached the dock and transferred them to the life-boat. at 4.30 and then returned to her When the tide had begun to flow the station and was rehoused at seven life-boat went alongside the yacht and o'clock. The Jenny's owner sent a put a tow rope aboard. She then letter of thanks and made a donation returned to her station, arriving at to the funds of the Institution.—Re- 2.20 the next morning.—Property wards to the crew, £13 17*.; rewards Salvage Case. to the helpers on shore, £12 8s.

YACHT ESCORTED TO NEW TOW FOR YACHT AND MOTOR BOAT BRIGHTON Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.57 on the New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on evening of the 24th of April, 1957, the the morning of the 21st of April, 1957, watchman on the east pier reported the Wallasey police reported that a that the motor boat Champion, with rubber dinghy was being swept out to a crew of two, which had gone out to sea one mile off Harrison Drive. The help the yacht Dawn, needed help as life-boat coxswain and motor mechanic the key on her propeller shaft had went to the drive by car and saw that sheared. The life-boat Michael and the craft sighted was in a dangerous Lily Davis put out at 8.4 in a rough position because of the south-westerly sea. There was a strong north east- wind. The life-boat Norman B. Cor- erly breeze blowing, and it was high lett left her moorings at 11.30 in a water. The life-boat came up with moderate sea. It was then low water. the Dawn, which had a crew of four, She proceeded down Rock Channel and the Champion near the Fairway with her boarding boat in tow and buoy. She took both vessels in tow came up with a yacht. It was this and arrived back at Ramsgate at yacht which, when sighted from the 8.45. The underwriters made a gift shore, had been reported to be a to the crew.—Rewards to the crew, rubber dinghy. The life-boat escorted etc., £6 10s. the yacht to New Brighton and then returned to her moorings, arriving at YACHT TOWED TO POOLE HARBOUR 12.30.—Rewards to the crew, £6; Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4*. afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- FISHING BOAT TOWED TO MERSEY phoned that a yacht with her sails Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the blown away was drifting six and a half evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the miles south-by-east of Durlston Head. life-boat coxswain was told that a The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- 1.5 in a rough sea. There was a fresh culties three miles north-west of Hilbre north-easterly breeze blowing, and the Island. He went to the boathouse tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached and through a telescope saw signals the position and came up with the being sent by the fishing boat. The yacht Janice, of Bosham. She had a 490 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 crew of three and her engines had tions, and the life-boat Euphrosyne broken down. The life-boat towed her Kendal put out at 9.47. There were into Poole harbour, and after she was very heavy rain squalls and it was low safely berthed returned to her station, water. The life-boat made for Herm arriving at 7.15.—Rewards to the Island with a doctor on board, and crew, £14 5s.; rewards to the helpers after examining the patient the doctor on shore, £2 8s. returned to St. Peter Port in the life- boat for additional medical advice and extra equipment. The life-boat reach- EXHAUSTED MAN FOUND IN ed St. Peter Port at 11.7 and left again ROWING BOAT four minutes later with a different doctor on board. She returned to the Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the island and further treatment was given morning of the 26th of April, 1957, the to the sick woman. The second life-boat coxswain was told that a small doctor decided that the patient should boat was missing from the harbour. be brought back to St. Peter Port, but There were marks in the sand indicat- it was clear that there would have to ing that she had been dragged down be some delay, for the life-boat would the beach during the night. At 7.25 not be able to come alongside to take the life-boat Matthew Simpson was the woman off until high water. launched in a moderate sea. There was a fresh north-easterly breeze Meanwhile, therefore, the life-boat blowing and the tide was flooding. once again returned to her station, The life-boat searched towards the which she reached at 12.50. There Calf Sound while the man who had she embarked members of the St. given the alarm made a search north- John Ambulance Brigade, who took wards in his own motor vessel. The aboard oxygen and other equipment. missing boat was found after twenty The life-boat left again at 2.45, em- minutes by the life-boat two miles west barked the patient at Herm harbour of Port Erin. The man on board was and landed her in Guernsey at 4.35. rowing her stern first and was in an The life-boat eventually reached her exhausted condition. He had lost one moorings again at 5.35. After one pair of oars and was in danger of being week's treatment in hospital the sick carried into the sound, where the boat woman returned home.—Rewards to would almost certainly have capsized the crew, £14 5s.; reward to the in the freshening wind. He was taken helper on shore, 18s. on board the life-boat, which took the rowing boat in tow. A message was FISHING BOAT TOWED TO sent by radio-telephone asking for a FLEETWOOD doctor to come to the pier. After landing the man at the pier the life- Fleetwood, Lanes.—About 8.10 on boat reached her station again at 8.5.— the evening of the 28th of April, 1957, Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the life-boat coxswain was told by the the helpers on shore, £4 4s. Formby coastguard that a small fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble and was in a dangerous posi- DOCTORS TAKEN TO SICK WOMAN tion off Rossall Point. At 8.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was IN GALE launched. There was a slight sea, a St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on fresh north-westerly breeze was blow- the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, ing, and the tide was flooding. The a telephone message was received from life-boat came up with the fishing boat a man who lives on Herm Island asking Roma, of Fleetwood, with a crew of if a doctor could be sent to the island as four, and took her in tow, arriving his wife was seriously ill. There was back at her station at ten o'clock. a fresh "easterly gale blowing and the One of the Roma's crew had managed sea was very rough. No other boat to reach shore before the life-boat which was available could have made arrived.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8*.; the passage in the prevailing condi- rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16*. SF.PTKMBF.H, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 491

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SKEGNESS LIFE-BOAT PUTS OUT TO SEARCH FOR AIRMAN

YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, LIFE-BOAT TOWS IN A YACHT

This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles

(see page 499) 492 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

By courtesy of] [K. Scott, Leicester WHITBY LIFE-BOAT STATION

By courtesy of] [K. Scott, Leicester CLOVELLY LIFE-BOAT STATION SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 493

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SURVIVORS LANDED FROM NEW BRIGHTON LIFE-BOAT

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[Newcastle Chronicle and Journal

BLESSING THE CULLERCOATS LIFE-BOAT

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ROGATION SERVICE AT HASTINGS 496 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

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HARTLEPOOL CREW FIRE LINE-THROWING PISTOL

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BRIDLINGTON LIFE-BOAT RETURNS FROM SERVICE SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 497

By courtesy of] [Scarborough and District Newspapers FILEY LIFE-BOAT BRINGS BACK A SURVIVOR (see page 509)

By courtesy of} [P. A. Renter AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FEAT OF NAVAL AVIATION Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N. presents the Boyd Trophy to Lieut. R. H. W/.-ll: D M („, tk. ,„„,.„„ k,, U.l;,.™^ of tk. ^,o,., r,f tU Mor^.o^n fr.I^t.r r>n,,rf(;fll 498 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

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ST. PETER PORT LIFE-BOAT LANDS A SICK WOMAN (see page 490)

By courtesy of] [Scottish Daily Record ISLAY LIFE-BOAT AND YACHT SILVER STRAND SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 499 GERMAN SEAMEN TAKEN TO as it appeared that she would not clear HOSPITAL the Sillick Baas near the Ness of Sound the life-boat Lady Jane and Workington, Cumberland.—On the Martha Ryland put out at 1.42. 29th of April, 1957, the master of the There was a moderate sea, a strong motor vessel Tarbek, of Hamburg, northerly breeze was blowing, and the anchored off the entrance to Working- tide was ebbing-. There were showers ton harbour, asked if a doctor could of sleet and snow. The life-boat came be sent to his vessel to attend six up with the Danish fishing vessel Ove, members of his crew. The vessel was with a crew of two. The coxswain carrying a cargo of pitch, and some of placed a member of his crew on board the pitch had entered the men's eyes. the fishing vessel and told him to The life-boat Civil Service No. 5, on follow the life-boat into the harbour, temporary duty at the station, put which was reached at 2.30. The Ove out at 10.30 at night with a doctor on was moored at Victoria pier.—Rewards board. There was a smooth sea, the to the crew, £6. tide was flooding-, and the weather was fine. After the doctor had ex- amined the men, he decided they YACHT TOWED TO ISLE OF WIGHT needed treatment in hospital. The Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.35 on men embarked in the life-boat and the morning of the 30th of April, 1957, were taken ashore. After being- trea- the Needles coastguard reported that ted they were returned to their vessel, the yacht Solent Sedge was ashore on and the life-boat reached her moorings the Shingles with a rope entangled in at 1.30. At nine o'clock in the her propeller. The life-boat S.G.E. morning the life-boat again put out to put out at 6.55. There was a moderate land the men for further treatment sea, a moderate north-easterly breeze and returned to her moorings at 10.30. was blowing, and the tide was just Two and a half hours later she put to beginning to flood. The life-boat sea once more to return the six mem- found the yacht with three people on bers of the Tarbek''s crew to their board near the north-east Shingle vessel. She finally reached her moor- buoy. A rope was connected, and the ings at 2.30.—Rewards to the crew: life-boat towed the yacht to Yarmouth 1st service, £8 8*.; 2nd service, £14. harbour, arriving there at 8.40.— Property Salvage Case.

MAN PUT ABOARD DRIFTING The following life-boats went out DANISH BOAT on service, but could find no ships in Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.25 on the distress, were not needed or could do night of the 29th of April, 1957, the nothing: honorary secretary was visiting the Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—April 3rdi life-boat station when he saw a small —Rewards, £13 Is. craft drifting broadside in the middle of Weymouth, Dorset.—April 6th.—Re- the harbour. An attempt was made wards, £8 8s. to communicate by morse lamp with Douglas, Isle of Man.—April 12th.— the crew, but no reply was received. Rewards, £11 18s. The honorary secretary asked the Dunbar, East Lothian.—April 13th.— coastguard to watch the vessel when Rewards, £15 17s. she came into view and then went to Anstruther, Fifeshire.—April 13th.— the south harbour entrance, for the Rewards, £20 18s. vessel was drifting out of the harbour Stornoway, Hebrides.—April 18th.—- and towards the coastguard station. Rewards, £7. At one o'clock the coastguard reported Margate, Kent. — April 19th. — Re- that the vessel was now in Braewick wards, £13 16s. Bay but was paying no attention to New Brighton, Cheshire.—April 20th. sound or morse signals. Twenty —Rewards, £7 4s. minutes later the vessel had drifted New Brighton, Cheshire.—April 20th. to the far side of Braewick Bay, and -—Rewards, £7 4s. 500 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 Dunbar, East Lothian.—April 24th. the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned —Rewards, £7 12s. to say a message had been received Barrow, Lancashire.—April 25th.—• that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound. Rewards, £8 9s. The life-boat Archibald & Alexander Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—April 25th.— M. Paterson put out at 1.20 in a smooth Rewards, £35 13s. sea. There was a strong northerly Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—April 26th. wind blowing and it was high water. —Rewards, £25 15s. The life-boat found the fishing vessel Selsey, Sussex. — April 26th. — Re- Snurp VII, of Bergen, with a crew of wards, £29 14s. nine at the Point of Ness. A rope Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — was made fast, but before the fishing —April 28th.—Rewards, £15 Is. vessel had begun to be pulled off the Torbay, Devon. — April 28th. — Re- rope parted. The life-boat stood by wards, £12 8s. until the Snurp VII had settled down St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—April 29th. on the ebb tide, and as the vessel was —Rewards, £10 6s. in no immediate danger the life-boat Selsey, Sussex. — April 29th. — Re- returned to her station, arriving at wards, £14 15s. 5.45. She put out again at 9.30 and Bridlington, Yorkshire.—April 30th. returned to the fishing vessel. A tow —Rewards, £21 15s. rope was put aboard and with the help of the fishing boat Fame, which MAY had also come to help, towing opera- DURING May life-boats were launched tions started at 12.15. Shortly after- on service 44 times and rescued 31 wards the fishing boat Diligent also arrived and helped with the tow. The lives. Snurp VII refloated on the flooding tide at 12.34, and all four boats made SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DUTCH for Stromness harbour, the life-boat VESSEL arriving at 12.55.—Rewards to the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, crew, £22 5s.; rewards to the helpers on Norfolk.—On the 30th of April, 1957, shore, £1 16s. Lloyd's agent telephoned to say that the motor vessel Caland, of Rotterdam, on passage from Grangemouth to YACHT ASHORE IN ISLAY SOUND Brest, had a sick man on board and Islay, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morn- was making for Yarmouth Roads. ing of the 5th of May, 1957, the She was due off the pierhead at Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that 12.30 early on the 1st of May, and a a yacht was ashore on the Black Rock doctor asked if the life-boat would land in the Sound of Islay and needed help. the sick man. At 12.35 the life-boat The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on Louise Stephens was launched to meet temporary duty at the station, put the motor vessel, which had arrived out at 9.35 in a slight sea. There in Yarmouth Roads. There was a was a moderate northerly breeze smooth sea, a gentle north-north- blowing and the tide was ebbing. easterly breeze was blowing, and the The life-boat found the yacht Silver tide was flooding. The man, who had Strand aground on Glas Island. She a strangulated hernia, was embarked had a crew of five and was listing and the life-boat returned to the badly on the ebbing tide. The owner harbour, arriving at two o'clock. The was anxious not to leave his yacht, man was taken to hospital and made and he asked if the life-boat would satisfactory progress.— -Rewards to the stand by until high water. When the crew, £9 12s. Qd.; rewards to the tide rose the life-boat towed the helpers on shore, £4 17s. fid. Silver Strand off the rocks, intending to escort her to Port Askaig. How- NORWEGIAN FISHING VESSEL ever, shortly after refloating, the yacht TOWED TO HARBOUR developed engine trouble, and the Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.15 early on life-boat towed her to within half a the morning of the 4th of May, 1957, mile of Port Askaig. From this point SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 501 she was able to make her own way to DIVER'S BOAT TOWED TO HOWTH moorings. The life-boat reached her Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 6.50 on the station at 8.45.—Property Salvage evening of the 10th of May, 1957, the Case. Bailey lighthouse-keeper telephoned that a boat was drifting ashore under YACHT ESCORTED AFTER the cliffs near the lighthouse. At seven o'clock the life-boat John R. REFLOATING Webb, on temporary duty at the Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.26 on station, put out with the bowman in the morning of the 5th of May, 1957, command. There was a rough sea, a the coastguard telephoned that a moderate southerly breeze was blow- yacht was aground one mile south of ing, and it was high water. The Red Sand Fort and was pounding life-boat came up with a diver's boat heavily. At 10.55 the life-boat Greater Ulster Queen, which had a crew of London II (Civil Service No. 30) was j three. The Ulster Queen's engine had launched in a rough sea. There was broken down, and the life-boat took a moderate north-north-westerly gale her in tow to Howth harbour, arriving blowing, and it was low water. The there at 8.20.—Rewards to the crew, life-boat made for the position and £9; rewards to the helpers on shore, kept in constant communication with £1 4*. a helicopter which had also been sent. She found the yacht Coronet, with a FIVE CANOES ESCORTED TO crew of three, half a mile south of the SHORE West Spaniard buoy. The yacht had refloated on the flooding tide, and the Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At life-boat escorted her to shelter in the eleven o'clock on the morning of the River Swale. She then returned to 12th of May, 1957, the coastguard re- her station, arriving at 3.15.—Re- ported that three canoes appeared to be wards to the crew, £12 16*.; rewards in difficulties and to be making no pro- to the helpers on shore, £3 4*. gress off Great Orme's Head light- house. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched at 11.17 in a MOTOR VESSEL TOWED TO choppy sea. There was a moderate ANGLESEY easterly breeze blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.15 on the with the canoes five hundred yards evening of the 8th of May, 1957, a north-west of the pier. The five message was received from the Penmon canoeists said they did not need any coastguard that a motor vessel, which help, but as they were suffering from was anchored in a dangerous position sea-sickness, the coxswain decided to near the Perch Rock in the channel escort them to the shore. The life- between Anglesey and Puffin Island, boat then returned to her station, needed help. At 7.31 the life-boat arriving at 12.16.—Rewards to the Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on launched in a choppy sea. There was shore, £7 2*. a gentle southerly breeze blowing and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the motor vessel Cristo, of THREE FISHING BOATS TOWED TO Bristol, with a crew of five. Her DEAL captain reported that he was bound Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 on the after- from Caernarvon to Liverpool with a noon of the 12th of May, 1957, the cargo of phosphate and that his engines Deal coastguard reported that a small had broken down. The life-boat took boat needed help one mile south-east the vessel in tow to an anchorage off of the coastguard station. At one Bangor pier. She then returned to o'clock the life-boat, Thomas Markby, her station, arriving at eleven o'clock. on temporary duty at the station, was —Rewards to the crew, £12 19s.; launched. There was a rough sea, a rewards to the helpers on shore, £3. moderate south-south-westerly gale 502 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. sea, a moderate south-westerly breeze The life-boat went to the position and was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. found that the boat had pulled towards The life-boat came up with the Ewell the shore and anchored and that her three miles west of Humber lightvessel crew were trying to start the outboard and took over the tow of the Daphne, motor. As no help was needed the whose engine had broken down. The life-boat then went to the help of three boats anchored off Spurn Point, and fishing boats which were being driven the life-boat's mechanic went on board into Pegwell Bay by the strong tide and repaired the engine. The work and strong wind. The boats, with a was completed by 2.15 and the total crew of seven, were towed to Daphne went on her way. The life- Deal, and the life-boat returned to her boat reached her station at 3.40.— station, arriving at 3.45.—Rewards Paid Permanent Crew. Additional to the crew, £10 16s.; rewards to the rewards to the crew, £4. helpers on shore, £12 8*. TWO MEN TAKEN OFF FISHING INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF ITALIAN BOAT STEAMER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.23 on Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the the morning of the 18th of May, 1957, morning of the 13th of May, 1057, a the Formby coastguard telephoned shipping agent telephoned the life- that one of the crew of the fishing boat coxswain to say that a seaman boat Mary, of Liverpool, who had on board the S.S. Russula, of Genoa, just waded ashore, had reported that which was anchored off Lightning the boat was aground with her fishing Knoll buoy, had fallen down a com- net entangled in her propeller, and panion way and urgently needed that another member of her crew was medical treatment. The Russula was very ill. The Mary was aground in due to dock at Barrow but had missed Formby pool near the coastguard the tide because of minor mechanical station. The life-boat Norman B. trouble. The life-boat Herbert Leigh Corlett put out at 10.45 in a rough sea. was launched at 12.25 with customs There was a strong north-westerly officials on board. There was a mod- breeze blowing with raia squalls, and erate sea, a moderate west-south- the tide was flpoding. The life-boat westerly breeze was blowing, and it reached the position and found that was one hour after high water. The the coastguard were 4omg all they life-boat went alongside the steamer could to help from the shore, but they and embarked the injured seaman. were unable to reach the boat. The She then returned to her station,' man who was very ill had apparently arriving at 2.30. The seaman, who been over the side to attempt to clear had head injuries, was taken, to hos- the fouled propeller and had been pital.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; overcome with the cold water and bit- rewards to the helpers on shore, ing wind. He was taken aboard the. £210*. : life-boat, together with another mem- ber of the Mary's crew. He was LIFE-BOAT MECHANIC REPAIRS wrapped in blankets and given rum BOAT'S ENGINE and hot drinks. The life-boat reached Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the New Brighton stage at one o'clock morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the and the two men were landed and coastguard reported that the steamer taken to hospital.—Rewards to the Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on boat named Daphne, with three men shore, £1 8s. aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of Humber lightvessel. DRIFTING BOAT FOUND EMPTY The Swell's captain asked whether Dover, Kent.—At 1.12 on the aftefc the life-boat could take over the tow. noon of the 19th of May, 1957, the At 9.20 the life-boat City of .Bradford Sandgate coastguard reported that III was launched. There was a slight the South Goodwin lightvessel had SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 503 reported a boat drifting three quarters ing since six o'clock in the morning of a mile north-north-west of the and had not returned. After further lightvessel. At 1.30 the life-boat inquiries had been made the Horden Southern Africa put out in a moderate police reported that a boat was lying sea. There was a moderate north- about three-quarters of a mile off westerly breeze blowing and the tide shore and appeared to need help. was flooding. The life-boat was guid- The life-boat George Elmy was launched ed to the position by an amphibian at 7.15 in a moderate sea. There was aircraft and found a boat waterlogged a variable breeze, and the tide was with nobody on board. The boat flooding. The life-boat came up with was emptied and taken on board the the Emily seven miles south of Seaham. life-boat, which then returned to her She had anchored with engine trouble. station, arriving at 3.45.—Rewards The life-boat took her in tow and to the crew etc., £6 5s. reached her station again at 8.45.— Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to EMPTY DINGHY FOUND NEAR the helpers on shore, £l 16s. RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.35 on the MASTER OF IRISH VESSEL morning of the 22nd of May, 1957, the BROUGHT ASHORE Deal coastguard telephoned that the Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At east pier watchman had reported a 4.35 on the afternoon of the 25th of May, dinghy drifting past Quern buoy. 1957, the master of the motor vessel At 7.52 the life-boat Greater London St. Patrick telephoned the honorary (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary- secretary to say that a small motor duty at the station, put out. There vessel appeared to be in trouble in was a moderate sea, a light north- South Shear three miles from Rosslare easterly breeze was blowing, and the harbour. At five o'clock the life- tide was ebbing. The life-boat came boat Douglas Hyde put out in a rough up with the dinghy, which was empty, sea. There was a moderate north- and towed her back to Ramsgate. easterly gale blowing and the tide was The life-boat returned to her moorings, ebbing. The life-boat found the motor arriving at 8.9.—Rewards to the crew vessel Tyrronall, of Dublin, with a etc., £7 105. crew of seven. Her engine had broken down and her radio had stopped work- FISHING BOAT TOWED TO ing. The life-boat brought her master MONTR OSE ashore to enable him to contact the Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon vessel's owner and later took him of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of back again. She then returned to the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah her moorings, arriving at 7.30. The informed the motor mechanic that coxswain and a member of the life-boat her husband's boat had broken down crew maintained a watch during the with engine trouble off Buddon Point., night in case the TyrronaWs anchor At two o'clock the life-boat The Good chain parted in the strong wind and Hope was launched. There was a rough seas, and at eight o'clock oil the' calm sea, a, light variable breeze was morning of the 26th a sister ship blowing, arid the tide was ebbing. arrived to tow the Tyronall to Rosslare The life-boat found the Mizpah, with harbour.—Partly Permanent Paid a crew of three, and towed her to Crew. Rewards to the crew, £6 16s.; Montrose, arriving at 3.20.—Rewards rewardtothehelperonshore,14s. The to the. crew, £6; rewards to the helpers owner made;,a- donation to the Insti- on shore," £? 12s. tution's funds. FISHING BOAT TOWED TO SEAHAM YACHT TOWED TO PORTSMOUTH Seaham, Co. Durham.—At 6.25 on the HARBOUR evening of the 23rd of May, 1957, BembridgB, Isle of Wight—At 2.29 on information was received- that the the afternoon of the 25th of May, fishing boat Emily, of Sunderfand, 195.7, 'the Foreland- coastguard tele- with a-crewlof two, had been out,fl8h-i phoned that ; the > yacht Jam's, of 504 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 Bosham, was making little headway a YACHT TOWED TO DOVER IN GALE mile and a half south-west of Ventnor Dover, Kent.—At 9.4 on the morning pier but was not calling for help. of the 26th of May, 1957, the Sandgate Twenty-four minutes later the honor- coastguard telephoned that a small ary secretary asked the coastguard for yacht appeared to be in difficulties a further information, and he did so quarter of a mile off Shakespeare again at 3.15. Both times he was Cliff. The coxswain put out in his informed that the yacht was beginning own boat to investigate, and after he to make some progress, and she had returned the life-boat Southern eventually anchored fifty yards west of Africa put out at 10.15. There was a Ventnor pier at 4.21. Her owner very rough sea, a strong north-easterly later asked for the yacht, with her gale was blowing, and it was one hour crew of three on board, to be towed to before high water. The life-boat came Bosham as she was dragging her up with the yacht Bidjly, of Dover, anchor. The life-boat Jesse Lurnb was with a crew of two. A line was put launched at 6.46 in a rough sea. There aboard, and the life-boat towed the was a moderate north-easterly gale yacht into Dover harbour. The life- blowing and the tide was flooding. boat then returned to her moorings, The life-boat took the Janis in tow arriving at 11.45. The owner made a and reached Portsmouth harbour at donation to the Institution's funds.— 12.15 early the next morning. Be- Rewards to the crew etc., £7 5*. cause of bad weather, which would have prevented the life-boat from TOW FOR SEA CADET NAVAL rehousing, she returned to moorings at WHALER Cowes, arriving at four o'clock. Two days later she reached her station.— New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one Rewards to the crew, £22 16*.; rewards o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of to the helpers on shore, £6 5s. May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a TOW FOR R.A.S.C. YACHT rowing boat was drifting out to sea off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The o'clock on the morning of the 26th of message was passed to the motor May, 1957, the Needles coastguard mechanic, who went to Harrison Drive telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of to investigate. He saw a sea cadet Southampton, was in difficulties eight naval whaler a mile and a half out to and a half miles south-west of St. sea, and it appeared that her crew of Catherine's Point. The life-boat nine sea cadets and an officer were S.G.E. put out at 8.22 in a rough sea. trying to pull against the strong ebb There was a strong north-easterly tide and a fresh easterly breeze. The breeze blowing and the tide was sea was choppy. As they were making flooding. Before the life-boat reached little headway, the life-boat Norman the position she came up with the B. Corlett put out at 1.30. The life- yacht, which was making for the boat proceeded in shallow water down Needles under a trysail. The Overlord the Rock channel and came up with was on passage from Alderney to the whaler, which was moored to one Yarmouth with a crew of eight officers of the marker buoys in the fairway. and men of the water-borne training Her crew were exhausted. The life- company of the Royal Army Service boat took the whaler in tow to the Corps. Most of her sails had been New Brighton stage, and the life-boat blown away. The life-boat escorted returned to her moorings, arriving at her as far as the Needles and then took 3.45.—Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; her in tow to Yarmouth, as the wind rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8*. and tide had by then set against her. The life-boat reached her moorings at SICK SEAMAN TAKEN OFF 12.30. The R.A.S.C. Yacht Club made TANKER a donation to the Institution's funds.— Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At seven o'clock Rewards to the crew, £11 4,?.; reward on the evening of the 27th of May, to the helper on shore, 12s. 1-957, Valentia radio reported that, the SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 505 tanker Harvella, of London, needed launched. There was a smooth sea the help of the life-boat to land a very with light airs, and it was low water. sick seaman. The tanker was due to The life-boat came up with the fishing arrive off Valentia at 4.30 the next vessel John Briscoe, of Cardigan, with morning. The life-boat A.E.D. put a crew of two. She stood by her until out at three o'clock with a doctor and a 7.15, when the fishing vessel refloated nurse on board. There was a calm sea, on the rising tide. The life-boat then a gentle north-easterly breeze was returned to her station, arriving there blowing, and it was low water. The at 7.45.—Rewards to the crew, £6; life-boat came up with the tanker rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16s. fifteen miles west of Valentia, and the doctor and nurse were put on board. The following life-boats went out The sick seaman was transferred to on service, but could find no ships in the life-boat at 4.45, and with the distress, were not needed or could do patient, the doctor and the nurse on nothing: board the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 7.30. The life- Stornoway, Hebrides.—May 1st.—Re- boat crew carried the patient to wards, £7. hospital by stretcher.—Rewards to the Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—May 3rd.— crew. £11 4*.; reward to the helper on Rewards, £11 17s. shore, 16*. Fowey, Cornwall. — May 3rd. — Re- wards, etc., £7 2s. 6d. Islay, Hebrides.—May 4th.—Rewards, SECOND COXSWAIN PUT ABOARD £8 8s. YACHT Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — May 5th.—Rewards, £9 9s. Poole, Dorset.—At 4.15 on the morning Skegness, Lincolnshire.—May 6th.— of the 29th of May, 1957, the South- Rewards, £15 9s. bourne coastguard telephoned that a Stronsay, Orkneys.—May 10th.—Re- small yacht needed help as she was wards, £18 Is. aground opposite the Sandbanks pavi- Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—May 12th. lion. The life-boat Thomas Kirk —Rewards, £10 5s. Wright put out at 4.25 in a slight sea. Swanage, Dorset.—May 12th.—Re- There was a moderate easterly breeze wards, £9 12s. blowing and it was low water. The Skegness, Lincolnshire.—May 13th.— life-boat came up with the yacht Brief Rewards, £12 15s. Encounter, of Southampton, with a Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—May 16th. crew of two. The second coxswain —Rewards, £11 13s. boarded the yacht, and the life-boat New Brighton, Cheshire.—May 18th. stood by until the tide began to flood. —Rewards, £7 4s. The yacht was then taken in tow to Hastings, Sussex.—May 19th.—Re- Sandbanks, where the second cox- wards, £33 18s. swain returned to the life-boat, which Torbay, Devon. — May 24th. — Re- reached her station at 7.30.—Rewards wards, £12 8s. to the crew, £9 16s.; rewards to the Hoylake, Cheshire.—May 24th.—Re- helpers on shore, £l 16s. wards, £20. Rhyl, Flintshire. — May 24th.—Re- LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING wards, £17 16s. Troon, Ayrshire.—May 25th.—Re- VESSEL ON ROCKS wards, £5. Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.35 Selsey, Sussex. — May 25th. — Re- on the afternoon of the 31st of May, wards, £34 13s. 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—May 29th. motor fishing vessel was on the rocks —Rewards, £15 Is. at Divas Head. The life-saving ap- Ramsey, Isle of Man.—May 29th.—- paratus team and a helicopter had Rewards, £14. been summoned, and at five o'clock the Swanage, Dorset.—May 30th.—Re- life - boat Howard Marryat was wards, £16 13s. 506 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957

JUNE Howe rocks. The life-boat towed th« DURING June life-boats were launched motor cruiser clear and then returned on service 65 times and rescued 39 to her station, arriving at 2.45. The lives. owner expressed his thanks to the crew and made a donation to the Institu- tion's funds.—Rewards to the crew1, SHIP AGROUND WITH THIRTY-NINE £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, ON BOARD £3 5*. Islay, Hebrides.—At 7.50 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of June, 1957, the BOAT TOWED TO ROSSLARE Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that HARBOUR the steamer King George V, of Glas- Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On gow, on passage from the Clyde to the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1957, Oban with thirty-nine people on the coxswain saw a small fishing boat board, was aground at Scarba Sound drifting out to sea about three miles and needed help immediately. At east of Rosslare harbour. At 3.5 the 8.15 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a put out in a calm sea. There was a choppy sea. There was a fresh west- light variable breeze blowing and the erly breeze blowing, and the tide was tide was flooding. Visibility in the half ebb. The life-boat came up with Sound of Islay was very bad with fog the local fishing boat Mary, with a patches. Radar bearings passed by crew of four. She had shipped a the motor vessel Loch Broom were of considerable amount of water, and the great help to the coxswain in enabling life-boat took her crew on board and him to maintain full speed to the towed her to Rosslare harbour, arriving position of the grounded vessel. The at 4.15.—Partly Permanent Paid Crew. life-boat found the King George V at Rewards to the crew, £5; reward to the 11.25 stranded on a ledge of rocks helper on shore, 13*. at Rhuda-Na-Una on the Island of Scarba. Her sister ship Loch Dunve- gan was alongside, and the life-boat LIFE-BOAT TAKES OVER TOW stood by until high water, when she FROM STEAMER helped the Loch Dunvegan to refloat Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.55 on the the King George V. The life-boat morning of the 4th of June, 1957, the then returned to her moorings, arriving Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned to at 11.30 at night.—Rewards to the say a yacht was being towed by the crew, £25 3s.; rewards to the helpers S.S. Cora fifteen miles south-west of on shore, £l 4s. Portland Bill and to ask if the life-boat would take over the tow. At 12.10 the MOTOR CRUISER TOWED CLEAR life-boat William and Clara Kyland OF ROCKS was launched in a choppy sea with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing* Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At The tide was flooding. The life-boat 1.10 on the afternoon of the 2nd of came up with the Cora and the yacht June, 1957, the piermaster telephoned Solar Gipsy four miles south-west of to say that a motor cruiser was in a Portland Bill. The yacht had a crew very dangerous position off the end of of three. The life-boat took over the Brean Down and needed help. The tow and reached her station at 2.25.— life-boat Frank and William Oates, Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.27 in calm weather. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat YACHT TOWED TO SWANAGE BAY came up with the motor cruiser Gazelle, Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.36 on the of Weston-super-Mare, which had a evening of the 4th of June, 1957, the party of eight people, including two St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned women and three children, on board. that a yacht appeared to be drifting They had been fishing when their two miles south of Anvil lighthouse. anchor dragged and caught in the At 6.55 the life-boat R.L.P. was SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 507 launched. There was a rough sea, a ESCORT DOWN RIVER FOR DUTCH moderate westerly breeze was blowing, VESSEL and the tide was half ebb. The life- Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the boat came up with the auxiliary cutter morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a Solent Skirl, of Southampton, with a report was received that a motor vessel crew of four. The Solent Shirl had was aground on the Salisbury bank split her mainsail and a rope was in the River Dee. She was not in any entangled in her propeller. The life- danger and watch was kept on her. boat took her in tow into Swanage At 4.20 in the afternoon the vessel bay and reached her station at 8.30.— refloated and went up river towards Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to Caldy, but later returned to her the helpers on shore, £2 8s. former position. The Formby coast- guard reported at 7.40 that the vessel was making signals, and the life-boat IRISH SEA FISHERIES TRAWLER Oldham IV was taken from her boat- TOWED TO HARBOUR house by tractor twenty minutes later and launched near Hilbre Island at Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.5 on the 8.30. She came up with the motor morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a vessel Marie Louise, of Rotterdam, message was received from Valentia whose master asked for a pilot. The radio that the Irish Sea Fisheries coxswain reported this by radio tele- trawler Naoim Cait was adrift fifteen phone and a member of the life-boat miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. crew then went on board the Marie The life-boat A.E.D. put out at 4.30 Louise. Escorted by the life-boat, the in a moderate sea. There was a gentle vessel proceeded to a safe anchorage north-westerly breeze blowing and it off Salisbury Swatch buoy, where a was low water. The life-boat came pilot was due to board her at four up with the trawler eighteen miles o'clock the next morning. The life- south-west of Skelligs Rock. The boat returned to her station, arriving trawler had a crew of five. Her engine at 1.30 early on the 6th of June.— had broken down and the life-boat Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; rewards passed a line to her and towed her to to the helpers on shore, £8 12s. Valentia harbour, which was reached at 2.30.—Rewards to the crew, £20 YACHT AFRICAN QUEEN TOWED 13s.; reward to the helper on shore, TO SOUTHEND £1 2s. Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT TOWED yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the THROUGH HEAVY SURF life-boat Greater London II (Civil Wells, Norfolk.—At 11.3 on the morn- Sen-ice No. 30) was launched. There ing of the 5th of June, 1957, the coast- was a slight sea, a light north-westerly guard telephoned that a boat was in breeze was blowing, and the tide was difficulties off Wells. At 11.15 the ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht life-boat Cecil Paine was launched in African Queen, which had a crew of a rough sea. There was a strong four, with her engine broken down. north-north-westerly breeze blowing She took the four people on board and and the tide was flooding. The life- towed the African Queen to Southend- boat found a converted ship's boat on-Sea, arriving there at 10.45.— Sailfish, with one man on board, Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to ashore on the east side of the harbour the helpers on shore, £3 18*. bar. She towed her into the harbour through heavy surf and reached her SECOND COXSWAIN REPAIRS station at 1.30.—Rewards to the crew, FERRY'S ENGINE £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.15 on the £9 12*. afternoon of the 9th of June. 1957, a 508 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 message was received that the relief was drifting in a dinghy out towards boat for Rockabill lighthouse had Penmon Point. At 12.30 the life-boat been damaged when she had struck a Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was rock on St. Patrick's Island. Two launched. There was a rough sea, a small outboard motor boats had put moderate north-easterly breeze was out from Skerries, and because of the blowing, and the tide was ebbing. bad weather the life-boat R.L.P. put Before the life-boat reached the posi- out at three o'clock, towing her board- tion the boy jumped into the sea and ing boat. There was a choppy sea tried to swim ashore. A man who and a fresh north-easterly breeze was lived near by put out in a dinghy and blowing. It was low water. The rowed to the boy, who was found to be life-boat reached the position and unconscious. The boy was revived found that the tender of the Commis- and brought to the shore. The life- sioners of Irish Lights Wanderer had boat found the dinghy and took it on been towed off at high water by a local board. She then returned to her fishing boat and had been beached. station, arriving at 2.15.—Rewards to The life-boat returned to her station, the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the but on the return journey she came helpers on shore, £2 14s. up with a motor ferry boat with thirty people on board. The ferry's engine DINGHY BROUGHT TO MUMBLES had broken down and the second coxswain was transferred to her to The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At repair the engine. He then returned 1.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of to the life-boat, which arrived back at June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned her moorings at 6.30.—Rewards to the that a small boat had capsized off crew, £9 16s.; rewards to the helpers Port Eynon Point. Her three occu- on shore, £l 4s. pants had been thrown into the sea. The life-boat William Gammon, Man- SICK MAN TAKEN FROM LIGHT- chester and District XXX was launched at 1.57. There was a moderate sea, VESSEL a moderate west-north-westerly breeze Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.20 on was blowing, and the tide was flooding. the evening of the 9th of June, 1957, At 2.34 the coastguard reported that the Mumbles honorary secretary tele- the dinghy's crew of three had landed phoned that there was a sick man on safely, and shortly afterwards the the Helwick lightvessel. At 6.59 the life-boat found the dinghy Jolly Roger life-boat Henry Comber Brown was and took her on board. She then launched, with a doctor on board, in a returned to her station, arriving at choppy sea. There was a fresh south- 4.45.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; westerly breeze blowing and the tide rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 12s. was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the lightvessel, and put the doctor MOTOR YACHT TOWED TO aboard. She then embarked the patient SWANAGE after the doctor had given him morphia. Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the The life-boat returned to moorings at afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the Tenby at eleven o'clock, where the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned sick man was transferred to a waiting that a vessel was waving a red flag two ambulance. The life-boat was re- miles east of St. Albans Head. The housed on the 10th of June.—Rewards life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 to the crew, £14 16s.; rewards to the in a calm sea. There was a light helpers on shore, £8 18s. Refunded easterly breeze blowing, and the tide to the Institution by Trinity House. was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor yacht Penguin, of Falmouth, BOY ADRIFT IN DINGHY with a crew of two. She had engine Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morn- trouble, and the life-boat took her in ing of the 10th of June, 1957, a message tow, arriving back at her station at was received from a man living in 2.30.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; Penmon that his twelve-year-old son rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 509

MOTOR BOAT TOWED TO early on the 17th of June the life-boat FLEETWOOD resumed the tow into the harbour. Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on She then returned to her station, the evening of the 12th of June, 1957, arriving at 1.15.—Rewards to the the coastguard telephoned that a crew, £17 9*.; rewards to the helpers small boat with three men on board on shore, £15. was firing red flares off Rossall Point. At 9.35 the life-boat Ann Letitia RESCUED FROM YACHT ON FIRE Russell was launched in a choppy sea. Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the There was a light westerly breeze morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the blowing and the tide was flooding. coastguard telephoned that a man The life-boat came up with the motor and two women had landed at Filey boat Madonna, of Fleetwood, whose in a dinghy. The man had reported engine had broken down. She took that they had come from the yacht her in tow to Fleetwood, arriving at Rissa, which was on fire off Filey 11.15.—Rewards to the crew, £7 4*.; Brigg, and that her owner was still rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16s. on board. At two o'clock the life- boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was YACHT ESCORTED TO SALCOMBE launched in a smooth sea with a gentle northerly breeze blowing. The tide Salcombe, Devon.—At 11.2 on the was ebbing. The life-boat reached the night of the 14th of June, 1957, the yacht and the coxswain brought her Hope Cove coastguard telephoned alongside. The man, who was stand- that red flares had been seen four miles ing on the remaining inches of deck west-north-west of Prawle Point. The which were not ablaze, jumped into life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse the life-boat. He was wrapped in put out at 11.15 in a smooth sea. blankets and brought to the shore, There was a gentle north-easterly where he was taken to hospital. The breeze blowing and the tide was Rissa became a total loss.—Rewards ebbing. The life-boat found the local to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers yacht Thelamagee with a crew of three. on shore, £9 145. She had parted a shroud. The life- boat escorted the yacht to Salcombe, INJURED LAMPLIGHTER BROUGHT arriving there at 1.15. The owner OFF IN GALE made a gift to the crew and a donation Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At to the Institution's funds.—Rewards two o'clock on the afternoon of the to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers 22nd of June, 1957, the inspector of on shore, £l 4s. Irish Lights telephoned that a member of the crew of the Blackwater light- FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO ISLE vessel was injured and needed medical OF MAN treatment ashore. At 2.40 the life- Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.41 on the boat Douglas Hyde put out. There afternoon of the 16th of June, 1957, was a rough sea, a moderate east- the coastguard telephoned that the north-easterly gale was blowing, and motor fishing vessel Pygmalion, of the tide was ebbing. The life-boat Fleetwood, had broken down off reached the lightvessel, took the Manghold Head and needed help. injured man, who was the lamplighter, The life-boat Thomas Corbett was on board, and landed him at Rosslare launched at 4.15 in calm weather. harbour. She reached her moorings The tide was ebbing. The life-boat at 6.45.—Rewards to the crew, £11; reached the Pygmalion, which had a rewards to the helper on shore, 16s. crew of three, four miles north of Refunded to the Institution by the Bahama Bank buoy. The Pygmalion Commissioners of Irish Lights. had a rope entangled in her propeller and the life-boat towed her into TWO DINGHIES CAPSIZE DURING Ramsey Bay, arriving at 8.40. She REGATTA then waited for the tide to flood Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At before entering the harbour. At 12.45 2.35 on the afternoon of the 22nd of 510 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 June, 1957, at the time of the Penarth boat could launch to land the master regatta, the life-boat Rachel and Mary of the Arklow lightvessel, whose wife Evans put out in a rough sea, with a was dangerously ill. The life-boat fresh south-easterly breeze blowing Inbhear Mor was launched at 5.50 in and rain, to help two sailing dinghies a smooth sea. There was a gentle which had capsized. The dinghies southerly breeze blowing and the tide each had a crew of two. The life-boat was flooding. The life-boat arrived at towed them to safety and eventually the lightvessel at 7.30 and embarked arrived back at her station at six her master. She landed him at Ark- o'clock.—Rewards to. the crew, £9 low at 9.10 and reached her station at 16*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, 9.30.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16*.; £25*. rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 18*. Refunded to the Institution by the TOW FOR BOAT WITH TWENTY- Commissioners of Irish Lights. EIGHT ON BOARD Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.53 on the CREW TAKEN OFF BY FORMER morning of the 23rd of June, 1957, the COXSWAIN east pier watchman telephoned that Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.35 on the the motor boat New Britannic appeared afternoon of the 26th of June, 1957, to be disabled in Pegwell Bay. At the motor mechanic and bowman 12.1 the life-boat Michael and Lily reported to the honorary secretary that Davis put out in a slight sea. There a small yacht was aground on North was a gentle north-easterly breeze Rock. At four o'clock the life-boat blowing and the tide was ebbing. The Constance Calverley was launched in a life-boat came up with the New Britan- slight swell. There was a light nic, which had twenty-eight people on southerly breeze blowing and it was board. The motor boat had engine one hour before low water. The life- trouble, and the life-boat took her in boat came up with the yacht Tafner tow to Ramsgate harbour, arriving 2nd, of Glasgow, and found that her there at 12.37.—Rewards to the crew, crew of three had been taken off by etc., £7 10*. a fishing boat skippered by the Cloughey ex-coxswain. The life-boat SPEED BOAT TOWED TO stood by the yacht in order to refloat GUERNSEY her at high water. Meanwhile the St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on yacht's crew were landed at Porta- the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a vogie harbour by the fishing boat telephone message was received that Later, however, the life-boat was the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had recalled to Portavogie harbour in order broken down six miles south-south- to take the crew back to their yacht, east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the as they wished to be present when the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out yacht was refloated. The life-boat in a calm sea. There -was a variable took the men out, and when the breeze and the tide was ebbing. The yacht was refloated towed her into life-boat carried out a search of the Portavogie harbour, arriving at eight area and at 5.20 the next morning o'clock. The life-boat returned to her found the Sea Gipsy, with a crew of station the next day. The owner made two, seven miles north of Sark. She a donation to the Institution's funds. towed her to St. Peter Port, arriving —Rewards to the crew, £14 2s.; there at 7.55. The owner made a rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., donation to the Institution's funds.— £15 16*. 6d. Rewards to the crew, £19 5*; reward to the helper on shore, £l 3*. FISHING BOAT TOWED TO NEW QUAY MASTER TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 12.30 Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.40 on the on the afternoon of the 27th of June; afternoon of the 25th of June, 1957, the 1957, the coxswain informed the Irish Lights Office asked if the life- honorary secretary that the fishingfleet SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 511 had returned to the harbour with the Carency off. They did not succeed, exception of the motor boat Dolins, and the life-boat landed the Carency's which had a crew of two. She had crew at Wick at three o'clock. The last been seen seven to eight miles Carency became a total loss.—Rewards north of Llangranog Head, and as the to the crew, £28 17s.; rewards to the weather had deteriorated, the life-boat helpers on shore, £l 4s. St. Allans was launched at 1.15. There was a rough sea, a strong south- BATHERS RESCUED AFTER westerly breeze was blowing, and the MIDNIGHT tide was ebbing. The life-boat came Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early up with the Dolins, whose engines had on the morning of the 30th of June, broken down, and towed her to the 1957, the coastguard telephoned that harbour, arriving at 2.30.—Rewards two bathers were marooned on a sand- to the crew, £7 10s.; rewards to the bank at Point Clear. The life-boat helpers on shore, £10 17s. H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.35 in calm LONGSHORE BOAT TOWED TO weather. The tide was flooding. With LOWESTOFT the help of a police car's headlights the Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.12 early on life-boat found the two bathers and took the morning of the 28th of June, 1957, them on board. She then returned to the coastguard reported that a vessel her station, arriving at three o'clock.— was burning flares south of the harbour. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards The life-boat Michael Stephens put to the helpers on shore, £5. out at 1.45 in a slight sea. There was a fresh westerly breeze blowing and CABIN CRUISER FOUND IN RIVER the tide was ebbing. The life-boat TAY found the local longshore boat Pedro Broughry Ferry, Angus.—At 3.47 on the with a crew of two. Her engine had morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the broken down. The life-boat took her Dundee police telephoned that a cabin in tow to Lowestoft harbour, arriving cruiser was drifting up the River Tay there at 2.35.—Rewards to the crew, towards the Tay bridge and was in £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, danger of colliding with the stone piers £1 4s. of the Tay railway bridge. At 4.14 the life-boat Mona was launched in CREW OF THIRTEEN TAKEN OFF calm weather. The tide was flooding. TRAWLER The life-boat came up with the cabin Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early cruiser, but there was no one on board. on the morning of the 29th of June, She took her in tow to Dundee harbour 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a and reached her station at 5.35. The trawler was ashore on the north side owner wrote a letter of thanks.—Re- of Noss Head. At one o'clock the wards to the crew, £7; rewards to the life-boat City of Edinburgh was helpers on shore, £2 9s. launched in a slight sea. The weather was calm and there was dense fog. The following life-boats went qut It was high water. With the help of on service, but could find no ships in the trawler's direction finding appara- distress, were not needed or could do tus the life-boat found the steam nothing: trawler Carency, of Aberdeen, with a Anstruther, Fifeshire.—June 2nd.— crew of thirteen, ashore in the rocky Rewards, £12 Is. inlet of Papigoe, near Wick. Her Wells, Norfolk.—June 3rd.—Rewards, crew were transferred to the life-boat, £18 13s. and at the request of the trawler's Eastbourne, Sussex. — June 4th. — skipper the life-boat stood by. The Rewards, £22 9s. Wick life-saving apparatus team also Torbay, Devon.—June 5th.—Rewards, stood by. At eleven o'clock the £9 12s. trawler Giluar arrived, and she joined Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—June 5th.— the life-boat in attempts to tow the Rewards, £7 12s. 512 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 Exmouth, Devon. — June 5th. — Re- Torbay, Devon. — June 18th. — Re- wards, £16 6s. wards £12 8s. Baltimore, Co. Cork.—June 6th. — Rewards, £12 Is. CREW GIVE REWARDS TO FUND Kirkcudbright.—June 6th.—Rewards, £9 16s. FOR WIDOW Plymouth, Devon.—June 7th.—Re- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- wards, £6. land.—At 5.39 on the afternoon of Ramsgate, Kent. — June 8th. — Re- the 18th of June, 1957, the Spittal wards, £6 10s. police telephoned that a twelve-year- Swanage, Dorset. — June 9th. •— Re- old girl was in difficulty while bathing wards, £10 16s. off Spittal beach. Ten minutes later Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — June the life-boat William and Mary Dur- 10th.—Rewards, £21. ham was launched on service for the Exmouth, Devon.—June 10th.—Re- first time. There was a smooth sea, a wards £21 4s. light north-westerly breeze was blow- Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — June ing, and the tide was flooding. Before 10th.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d. the life-boat arrived the girl was Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—June rescued from the shore. A man was 10th.—Rewards £11 18s. drowned in attempting to help the girl, Penlee, Cornwall.—June 10th.—Re- and the crew and helpers are donating wards, £13 16s. their rewards for this service to the AldeburghNo. 1, Suffolk.—June llth. fund opened for the widow of the —Rewards, £38 12s. Qd. dead man.—Rewards, to the crew, £8; Wick, Caithness-shire.—June 12th.— rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s. Rewards £10 9s. Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—June 13th. Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—June 19th. —Rewards, £10 5s. —Rewards, £11 9s. Poole, Dorset.—June 14th.—Rewards, New Quay, Cardiganshire. — June £8 16s. 26th.—Rewards, £13 17s. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—June 14th.— Newhaven, Sussex. — June 28th. — Rewards, £24. j Rewards, £16 12s. Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—June 14th. i Walmer, Kent.—June 29th.—Rewards, —Rewards £12 12s. | £23 3s. Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — June i Salcombe, Devon. — June 29th. — 15th.—Rewards, £20 8s. | Rewards, £9 4s. St. Ives, Cornwall. — June 16th. — Ramsgate, Kent.—June 29th.—Re- Rewards, £20 15s. wards, £7 10s. Cromarty. — June 17th. — Rewards, The Lizard, Cornwall.—June 29th.— £14 9s. Rewards, £16 5s. Exmouth, Devon. — June 18th. — Re- Dungeness, Kent.—June 30th.—Re- wards, £20 4s. wards, £32 19s.

An Adventurous Life Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, of boats; his naval service during 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr. the last war; and his home life in Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President Essex. and a member of the Committee of Mr. Courtauld recalls his successful Management. It tells the story of an approach to the Essex County Council, engrossing and adventurous life: of as a result of which restrictions on the his days at Charterhouse and Cam- holding of flag days were removed, and bridge; his journeys to Lapland and it is typical of the modesty prevailing the Sahara; Gino Watkins' Greenland throughout the book that his munifi- expedition, in which Mr. Courtauld cent gesture in presenting a new life- served as surveyor and was in charge boat is dismissed with the comment: SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 513 "Using a legacy left me by my mother, station were due for a new boat; the I decided to give a life-boat to be Duchess of Kent, President of the stationed in Essex or Kent. I dis- Institution, named her Edian Court- covered that the Walton and Frinton auld, after my mother".

New Ways of Raising Money A FOOTBALL match between members A customer who comes to the Wel- of learned professions and the police, lington Inn at Wolviston, Co. Durham, which took place at Fraserburgh, regularly lends his evening newspaper Aberdeenshire, raised some £70 for the to other customers, provided they put Institution. It was organised by the a coin in the life-boat collecting box. Rev. J. H. F. Wilson, who himself played in the match. * * * * * * The Seer Green (Buckinghamshire) Skifflers made a handsome contribu- Mr. Pearce, a dentist of Tilehurst, near tion to the Institution's funds from Reading, asks patients who break their money raised at their sessions. appointments to make a contribution in the collecting box in his waiting-room. * * * Mrs. M. Merry of 17 Uplands Avenue, An unusual fashion display was Wolverhampton, has raised a consider- organised by the Caterham branch, able sum for branch funds by the sale whose honorary secretary is Mrs. R. of over a hundred children's toys D. Wood. It was presented by chil- which she has knitted. dren who themselves chose the dresses and acted as models, the youngest model being Felicity Grosse, aged six. Mrs. Hartley, of Carshalton, has Mrs. B. C. Collins, director of Children's raised considerable sums for branch Wear, Caterham, gave a running com- funds by making toy animals out of mentary on the show and the proceeds fur and selling them. went to the Institution's funds. * * * Mr. A. G. Bethell, honorary secre- A doctor's wife in Berwick-upon- tary of the Stevenage Branch, raised Tweed, who because of her husband's more than £4 for branch funds by profession is entitled to a special dis- buying gramophone records in bulk count on purchases from chemists, and selling them individually. regularly gives the amount of the discount to the Institution's funds. * * * The committee of the Burnham A Bristol lady recently sent a dona- (Bucks) branch augmented the takings tion to the Institution on her 87th on a recent life-boat day by using a birthday. The sum was £4 7s., repre- barrel organ as a means of raising senting Is. for every year of her life. funds.

Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-boat Crews To WILLIAM WATTS WILLIAMS, on his To MATTHEW LETHBBIDGE, on his retire- retirement, after serving for 19| years as ment, after serving for 31 years as coxswain, coxswain of the St. David's life-boat, a cox- 5 years as second coxswain and 1 year as swain's certificate of service, a gratuity and bowman of the St. Mary's life-boat, a cox- a retirement allowance. swain's certificate of service and an annuity 514 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1957 To JAMES H. BROWN, on his retirement, To ALFRED E. STEPHENS, on his retire- after serving for 6 years as coxswain and 8 ment, after serving for 1£ years as second years as second coxswain of the Caister life- coxswain, 12| years as bowman and 14 J years boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and as a member of the crew of the Cadgwith life- an annuity. boat, a certificate of service and an annuity. To GEORGE A. WALKER, on his retirement, To MARTIN M. GAEDNER, on his retirement, after serving for 7 years as coxswain and 12 after serving for 10 J years as second coxswain, years as second coxswain of the Aberdeen 7| years as bowman and 32 years as a Xo. 2 life-boat, and 12 years as second cox- member of the crew of the Anstruther life- swain of the Aberdeen No. 1 life-boat, a boat, a certificate of service and an annuity. coxswain's certificate of service. To JAMES WILSON, on his retirement, after To JAMES COULL, on his retirement, after serving for 7J years as second coxswain, 18 serving for 21J years as coxswain of the years as assistant mechanic and 0 months Broughty Ferry life-boat and 1 year as bow- as motor mechanic of the St. Abbs life-boat, man of the Montrose No. 2 life-boat, a cox- a certificate of service and an annuity. swain's certificate of service, a gratuity and To ALFRED H. MORRIS, on his retirement, a retirement allowance. after serving for 2 years as second coxswain, To THOMAS S. ANDREWS, on his retirement, 7 J years as bowman and 20 years as a member after serving for 7J years as coxswain, 2J years of the crew of the Margate "life-boat, a certifi- as second coxswain and nearly 6 years as cate of service and an annuity. bowman of the St. Ives life-boat, a coxswain's To ERNEST H. COOPEK, on his retirement, certificate of service and an annuity. after serving for 1 year as second coxswain, To ALFRED J. WEBBER, on his retirement, 1!) years as bowman and 23 years as a member after serving for 12 years as coxswain, 4 of the crew of the Bembridge life-boat, a years as second coxswain and 2 years as certificate of service and an annuity. bowman of the Minehead life-boat, a cox- To WILLIAM T. PRODGER, on his retire- swain's certificate of service. ment, after serving for 14£ years as second To FREDERICK STEPHENS, on his retire- coxswain, If years as assistant mechanic, 6J ment, after serving for 12J years as coxswain, years as bowman and 15 years as a member 13J years as second coxswain, f years as of the crew of the Eastbourne life-boat, a bowman and 11 years as a member of the certificate of service and an annuity. crew of the Cadgwith life-boat, a coxswain's To JAMES YELLOP, on his retirement, after certificate of service and an annuity. serving for 8 years as second coxswain, 2J To ALFRED WATKINS, on his retirement, years as bowman and 18 years as a member after serving for 10J years as coxswain, 1J of the crew of the Youghal life-boat, a certi- years as second coxswain, 1 year as bowman ficate of service and a gratuity. and 15 years as a member of the crew of the To JAMES STEWART, on his retirement, Angle life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of after serving for 14J- years as bowman and service, a gratuity and an annuity. 11 years as a member of the crew of the Newburgh life-boat, a certificate of service. To WILLIAM HAWKINS, on his retirement, after serving for 11J years as coxswain, 1 To ROLAND F. GRIMES, on his retirement, year as second coxswain and 4 years as bow- after serving for 34 J years as bowman of the man of the Poolbeg life-boat, a coxswain's Wells life-boat, a certificate of service and certificate of service. an annuity. To JAMES T. UPPERTON, on his retirement, To FRANK H. INMAN, on his retirement, after serving for 10£ years as coxswain and after serving for 15 years as bowman and 6J years as second coxswain, a coxswain's 7 years as a member of the crew of the certificate of service and an annuity. Swanage life-boat, a certificate of service. To FRANK BRAY, on his retirement, after To JOSEPH HALL, on his retirement, after serving for 26J years as bowman of the serving for 11 years as coxswain and 2J Padstow No. 2 life-boat, a certificate of years as bowman, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity. service and an annuity. To THOMAS MARKWELL HANDYSIDE, on his To ARTHUR D. STOREY, on his retirement, retirement, after serving for 7J years as bow- after serving for 9J years as second coxswain, man and 10 years as a member of the crew 2f years as bowman and 24J years as a of the Amble life-boat, a certificate of service member of the crew of the Newbiggin life- and a gratuity. boat, a certificate of service. To FREDERICK W. Novis, on his retire- To THOMAS GILCHRIST, on his retirement, ment, after serving for 10 years as bowman after serving for 14J years as second coxswain and 22 J years as a member of the crew of the and 16 years as a member of the crew of the Eastbourne life-boat, a certificate of service. Hartlepool life-boat, a certificate of service To JOSEPH DOYLE, on his retirement, after and an annuity. serving for 29 years as motor mechanic of To P. K. HANNIGAN, on his retirement, the Galway Bay life-boat, a certificate of after serving for 5J years as second coxswain service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance. and 5 years as bowman of the Pcolbeg life- To H. KITCHENER PEGG, D.S.C., on his boat, a certificate of service. retirement, after serving for 9J years as To HAROLD HALL, on his retirement, after motor mechanic and 6 years as assistant serving for 7 years as second coxswain, 1J mechanic of the Dover life-boat, and 1 year years as bowman and 28 years as a member as reserve mechanic, 4 years as motor mechanic of the crew of the Redcar life-boat, a certi- and 3 years as a member of the crew of tht ficate of service and a gratuity. Sheringham life-boat, a certificate of service. SEPTEMBER, 1957] THE LIFE-BOAT 515 To ROBERT J. B. ESSON, on his retirement, crew of the St. David's life-boat, a certificate after being associated as mechanic of the of service. Aberdeen life-boat for 32J years, a certificate To SAMUEL CROSS, on his retirement, after of service. serving for 28 \ years as second mechanic of To ARTHUR W. BANHAM, on his retirement, the Humber life-boat, a certificate of service, after serving as motor mechanic for 22J a gratuity and a retirement allowance. years in the Plymouth life-boat, 4J years in To WILLIAM R. WOOD, on his retirement, the Yarmouth life-boat and 5| years in the after serving for 25J years as assistant Padstow No. 2 life-boat, a certificate of mechanic and 9 years as a member of the service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance. crew of the Boulmer life-boat, a certificate of To STANLEY LINDSAY, on his retirement, service and an annuity. after serving for 14J years as motor mechanic of the Ramsey life-boat, a certificate of service. To J. GILONEY, on his retirement, after To JOSEPH J. MADRON, on his retirement, serving for 40 years as a member of the crew after serving for 1J years as assistant of the North Sunderland life-boat, a certificate mechanic of the Penlee life-boat, 1J years as of service. mechanic of the Mumbles life-boat, 12J To JOHN DUGGAN, on his retirement, after years as mechanic, 9 years as second cox- serving for 13 years as a member of the crew swain and 9 years as a member of the crew of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat, a certificate of the Penlee life-boat, a certificate of of service. service and a gratuity. To WILLIAM BRIGNALL, on his retirement, To GWILYM J. DAVIES, on his retirement, after serving for 32 years as a member of the after serving for 9} years as assistant motor crew of the Dungeness life-boat, a certificate mechanic and 11J years as a member of the of service.

The list of awards to honorary workers will be published in the December number of The Lif^-bost. Swedish Life-boat Jubilee THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Wyndham-Quin voiced the thanks of Life-boat Society were held at Gothen- the overseas visitors and presented the burg from the 17th to the 19th of Institution's silver medal and accom- May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, panying vellum to the President of Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Swedish Society. Management, and Colonel A. D. The celebrations continued with a Burnett Brown, Secretary of the Insti- visit to a large ship-building yard tution, attended and representatives and a great deal of most hospitable of ten other countries were present. entertainment, winding up with a The celebrations started with a luncheon given by the City of Gothen- formal inspection of some visiting burg on Sunday, 19th of May. life-boats by the King and Queen of There was opportunity during the Sweden in the attractive little harbour week-end for a certain amount of dis- of Langedrag. The representatives cussion of points of common interest, of other countries were presented to and before the lunch on Sunday Their Majesties during this inspection visitors were taken on a demonstration which took place in fine weather in cruise in Swedish, Norwegian, Polish the presence of a considerable number and German life-boats, during which of people. This was followed by a a party of children in a small boat meeting in the Town Hall and a provided an unrehearsed "incident" luncheon, both attended by the King of which full advantage was taken. and Queen. At the luncheon Captain A. D. B. B.

Notice All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A., the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I. All enquiries about the work of the Institution or about this journal should be addressed to the Secretary. The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in DECEMBER, 1957. MARINE

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