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THE LIFE-BOAT the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution VOL. XXXVII DECEMBER, 1962 No. 402 Notes of the Quarter AN important extension of the Institu- the divisional inspector of H.M. Coast- tion's practice of encouraging rescues by guard concerned it was stated that the shore-boats was put into effect in the boat owners were "vociferously keen" summer of 1962 by the Institution in on the new scheme. conjunction with the Ministry of Trans- port. Its purpose is to make wider and IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE more co-ordinated use of the services TRADITIONS of boat-owners who are prepared to The scheme for enlisting the help of put out to the rescue when the need boat owners is of course in accordance arises. with the Royal National Life-boat The extended scheme was initiated Institution's general traditions. The experimentally on the south coast of Institution has always tried to make England and the Isle of Wight between use of the willingness of volunteers to Selsey Bill and Swanage. The Ministry put out to the rescue rather than to of Transport distributed to all coast- establish large new organisations to guard stations concerned a list of the meet new needs. Closer co-operation boat owners who had agreed to co- between the established rescue services operate and whose boats were known to and individual boat owners can be be generally available. The list gave expected once the new scheme becomes their telephone numbers and particu- more widely adopted, and if there were lars of the type of boat they owned. any doubt about the need for such co- The Institution wrote to these boat operation the figures for launches by owners and reminded them that they : life-boats in the holiday months of were entitled to rewards on the same 1962 would dispel it. Once again a scale as those paid to members of a , record was established when life-boats life-boat crew and also to the cost of were launched on service in September fuel and of replacing any gear lost or 117 times, the highest figure ever damaged. recorded for the month of September The idea of launching this scheme since the Institution was founded in arose, of course, from the growing ' 1824. concern felt at the number of lives lost Many of the services were to small through accidents to small craft at boats, but the outstanding rescue sea during the summer months. Al- occurred on the 17th September, when though the scheme had not been in ! for the first time a life-boat saved the operation long before the summer came [ lives of the crew of a hovercraft. The to an end, its value has already been Rhyl coxswain, Harold Campini, was shown. In the limited area in which the awarded the silver medal for gallantry, pilot scheme was launched it is known I and another unusual feature of the that in a period of a little over two ) service was the making of special months 23 calls were made on the boat awards to the shore helpers. A full owners listed by the Ministry, and there account of this service appears on is no doubt that other calls were page 343. answered by boat owners who, largely because they did not seek any rewards, COSTLY WORKS ON THE COAST did not report the incidents. There have From time to time the Institution not yet been any spectacular rescues, engages in a major new enterprise such but in a report produced jointly by the as the construction of a life-boat district inspector of the Institution and station. In recent years a new station 342 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1962 was built at the Lizard/Cadgwith at a tion being some £3,500. At Penlee cost of approximately £100,000, and the work needed to provide a new and what was in effect a new station was more powerful boathouse winch is constructed at Selsey as a consequence expected to cost over £1,500. of coast erosion. These major under- takings aroused some public interest, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE but all the year round work has to be The ninth international life-boat con- done at a variety of stations of a kind ference, which is to be held in Edin- of which little is heard, but which is burgh early in June, 1963, seems likely nevertheless costly. At one recent meet- to be attended by more delegates from ing of the Committee of Management, life-boat societies abroad than any of for instance, major improvements to the earlier conferences. At the time of three different life-boat stations, those going to press acceptances have been at Aldeburgh, at Llandudno and at received from the two life-boat societies Penlee were decided upon. At Aide- in both France and the Netherlands, burgh the provision of a new boat, and other countries which will be send- alterations in the coast since groynes ing delegates are Belgium, Denmark, and a sea wall were built a few years Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Nor- ago, and the wearing of skids and turn- way, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, tables by wave-driven shingle have Turkey and the U.S.A. It is also necessitated constructional work for possible that there will be representa- improving launching conditions at an tives from Canada, Chile, Iceland, estimated cost of over £7,000. Subject Japan, Uruguay and the U.S.S.R. to town planning consent the life-boat Visiting life-boats from a number house at Llandudno will be altered in of European countries are likely to time for a new life-boat to be placed provide a major attraction at the there, the estimated cost of the altera- conference. Oldest Life-boat Supporter Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was of her needlework to be sold on behalf probably the oldest active supporter of of the Institution, and when she died the life-boat service, died at the Queen the other residents of the Queen Mary Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in Homes sent a donation to the Institu- August, 1962, at the age of 103. To tion, as she had requested that this within a few months of her death Miss should be done instead of providing Goodeve was regularly sending samples flowers. Photographic Competition BECAUSE of the success of the com- For the best 35-mm. colour petition staged last year the Institution will again hold a photographic com- transparency - - - £10 petition, the closing date for entries For the best black-and-white being 31st October, 1963. Photographs should be sent to the Secretary of the photograph - - - £10 Institution, and envelopes marked "Photographic Competition". The winning photographs will become The competition is open to members the Institution's property. Other trans- of life-boat crews, branch members and parencies and photographs will be officials, and members of the Institu- returned, if requested, and acknowledg- tion's staff, and the following prizes are ment will be made if they are used in offered:- the Institution's publications. DECEMBER, 1962] THE LIFE-BOAT 343 First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service into a trough. Fortunately the cox- of a unique kind was carried out when swain had enough way on to bring her for the first time a rescue was effected round and make for the hovercraft. by life-boat from a hovercraft. The Meanwhile Mr. Owen had ordered the hovercraft was the first to be used on shore helpers to disperse round the public service in this country and launching position in order to help in operated between Rhyl and Hoylake case there was an accident. during the summer of 1962. Having Coxswain Campini headed for the completed her programme in the middle hovercraft, which was drifting rapidly of September, she was put to moorings towards the promenade. There were at Rhyl to await a tug which would three men aboard, who already knew tow her to Liverpool. that the hovercraft would almost certainly break up, and they had re- Seas Break into Boathouse luctantly decided to abandon her. At 1.4 in the early hours of the They inflated their life-jackets and morning of the 17th September the opened the starboard door, but they honorary secretary of the Rhyl life- found it extremely difficult to push the boat station, Mr. J. M. Owen, learned door open against the wind, and it from the coastguard that the hovercraft could not be held open by the strut VA3-001 had broken adrift. Her crew normally used for that purpose. One were trying to take her out to sea on her of the hovercraft's crew tried to talk engines. Mr. Owen alerted the boat's to the life-boat coxswain by loud- officers of the life-boat, who assembled hailer, but the noise of the engines, in the boathouse. At 1.14 the coast- combined with the noise of the sea and guard asked for the life-boat's help wind, made this almost impossible. As and the maroons were fired. the life-boat approached, the hover- A west-north-westerly gale was blow- craft's crew decided to cut out the ing. Rough seas were breaking heavily engines and shout instructions for in the shallow water and rolling over coming alongside. the promenade into the boathouse. The night was dark, and visibility was Drifting Fast to Leeward further reduced by heavy spray. It was Finding that there was nothing on the half an hour before high water on a hovercraft to which he could make a spring tide.
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