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

VOL. XXX. OCTOBER, 1938. No. 335.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849

Grace Darling Centenary. Opening of a Memorial Museum at . SEPTEMBER 7th was the hundredth names of the rescuers, and then the anniversary of the most famous of all " circumstances of the case." rescues from shipwreck. " We, the undersigned, do hereby It was on the morning of September certify that Wm. Darling, the keeper 7th, 1838, that , and her of the Light House on the Long Stone father, William Darling, put off in a Fern Island, did at daybreak on rowing boat from the Longstone Light- Friday morning 7th September with house, Fame Islands, , the assistance of his Wife and Daughter and rescued nine survivors of the (being the only persons then with him sixty-three men, women and children at the Light House) launch the Light who had been on board the House boat, and he and his Daughter steamer , which had struck Grace Darling about 22 years of age on the Harker Rock in the early hours (who insisted on sharing her Father's of that morning and had broken in danger) did succeed in reaching the two. Shortly afterwards seven fisher- wreck of the Forfarshire Steam Vessel men of , one of them on the Harker Rock, about three Grace Darling's brother, reached the quarters of a mile from the Light House, rock. They had had much farther to and bring nine persons to the Light go, and they arrived to find that the House in safety; where they were rescue had been accomplished. kept, and such assistance administered, as their necessities required, till the The First Account. weather permitted communication The double story of the rescue was with the main land, which was for the briefly told to the Institution in two space of three days. statements, each signed by four men. " ROBERT SMEDDLE, . The originals are among the Institu- " J. SCAFE, Gent., Bamburgh. tion's records. Under the heading: " JOHN EMBLETON, Surgeon. " Wreck at the Fern Islands on the " THOMAS MADDISON, Bambro Castle." seventh of September, 1838, of the "We the undersigned do hereby Forfarshire, S. V. Jn. Humble, Master, certify, that Wm. Robson, Michael bound from Hull to Dundee," is Robson, James Robson (three Brothers) the list of the nine persons rescued, the Wm. Swan, Thos. Cuthbertson, Rpbt. 530 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Knox, and Brooks Darling (son of opened at Bamburgh the Grace Darling Darling the Lightman) fishermen, be- Memorial Museum. The site was pre- longing to North Sunderland, did pro- sented by Lord Armstrong, lord of the ceed on the morning of the 7th of manor, and the funds to build the September in their own boat and to museum were raised by the Bamburgh the imminent risk of their lives, succeed Grace Darling Memorial Committee, in reaching the wreck of the Forfarshire formed in November, 1935, with Major Steam Vessel upon the Fern Islands; Charles M. Forster, O.B.E., T.D., as where they were detained* by the state its chairman, and the Rev. G. R. of the sea from returning until Sunday Wilkinson, vicar of Bamburgh, as its the 9th when they ventured off, bring- honorary treasurer. In response to ing with them three bodies and were the committee's appeal some £400 was obliged to land at Beadnel, some subscribed by the public, and the distance to the south of North Sun- balance required to build the museum derland. has been contributed by the Insti- " ROBERT SMEDDLE, Bamburgh Castle. tution, in whose custody the museum " J. SCAFE, Gent., Bamburgh. has been placed.* The museum stands " JOHN EMBLETON, Surgeon. close to the house where Grace Darling " THOMAS MADDISON, Bambro Castle." was born, and opposite St. Aidan's Church, where she is buried. The Rewards. The opening ceremony began with a Grace Darling and William Darling service in St. Aidan's Church, con- were both awarded the gold medal of ducted by the vicar of Bamburgh. In the Royal Humane Society and the the church every seat was occupied. silver medal of the Royal National Many people were standing in the Life-boat Institution. The men of aisles, Outside hundreds listened to North Sunderland, some of whose the service, which was relayed through descendants man the North Sunderland loud-speakers. The congregation, life-boat to-day, were rewarded by the headed by the Bishpp of Newcastle Institution, which gave £10 to be and the clergy of the diocese, then went divided between them, William Darling in procession to the doorway of the and Grace Darling. museum. There Major Forster told Since that time nineteen women have the story of the rescue, and Lord Arm- won the silver medal of the Institution, strong formally entrusted the museum but none for a deed comparable in gal- to the Institution and presented to lantry to Grace Darling's. Hundreds of Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the Institu- men, too, since that time, have won the tion's chairman, the title deeds of the silver medal, but few have deserved it site. As he did so the Right Hon. more than William Darling. He went Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt., Lord Lieu- out to the rescue feeling that, if he did tenant of Northumberland, broke the not, his daughter would go by herself. Institution's flag on the mast above He went knowing that although they the museum. might reach the wreck, they could The Bishop of Newcastle then dedi- never hope to row their boat back cated the building, and the Duke of unless they succeeded in rescuing some Northumberland unveiled a memorial, of the men of the Forfarshire and those plaque on the north wall bearing the men were not too injured and not too inscription: exhausted to help. His worst moment was when he landed on the rock and " This building was erected in memory left Grace Darling in the boat. That of she was able to handle it alone in the GRACE HORSLEY DARLING. heavy seas and to keep it off the rocks 1815-1842. was a wonderful feat of skill and One hundred years after her heroic strength and courage. rescue with her father of the steamer Forfarshire, wrecked off the Fame The Grace Darling Memorial Museum. Islands, The centenary celebrations of Grace 7th September, 1838." Darling's deed began on July 21st, * Major Forster lias accepted the invitation when the Duke of Northumberland of the Institution to be the Honorary •They stayed at the . Curator of the museum. OCTOBEK, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 531

By courtesy of} [Northern Echo THE . This photograph was taken from the itself and the big rock on the right is the Harker where the Forfarshire was wrecked. In the middle can be seen the old lighthouse on Brownsman Island where Grace Darling lived until the Longstone Lighthouse was built in 1826

By courtesy of} [ Valentine & Sons, Ltd., Dundee THE HOUSE AT —WHERE GRACE DARLING DIED. 532 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. The architect, Mr. G. L. Couves, In 1913 the coble was presented to presented the key of the museum to the Royal National Life-boat Institu- the Duke of Northumberland, who then tion by Colonel Joicey's daughter, unlocked the door and declared the Lady John Joicey-Cecil, wife of Lord museum open. John Joicey-Cecil, on condition that A vote of thanks to the Duke was it should remain in Northumberland. proposed by Major Forster and From then until 1930 it was exhibited seconded by the vicar of Bamburgh, at the Dove Marine Laboratory, Culler- and, on behalf of the Institution, Sir coats. In 1930 it was, for six months, Godfrey Baring presented to Major on exhibition in Newcastle-on-Tyne at Forster a framed picture of Bamburgh the North-East Coast Exhibition. Since Castle in recognition of his work as then it has been in the care of Lord chairman of the museum committee. Armstrong at Bamburgh until a per- About three thousand people took manent home could be built for it.* part in the ceremony, among them Miss Grace Horsley Darling, of Gateshead, The Exhibits. and Mr. William Darling, of Renton, as The coble is the chief exhibit in the well as other members of the Darling memorial museum. Before it went to family, the Mayors of , the museum it was carefully surveyed Berwick and Morpeth, and the crew of by the Institution's own surveyors, and the North Sunderland life-boat, with was put into as thorough a state of Coxswain James Robson at their head, repair as possible without altering its great-grandson of Michael Robson, one appearance. It stands by itself in the of the boat's crew which went out to museum behind a panel of glass on a the Forfarshire. bed of sand from Bamburgh . The Institution has also presented to The History of the Boat. the museum a bust of Grace Darling The coble in which Grace Darling by David Dunbar, similar to Dunbar's and her father went out to the rescue bust which is in the National Portrait was an open rowing boat 21 feet long Gallery. Many other relics have been by 6 feet wide. It was built at Tweed- presented or lent to the museum. mouth, Berwick-on-Tweed, about 1830, Among them are several locks of Grace and was used at the Longstone Light- Darling's hair, a piece of the dress house by William Darling till approxi- which she wore when she went out to mately 1857. As it was then no longer the Forfarshire, her ring, her umbrella, seaworthy for the very stormy waters a cloak and scarf given her by the Duke round the Fame Islands, he gave it to of Northumberland, a Bible given her his youngest son, George Alexander by the ladies of Nottingham, a replica Darling (twin brother of William Brooks of her gold medal from the Royal Darling), of . He was a ship's Humane Society and the silver medals carpenter, and his father considered awarded to her and her father by the him the most likely son to take great Institution. There are also in the care of it. museum the red ensign and other George Darling used it for a number relics of the Forfarshire and many of years for fishing from Seahouses, original letters, paintings, engravings and when it became too old for such and photographs. The names of the work he sold it to Colonel John Joicey, seven fishermen who went out from Newton Hall, Stocksfield-on-Tyne. This North Sunderland and the record, as was in the early seventies, probably already given, of what they did, are to 1873. There the coble remained for be placed in the museum. years on the ornamental lake, and when no longer sound enough to lie Centenary Celebrations. afloat, it was housed in a shed in the The centenary was celebrated on grounds. While in the possession of Wednesday, September 7th, at Bam- the Joicey family it was lent to various burgh, the arrangements being made exhibitions, being shown at Tynemouth * This history of the coble was given by Major Forster in his address at the centenary in 1882, London in 1883, in celebrations, and we have documentary evi- 1886, Newcastle in 1887, and dence of its history before the coble was in 1888. given to the Institution. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 583

By courtesy of ] [Newcastle Journal OPENING OF THE GRACE DARLING MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Procession from St. Aldan's Church.

By courtesy of] 1T>" Topical Press Agency Ltd. THE GRACE DARLING MEMORIAL IN HAMBURGH CHURCHYARD. Laying wreaths, on September 7th, I938t 534 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. by the Joint Seahouses and Bamburgh Forfarshire, her celebrity and her death Centenary Committee, with Major For- at the ag» of twenty-six. ster as chairman. That morning there In the evening there was again a was a light south-easterly breeze blow- large congregation at St. Aidan's ing which did no more than ripple the Church, where a memorial service was sea. A large congregation'gathered in conducted by the vicar of Bamburgh, St. Aidan's Church at 10.30 for a short and the preacher was Canon R. R. service conducted by the vicar. The Mangin, of AInwick, Archdeacon of lesson was from the 9th chapter of the . The hymns were " Oft Gospel of St. Matthew: "And he in danger, oft in woe," " Eternal entered into a ship, and passed over, Father, strong to save," " Fierce raged and came into his own. city "; and the the tempest o'er the deep," and hymns were " Let saints on earth in " Abide with me." concert sing " and " Fierce raged the tempest o'er the deep." After the The Memorial Sermon. service the congregation went in pro- The Archdeacon said: cession to the Grace Darling memorial " We have come here to-night to pay in the churchyard, which bears the date our tribute of honour and reverence to September 7th, 1838, and wreaths were Grace Darling's memory. There is no laid on it by Lord Armstrong, Captain need for me to tell you the story of that W. J. Oliver, M.C., on behalf of the great deed, which has been told so often. Institution, and Mrs. J. Jepson, a All of us Northumbrians know it well grand-niece of Grace Darling, on behalf from our very childhood. Others may of her relatives. Trie Institution's hear it told with surprise and admira- wreath bore the words: " From the tion, but we who live here, though we Royal National Life-boat Institution yield not in the admiration with which and the Men and Women of the we recall it, do not hear it with surprise, Life-boat Service." Many of the con- for after all it is what we expect of any gregation then visited the museum. Northumbrian fishergirl, and we expect In the afternoon hundreds of people it not in vain. Do not think for one went to the Longstone Lighthouse, moment that I would minimize the every available motor boat in Sea- courage or greatness of this deed, but houses being used. They saw the many of you, like myself, can recall kitchen and Grace Darling's bedroom, deeds of courage and heroism done not and from there went to the Harker only by the fishermen, but by the Rock, following the course which Grace fishergirls on this coast, deeds not so Darling and her father had taken. The famous, but hardly less brave. motor life-boats from Boulmer, North " Hers was a great deed and a brave Sunderland and Holy Island also took deed, and I would emphasize that what parties to the lighthouse, and on behalf enabled her to do it was that she was of the Centenary Committee, one of prepared in spirit and body to face the the life-boatmen placed a wreath on crisis when it arose. It is so with any the memorial to Grace Darling in St. great act of courage. It seems spon- 's Chapel on Inner Fame. taneous, instantaneous, but long years The weather had changed, a stiff of preparation had preceded it. It northerly breeze was blowing and was so with Grace Darling on that' the sea was very choppy when the Longstone rock, where she had learned trips were made. to manage a coble, no easy thing in the On their return from the lighthouse stormiest of seas. It was that under- the people poured into the Seahouses lying' spirit of preparation that enabled cinema. There a film was shown, Grace Darling to do this great deed, called " Nursery Island," of the bird and if we are to meet whatever crisis life on the Fame Islands, in which comes to us in life, we .too must be Grace Darling had taken so great an prepared, not only in spirit, but in body, interest. This was followed by the as was she." life-boat film " Boats that Save Life." The centenary was also celebrated by Major Forster then told the story of many articles in the Press, and theB.B.C. Grace Darling's life at the lighthouse, broadcast an account of the opening the rescue of the nine survivors of the of the museum from its Newcastle- OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 535

By courtesy of] [Valentine & Sons, Ltd., Dundee INTERIOR OF THE GRACE DARLING MEMORIAL MUSEUM. In the corner of the room is the bust of Grace Darling by David Dunbar

By courtesy of} [Valentine & Sons Ltd. Dundee GRACE DARLING'S COBLE. 536 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. on-Tyne station. It also broadcast Bamburgh. Visitors have already two plays, one, called " Grace Darling," come to see it from all over Great by Mr. L. du 'Garde Peach, from the Britain. Regional StudiH^ in the Children's Hour, Many thousands have known Grace in May, and tfie other, called " Long- Darling as a name symbolizing courage stone Light," by Miss Mary D. Sheridan, and self-sacrifice, to whom the details from Newcastle-on-Tyne in September. of her exploit were unknown. All that The celebrations have shown how has now been written about her, and secure a place Grace Darling holds in still more the opening of this museum public memory and admiration, and in her memory, should ensure that not nothing has shown it more clearly than only her name but what she did will the interest taken in the museum at be remembered.

Gallantry in Galway Bay. Award of Seven Bronze Medals. ON the night of August 16th, 1938, the put out to her with two extra men. steam trawler Nogi, of London, went Twenty minutes after the SOS had ashore about 300 yards N.W. of the been received the life-boat was on her lighthouse on Straw Island, which lies way to the rescue. She reached the off Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands Nogi in ten minutes. in Galway Bay, on the west coast of . A strong wind was blowing To the Rescue of the Small Boat. from the W.S.W. through Gregory As the life-boat got near, the Nogi's Sound, and a very heavy sea was crew shouted to her to go to the help running. The wrecked trawler was in of the Hatano's small boat. She was an exposed position, and in great already in the broken water near the danger. The Nogi at once launched rocks when the life-boat found her a small boat, and her boatswain and with her searchlight. There was no one of the crew got into it. The boat's time to throw a rope and the life-boat painter parted and the boatswain was ran straight alongside. One of the thrown out of the boat. He managed small boat's rowlocks stuck into the to clutch the anchor cable of the life-boat's fender. Motor Mechanic trawler and was hauled on board. The Joseph Doyle jumped into the small small boat, with the other man in her, boat at once, smashed the rowlock was carried away. with a hatchet and freed the life-boat. The life-boat then took aboard the four Trawler's Boat in Difficulties. men, and took the small boat in tow. A sister trawler, Hatano, was an- This done, she returned to the Nogi, chored about a mile and a half away. but the coxswain found that he could She sent out a wireless call for help and not get alongside. He anchored to launched a boat, with four men on windward and veered down as near as board, to go to the help of the Nogi. possible. The bowman, P.' Flaherty, The boat got into difficulties at once with four members of the crew, W. and was carried towards the rocks. Gorham, P. Gill, J. Flaherty and T. The Hatano's SOS was picked up Flaherty, got on board the small boat by the trawler Akranes which was which had just been rescued. A rope anchored in Kileany Bay, where the was made fast to her from the life-boat, Galway Bay motor life-boat William and the life-boat then veered her down Evans is moored. The coxswain and towards the Nogi, the men on board second motor mechanic of the life-boat her keeping her head to sea and wind were on board the trawler when the by means of the oars. They got her message was received. The trawler to the lee side of the Nogi; two lines sounded her whistle. The coxswain were thrown to her from the Nogi; and second motor mechanic went at the boat was pulled alongside. Seas once to the life-boat and sounded the were breaking right over the Nogi, and foghorn. The remainder of the crew it was only with great difficulty that OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 587 six of the eleven men on board her were landed from her the eleven men who taken off. The small boat was then had already been rescued and returned hauled and rowed back to the life- to her moorings at 1.30 P.M. on the 17th, boat, put the six rescued men aboard more than fourteen hours after she had her, and returned to the wreck. The first put out. other five men were rescued in the same way and taken to the life-boat. The Rewards. The rescue had lasted two hours and This was a fine service, carried out by the end of it the small boat had with promptness, courage and great made about eight inches of water. skill, and the Institution has made the following awards: An Eight Hours' Search. To Coxswain JOHN GILL, the bronze The coxswain then heard of the man medal for gallantry, accompanied by of the Nogi's crew who had been swept a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum; away in the trawler's boat shortly after To Motor Mechanic JOSEPH DOYLE, the Nogi struck. He transferred the who showed great presence of mind and eleven rescued men to the trawler pluck in jumping into the small boat, Hatano and went in search of the smashing the rowlock and so preventing missing man. The same five men who an accident to the life-boat, the bronze had carried out the rescue were landed medal for gallantry, accompanied by at the lighthouse slip on Straw Island, a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum; and searched for him for two hours. To each of the five men who manned They found nothing. The life-boat the small boat, Bowman P. FLAHERTY, then put back to the station to refuel W. GORHAM, P. GILL, J. FLAHERTY and get food. At daylight she returned and T. FLAHERTY, the bronze medal to the search, taking with her a civic for gallantry, accompanied by a copy guard. A party was again landed on of the vote inscribed on vellum; the island. It found the missing boat, To the other four members of the badly damaged, on the lee side. It crew, MICHAEL HERNON, second cox- found the oars of the boat scattered on swain, MICHAEL DIRRANE, assistant the rocks. It found, too, a pair of boots motor mechanic, COLMAN FLAHERTY and one stocking. The search went on and THOMAS BEATTY, life-boatmen, the for six hours and just as the party was thanks of the Institution inscribed on giving up all hope of finding the man vellum; himself, they saw his head over the top To the coxswain, motor mechanic and of the lighthouse wall. He remem- each of the nine other members of the bered nothing after getting into the crew a reward of £2 in addition to the boat when the Nogi struck. He was ordinary scale reward of £1 17*. 6d., so dazed and exhausted that he had making a total reward of £3 17s. 6d. to be carried down to the life-boat. to each man. Standard rewards to the He was taken on board the Hatano crew, £18 155.; additional rewards to and put to bed. The life-boat then the crew, £22; total rewards, £40 15s.

Portrait on the Cover. THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- coxswain, so that he has been ser- swain Robert Cross, of the life-boat ving in command of the boat for station on the . Coxswain 26 years. In 1916 he won the silver Cross joined the crew in 1906, when the medal of the Institution for gallantry, station, which was then known as the in 1922 its bronze medal, and in station, was under the control 1926 a second-service clasp to his of the Humber Conservancy Board. silver medal. While he has been The station was taken over by the coxswain there have been 186 launches Institution in 1911 and in the following on service and 150 lives have been year Coxswain Cross was appointed rescued. 538 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Services to German Yachts. Thanks of the Institution to Clacton-on-Sea. THERE were exceptionally heavy gales had refloated, and the life-boat was at the end of May and the beginning recalled by wireless, returning to her of June, 1938. Thirty-two life-boats station at 1.30 the next morning. were launched on service during the Two days later, on 2nd June, the five days from 29th May to 2nd June, Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat was the majority on the south-east and again called out, this tune to the south coasts, and they rescued 36 lives. yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, of For these launches the Institution paid Bremen. She had been overtaken by rewards to the crews and launchers a whole S.W. gale, with a very heavy amounting to over £404. sea, about three and a half miles south The outstanding services of these of Clacton Pier. Her sails were carried five days were at Southend-on-Sea, away and she had lost both her anchors. and Clacton-on-Sea. The Southend Her flares were seen and reported by services will be described in the next the coastguard at 3.42 in the morning, issue of The Lije-boat. and at 4.5 the life-boat put out. It Four German yachts taking part in was the worst weather the crew a race from Heligoland to Burnham- had known for twenty years. An on-Crouch, , were caught in hour and ten minutes after launching these gales when near the English coast. the life-boat found the yacht drifting. The first of them was the Windspiel, With great difficulty in the very of Hamburg, which met a W.S.W. gale, heavy seas she got a rope aboard her with a very heavy sea, off Dover, on the and took her in tow. She towed her to night of May 29th. It was just about , arriving there at 8.45 A.M. midnight when the Dover coxswain, visiting the camber to see if all was well, The Rewards. saw a rocket go up. The motor life- It was a fine service in exceptionally boat Sir William Hillary put out and bad weather, and the Institution has found the Windspiel close inshore in made the following rewards: tow of a local motor boat. The life- To Coxswain CHARLES R. ELLIS, the boat escorted them in. Twice the yacht thanks of the Institution inscribed on broke from her tow, but each time, by vellum; the light of the life-boat's searchlight, To the coxswain and each of the the motor boat got her in tow again. seven members of the crew, a reward of £1 in addition to the ordinary scale Three Launches at Clacton. reward of £1 5s. On the same day, in the early morn- Standard rewards to the crew, £815s.; ing, the coastguard at Clacton-on-Sea additional rewards to the crew, £8; reported distress signals four miles off total rewards, £20 10s. 2d. CJacton Pier. A S.W. gale was blow- Rewards to Clacton-on-Sea for the ing, with a very heavy sea. The motor service to the Westtvind, £24 13s. 4d. life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was Rewards to Clacton-on-Sea for the launched at 3.40, and an hour and launch to the Hamburg, £11 6s. twenty minutes later found the yacht Rewards to Dover for the service to Westwind, of Bremen, with a crew of the Windspiel (partly permanent paid five on board. She was dragging her crew), £2 10s. anchor. The life-boat towed her to Total rewardsjfor the services to the Harwich, arriving at 8.45 in the morn- German yachts, £58 19s. 6d. ing, and returned to her station at 6.40 Through the Royal Ocean Yacht •in the evening. Club the Institution received a letter of Two hours later she was out again. appreciation from the German yacht- This time to the yacht Hamburg. ing organization of the , and The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club had £30 from German insurance companies, reported that the yacht had gone in gratitude for the help of the Clacton- aground at the mouth of the River on-Sea motor life-boat to the yachts Crouch. After the life-boat had put Westwind and Dos Wappen von Bremen, out a message came that the yacht was sent to the crew. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 539

Life-boat Calendar and Christmas Card.

By courtesy of] [Edward A. Doo, Ltd., Smthend-an-Sea

THE life-boat Christmas Card and Owing to the customs duties, Calendar will have reproduced on them it will not be possible to print in in colour the picture shown above. It names and addresses for the Irish depicts a life-boat rescue on the Free State. dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- As in previous years, the calendar will ing is one of two presented to the have the record of lives saved printed Institution some years ago by Mr. on the front and other particulars on Frank Garron, of Southend-on-Sea. the back. It had been in the possession of his family for thirty years, but the artist It will be 11| inches long by 9 inches and the date are not known. wide, and can be obtained from the The card will be an eight-page card Institution in any quantity, post free, with the Institution's crest embossed Is. each, or 10s. a dozen, this price on the outside; and inside, Christmas including an envelope with each calen- and New Year greetings. The price dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, will be 4sd. each with envelope. If just under four ounces, so that it can twenty-five or more are ordered, the be sent through the post, with the name and address can be printed under envelope open, for Id. the greetings. The price with the Those who wish to order calendars name and address printed will be 6d. and cards can do so at once. Orders each for quantities from twenty-five to should be sent to the Secretary, Royal fifty. If fifty or more are ordered, no National Life-boat Institution, 42, charge will be made for printing the Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and name and address. postal orders or stamps enclosed.

From the Antarctic. THE British and Norwegian crews return from their whaling season in of the whaling ships Southern Em- the Antarctic, sent the Institution press and Southern Princess, on their £51 2s. 3d. 540 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938

Services of the Life-boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management. Launches 119. Lives rescued 86. April Meeting. A.M. They gave the alarm and the Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the motor life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam was launched at 7.45 A.M. A fresh N.E. trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had breeze was then blowing, with a very run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on heavy ground sea, and tremendous seas Aran Island some days earlier, arrived were breaking on the cliffs. The life- at Casla Bay on the mainland, with boat found the Tarascon ashore in a his chief engineer-superintendent, and very bad position among the rocks, wired to the island for a boat to take and the remainder of her crew were him across to examine the wreck. No huddled at the foot of the cliffs, which boat was available, and as the matter at this point are very high and over- was urgent, since it was the last day of hanging. The life-boat anchored and low water for a week, the motor life- veered in as close as possible. She boat William Evans was sent for him. fired a line and by this means got the She was launched at 1 P.M., and arrived breeches-buoy ashore. The Tarascoris back at her station at 4 P.M.—Property men could not be made to understand Salvage Case. how to work the buoy, however, and they had to be hauled on a single line Humber, .—Shortly before through the surf to the life-boat, one at midnight on the 19th March, 1938, the a time. This was safely accomplished, motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, although the life-boat herself struck bound laden from Plymouth for Middles- heavily on a rock. She returned to brough, ran aground on the Inner her station at 9.45 A.M. A letter Binks. A moderate south-westerly of thanks wasceceived from the owners. breeze was blowing, with a slight to —Rewards, £7 16s. 6d. moderate sea. Spurn Royal Naval Shore Signal Station and the life-boat Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M. watchman reported the Cohfid ashore, on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall and the motor life-boat City of Bradford coastguard telephoned that a trawler II was launched at 12.11 A.M. on the was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of 20th. She anchored and veered down, Rousay, in a bad position, and was but owing to the very shallow water, leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was could not get alongside. There was blowing, with a rough sea, heavy rain a slight swell, and as the wind began showers and patches of thick fog. The to freshen, the coxswain decided to motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. put out at stand by until the Confid refloated, 7.15 P.M., and went round the west which she did at 4 A.M. The life-boat side of the mainland and through the uided her to a safe anchorage inside dangerous Eynhallow Sound. She was f purn Point, and returned to her helped on her passage through the station at 5 A.M.—Permanent paid sound by Mr. Rae, Mr. Sinclair and crew: Rewards, 9s. Mr. Harvey, members of the local committee, who went in their cars to Salcombe, Devonshire.— The motor Burgar and Aikerness and showed lights trawler Tarascon, of Boulogne, ran on to guide her. The life-boat found the to the rocks in Steeple Cove at about trawler, the Confide, of Peterhead, 10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1938. Her ashore, but undamaged. She stood by wireless was put out of order when she until the Confide refloated with the struck, and she had no rockets. There rising , and then escorted her into was a very heavy ground swell, tint the shelter of Rousay. Visibility was the crew of twenty managed to reach very poor just then and so the life- the rocks. Later five of them got away boat herself sheltered until the weather in a small boat and made for Sewer had cleared somewhat. She returned Mill Sands, which they reached at 7.30 to her station at 6.45 A.M. on l&e 24th, OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 541 after having been at sea for eleven Shoreham. Meanwhile an R.A.F. and a half hours. The three members motor launch had been sent out from of the committee were thanked and an Calshot. She came up with the life- increase in the usual money award, on boat at 2.40 A.M. and took over the the standard scale, was granted to tow. The life-boat then made for each member of the crew.—Standard home, and arrived at her station at rewards to crew, £13 2*. 6d.; additional 3 A.M.—Rewards, £15 7*. 6d. rewards to crew, £5; total rewards, £19 9s. 6d. Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At about 4 P.M. on the 4th April, 1938, a pilot Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of reported that a boat was in distress off the 23rd March, 1938, a message was re- Sunderland. She was the motor fishing ceived from Sandness that a woman on boat Lilian, of North Shields, with a the island of Papa Stour was seriously crew of two, in difficulties owing to the ill and in need of a doctor. Owing fouling of her propeller. A steamer to very bad weather the regular ferry had tried to get her in tow, but had service to the island had not been failed and had damaged her own stem. running for five days. A W.S.W. gale A strong, squally N.W. breeze was was now blowing, with a heavy sea, and blowing, with a strong northerly swell. the weather was thick with rain. The The motor life-boat George and 'Isabella motor life-boat The Rankin was placed Irwin was launched at 4.80 P.M., and at the doctor's disposal, and she put on the way out saw another motor out with him at 2.45 P.M., reached the fishing boat, the Hilda, of Sunderland, island at 4.30 P.M., and arrived back with a crew of two, in distress with her at her station at 7.30 P.M.—Rewards, engine broken down. She towed both £19 15*. 6d., which, together with the boats into safety, and returned to her value of the stores used, were paid by station at 7.15 P.M. — Rewards, the Department of Health for . £7 15s. 6d. » Troon, Ayrshire.—On the morning of Eastbourne, Sussex. — During the the 27th March, 1938, a report was afternoon of the 5th April, 1938, with received from Irvine harbour that a a fresh west breeze blowing and a fishing boat in Irvine bay was flying moderate sea, the motor yacht May signals of distress. A strong N.W. Queen, of , bound from there breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. to Littlehampton, was capsized about The motor life-boat Sir David Richmond a mile off Eastbourne front by a sudden of Glasgow was launched at 8.30 A.M., squall. Her crew of two were thrown and found the Glasgow motor fishing into the water. She righted herself boat Consort in distress, with her and they got aboard again, but the engine broken down, about two miles yacht's mast had been torn out of the south of Irvine bar. She carried a deck and she had shipped a lot of water. crew of three, and was bound in ballast The men made signals for help and the from Irvine to Colonsay. The life-boat motor life-boat Jane Holland was towed her into Irvine harbour, and re- launched at 3.15 P.M. She towed the turned to her station at 10.15 A.M.— yacht into Newhaven, and returned to Rewards, £6 175. 6d. her station at 10.30 P.M.—Rewards, £29 18s. 6d. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the Lowestoft, .—At 4.45 A.M. on coastguard reported that an aircraft the 8th April, 1938, the coastguard had come down in the sea off Brighton, reported a small yacht in difficulties. and was firing Very lights. A light A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, west breeze was blowing, with a slight with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat sea. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd Agnes Cross was launched at 4.55 A.M., and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 11.5 and found the sailing and motor yacht P.M., and found the Royal Air Force Eleanor, of Boston, rolling heavily sea-plane K.4199, from Calshot, in a among the breakers of the inner shoal dangerous position near the West Pier. of Newcombe Sands. The life-boat was She took her in tow and made for manoeuvred alongside and some life- 542 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

boatmen boarded her. They found that St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the her engine had broken down and one of morning of the 16th April, 1938, the her anchors had been lost, and that her local motor boat Sirius put out from crew of two men were exhausted by Forth Clais with seventeen people on their efforts to keep her from going board, for a trip to Grasholme. They ashore. The life-boatmen hoisted her did not return when expected, and remaining anchor and the life-boat anxiety was felt for their safety. By towed her into harbour. The life- 9 P.M. a strong N.N.E. breeze was boat returned to her station at 6.10 blowing, with a rough sea, and the A.M. A letter of thanks and a donation motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was were received from one of the rescued launched to make a search. Dr. men.—Rewards, £20 18s. 6d. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., the honorary secretary, accompanied her. The life- , Yorkshire.—As the tide ebbed boat reached Grasholme at 10.45 P.M., during the afternoon of the 8th April, and in the rays of her searchlight the 1938, a rough sea began to break heavily party could be seen on the western outside the pier ends, making the har- slopes. The sea was too rough for bour entrance dangerous. • A strong N. the life-boat to get close in, and so breeze was blowing. The motor fishing she patrolled off shore until daylight. boats Pilot Me and Provider were at At 5.45 A.M. on the 17th the people sea, and at 4.30 P.M., when they were were able to get aboard the Sirius again, seen coming in, the motor life-boat and she made for Forth Clais. The life- Margaret Harker Smith put out. She boat followed her. On the run home the escorted the boats into harbour and Sirius stopped, owing to a choked petrol returned to her station at 6 P.M.— pipe, and the life-boat towed her to the Rewards, £6 8s. entrance to Forth Clais ha bour. The Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about life-boat returned to her station at 8.30 10.55 P.M. on the 13th April, 1938, the A.M., having been at sea for eleven and a coastguard telephoned that the steamer half hours. Donations amounting to Montrose, of Stockholm, had reported £23 2s. were received from members of having been in collision with a trawler the party. An increase in the usual five miles W.S.W. of . money award on the standard scale This position obviously was incorrect, was granted to each member of the as it was on land. As no further in- crew. — Standard rewards to crew, formation could be got, the motor £13 2s. 6d.; additional rewards to life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched crew, £4 ; total rewards, £19 7s. 6d. at 11.25 to search. A light northerly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on The life-boat found the Montrose at the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard midnight, beached about three-quarters telephoned that a small vessel was in of a mile north of Amble piers. Her distress off Beachy Head, and as the master said that he had sent away a Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for boat with five men to help the trawler, overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and and as the Montrose was not in im- Lilian Philpott was launched at 11.55 mediate danger, the life-boat left to P.M. A strong N.E. wind was blowing, look for the trawler. It was then with a heavy swell. Two miles south learned on shore that the trawler, the of Beachy Head the life-boat found the Polar Prince, of North Shields, had yacht Swift, of West Mersea, with a reached the Tyne, and the life-boat crew of five. She was bound from was recalled. She was moored at Ramsgate for Newhaven, but could 7 A.M. on the 14th. At midday she not cope with the seas off the head. put out again to stand by the Montrose The life-boat towed her into Newhaven, during the rising tide. The Montrose and returned to her station at 2 A.M.— refloated and made for the Tyne under Rewards, £10 5s. her own steam, with tugs in atten- dance. The life-boat accompanied her Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M. until it was seen that she was all right, on the 18th April, 1938, the motor and returned to her station at 3 P.M.— fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put Rewards, £20 9s. to sea to haul their crab pots. The QCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 543

weather was showery, and the sea meliten, of Bergen, had stranded strong. On the flood tide the sea grew during & dense fog, but refloated un- worse and broke heavily outside the aided on the next high tide.—Rewards, harbour, making it very dangerous for £6 175. 6d. boats coming in. At 3 P.M. the Pilot Me was seen making for home, and the Campbeltown, Argyllshire. -— 8th new motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- March, 1938. A vessel had been re- worth was launched on her first service. ported ashore at Dunaverty Point, but She met the Pilot Me near Rock Buoy, she refloated and the life-boat was re- warned her of the conditions, and called by wireless from Portpatrick.— escorted her into harbour. The Pilot Rewards, £13 11*. 6d. Me got in safely, although she shipped Portaskaig, Isle of Islay.—9th March, some very heavy seas, and nearly lost 1938. A trawler had been wrecked at one man overboard. The life-boat put Smuall Point, but eight of her crew of out again and met and safely escorted eleven were rescued from the shore by in the Success. She returned to her men with lines; the other three had station at 5.45 P.M. The life-boat been washed away and lost.—Rewards, crew were very pleased with their new £8 4s. boat, and the service was watched by several thousands of holiday-makers.— Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland. Rewards, £5 9s. —Very early on the morning of the 9th Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morn- March, 1938, the coastguard reported ing of the 19th April, 1938, the local that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound fishing-boats were caught at sea by from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees bad weather. Several came in, but with a cargo of oats and 'potatoes, had eight were still at sea. Another boat run aground at False Emmanuel Head, came in and reported that conditions Holy Island. The Holy Island life-boat were getting worse, and at 8.30 A.M. was off service for overhaul and repair, the pulling and sailing life'-boat Thomas and the Berwick-on-Tweed life-boat Masterman Hardy was launched. A Westmorland was launched at 1.30 A.M. squally north breeze was blowing, with A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, a heavy sea. The life-boat escorted with a choppy sea. The life-boat ar- the remaining boats into safety and rived at 2.30 A.M., and found that the returned to her station at 10.40 A.M.— Locksley's crew of five had already been Rewards, £12 14*. rescued. A motor fishing boat manned by eight men, four of whom were mem- Walton and Frinlon, Essex.—Early on bers of the Holy Island life-boat crew, the afternoon of the 19th April, 1938, the had put off from Holy Island and motor life-boat E.M.E.D., just before rescued them. The rescue had taken entering the Come estuary on passage nearly three hours, and owing to shal- to Rowhedge, for her annual overhaul, low water and wreckage, was carried out saw a barge in difficulties about a with great difficulty and at some risk. mile and a half south of Come Bar The Locksley became a total wreck. Buoy. A strong, squally N.W. breeze —Rewards : Life-boat, £18 19s. Qd.; was blowing, with a choppy sea. The shoreboat, £7, also 10s. for fuel used barge was the Gannet, of London, with and boat-hook lost. a crew of two, and she was bound for Bradwell with a cargo of pig food. , Cheshire.—13th March, 1938. She had carried away her sprit. The A motor boat had been reported during life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage the evening to be in a dangerous posi- in Bradwell Creek, and then went on tion off Hilbre, but nothing could be to Rowhedge, where she arrived at found.—Rewards, £25 14s. Qd. 4.40 P.M.—Property Salvage Case. Walmer, Kent.—15th March, 1938. The following life-boats were Two vessels had been in collision, but launched, but no services were rendered the crew of one had been taken off for the reasons given : by a Belgian steamer, and the other St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—6th March, vessel could not be found in the fog.— 1938. The Norwegian steamer Tom- Rewards, £29 Os. Qd. 544 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

Dover, Kent.—23rd March, 1938. May Meeting. The German naval training ship Albert Penlee, Cornwall.—During the night Leo Schlegeter had collided with a of the 22nd April, 1938, the coastguard steamer, but a tug had taken her in at Penzer Point telephoned that a tow and the steamer had gone on her fishing boat was in distress about two way.—Partly permanent paid crew. miles S.S.W. of the point. A north Rewards, £5 12*. 6d. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—24th March, 1938. The motor life-boat W. and S. was A leaking steamer had had to be launched at 10.45 P.M., and found the beached on the Shipwash Sands, but steam fishing boat Pioneer, of Penzance, had been helped by a tug.—Rewards, with a crew of two, at anchor. She had £22 14*. 6d. lost her propeller. The life-boat towed Walmer, Kent.—27th March, 1938. her into Newlyn Harbour, and returned A canoe with two men on board had cap- to her station at 12.30 A.M.—Rewards, sized, but one man had got ashore, while £11 9s. the other was drowned before help Cullercoats, Northumberland. —At 1.32 could reach him.—Rewards, £14 12s. 6d. P.M. on the 23rd April, 1938, the Seaton Port St. Mary, Isle of Man —27th Sluice coastguard reported a motor March, 1938. A keeper on the Chicken drifter on fire about two miles east of Rock Lighthouse had been taken ill, St. Mary's Island. A moderate N.N.E. but was taken off by a fishing boat.— breeze was blowing, with a moderate Rewards, £11 4s. sea. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 1.44 P.M. and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 29th found the Aberdeen motor drifter March, 1938. A sailing boat had cap- Saxon enveloped in smoke and flames. sized off Lancing, but her crew of two The crew of three had just been rescued swam ashore.-—Rewards, £7 11s. by a boat from a passing steamer. Sheringham, . — 7th April, They were transferred to the life- 1938. A steamer had reported by wire- boat. She took two of them to North less, through Humber Radio Station, Shields and one to Cullercoats, and re- that she had seen an aeroplane fall into turned to her station at 3.40 P.M. The the sea in flames near the Dudgeon Saxon drifted ashore on Whitley beach Light-vessel, but a long search revealed and became a total wreck.—Rewards, no trace of the machine. A letter of £7 10s. thanks was received from the R.A.F. station at Thornaby, to which the air- Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. craft was attached.—Rewards, £32 Ss. —At about 11.15 A.M. on the 29th April, 1938, the coastguard reported Hauxley, Northumberland. — 12th that a shrimp boat south of the harbour April, 1938. A fishing boat had appeared to be in difficulties. A watch stranded on Bondicar Rocks, but re- was kept on her, and at 11.38 the motor floated on the next high tide without life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of help.—Rewards, £18 4s. Gladswood was launched. A N. by W. Margate, Kent.—17th April, 1938. A gale was blowing, with a rather rough sailing yacht had got into difficulties off sea. The life-boat found the motor Hampton, but her crew of two were shrimp boat Violet, of Yarmouth, with rescued by boatmen from Herne Bay. one man on board, about one and a —Rewards, £16 3s. half miles south of Gorleston Pier. The Violet's engine had broken down, Anstruther, Fifeshire. — 19th April, her sails had been blown away, and she 1938. A fishing boat had caught fire, was in danger of swamping. The life- but her crew were taken on board boat towed her back to harbour, and another boat.—-Rewards, £11 13s. 6d. returned to her station at 12.52 P.M. Sheringham, Norfolk. — 23rd April, A letter of thanks was received from 1938. The engine of the motor barge the rescued man.—Rewards, £9 13s. Lies, of Rotterdam, had broken down, but a steamer took the barge in tow.— Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early in the morn- Rewards, £16 3s. 6d. ing of the 29th April, 1938, the local OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 545

fishing fleet put to sea. At 11 A.M. the quarters of a mile S.W. of Folkestone Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Pier. She was the Kushi, bound, with Gallilee and Provider were off the Rock a crew of three, from Rye to Twicken- Buoy, waiting for the tide to rise. The ham, and her engine had broken down. life-boat coxswain noticed through The life-boat towed her into Dover glasses that the Noel II had a line harbour, and returned to her station at aboard another boat, and then he saw midnight. A donation was received in her fire a distress signal. A strong and appreciation of this service.—Rewards, increasing N.E. breeze was blowing, £30 6s. with a rough sea which was breaking heavily outside the harbour. The Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M. motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard was launched at 11.40 A.M., and went reported a light about six miles S.W. to the Noel II. She found that she by S. Watch was kept, and after had lost her rudder and that the Easter some time it was decided to send out Morn was towing her in. She accom- the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden panied them towards the harbour. to investigate. She was launched at As they got near the ends of the pier 3.30 A.M. A N.E. gale was blowing, the tow-rope parted. The Noel II with a very rough sea. Nine and a was in immediate danger, but the life- half miles S.W. by W., on Ridge Sands, boat passed her another line and the life-boat found the sprit-sail barge towed her into harbour. The life-boat Florence Myall, of Rochester. She then put out again and escorted in the was bound from Rowhedge for Ben- remaining boats. She returned to her fleet laden with sand, and carried a station at 3.15 P.M.—Rewards, £5 9s. crew of two. Her steering-gear had broken and her hatches had been Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.5 P.M. carried away. The men had aban- on the 29th April, 1938, a message was doned her and were lying astern in received from the pierhead that a small the small boat. The life-boat rescued open fishing boat was in distress off them, and returned to her station at South Shoebury Buoy. A N.W. breeze 7.10 A.M.—Rewards, £13 45. was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about Service No. 3) was launched at 3.25 P.M., 5.53 P.M. on the 7th May, 1938, the and found the fishing boat, with three coastguard reported that a barge lying men on board, alongside another vessel. about two miles south of Walton Pier She took the three men on board, was flying a distress signal. A moder- towed the boat to the pier, and returned ate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a to her station at 5.55 P.M. The owner rather rough sea. The reserve motor sent a letter of thanks and a donation.— life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary Rewards, £6 105. duty at this station, put out at 6 P.M., and found the barge to be the Lady Hythe, Kent.—At about 5.30 P.M. on Mary, of London, bound for Yarmouth Sunday, 1st May, 1938, the Sandgate with a crew of two and a cargo of rice. coastguard reported that a motor She was leaking badly and had become cruiser two miles S. by W.|W. from unmanageable. Some of the life-boat the life-boathouse appeared to be in crew went on board to man the pump trouble. The coxswain kept her under and hoist some sail, and the life-boat observation for some time and saw her then towed the barge to Brightlingsea. get under way again. Later on the She anchored her in safe water and coastguard reported that she was once arrived back at her own station at more in difficulties. The life-boat's 2 A.M. on the 8th.—-Property Salvage crew were summoned, several of them Case. leaving a Salvation Army service, and the motor life-boat Viscountess Wake- Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 P.M. on the 14th field was launched at 6.57 P.M. A May, 1938, a man reported that he had strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with seen an aeroplane come down in the a moderate sea. The life-boat came sea about six miles S.E. of South Fore- up with the motor cruiser about three- land. A gentle S.S.W. breeze was 546 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. blowing, with a calm sea. The motor was launched, but was delayed by a life-boat Sir William Hillary put out at fouled propeller, and the boats reached 7.28 P.M. and found that aircraft safety unaided.—Rewards, £15 8s. G-ADJM had been taken in tow by a steamer. She had been bound from Sunderland, Co. Durham.-—8th May, Dunkirk to Lympne with two men on 1938. A small boat had got into diffi- board, but had been forced down culties, but reached Seaham Harbour owing to the failure of her engine. unaided.—Rewards, £5 2s. Qd. The life-boat escorted the steamer to Campbeltown, Argyllshire.-—9th May, Dover harbour, where she took over 1938. A fishing boat had been re- the tow and took the aircraft into safety. She landed the two men and ported missing, but was found at returned to her station at 10 P.M.— anchor and the life-boat was recalled Partly permanent paid crew. Rewards, by wireless.—Rewards, £11 15s. 6d. £6 5s. June Meeting. The following life-boats were Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 7 launched, but no services were rendered A.M. on the 20th May, 1938, the for the reasons given: Staithes fishing fleet put to sea. The weather was fine, but a moderate sea Fowey, Cornwall.—17th April, 1938. was running. A moderate north breeze An aeroplane had been reported to have sprang up, and the sea became very come down in the sea, but nothing heavy near Staithes harbour, breaking could be found, and it was presumed right across the entrance. The Runs- that a machine ftying very low had wick motor life-boat Robert Patton— given rise to the report.—Rewards, The Always Ready was launched at £4 7s. 6d. 10.15 A.M. and escorted the fishing Barra Island, Isle of lewis. — 27th boats through the broken water into April, 1938. A R.A.F. machine had harbour. She returned to her station been reported as overdue, but the at 1 P.M.—Rewards, £10 4s. report was found to be only a test call by the R.A.F.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d. Howth, Co. Dublin.—During the even- ing of the 23rd May, 1938, a converted St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938. ship's life-boat put off from Baldoyle, Two aeroplanes had been reported to with a party of three men, four boys have come down in the sea, but a and two girls on board. Her sail was search in which another plane joined blown away, she got into difficulties, revealed nothing. The honorary secre- and the party landed on an island tary of the station and district inspector known as Ireland's Eye. They lit a of life-boats went out in the boat.— bonfire which was seen on shore, and Rewards, £8 15s. the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 12.40 A.M. on the 24th, taking a punt Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — 29th April, with her. A W.N W. breeze was then 1938. A yacht had run aground, but blowing, with a choppy sea. In three refloated and did not need help.— trips the nine people were taken from Rewards, £11 6s. the island by the punt to the life-boat and then their boat was taken in tow. Walton and Frinton, Essex. •—- 30th The life-boat landed them at Howth April* 1938. A steamer had run ashore, harbour, and returned to her station but got off unaided.-—Rewards, £6 13s. at 2.15 A.M.—Rewards, £9 Is. Caister, Norfolk. — 6th May, 1938. The Huinber, Yorkshire.—At 6.40 A.M. During the night an explosion was on the 27th May, 1938, the signal heard at sea, but nothing was found.—- station reported that a vessel was Rewards, £29 5s. drifting to sea. A light southerly wind was blowing, with a moder- Sheringham, Norfolk.—7th May, 1938. ate sea. The motor life-boat City Several fishing boats had been over- of Bradford II was launched at 7.20 taken by rough weather. The life-boat A.M. and found the fishing boat OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 547

IN TOW.

By courtesy of] IB, Stone & Son, Gorleston-on Sea BRINGING IN A FISHING BOAT. The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat and the Brothers, of Yarmouth, on the 30th May, 1938. (See page 548.)

BRINGING IN A SEA-PLANE. The Port Erin motor life-boat bringing in the R.A.F. plane, K9686, on the 24th July, 1938. The call for the life-boat came when the crew was attending the annual Life-boat Sunday Service, and the service was abandoned. 548 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

Young Dick, of Hull, with only one mouth, and returned to her station at man on board. The boat was drifting 7.80 A.M. She had been on service for towards the Middle Binks, her anchor eight hours.—Rewards, £23 17*. having dragged while the man was asleep. The life-boat ran alongside, Dover, Kent.—In the early morning of put two men on board, and brought 30th May, 1938, the motor'life-boat Sir the boat into safety.—Permanent paid William Hillary escorted in the German crew: Rewards, 6s. yacht Windspid, of Hamburg. (A full account appears on page 538) Margate, Kent.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, reported that a motor yacht was ashore Sussex.—Early in the morning of the on the north part of Margate Sands. 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to The weather was squally, with a the Newhaven life-boat station that the southerly wind and a rough sea on the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, sands. At 4.50 P.M. the motor life-boat was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale Lord Soulhborough (Civil Service No. 1) was blowing, with a rough sea. At was launched, and found the motor 4 A.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and yacht Mar-g-habi, of London, hard on Lilian Philpott was launched, and at the sands, with a crew of five on board. 5 A.M. the Shoreham Harbour motor The life-boat stood by until the flood life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn tide, when the yacht refloated, and then was called out to join in the search. escorted her into harbour.—Rewards, The Newhaven life-boat found the £18 125. fishing boat about seven miles to the S.W., with her sails damaged and her Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. engine giving trouble, and escorted her —At 10.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, into harbour, arriving at 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that the The Shoreham Harbour life-boat re- weather was getting bad and that turned at 9.15 A.M.—Rewards: New- several small fishing boats were at sea. haven, £7 5s. 6d.; Shoreham Harbour, By 11 P.M. a southerly gale was blowing, £7 15s. 6d. with a very rough sea on the bar. Visibility was poor, owing to heavy Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about three rain. The motor life-boat John and in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was the local fishing coble Ramleigh put off launched at 11.25 P.M., and by the to haul crab pots about six miles south light of her searchlight found a boat of Whitby. One of her crew of three near Winterton Ness trying to make was coxswain of the motor life-boat her way against the gale. She advised Mary Ann Hepworth. She had not her to anchor close inshore for shelter, returned by 6.15 A.M. and some anxiety and gave the same advice to several was felt for her safety. A very strong other boats which she found near-by. north breeze was blowing and the sea • Then she saw the boat 'Brothers, with a was rough, and it was known that the crew of three, at anchor with her Ramleigh would be working against engine broken down. As the Brothers wind and sea, and be in danger of being was not in immediate danger, the life- swamped. The motor life-boat was boat told her to stay at anchor while launched at 6.45 A.M., and three and a she made certain that there were no half miles south met the Ramleigh other boats wanting help. Day was coming home, making very heavy now breaking, and no other boats weather. The life-boat got on her could be seen, so the life-boat returned weather side, to give her shelter, and to the Brothers. One of her crew who escorted her safely back to harbour. was very exhausted was transferred to She returned to her station at 9 A.M.— the life-boat, which then took her in Rewards, £5 9s. tow. The life-boat went round to the other boats, fifteen altogether, and Cramer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat advised them to get their anchors up. H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M. She shepherded them all back to on the 30th May, 1938, after informa- harbour, towed the Brothers to Yar- tion had been receired from the coast- OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 549 guard that the fishing boat G. V. H., of south-west, the sea was rough and the Great Yarmouth, was in difficulties weather thick. The New Quay pulling three to four miles from the look-out and sailing life-boat William Cantrell at Haisborough. The weather was Ashley was launched at 1.45 P.M., and squally, with a strong W.S.W. breeze at 4 P.M. found the Peggy, about six and a moderate sea. When the life- miles E.N.E. of New Quay Head. She boat reached the fishing boat at 9.15 escorted her back to harbour, arriving A.M. she was four miles east of Palling, there at 5.10 P.M. Meanwhile the with her engine broken down, and Aberystwyth motor life-boat Frederick anchor lost. Her crew of two asked to Angus had also been launched, at 2.42 be towed to Yarmouth and this the P.M., to help in the search. She life-boat did. Thanks were expressed returned to her station at 7.45 P.M. by the rescued men and their wives.—• —Rewards: New Quay, £11 9*.; Rewards, £13 2*. 6d. Aberystwyth, £13 11s.

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 7.30 A.M. Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At on the 30th May, 1938, a north gale 4.45 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a small sprang up, bringing a rough sea. vessel was seen to be in a dangerous Several of the local fishing cobles were position S. by E. of the Splaugh Rock. at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat A moderate but increasing N.E. gale Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was was blowing, with heavy rain and a launched at 8 A.M., in case her help confused sea. The motor life-boat should be needed. She met the Nancy K.E.C.F. put out at 5.10 P.M. and two miles to the south-east, escorted found the motor yacht Embla, of Cork, her in, and then went back in the same with a party of four on board. She direction and escorted in the Dennis. was in difficulties with her engine, and A third coble, the Brittania, she found as she was being carried to leeward and about three miles N.N.W., escorted her was in danger of going on an old wreck, in, and returned to her station at 12.10 the life-boat took her in tow and P.M.—Rewards, £9 2s. brought her to Rosslare Harbour. Both boats shipped heavy seas, but Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The motor life- eventually the Embla was safely moored boat Agnes Cross left harbour at 2 P.M. at about 7 P.M. Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, on the 30th May, 1938, for exercise, branch secretary, went out in the life- going in the direction of the East boat.—Permanent paid crew: Reward, Newcombe Buoy. A whole W. gale 15s. 6d. was blowing, with a heavy sea. A trawler was seen three miles S.S.E. Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on from the buoy, with a smaller boat the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe astern. The life-boat altered her Corinthian Sailing Club informed the course, and on closing the trawler, Berry Head coastguard that a vessel found that she had in tow the half- was flying a distress signal a mile and decked yacht Merry Thought, of New- a half east of Oddicombe, and the haven, bound for pleasure from Holland coastguard informed the life-boat to Harwich. Her sails were torn and station. H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, at she was shipping water. Her crew of anchor in Torbay, signalled the coast- two were in the cockpit working the guard, offering help, if needed. A pump. The life-boat escorted the two strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a vessels across the Newcombe Sands and very rough sea. The motor life-boat Inner Shoal into the harbour, arriving Alfred and Clara Heath, on temporary at 4 P.M.—Rewards, £5 15s. duty at the station, put out at 7.52 P.M. Meanwhile members of the Babba- New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- combe Corinthian Sailing Club and Sea .—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, Scouts had launched a small boat from 1938, the coastguard reported that the Oddicombe, with great difficulty, and fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with this boat put out to the rescue, manned two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M. by Mr. F. T. Stoneham, the captain of and was long overdue. A strong breeze the club, Mr. L. W. Drake, and Mr. C. to moderate gale was blowing from the Brown. When the life-boat arrived 550 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. she found the yacht Craignair, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about Lymington, at anchor. The boat from 9.9 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Oddicombe had already rescued two of End coastguard telephoned that a her crew of four. As the yacht was yacht was in distress at the mouth anchored in an exposed position, the of Lymington River. She was the life-boat towed her into Brixham Har- auxiliary cutter yacht Monie, of South- bour, which was reached at midnight. ampton, bound with a crew of two The Institution awarded a framed from Totland Bay for Lymington. letter of thanks to the Babbacombe Her engine had broken down, and her Corinthian Sailing Club. —- Property anchors were dragging. A whole S.W. Salvage case for the life-boat. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was Wicklow.—During the evening of the launched at 9.24 P.M., anchored near 1st June, 1938, the motor yacht Cygnet, the Monie about 10 P.M. and fired a of Dublin, with a man and a boy on line over her. The squalls were so board, was caught by bad weather terrific that the life-boat's anchor E.S.E. of Wicklow Head. Her steering- dragged, but eventually the life-boat gear was damaged and she began to ot alongside and took off the crew, make water. A moderate N.E. gale f everal times she grounded on shoals, was blowing, with a heavy sea, heavy but she got clear at about 1 A.M. and rain and hail. The harbour-master forty minutes later landed the men. reported that the Cygnet was in diffi- So rough was the weather that the culties and the motor life-boat Lady life-boat could not be replaced on her Kylsant was launched at 8.10 P.M. It moorings until 5 A.M. The rescued was then one hour after low water, and men sent letters of thanks and a gift she grounded at the bottom of the for the life-boat crew. — Rewards, slipway. She was soon refloated, how- £10 2s. 6d. ever, with the help of ninety to a hundred men on the pier, pulling on Hastings, Sussex.—During the evening her cable. She reached the Cygnet at of the 1st June, 1938, a whole S.W. 9 P.M., escorted her into harbour, and gale sprang up, bringing with it a very returned to her station at 10 P.M. heavy sea. Several local fishing boats Owing to the heavy seas on the slipway had been caught at sea, and it was she could not immediately be rehoused, decided to send out the motor life-boat and was left at moorings.—Rewards, Cyril and Lilian Bishop. Great diffi- £10 55. culty was experienced in launching, as the tide was low, and the life-boat had Plymouth, Devon.—At 7.55 P.M. on the to be dragged over the sand. Sixty-five 1st June, 1938, a message was received launchers took part, and most of them from the Royal South-Western Yacht had to go well into the sea. The life-boat Club that a boat was drifting ashore in got away at 9.44 P.M. The second cox- a dangerous position. A westerly gale swain was in command, as the coxswain was blowing, with a very rough sea. was at sea, and the honorary secretary The boat was the motor cruiser Red- of the station, Commander W. High- wings, of Plymouth, with two men on field, O.B.E., R.N., was on board. She board. Her engine had broken down, made two trips to the westward and and she was helpless. The reserve escorted in the William and Edwin and motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on the Unity, and then two eastward, temporary duty at Plymouth, put out and escorted in the -Little Mayflower at 8.10 P.M., but found that a pinnace and the Boy Bob. The skipper of the from H.M.S. Vindictive, "which was last boat said that he had not seen any anchored in the sound, had got a line others, and that they had probably run on board the Redwings. The life-boat for shelter at Rye or round Dungeness. kept on the Redwings's weather bow, to The life-boat got back to harbour at give her as much shelter as possible, 11.45 P.M. News was then received while the pinnace towed her into that a boat had broken down half a Plymouth docks. The life-boat re- mile off Winchelsea, and the life-boat turned to her station at 9 P.M.— immediately put out again. She found Rewards, £9 Is. nothing, however, and returned to her OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 551 station at 2.40 on the morning of the launched at 1 A.M., with the help of 2nd June. She had then been at sea men of the Warwickshire Yeomanry. for five hours in the worst conditions She found the motor yacht Helen Mary, she had ever experienced. In recog- of Southampton, at anchor with one nition of this good service the Institu- engine running. The other had been tion sent a letter of appreciation to the stopped by the sea. She was in very branch and a letter of thanks to shallow water and drifting on to the Commander Highfield. An increase in breakwater. The two men on board the usual money award on the standard had no idea where they were. There scale was granted to each member of was just enough water for the life-boat the crew and to the helpers.—Standard to get alongside her, and the second rewards to crew, £11 5s.; additional mechanic jumped on board. He helped rewards to crew, £9; total rewards, to get the second engine started. The £60 13s. life-boat then piloted the yacht into Exmouth. She returned to her station Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At at 3.50 A.M.—Rewards, £15 9s. 6d. about 10.30 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Parkstone police reported distress Dover, Kent.—At about 12.45 A.M. on signals in Poole Harbour. A W.S.W. the 2nd June, 1938, morse signals were gale was blowing, with a rough sea and seen from a yacht. The night was squalls of rain. The pulling and sailing very stormy, with a whole S.E. gale and life-boat Harmar was launched at very rough sea. While the life-boat 11.15 P.M. and found the motor yacht crew were assembling a man from the Zaire, of Poole, at anchor. One of the cutter yacht Saladin, of Southampton, two men on board had already been was washed ashore in a dinghy. It taken off by a motor launch. The was on account of this man that the life-boat landed the other and returned signals had been made. At 5.0 A.M. a to her station at 4.15 A.M.—Rewards, yacht was seen to be dragging her £20 5s. anchor in a dangerous position off the Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- rocks at the eastern end of Dover ton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a Harbour. The motor life-boat Sir whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor William Hillary put off at 5.10 and life-boat Greater London (Civil Service found the yacht to be the Saladin, with No. 3), rescued two men from the three men on board. She was riding to yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and two small anchors, having lost her three men from the barge Glenrosa, of bower anchor and cable." The life-boat London. She went out a third time to took her to a safe anchorage in the the barge Maid of Munster, but the tidal basin. She returned to moorings barge did not need her help. She then at 7 A.M. and found that her boarding rescued two men from the barge boat had sunk. The boarding boat Audrey, of London. The Walton and was recovered later in the day.— Frinton motor life-boat E.M.E.D. also Property salvage case: Rewards for went out, but her services were not assembly, 7s. Qd. required.—Rewards: Southend-on-Sea, Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. vellum and £31 14s. 6d.; Walton and —At about 6 A.M. on the 2nd June, Frinton, £7 8s. 6d. (A full account of 1938, the coastguard reported a small the services and details .of the rewards longshore boat at anchor, a mile and a will be given in the next issue of The half S.E. of the Palling coastguard's Life-boat.) look-out. - She was not making signals for help, but in view of the bad weather Exmouth, Devonshire.—At about 12.20 a watch was kept on her. Shortly A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, the coast- after 8 A.M. the boat got under way and guard reported that a small vessel off made south. A moderate southerly Dawlish appeared to be in difficulties gale was now blowing, with a very and was drifting towards the land. A heavy sea and squalls of rain. As the west gale was blowing, with a heavy boat would be running a great risk if swell and squalls of rain. The motor she tried to get south of Winterton, life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was the motor life-boat John and Mary 552 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at miles E.N.E. of Moelfre Island. She 8.30 A.M. She found the boat—the was under control, but having a very Water Lily, with a crew of three—at rough time, and her crew were glad to anchor between Winterton and Palling. see the life-boat. The life-boat es- The skipper said that he had tried to corted her to Beaumaris, which was get south, but the conditions were too reached at 7.30 P.M., and eventually bad. The coxswain advised him to go got back to her station at 11 P.M.—• to Palling and anchor under the land, Rewards, £10 10s. where his boat would get more shelter. The life-boat escorted the Water Lily New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the even- to a safe anchorage, gave her crew ing of the 10th June, 1938, news was a supply of food and water, and then received through the Mersey Dock made for her station, where she arrived Board that a vessel was ashore on the at 1.45 P.M.—Rewards, £9 13s. Burbo Bank. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing duty at the station, put out at 6.45 P.M. bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o har- She found that the vessel was the bour, missed the tide, and lay off the schooner Minnie, of Peterhead, with harbour bar to wait for sufficient water four men on board. Her engine had to enable her to enter. The wind rose, broken down and her engine-room was making the bar very dangerous. At flooded. The life-boat took her to 2 P.M. a moderate N.E. gale was blow- Rock Ferry, where she was beached, ing, with a heavy swell and rain. The and returned to her station at 11 P.M.— motor life-boat John' and William Rewards, £12 3s. 6d. Mudie was launched, stood by the Restless Wave until 3.45 P.M., and then The following life-boats were escorted her into harbour. She re- launched, but no services were rendered turned to her station at 4 P.M.— for the reasons given: Rewards, £3 4s. 6d. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—15th May, 1938. An outboard motor boat had Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on capsized, but four of the five people on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate board were picked up by a rowing boat coastguard reported that a yacht had and the other swam ashore.—Rewards, been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of £5 13s. the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor Selsey, Sussex.—15th May, 1938. A life-boat Sir William Hillary put out at small boat had capsized, but the three 1.46 P.M., and found that the yacht was people on board got ashore.—Rewards, the Nirvana, of Ardrossan, bound with £5 17s. 6d. a crew of four from Dover to Gosport. The life-boat towed her into the inner Whitby, Yorkshire.—16th May, 1938. harbour and returned to her station A motor speed-boat had broken down, at 5.30 P.M.—Property Salvage Case. but a fishing boat took her in tow.— Rewards, £10 13s. Moelfre, Anglesey.—During the after- noon of the 6th June, 1938, the Holy- Runswick, Yorkshire.—16th May, 1938. head coastguard telephoned that a A vessel had been reported ashore, but small sailing yacht had been reported nothing could be found.—Rewards, making heavy weather about four £20 5s. 6d. miles out to sea. Owing to bad visibility, it was not possible to see if Shoreham Harbour,Sussex—17thMay, she was making distress signals. A 1938. White rockets had been re- south gale was blowing, with a rough ported from a vessel to the south-east, sea and rain. The motor life-boat but no vessel in distress was found.— G.W. was launched at 2.35 P.M. and Rewards, £10 5s. found the yacht to be the Dozmare, of Carnarvon, bound from Holyhead to Dover, and Hythe, Kent.—18th May, Beaumaris. She was then about six 1938. A cutter yacht had got into OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 558 difficulties, but she reached Dover New Quay, Cardiganshire.—2nd June, unaided.—Rewards: Dover, Partly per- 1938. A fishing boat was in distress, manent paid crew, £5 12s. Gd; Hythe, but her crew of five were rescued from £18 Os. 6d. the shore by the coastguard rocket life - saving appliances. — Rewards, Margate. Kent.—21st May, 1938. A £25 19s. barge-yacht had carried away her boom, but she went on her way to Whitstable Margate, Kent.—2nd June, 1938. A without help.—Rewards, £9 18s. signal had been hoisted by the Girdler Lightvessel, but the life-boat found Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. that it was to announce firing practice. —21st May, 1938. A disabled shrimp She then searched for a missing yacht, boat had been driven into the breakers, but could not find her. The yacht but her crew of two were rescued from was washed ashore later at Leigh, the shore by the coastguard rocket life- Essex, with a dead man on board.— saving appliances.—Rewards, £19 6s. Rewards, £6 4s. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 29th Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—8th June, May, 1938. Flares had been reported, 1938. The sounding of a horn in a but they were afterwards found to dense fog had been reported, but no be signals.—Rewards, £10 5s. vessel in distress was found.—Rewards, £7 16s. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—30th May, 1938. The German yacht Hamburg July Meeting. had grounded at the mouth of the River Crouch, but refloated without help.— Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On 30th May, Rewards, £11 6s. (See special account 1938, the motor life-boat Edward Z. on page 538.) Dresden towed the German yacht Westwind, of Bremen, to Harwich. (A Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-—1st June, full account appears on page 538). 1938. A yacht was in difficulties off Kimmeridge, but her crew got ashore Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— unaided.—Rewards, £8 15s. During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Falmouth, Cornwall.—1st June, 1938. Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on The Porthoustock coastguard had re- the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about ported that a small yacht, with three fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour. men on board, had been blown out to She was bound with a cargo of coal sea from the Helford River. A strong from Birkenhead to Crosshaven. A W. by N. gale was blowing, with a N.W. breeze was blowing, with a ground very rough sea. The motor life-boat swell. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. B.A.S.P. was launched at 8 P.M. A was launched at 9.40 A.M., and stood by little later information was received at the vessel. With several return trips the station that a yacht had put into for food and fuel, she continued to St. Mawes. The life-boat made a stand by until the Agnes Craig refloated thorough search of the bay and found at 10.5 P.M. on the 15th. The life-boat nothing. It was then learned that the returned to her station at 12.15 A.M. on auxiliary yacht, Salonique, of St. Mawes, the 16th. The service had lasted over which had put in there after the life- four days and a half. The owner made boat had been launched, was the yacht a donation to the Institution. In reported in distress. The life-boat re- recognition of this long and uncom- turned to her station at 11 P.M. In fortable service, the Institution made view of the very severe weather, an a special award of £l to each of the increase in the usual money award on seven permanent paid members of the the standard scale was granted to each crew. It also made a special award of member of the crew.—Standard re- £1 to the one volunteer member of the wards to crew, £8 15s.; additional crew in addition to the reward of £8 on rewards to crew, £6; total rewards, the standard scale.—Total rewards, £15 7s. £21 14s. 6d. 554 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

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VIEW OF THE DECK. The Samuel and Marie Par\house, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat stationed at Salcombe, Devon in 1938.

THE ENGINE-ROOM. The two 40-h.p. Diesel engines on board the Violet Armstrong, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat, stationed at Appledore, North Devon, in 1938. The big black pipes are the exhaust! running up to the funnel. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 555

MOTOR LIFE-BOAT.

THE AFTER COCKPIT. Showing the coxswain's back rest, which prevents him from being washed out of the cockpit, the top of the wheel and the control board of the engines with the engine-hatch closed.

IHt CONTROL BOAKD. A closer view, with the engine-hatch open, showing the engine-room and the two 35-h.p. petrol engines. These two photographs are of the 41-feet Watson life-boat Mary Ann Hepwortli, stationed at Whitby in 1938. 556 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1988.

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about sea was smooth. The reserve motor 6.30 P.M. on the 19th June, 1938, in- life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath, which formation was received at the life-boat was on temporary duty at Torbay, was station, through Cullercoats wireless launched at 6.20 A.M., and found the station and Blyth coastguard that the motor boat lolanda, of Brixham, in a s.s. London had in tow the broken- very dangerous position on the rock, down motor yacht Irene. The motor with a big tilt sternwards. She towed life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched her clear and returned to her station at 6.57 P.M. and met the s.s. London off at 7.45 A.M.—Rewards, £3 lls. Qd. Coquet Island. A strong westerly wind was blowing, and the London was Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—While towing the Irene, with three men on the motor life-boat Rachel and Mary board, close under her lee for shelter. Evans was out on exercise on the 25th The life-boat took the Irene in tow and June, 1938, a yacht was seen flying a brought her into Amble Harbour, distress signal about a mile S.W. of returning to her station at 9 P.M.— Point. A strong W.N.W. Rewards, £8 Is. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat altered her course, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At about 7 P.M. found the auxiliary yacht White Wings, on the 21st June, 1938, the coastguard of Cardiff, with her engine broken reported that two fishing boats were in down and her sails blown away. She difficulties one mile east of Mullartown carried a crew of four and was cruising Point. They were the motor fishing from Cardiff. The life-boat towed her boats Lizzie and William Cecil, of to Barry, and returned to her station Annalong, both helpless owing to the at 7.30 P.M. A donation was received breakdown of their engines. A fresh from the owner.—Rewards, £5 9s. S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat L.P. and Boulmer, Northumberland.—During St. Helen, was launched at 7.10 P.M., the morning of the 27th June, 1938, and found the boats at anchor. They eight motor fishing cobles from Boulmer had no sails or sweeps. The life-boat and Alnmouth were caught at sea by towed them into Annalong Harbour, bad weather. All the life-boat's officers and returned to her station at 9.30 P.M. were at sea, and the Clarissa Langdon . —Rewards, £22 18s. 6d. was launched at 1.30 P.M., with Mr. W. S. Stanton, the honorary secretary Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 1.55 A.M. of the station, in command. A strong on the 24th June, 1938, the watchman breeze to whole gale was blowing from on the East Pier reported that a yacht the W.S.W., with a moderate sea. The south of the harbour was burning flares. life-boat escorted all the coble.s into A light S.S.W. breeze was blowing. safety and returned to her station at The sea was smooth. The motor life- 3.45 P.M. A letter of thanks was sent boat Prudential put out at 2.5 A.M. and to Mr, Stanton.—Rewards, £4 17s. 6d. found the yacht Orchis, of London, aground on the Brake Sands. She Blyth, Northumberland.—At 3.57 P.M. carried a crew of three, and was bound on the 29th June, 1938, the coastguard from Newhaven to London. The life- reported that a sailing yacht about two boat gave her help and stood by until miles S.E. of East Pier was in diffi- she refloated and went on her way. culties. She was apparently trying to The life-boat then returned to her make Blyth, but her headsail was torn station at 5.30 A.M.—Property Salvage and she was drifting to leeward. A Case; Rewards, 11s. west gale was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The motor life-boat Torbay, Devonshire.-—At 6.5 A.M. on Joseph Adlam was launched at 4.20 P.M., the 24th June, 1938, the Berry Head and found the yacht to be the Narwhal, coastguard reported that a small motor of Blyth, with a crew of three. A line boat with one man on board had run on was passed to the yacht, but after a few to a submerged rock near Berry Head. minutes' towing it parted. Another A gentle west breeze was blowing; the ^, was passed, and after a lot of OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 557

manoeuvring the life-boat succeeded in at 8.48 P.M., and found the yacht to be towing the Narwhal safely into Blyth. the Helen, of Hamble, with a crew of She returned to her station at 5.30 P.M. four. She towed her to Sea View Bay, •—Rewards, £4 4*. and returned to her station at 10.15 P.M.—Rewards, £10 11s. Fleetwood, .—At 11.50 A.M. •on the 3rd July, 1938, a message was The following life - boats were received from the Wyre lightkeepers, launched, but no services were rendered through the harbour authorities, that a for the reasons given: motor boat was in difficulties about a quarter of a mile from King's Scar Buoy. Margate, Kent.—12th June, 1938. A A squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, boat had capsized, but her crew of two with a rough sea and rain. The motor men got ashore.—Rewards, £12 8s. life-boat Frederick H. Pilley was launched at noon, and found the motor Hartlepool, Durham.—18th June, 1938. boat Pastime, of Liverpool, with four A drifter had run aground in calm, men on board, riding to an anchor. foggy weather, but was refloated with Her engine had broken down. She the help of a tug.—Rewards, £4 16*. 6d. was in a dangerous position, in broken water. The life-boat went alongside Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, and took off the four men. Two life- Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boatmen were put on board the Pastime, boat bound from Wick to Longhope and the life-boat towed her into Fleet- was long overdue, but a search was wood. She returned to her station at without result. Later it was learned 1.30 P.M. The owners sent a letter of that the boat had taken shelter in a thanks and a donation.—Rewards, cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10 125.; Long- £5 Is. hope, £12 3s. Buckie, Banffshire.—21st June, 1938. Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M. A vessel had been reported to be on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard burning flares, but she could not be reported that a herring drifter had gone found, and it seems probable that the ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the flares were lights on a fishing boat;— north side of Wick Bay. She was the Rewards, £10 6s. Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for Wick laden with fishing gear. A light Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— southerly breeze was blowing. The 24th June, 1938. The Spanish steam sea was smooth. The motor life-boat trawler Baron of Vigo had run ashore Frederick and Emma was launched at near the Old Head of Kinsale, but got 3.50 P.M., and at the master's request help from another trawler.—Rewards, ran out a kedge anchor from the £11 8s. drifter. Meanwhile two other drifters arrived and tried to tow the Sailor Boulmer, Northumberland.—25th King clear. They did not succeed, but June, 1938. A yacht racing from Holy as the master of the drifter did not Island to Blyth had got into difficulties, need any further help from the life-boat, but was picked up by another yacht she returned to her station, arriving manned by Sea Scouts. A letter of at 6.20 P.M. The Sailor King was thanks and a donation were received refloated next day.—Rewards, £5 6s. from the owner.—Rewards, £6 2s.

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.45 P.M. Swanage, Dorset.—3rd July, 1938. A on the 4th July, 1938, the coastguard small sailing boat had got into diffi- reported that a yacht was in difficulties culties, but a motor cruiser took her in near Bembridge Ledge. She cleared it, tow.—Rewards, £5 12s. but watch was kept on her, and it was seen that she could not be got under Kirkcudbright.—9th July, 1938. control. A strong, squally, west breeze Rockets had been reported off Abbey was blowing, with a choppy sea. The Head, but nothing was found.—Re- motor life-boat Langham was launched wards, £12 6s. 558 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

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

April Meeting. Cullercoats, Northumberland. —• On Benbecula, Western Isles.—At about the morning of the 25th March, 1938, 8.30 P.M. on the 24th September, 1937, the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned during a flowing tide, three men tried that a small boat half a mile N.N.E. of to cross South Ford to South Uist in Tynemouth Castle was making distress a horse trap, but half-way across the signals. A moderate west breeze was horse got into difficulties and the trap blowing, with a moderate sea. In order overturned. A S.E. gale was blowing, to save time the coxswain launched and the sea was rough. One of the his motor coble and put off with men swam to a sandbank, but the two other men. They found a small others, who could not swim, clung to canvas canoe with two men on board in the trap. Their shouts were heard and danger of swamping, as her stern-post three men put off in a small rowing had given way. They towed her into boat, to find that the horse had been harbour.—Rewards, £l 2s. 6d. to the drowned and that the men were up rescuers, 8s. to helpers on shore, and to their necks in water and in a state 2s. for fuel used. of exhaustion. With difficulty, and at what is reported to have been great Worthing, Sussex.—At 2.30 P.M. on risk, they got the men on board the the 7th April, 1938, a woman feU off rowing boat and applied artificial the pier. Ex-Second Coxswain New- respiration to one man, who was un- man at once put off in a rowing boat. conscious.—Rewards, £l, together with He rescued the woman, who had been a letter of appreciation to each of the carried some distance from the pier, three rescuers, Messrs. John Bucha- and brought her ashore.—Reward, nan, Donald McKinnon, and William A framed letter of thanks. Newland. May Meeting. Holy Island, Northumberland. — On Teignmouth, Devon.—At about noon the 9th March, 1938, seven men put out on the 15th April, 1938, the bowman in a motor boat and rescued the crew of the life-boat and another man saw of the s.s. Locksley.—Rewards, £7, also two persons put off from the river 10s. for fuel used and boat-hook lost. beach in a rowing boat and make (For a full account see " Services of for the sea. A strong east wind was the Life-boats," Berwick-on-Tweed, blowing, and the sea was very rough on page 543.) the bar, where the swell met a strong ebb tide. When the rowing boat Boathaven, Caithness-shire.—On the reached the bar she shipped water and 18th March, 1938, the steam trawler nearly capsized, and the oars were lost Craig-an-eran, of Aberdeen, bound for overboard. The bowman and his com- the Icelandic fishing grounds, ran panion at once put off in a motor boat, aground in a very dangerous position and although their boat stuck on the about a mile north of Wick. A very bar and damaged her propeller, they strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, with reached the rowing boat, rescued the a choppy sea, and the night was dark. two on board and towed the boat Eight men put off from Boathaven in back.—Rewards, £l 5s.; with 2s. 6d. the 26-feet motor boat Boy Alex and for fuel; 2s. 6d. for a lost boat-hook; tried to tow the trawler clear, but she and £3 15s. towards the cost of a new was hard aground and eventually heeled propeller. over. Her crew of ten decided to abandon ship and were dragged through East Runton, Norfolk.—On the morn- the water to the Boy Alex. The service ing of the 15th April, 1938, the fishing took two and a half hours.—Rewards, boat Boy Cyril was capsized in the £12, and 6s. for fuel used. breakers about thirty yards offshore. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 559

Her crew of two were thrown into the towed the rowing boat into safety.—• water, one man striking his head and Rewards, 15s. becoming unconscious. A moderate north breeze was blowing, with a June Meeting. moderate swell on the beach. Two , Devon.—At about 6.30 men, at some risk, launched a rowing P.M. on the 18th May, 1938, the motor boat, took the unconscious man from fishing" boat Victory, of Ilfracombe, the water and, with the other man was seen to be in difficulties in Woola- clinging to the side of the boat, re- combe Bay by two men who were turned ashore.—Rewards, £1 10s. returning to Ilfracombe in a motor fishing boat. A strong squally N.W. Hoylake, Cheshire.—Second Coxswain wind was blowing, with a rough ground Jones and another member of the life- sea. The Victory's engine had broken boat crew put off in a rowing boat at down, and she was unable to get out of about 3.20 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the bay under sail, as the wind was on- as a report had been received from the shore. The two men toot her in tow to police that a man had fallen overboard Ilfracombe, arriving at about 9 P.M.— from the yacht Meg. A fresh north Rewards, £1 5s.; and 6s. for fuel used. breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea. They found that the man Totland Bay, Isle of Wight.—On the had gone overboard and that his com- 29th May, 1938, the yacht Martlet went panion had dived into the sea in an aground on Warden Ledge, and at the unsuccessful attempt at rescue, and had request of the coastguard a local boat- then swum ashore. They searched for, man and his son put off in a rowing and found, the body of the drowned boat. The owner of the yacht, how- man and returned at 6.20 P.M., later ever, did not want any help, and he putting off again to bring in the yacht. and the other three people on board —Rewards, £1 5s.; and 2s. 6d. to the went ashore in the yacht's punt.— life-boat coxswain, who stood by. Reward, 10s. Herne Bay, Kent.—Shortly after mid- Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.45 P.M. on night on the 16th-17th April, 1938, the the 1st June, 1938, the life-boat cox- yacht Breeze became unmanageable, swain, the motor mechanic, and five and drifted towards the rocks at other men put off in the rowing board- Hampton Jetty. A strong north- ing boat of the life-boat in response to easterly breeze was blowing, with a a message from the dock police that a rough sea. The Margate motor life- dinghy, with a youth and two children boat was called out, but meanwhile on board, was in difficulties in the two men had launched a 16-feet harbour and was drifting towards the rowing boat. At considerable risk and dock beach. A west-by-north gale was with great difficulty they got alongside blowing, with a rough sea and squalls the yacht, which was pitching heavily, of rain. The life-boatmen found that and rescued the man and the boy the dinghy, which had been carried who were on board. Their boat away from a yacht, was being filled by shipped a lot of water, but they brought the heavy seas, and was in danger of her safely ashore west of Hampton sinking. They rescued the three occu- Pier.—Rewards, £2 and framed letters pants and landed them on the pier.— of thanks to Mr. Frank Holness and Rewards, £2 5s. to Mr. Alfred Pressley. Holyhead, Anglesey.—At about 11.15 Teignmouth, Devon.—On the 1st May, P.M. on the llth June, 1938, the coast- 1938, two women in a small rowing guard reported that five soldiers who boat came down the River Teign to had put off in a small boat were in picnic in one of the coves along the difficulties off Newry Beach and were coast. There was a strong ebb tide shouting for help. A fresh S.W. breeze which caused broken water on the bar. was blowing, and the weather was Two fishermen, who saw the risk the overcast with misty rain. The motor women were running in trying to get pilot boat, manned by five men, put out to sea, put off in a motor boat and out. They found the boat partly filled 560 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

with water, but the soldiers had on board, headed his boat for the shore already got ashore with help from the and then applied artificial respiration coastguard.—Rewards, £2 10*., and until the shore was reached. The man 3s. for fuel used. was taken to hospital and eventually revived.—Rewards, £1 and a Framed July Meeting. Letter of Appreciation to Mr. R. Derek Bone. Foula, Shetlands.—At about 9 A.M. on the 8th April, 1938, during a N.-by-E. gale, with a very heavy sea, the steam Ramsey, Isle of Man.—The motor trawler Angus, of Hull, ran on to the vessel Brittania, of Ramsey, put out Hoevdi Rocks, a submerged reef about during the morning of the llth June, three miles S.E. of Foula. She was 1938, for the fishing, but ran out of seen by two men, one of whom ran to petrol and got into difficulties. She the post office to warn the Aith life-boat, tried to get under the shelter of Maug- but found that communication with hold Head by using a small sail, but the mainland could not be made until could make no headway. A moderate 1 P.M. The second man, and five others, N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough with great difficulty and at great sea. The coastguard reported to the risk, launched the 22-feet Foula motor honorary secretary of the life-boat mail boat, the only boat available. station, who sent the life-boat cox- Meanwhile the trawler had washed off swain and two other men off in a motor the rocks and her crew had abandoned boat. They gave the Brittania some her in a small boat. When the six men petrol and escorted her back to harbour. had got a considerable way out they —Rewards, £l 10s., and 10s. for saw another trawler pick up the boat.— fuel used. Rewards, £6; also 7s. to the man who tried to warn the life-boat station; Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—During the and 3.?. 8d. for fuel used. (The system evening of the 12th June, 1938, the of communication has since been coastguard reported that a small sailing improved.) boat, with a boy on board, was about half a mile S.E. of Castle Hill, and was Babbacombe, Devon.—On the 1st unable to get back to Tenby harbour June, 1938, two of the crew of the against the wind and tide. A mode- yacht Craignair were rescued by mem- rate N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with bers of the Babbacombe Corinthian a moderate sea. The honorary sec- Sailing Club.—Reward: A Framed Let- retary of the life-boat station sent out a ter of Appreciation to the Club. (For a man in a motor boat to tow the boat in. full account see Torbay, " Services of —Reward, 5s. the Life-boats," page 549.) Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the Cromer, Norfolk.—At about 11.30 A.M. evening of the 15th June, 1938, the on the 6th June, 1938, the canoe Silver motor boat Seamew, on passage from Spray, with one man on board, cap- Redcar to Hartlepool, with crew of sized about three-quarters of a mile off- three, got into difficulties through the shore, near , and the breakdown of her engine. A westerly man was thrown into the sea. No breeze was blowing, with a surf on the other vessel was near. A strong, gusty, beach. The Tees pilot cutter, which south breeze was blowing, with a was at sea, saw the Seamew about a choppy sea, and the tide was about mile S.E. of the South Gare Coast- half flood. Mr. R. Derek Bone, who guard Station, picked her up and towed was on the beach, heard shouts, saw her into the River Tees. people on the cliffs pointing out to sea, At the same time that this service and at once launched his boat, a 14-feet was reported to the Institution it was home-made outboard motor boat. He also reported that the Tees pilots had found thj upturned canoe, and after carried out three other services, as cruising round saw the man come to the follows: surface, unconscious. With some diffi- On 16th May they towed into Tees culty and at some risk he dragged him the motor boat Rose, with three men OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 661 on board, which had broken down two upturned yacht.—Rewards, £l, and miles N.E. of Tees Fairway Buoy. 6s. for fuel used. On 1st June they towed to Seaton Snook the pulling boat Felix, with two St. Andrews, Fifeshire.—During the fishermen on board, which was driving evening of the 19th June, 1938, it was on to North Gare. reported to the life-boat coxswain that On 6th June they towed into Hartle- a large crowd were watching an object pool the motor boat O.L., with four in the bay, thought to be a canoe with men and two women on board, which a man on board. There was a lot of had broken down two miles N. of Tees wind at the time, and the canoe Fairway Buoy and was being carried appeared to be in danger. The cox- out to sea.—Rewards for the four swain and three other men put out in services, £9. a motor launch, but found that the supposed canoe was a floating tree- Douglas, Isle of Man.—On the 15th trunk.—Rewards, £l 105., and 55. for June, 1938, a converted ship's life- fuel used. boat, with one man on board, bound from Ramsey to Laxey, got into diffi- Portaferry, Co. Down;—During the culties in Laxey Bay, in a moderate afternoon of the 25th June, 1938, a N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea. Her small boat with one man on board was engine had broken down and she seen to be in difficulties at the mouth became waterlogged. The boat was of Strangford Lough. A strong ebb taken in tow by a passing steamer, and tide was running and the boat was in then by the second coxswain of the danger of being carried out to sea. At life-boat and another man, who had the request of the coastguard, the put out under the impression that the Portaferry harbour-master and another steamer wanted to land a pilot. They man put off in a motor boat, but the were unable to get her into Douglas and man in the small boat managed to get returned for help. The life-boat cox- ashore unaided.—Rewards, £1, and swain and three others then put off in a 5s. for the use of the boat and for fuel. motor boat and towed the boat into safety.—-Rewards, £2 5s., and Ss. for Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning fuel used. of the 26th June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a canoe was drifting out Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 to sea, and the life-boat coxswain and A.M. on the 19th June, 1938, the sailing two other men put off in the coxswain's yacht Kuril, of Whitby, capsized when motor boat at 11.5 A.M. A fresh west about a mile north of Whitby piers breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea while out pleasure sailing, and the two and strong ebb tide. The motor boat men on board were thrown into the reached the canoe when it had got sea. A strong W.N.W. breeze was within fifty yards of the breakers on blowing, with a moderate sea. Four the Inner Shoal. She rescued the two men at once put off in a motor speed- boys who were on board and towed the boat and rescued the two men, whom canoe back to harbour.—Rewards, 15s., they found clinging to the keel of the and 2s. for fuel used.

The Fishwives of Cullercoats. THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year Boys' Brigade, which was on holiday collected £163 at the quarterly road at Cullercoats and collected nearly exercise and launch of the life-boat. £20. This is their seventeenth annual col- Mrs. Polly Donkin, now eighty-one lection and they have now collected* years old, again headed the list. She over £2,423. collected over £75, eight • pounds Nearly twenty fishwives took part more than last year. The total of in the collection and they had the help her individual collecting is over of the 100th Company of the Glasgow £805. THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels in 1937 and Numbers of the Fleets. DURING 1937 help was given by foreign boats. There are also 19 stations with life-boat services to 21 British vessels. rocket life-saving apparatus, and 53 Four of these services were by France, 2 stations have this apparatus as well by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, as life-boats. 1 by Norway and 15 by the United States. Holland. Belgium. On 17th November the s.s. Ino sank On 23rd December the motor life- off the Belgian coast and her life-boat boat at Ijmuiden and the pulling and with 19 people on board was picked sailing life-boat from Egmond aan up and brought into Ostend. Zee, both of the North and South The Belgian life-boat service has Holland Life-Saving Society, stood by 7 stations with 5 motor life-boats, the s.s. Gateshead, which had run 7 pulling life-boats and 1 tug. Each aground, until she was refloated by station has a life-saving apparatus and tugs. there is one station with this apparatus The North and South Holland Life- only. saving Society has a fleet of 14 motor life-boats and 19 pulling and sailing Denmark. life-boats. It also has 19 rocket life- There were no services to British saving apparatus. vessels. The Danish life-boat service The South Holland Society for Saving has 62 stations, with a fleet of 22 motor the Shipwrecked has 7 motor life-boats life-boats and 36 pulling and sailing and 4 pulling and sailing life-boats. life-boats. Twelve of the stations have This makes a total fleet on the Dutch rocket life-saving apparatus only. coasts of 21 motor life-boats and 23 pulling and sailing life-boats. France. There were four services by French Iceland. life-boats to British vessels. On 6th March the trawler Favorita, On 26th February the motor life- of , stranded on Gardskagi boat at Port Vendres went out to the and became a total wreck. Eight of help of the Llandovery Castle, of the her crew were rescued by another Union Castle Line, which had struck a British trawler, Northern Reward, and mine off the Spanish coast and was nine by the life-saving apparatus from leaking, and stood by while her passen- the shore. gers were taken off and the steamer On 25th December another Grimsby was got into harbour. trawler, the Regal, was wrecked off On 15th May the motor life-boat at Gerdar in Gardur. She became a total Molene rescued the crew of 19 men wreck. Her whole crew of 13 were of the Beatsa, of London, which had rescued by life-saving apparatus from run aground. the shore. On 25th May the motor life-boat at The National Life-saving Association Boulogne helped to refloat the steamer of Iceland now has a cruising motor Almeda Star, which had run aground. life-boat of 60 tons, which follows the On 18th August the motor life-boat fishing fleets, and 8 pulling and sailing at Calais went to the help of the life-boats. It also has 36 stations yacht The Lydia, of Ramsgate, which with pistol rocket life-saving apparatus. was in a dangerous position, with her engines broken down, and towed her in. Japan. Germany. t There were no services to British There were no services to British vessels. vessels. The Japanese life-boat fleet has 76 The German fleet has 33 motor life- motor life-boats and 142 pulling and boats and 62 pulling and sailing life- sailing life-boats. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 563

Norway. and sailing life-boats. Eight of its 12 stations have also life-saving apparatus, On 31st January the life-saving ketch and there are 6 stations with this at Rasvag went to the help of the apparatus only. This makes a total Grimsby trawler Thunderstorm, which Swedish fleet of 11 "motor life-boats was short of provisions and had a pipe and 17 pulling and sailing life-boats. broken in the engine-room, and piloted her into Flekkefjord. The Norwegian Society for Saving the Turkey. Shipwrecked has a fleet of 15 motor There were no services to British ketches and 10 sailing ketches. It also vessels. has 2 shore stations with pulling life- The Turkish fleet consists of 7 pulling boats and life-saving apparatus and 32 and sailing life-boats. stations with life-saving apparatus only. The United States. Portugal. The life-boats of the United States There were no services to British went to the help of 15 British vessels. vessels. They also went to the help of 14 The Portuguese Institution for Saving Canadian vessels. the Shipwrecked has 8 motor life-boats The United States fleet consists of and 39 pulling and sailing life-boats. 2 large motor life-boats, 142 self- It has also 58 life-saving apparatus. righting motor life-boats, 155 motor surf-boats and 265 pulling surf-boats, Spain. making 299 motor life-boats and 265 The Spanish Society for Saving the pulling life-boats, a total fleet of 564 Shipwrecked writes : " We do not know life-boats. if in 1937 our stations had occasion to rescue British ships, since, owing1 Finland, Latvia, Roumania and Russia. to the exceptional circumstances No information has been received through which our country is now from Finland, Latvia, Roumania and passing, we seldom receive reports from Russia. local committees." The Spanish fleet consists of 18 British Services to Foreign Vessels. motor life-boats and 27 pulling and sailing life-boats. There are also 15 During the year British life-boats stations with life-saving apparatus only. helped 20 foreign vessels, belonging to 8 different countries; rescued 101 lives from them ; and saved, or helped Sweden. to save, 4 of the vessels. They were There were no services to British also called out to 18 other foreign vessels. vessels, but their help was not needed. The fleet of the Swedish Society for Of the 20 vessels to which help was Saving Life from Shipwreck consists of given 5 were Dutch, 3 Danish, 3 French, 3 cruising motor life-boats, 8 motor 2 Belgian, 2 German, 2 Italian, 2 life-boats, and 5 pulling and sailing Norwegian, and 1 Greek. Forty-four life-boats. One of its motor life-boat lives were rescued from the Italian stations, and its 5 pulling and sailing vessels, 27 from the Danish, and 21 life-boat stations, have life-saving ap- from the Greek vessel. paratus, and there are 3 stations with The British fleet at the end of the this apparatus only. year consisted of 138 motor life-boats The Government maintains 12 pulling and 29 pulling and sailing life-boats-

Naming Ceremonies. EIGHT new motor life-boats have Accounts of these ceremonies will been named during the present year. appear in the next issue of The Life-boat. 564 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

A New Medal for Gallantry. SINCE the Institution was founded the with the legend : " Let not the deep head of the Sovereign has appeared on swallow me up." Under the head of the obverse of the medals which it the King, on the obverse, was " W. awards for gallantry. The first medals, Wyon, Mint." The artist was Mr. struck in 1825, had the head of George William Wyon, R.A., Chief Engraver IV. Although, on his accession to the to the Royal Mint, and a grandson of throne in 1830, William IV became the George Wyon who was Chief Goldsmith Institution's Patron, no medal was de- to George II. One of the three rescuers signed with his head. Nor was any on the reverse is believed to be a fresh medal designed when Queen portrait of him. Victoria came to the throne in 1837. The second medal, struck in 1862, The original medals, with George IV's with the head of Queen Victoria, was head, were used until 1862. Queen designed by Mr. L. C. Wyon. The same Victoria's head was then substituted for reverse was used as on the first medal. it. In 1903 a new medal was designed, The third medal, with the head of with King Edward VII's head, and in King Edward VII, was designed by 1912 another medal was designed with Mr. G. W. de Saulles, the medallist of the head of King George V. the Royal Mint. On the reverse was a When King George VI came to the new design, the figure of Hope buckling throne the Institution was informed on the belt of a life-boatman. that for the future the King's effigy The fourth medal, with the head of was to appear only on medals awarded King George V, was designed by Mr. personally by His Majesty. It was Bertram MacKennal, A.R.A., and on therefore decided to strike a new medal this medal the original design for the with the head of Lieut.-Col. Sir William reverse by Mr. William Wyon was Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Institu- again used. tion. The first of these medals were The fifth medal, with the head of Sir presented by the Duke of Kent at William Hillary, has the same reverse. the annual meeting on llth May, This medal has been designed by Mr. 1938. Allan G. Wyon, F.R.B.S., a member of The reverse of the medal designed in the family of Mr. William Wyon, and 1825 showed three rescuers in a life-boat, Mr. L. C. Wyon, who designed the one of them lifting a man from the sea, medals of 1825 and 1862.

Life-Saving by the Coastguard in 1937. IN 1937 the coastguard organization apparatus companies on 72 occasions, took action in 314 cases in which and 54 persons were brought to safety vessels or aircraft were either observed by means of this appliance. or reported to be in distress, in difficul- The Board of Trade's shield for the ties, or overdue off the coasts of Great " best wreck service of the year " was Britain and Northern Ireland. awarded to the Rhossili Company for In 107 cases the coastguard was able the rescue on the night of 10th January, to warn vessels, and so enable them to 1937, of ten of the crew of the trawler alter course and avoid possible disaster. Roche Castle, which went ashore on The breeches-buoy gear was taken the rocky Gower coast, about twelve out for action by the rocket life-saving miles from Swansea.

Charity or Piracy? A CINEMA which had helped the In- asked in return if the Institution could stitution by showing one of its films lend it a flag with skull and crossbones. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 565

A NEW MEDAL FOR GALLANTRY. BUST OF THE INSTITUTION'S FOUNDER.

Obverse.—Bust of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., Founder of the Institution, by Mr. Allan G. Wyon, F.R.B.S. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded 1824. Sir William Hillary, Bt." " A. G. Wyon, Sc." Reverse.—Three men in a life-boat, one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted man from the sea. " W. Wyon, Mint." Inscription: " Let not the deep swallow me up." The illustration of the obverse shows the silver medal, the illustration of the reverse the bronze medal. The colour of the corded silk ribbon is blue. 566 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Jersey Life-boat's Visit to France. ON July 9th the St. Helier motor life- of the Breton Society, and its president boat, Howard D. paid a visit to France presented to the Jersey branch the at the invitation of La Socie'te' des society's medallion. Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons. The On the following day a conference visit was made possible by the good was held to arrange co-operation be- offices of Mons. J. Delalande, French tween the Jersey, Guernsey and St. consul-general in Jersey. On board Malo life-boat stations for the protection her were Lieut.-Commander T. Le B. of aircraft. The conference was fol- Pirouet, the honorary secretary, and lowed by a banquet, and in the after- members of the Jersey life-boat com- noon, after the St. Malo and Jersey mittee. They took with them letters life-boats had been inspected, they of greeting from the Lieutenant- both left for Dinard, where they were Governor of Jersey and the Bailiff of received by the Mayor and Mons. Le Jersey, the two patrons of the Jersey Commandant Casimir, president of the branch. The sea was rough, but the Dinard branch, A demonstration was life-boat did the journey of 35 miles given of life-saving apparatus and from St. Helier to St. Malo in 4| hours. equipment, and at five o'clock the She was met by the St. Malo life-boat, Howard D. left for Jersey, escorted and the party were received by Mons, for the first few miles by the St. Malo Leon Berthaut, president of the Breton life-boat, in charge of Mons. Le Capi- Society, Mons. G. Lepeer, president taine Bourges. The return journey was of the St. Malo branch, and other made with a very heavy sea running officials. At the town hall they were and took 4j hours. Before the Jersey welcomed by the Mayor of St. Malo. life-boat left, an invitation was given A statuette of a British life-boatman to the St. Malo life-boat to pay a visit was presented to the St. Malo branch to Jersey.

North-Western Conference. A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds gave an address on the life-boat service. in the North-West of was held A general discussion followed in which at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June. the delegates gave their experiences of Two hundred and thirty-six delegates life-boat days, house-to-house collec- attended, from forty-four branches and tions, appeals for annual subscriptions guilds. The delegates were officially and the various methods of arousing welcomed by the Mayor of Blackpool, and maintaining public interest and and after the conference were enter- support. tained to tea by the Mayor and Cor- Life-boat literature,' souvenirs for poration. sale and stores were on view and proved Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of of special interest to delegates from the Institution, presided, supported by newly-established branches and guilds. the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress In the evening the crews of the of Manchester (Alderman J. Crookes Blackpool, Fleetwood and Lytham-St. Grime, O.B.E., J.P., president and Annes life-boats were entertained to chairman of the Manchester, Salford and dinner as the guests of the Lord Mayor District branch, and Miss F. M. Grime), of Manchester. Lieut.-Col. C. R. the Mayor of Blackpool (Alderman Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the J. R. Quayle, J.P.), Lieut.-Col. C. R. Institution, presided in the unavoidable Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the absence of the Lord Mayor of Institution, Canon F. B. Freshwater, Manchester. chaplain of the Blackpool life-boat On the second day the delegates station, and the district organizing visited the new life-boat house at secretary. Blackpool and the life-boat station at The chairman congratulated the Fleetwood. At Blackpool the motor branches and guilds on their work and life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 567

• launched. Before the launch Alderman C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. and Mr. C. E. Tatham, J.P., honorary secretary L. H. Franceys, honorary treasurer of of the Blackpool branch, gave a history the Blackpool branch. of the station, the district inspector of At Fleetwood the delegates -were life-boats described the life-boat and taken for short sea-trips in the life-boat addresses were given by Lieut.-Col. Frederick H. Pilley.

Obituary.

The Marquess of Ailsa. Smith was president in 1919-20. This gift provided the motor life-boat, City THE committee of management greatly of Bradford, which was stationed on the regret the death in April of their Humber from 1923 to 1929. She was colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the replaced in that year by a more power- age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not ful motor life-boat, City of Bradford II, only the oldest, but the senior member. and towards the cost of this boat Brad- He joined the committee of manage- ford contributed a special gift of £4,808. ment fifty-three years ago, in 1885, and Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith was awarded he had been a vice-president of the the gold badge of the Institution in Institution since 1901. 1929, and in 1936 he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest honour which the Institution can Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven. bestow on an honorary worker and Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who which is. given only for very distin- died on 5th February, 1938, had retired guished services. from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary Coxswain Greig, of Stromness. for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the Institution's binoculars in Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, 1911, and in 1931 he was appointed an in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at honorary life-governor, the highest the age of eighty-three. At the age of honour which the Institution can be- ten he went to , and became stow on an honorary worker and which assistant to his uncle, who was a book- is given only for very distinguished seller. After two years of bookselling services. he went to sea, at the age of sixteen, and then became a fisherman. He was appointed second coxswain of the Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, of Bradford. Stromness life-boat in 1891, and seven Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, who died years later he became coxswain. As on 30th March, 1938, at the age of coxswain he served for seventeen years, seventy-four, had been associated with retiring in 1915 at the age of sixty, the Institution's Bradford branch for owing to ill health. He was pensioned seventeen years. He was its honorary by the Institution and awarded a treasurer and secretary from 1921 until certificate of service; while he was an 1932, and its chairman from 1932 until officer of the life-boat she was launched his death. During those years Brad- on service 21 times and rescued 87 ford, besides its regular and generous lives. His outstanding service was the annual contribution to the funds of the rescue of three men from the trawler Institution, raised two special funds. Shakespeare, of Hull, which went ashore In 1920-22 a fund of £10,000 was at the Point of Spoil, on llth December, raised as a centenary gift to the 1907, in a heavy sea. For his skill and Institution. Nearly half of this sum gallantry as coxswain in that rescue, was collected by the Chamber of Com- Coxswain Greig was awarded the merce, of which Sir Henry Sutcliffe Institution's silver medal. 568 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938. Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pen-.ions. On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF station the following awards have been made: SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years awarded to: bowman and 22J vears a member of the RICHARD STEPHENS, 17| years coxswain, crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE 6 years second coxswain and 1 year bowman OF SERVICE and a PENSION. of the Lizard life-boat. ALEXANDER P. CORSTORPHINE, 2J years ERNEST WELBURN, 13} years coxswain of second coxswain, 5J years bowman and the life-boat, 4J years coxswain 9| years a member of the crew, the and 2J years bowman of the LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE OF life-boat. SERVICE and a GRATUITY. JOHN H. C. PEAD, 8} years coxswain, 12 WILLIAM FENTON, 2J years bowman and 9J years second coxswain, 3 years bowman and years a member of the crew, the 21J years a member of the crew of the LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE Aldeburgh life-boats. OF SERVICE. The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF DAVID FENTON, Jnr., 6J years shore signal- SERVICE and a GRATUITY in lieu of a man and 74 years a member of the crew, pension has been awarded to JAMES the LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE MCCARTNEY, 10J years coxswain, 7} years OF SERVICE. second coxswain and six mouths bowman To the following members of the crew the of the Girvan life-boat. LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE OF The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE SERVICE: OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been ROBERT WILSON, 46} years, awarded to RICHARD H. STEPHENS, 17} ROBERT DUNCAN, 25f years, years bowman of the Lizard life-boat and PETER CUNNINGHAM, 24J years, 15 years a member of the crew of the THOMAS BLACK, 17| years, Cadgwith life-boat. JOHN FENTON, 17| years, ROBERT MARTIN, 17J years, and The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE ALEXANDER CHISHOLM, 17i years. OF SERVICE, and a GRATUITY, have On the closing of the Staithes life-boat been awarded to JOHN CHRISTIAN, 7J station the following awards have been years bowman and 33 years a member of made: the crew of the Ramsey life-boat. THOMAS HARRISON, 10 years coxswain, the The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF OF SERVICE has been awarded to EDWARD SERVICE and a PENSION. STANTON, 31 years a member of the crews THOMAS C. THEAKER, 10 years second cox- of the Alnmouth and Boulmer life-boats. swain, the LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFI- A FRAMED LETTER OF THANKS has CATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION. been awarded to JAMES LEVOIR, museum WILLIAM H. VEHRILL, 10 vears bowman, the attendant at Eastbourne and previously LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE OF caretaker of the Terriss Memorial Boathouse SERVICE and a PENSION. for 10 years.

Awards to Honorary Workers. Mr. W. DOUGLAS JOHNSTON, O.B.E., J.P., Ljfe-boat Picture or Statuette of a has been elected an HONORARY LIFE- Life-boatman. GOVERNOR of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable help which he has The LIFE-BOAT PICTURE or the given to the life-boat service both as a STATUETTE OF A LIFE-BOATMAN member of the local committee and as has been awarded to the following: chairman of the Montrose branch during ADA ROAD COUNCIL SCHOOL, bead master, his association with the service for up- staff, and pupils, for collections, Birming- wards of twenty years. ham branch. Mr. C. E. D. ARCHER, chairman, North- Thanks of the Institution on Vellum. ampton branch. The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION Mr. FRED ELLIS, worker, Leicester branch. INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been Mr. W. C. HORNE, honorary treasurer, awarded to Mr. JOHN CARGILL CANTLEY, Leicester branch. M.B.E., on his retirement, on the closing LEIGH ROAD COUNCIL SCHOOL, head master, of the station, after over twenty-three years staff, and pupils, for collections, Birming- as honorary secretary of the St. Andrews ham branch. station branch. Mr. A. LONGBOTTOM, worker, Coventry branch. Gold Badge. Mrs. M. A. PENDLE, worker, Birmingham The GOLD BADGE, with the RECORD OF branch. THANKS, has been awarded to Alderman Mrs. W. H. PERRY, honorary secretary, R. M. ROWE, C.C., member of the com- Walsall branch. mittee and previously president and Mr. HERBERT REYNOLDS, honorary secretary, chairman of the Ilfracombe station branch. Coventry branch. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 569

LA SOCIETE DES HOSPITALIERS SAUVETEURS Mr. and Mrs. C. LLEWELLYN, workers, East- BRETONS, on the occasion of the visit of bourne branch. the St. Helier motor life-boat to St. Malo. Mr. W. LLEWELLYN, worker, Eastbourne branch. Record of Thanks. Mrs. L. MACLACHLAN, worker, Eastbourne The RECORD OF THANKS has been branch. awarded to the following: Mr. G. L. MATTHEWS, worker, Eastbourne Mr. H. M. ADAM, worker, Eastbourne branch. branch. Mrs. and the Misses REED, workers, East- Mrs. E. A. BROCKHURST, worker, Walsall bourne branch. branch. Mrs. H. G. ROGERS, worker, Walsall branch. Mr. J. E. CHH.VERS, worker, Eastbourne Mrs. S. SIMMONS, worker, Eastbourne branch. branch. Mrs. M. L. SKINNER, worker, Eastbourne Mr. CHARLES J. COHBETT, worker, Birming- branch. ham branch. Mrs. LE PINE STRANGE, worker, Eastbourne Mrs. FAIHCLOUGH, worker, Birmingham branch. branch. Mr. E. VERRALL, worker, Eastbourne branch. Mr. F. GILL, worker, Eastbourne branch. Mr. HERBERT WOODHEAD, worker, Walsall Mr. G. H. GOULD, worker, Coventry branch. branch. Mr. E. M. HARVEY, worker, Eastbourne branch. Other Award. Mrs. ALICE M. JONES, worker, Walsall A framed picture of Bamburgh Castle has branch. been awarded to Major C. M. FORSTEB, Mr. P. N. LANGHAM, worker, Leicester O.B.E., T.D., in recognition of his valuable branch. help in connexion with the Grace Darling Mrs. F. M. LEACH, worker, Eastbourne branch. Museum.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 28th April, 1938. £258 9s. to pay the rewards for life-boat Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. launches Reported the receipt of the following (Accounts of these services and launches special contributions :— appear on pages 540-544) ; £ s. d. £3 for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; Anonymous, for the new Montrose £17 3s. for a service previously reported ; life-boat .... 8,000 0 0 £27 9s. 2d. on account of pensions already Lloyd's collection . . . 1,530 4 0 granted to the dependent relatives of men Donation to Glasgow branch who had lost their lives in the life-boat from the executors of the late service at Rye Harbour ; Mr. VV. G. Gardiner . 500 0 0 Voted £9 on account of additional rewards Donation to Dunbar and Skateraw to the crews of the St. David's and Stromness branch from the executors of life-boats. the late Miss M. S. Ainslie . 250 0 0 Voted £24 8s. 6d. to pay the rewards for Miss Olga Serena . . . 200 0 0 the Bsnbecula, Boathaven, Cullercoats, Holy Miss Marie Serena . . 175 0 0 Island, and Worthing shoreboat services, Donation from the executors of account of which appear on page 558. the late Mr. J. Barker. . 100 0 0 The Misses MarteUi . . 50 0 0 Thursday, 19th May, 1938. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. Resolved, in view of the heavy expense Resolved that Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and that would be entailed by a reconstruction the Hon. George Colville be re-elected chair- of the Institution's present storeyard at man and deputy chairman respectively of Poplar, in order to render it suitable for the the committee of management. requirements of the Institution, and of the Resolved that the Staithes life-boat station fact that investigations have shown that a be closed forthwith. satisfactory site can be obtained elsewhere Resolved that Mr. James Napier be thanked with some financial advantage, that the for his outstanding services in connexion present premises be disposed of and that a with the Institution's pavilion at the Scottish suitable building be erected on a site to be Empire Exhibition. purchased at Elstree, Hertfordshire. Reported the receipt of the following Paid £46,699 8s. 4d. for the total charges of special contribution:— the Institution during the month, including £ s. d. rewards for services, payments for the con- Miss Clough . . . . SO 0 0 struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and Paid £19,843 10s. 2d. for the total charges slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat of the Institution during the month, including stations. rewards for services, payments for the con- Included in the above were :— struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and £194 Os. 6d. to pay the rewards tor life- slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat boat services; stations. 570 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

Included in the above were :— stow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, £89 Is. to pay the rewards for life-boat Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, Troon, Whitby services; and Wells; £97 6s. to pay the rewards for life-boat £88 10s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- launches boat service at Blackpool, Buckle, Caister, Moelfre, Newhaven, Port St. Mary and (Accounts of these services and launches Whitby. appear on pages 544-546) ; Voted £38 4s. on account of additional £13 13s. 6d. for assemblies of crews, etc.; rewards to the crews of the Hastings, £8 15s. for a service previously reported; Southend-on-Sea and Fahnouth life-boats. £21 19s. 4d. on account of pensions already (Accounts of these services appear on granted to the dependent relatives of men pages 550, 551 and 553.) who had lost then- lives in the life-boat Voted £6 19s. to pay the rewards for service at Rye Harbour; shoreboat services at Fahnouth, Holyhead, £15 10s. to a man for injury in the life-boat Ilfracombe, and Totland Bay, accounts of service at Arranmore. which appear on page 557. Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to Alexander Patterson, ex-assistant motor mechanic at Berwick-on-Tweed, in view of Thursday, 14th July, 1938. his straitened circumstances. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. Voted a payment of £10 to the widow of Coxswain J. T. Lord, of Ramsey, towards the Resolved that the St. Andrews life-boat funeral expenses of her husband, who was station be closed on the 31st August. drowned while engaged in his occupation Decided to place a reserve motor life-boat as a pilot. at Amble on trial for six months. Voted £10 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for Resolved that Commander J. M. Upton, shoreboat services at East Runton, Herne R.D., R.N.R., Irish District. Inspector, be Bay, Hoylake, and Teignmouth, accounts of transferred to the eastern district as from which appear on pages 558 and 559. the 1st January, 1939. Resolved that Mr. S. C. Dickinson, Assis- tant District Inspector, be promoted to Thursday, 16th June, 1938. District Inspector as from the 1st January, 1939, and appointed to the Irish district. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Reported the receipt of the following the Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the chair. special contribution :— Resolved that the services of Captain E. S. Carver, R.D., R.N.R., Superintendent of £ s. d. Stores, be retained until the 31st December, Mrs. Sarah J. Clough . . 75 0 0 1939. Paid £36,215 4s. 6d. for the total charges Resolved that Lieut.-Commander P. E. of the Institution during the month, including Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., Eastern District In- rewards for services, payments for the con- spector, be appointed Chief Inspector on the struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and retirement of Commander E. D. Drury, slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. stations. Reported the receipt of the following Included in the above were :— special contribution:— £ s. d. £108 18s. 4d. to pay the rewards for life- The late Mr. Sydney Simmons, boat services; donation from executors . 134 5 4 £85 15s. to pay the rewards for life- Paid £25,242 12s. 8d. for the total charges boat launches of the Institution during the month, including (Accounts of these services and launches rewards for services, payments for the con- appear on pages 553-557) ; struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and £3 7s. 6d. for assemblies of crews; slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat £7 13s. additional rewards for services stations. previously reported; Included in the above were :— £26 15s. lOd. on account of pensions already £27813s. 6

News from the Branches.* 1st May to 31st July, 1938. Greater London. KEW.—Visit of Mr. Leleux, life-boat day Life-boat day was held throughout Greater organizer, and some of his helpers to the London on 31st May. The amount raised Institution's storeyard. was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937. PURLEY AND COULSDON.—Bowls Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, competition at Purley. M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Board PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.— of Education, of the prize for the best essay Dramatic entertainment, with the life-boat in Great Britain and Ireland, and the chal- play " Their Business in Great Waters ", and lenge shield for Greater London, both won other sketches. by Sheila Mary Wicks, of Heston Junior Mixed School, the challenge shield for the ST. ALBANS AND DISTRICT.—Annual South-East of England, won by David Cooper, meeting on 29th June, the Mayor, chairman of Redbourn Boys' School, and individual of the branch, presiding. Speaker: Lieut.- prizes won by Greater London Schools. The Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of Mayor of Westminster presided, supported by the Institution. Efforts of the past year: the Viscountess Davidson, M.P., Mr. E. H. Life-boat day, dance. Amount collected in Keeling, M.P., the Mayor of Heston and 1937, £380, an increase of £15 on 1936. By Isleworth, members of the Education Com- the kindness of Lady Peake, president of the mittee of the L.C.C. and members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, this meeting formed committee of management of the Institu- a part of her " At Home." tion. Mr. Frederick Woodhouse gave a SOUTHEND AND DISTRICT.—Inspec- programme of sea songs. tion of the motor life-boat by the Right Hon. BARNEHURST AND CRAYFORD.— Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Mrs. Gilchrist appointed honorary secretary. a vice-president of the Institution, with a special launch. Launches for the visits of the BATTERSEA.—Life-boat day workers' Woodford and Burnt-Oak branches. Life- tea. Whist drive. Addresses to South boat day in Southend. Battersea Constitutional Association. STOKE NEWINGTON.—Life-boat day BEXLEYHEATH. — Life-boat day helpers' meeting. workers' social. Speaker: The district organ- izing secretary. Whist drive. TWICKENHAM.—Special meeting, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: BURNT OAK, EDGWARE.—Visit to the The district organizing secretary. Com- Southend life-boat station. Entertainment mittee formed. Miss M. Harris appointed by the Janet Gooch School of Dancing and honorary life-boat day organizer. Address to the Woodhouse Players. Address to the the Rotary Club by the district organizing Conservative Association. secretary. CLAPHAM.—Garden fete, opened by UPMINSTER.—" Boats that Save Life " Lady Leigh. The Rev. Canon J. C. Durell, film shown, with collection. C.B.E., president of the branch, in the chair. WESTMINSTER.—Gymnastic and danc- Speakers: Mr. R. M. Parry, Mr. G. J. Green, ing display by the Buckingham School Mr. Mark Stanford, M.C., President of the students. Chair taken and prizes presented Clapham Rotary Club, and the district by the district organizing secretary. organizing secretary. Whist drives. Special Meeting of West End life-boat day BALING.—Address to the Rotary Club depot holders. Mrs. Abel Smith, chairman by Captain Basil Hall, R.N. of the Central London Women's Committee, presiding. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Sat- HACKNEY.—Life-boat day workers' tea, terthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the by kind invitation of Councillor Loweth, Institution. C.B.E., D.L., J.P., president of the branch. Meeting of the special film committee, the Address to the British Legion. Duchess of Sutherland, president of the HAMMERSMITH.—Sixth Annual Swim- Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. ming Gala. Presentation of prizes by the Speakers: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman Mayor and Mayoress. Lecture to North of the Institution, Mr. Deutsch, director of Hammersmith Conservative Association by Odeon Theatres, Sir Michael Bruce, Bt., Captain Basil Hall, R.N. publicity manager of Odeon Theatres, Mrs. Abel Smith, chairman of the Central London HAREFIELD.—Entertainment by the Women's Committee, Lieut.-Col. C. R. Sat- " Dainty Dots " through the kindness of terthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institut- Mrs. Joyce. Speaker: The district organizing ion, and the district organizing secretary. secretary. WIMBLEDON. — Address to Morden HAYES.—Garden whist drives held by Rotary Club by Captain Basil Hall, R.N. the kindness of Mrs. Wetzel and Mrs. Wiggins. WOODFORD.—Visit to the Southend HORNSEY.—Whist drive. life-boat station. Whist drive. ILFOHD.—Life-boat day workers' meet- Lectures at Stratford, Sunbury-on-Thames, ing. and Walthamstow. 572 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1988.

North-West of England. GREAT HARWOOD.—Annual house-to- A District Conference was held in Black- house collection. pool on 17th and 18th June. (See special HASLINGDEN, AND HAYDOCK.—Life- report on page 566.) boat days. ABRAM AND BICKERSHAW.—Life- HEYWOOD.—Life-boat day. Whist boat day. Presentation of a prize won in drive. the life-boat essay competition for elementary HINDLEY.—Life-boat day. schools. HYDE.—Presentation by the Mayor of a ACCRINGTON AND DISTRICT.—Life- prize won in the life-boat essay competition boat day. Cricket match collections. for elementary schools. ADLINGTON, APPLEBY, AND ATHER- IRLAM AND CADISHEAD.—Life-boat TON.—Life-boat days. day. BAMBER BRIDGE, AND WALTON-LE- LANCASTER.—Presentation of a prize DALE.—Life-boat day. Fifth annual won in the life-boat essay competition for bowling tournament. elementary schools. BARROW, AND BILLINGE.—Life-boat LEIGH.—Annual meeting on 4th May, days. , Mrs. J. Horrocks, president, in the chair. BLACKPOOL.—Address by the district Speaker: The district organizing secretary. organizing secretary to the Blackpool Rotary Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, Club. treasure hunt. Amount collected in 1937, £41, an increase of £6 on 1936. BOLTON.—Life-boat day. Life-b at day. BREDBURY.—Life-boat day. American LEYLAND.—Special meeting at Worden tea at Hatherlow House. Hall on 7th July. Speaker: the district or- BURNLEY.—Life-boat day. Presenta- ganizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild tion of a prize won in the life-boat essay formed. Chairman, Mrs. H. Trevor Wank- competition for elementary schools. lyn; honorary treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Willmott; honorary secretary, Mrs. H. F. Haworth. BURY.—Life-boat day. Life-boat day organized by the Hon. CARNFORTH.—Presentation of a prize Mrs. R. B. Hulton. won in the life-boat essay competition for LITTLEBOROUGH.—Presentation of a elementary schools. prize won in the life-boat essay competition CHESTER, CHORLEY, CLITHEROE, for elementary schools. COCKERMOUTH, AND COLNE.—Life-boat LITTLE HULTON.—Annual meeting on days. 10th May. Speaker: The district organizing CREWE.—Annual meeting on 23rd June, secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Mrs. G. Christie-Miller, president, in the day. Amount collected in 1937, £25, an chair. Speaker: the district organizing sec- increase of £2 on 1936. retary. Amount collected in 1937, £54, an Lift.-buat day. increase of £3 on 1936. LITTLE LEVER.—Annual house-to- Life-boat day. house collection. CROMPTON AND SHAW.—Annual meet- LIVERPOOL.—Presentations of prizes ing on 10th May, Councillor Philip Lees, J.P., won in the life-boat essay competition for in the chair. Speaker: the district organizing elementary schools to eleven schools. secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat LYTHAM-ST. ANNES.—Annual meeting day. Amount collected in 1937, £27. on 14th July, the deputy Mayor presiding in Lantern lecture by Mrs. Farnworth. in the absence of the Mayor. Speaker: The Lifj-boat day. district organizing secretary. Efforts of the CULCHETH - WITH - KENYON, AND past year: Life-boat days. Amount col- DARWEN.—Life-boat days. lected in 1937, £240, an increase of £65 on DOUGLAS.—Presentations of prizes won 1936. in the life-boat essay competition for ele- Special Sunday Service at St. John's mentary schools. Church, Lytham. The Mayor, members of the town council, officials and workers of the FARNWORTH AND KEARSLEY.— branch, members of the Lytham-St. Annes Life-boat day. life-boat crew and fishermen attended. FLEETWOOD.—Presentation of a prize Preacher: The Bishop of Blackburn. The won in the life-boat essay competition for Service conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. elementary schools. A. R. Allen, M.A. The Blackpool life-boat GARSTANG.—Life-boat day. band, conducted by Mr. .1. Brier, accompanied the procession to the church. GOLBORNE.—Special meeting on 5th The branch has suffered a severe loss by the May, the Rev. A. Kennerley presiding. death of Mr. W. Gregson, joint honorary Speaker: The district organizing secretary. secretary of the station since 1931. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, Mrs. J. Niermeyer; chairman, Mrs. K. M. MACCLESFIELD.—Life-boat days at Bol- Waterhouse; honorary treasurer, Mrs. E. M. lington and Prestbury. White; joint honorary secretaries, Mrs. V. M. MALPAS.—Presentation of a prize won in Dalton and Miss J. Platt. the life-boat essay competition for elementary Life-boat day. Golf competition. schools. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 573

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND England in the life-boat essay competition DISTRICT:— for elementarv schools, won by Jean Maginn. The branch has suffered a very severe of Rushen School, Port St. Mary. After- loss by the death of Alderman Joseph dinner collection. Crookes Grime, Lord Mayor of Manchester, POYNTON AND WORTH, AND PRES- president and chairman of the branch. (An TON.—Life-boat days. account of his services to the Institution will appear in the next issue of The Life- RADCLIFFE.—Whist drive, arranged by boat.) Mrs. Etheridge. Presentation of a prize won Life-boat days. Collections on the in the life-boat essay competition for ele- occasion of the visit of a flotilla of warships mentary schools. to Manchester Ship Canal. Special meeting RAINFORD.—Life-boat day. of officials of district life-boat guilds. Special meeting, Mr. P. M. Oliver, RAMSBOTTOM.—American tea arranged C.B.E., honorary secretary of the branch, by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. in the chair. Life-boat Guild formed. RISHTON, AND ROMILEY.—Life-boat Chairman, Councillor II. Quinney; vice- days. chairman, Mr. John Barlow; honorary ROYTON.—Annual meeting on 4th May, treasurer, Mr. C. Lawton: honorary secre- the Rev. Canon W. Rowe in the chair. tary, Mr. S. Barlow, O.B.E. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. DROYLSDEN.—Special meeting. Amount collected in 1937, £34. FALLOWPIELD.—Collections at - Annual house-to-house collection, and life- lop Rubber Company's Sports. boat films shewn at the Pavilion Cinema. RUNCORN.—Presentation by Mr. Cecil PRESTWICH.—Annual meeting on 20th Greenhalgh, honorary secretary of the branch, July. Speaker: The branch secretary. of a prize won in the life-boat essay competi- Mrs. H. W. Horrocks elected honorary secretary. tion for elementary schools. SANDBACH, AND SOUTHPORT.—Life- SALFORD.—Visit by members of the City of Salford Life-boat Guild and Windsor boat days. Institute helpers to the Llandudno life- STOCKPORT.—Life-boat days and life- boat station. Short sea cruise. boat exhibition. Presentation of a prize won in the life-boat essay competition for WALKDEN.—Visit by Ladies' Life- boat Guild to Fleetwood life-boat station. elementary schools. Short sea cruise. TARPORLEY, AND TODMORDEN.— WHALLEY RANGE.—Annual meeting Life-boat days. on 2nd July. Speaker: The branch sec- TINTWISTLE.—Annual house-to-house retary. Mrs. R. Milner elected president collection. in succession to Mrs. A. Fisher resigned. TOTTINGTON.—Annual house-to-house MIDDLETON, AND MOSSLEY.—Life- collection. " Bring-and-buy " sale at Sunny boat days. Bank. MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM.—Pre- TURTON, AND UPHOLLAND.—Life- sentation of a prize won in the life-boat essay boat days. competition for elementary schools. WARRINGTON.—Life-boat day. "Bring- NANTWICH, NEWTON - IN-MAKER- and-buy " sale at the house of Mrs. Brereton FIELD, AND NORTHWICH.—Life-boat Fairclough. Presentation of prize won in days. the life-boat essay competition for elementary OLDHAM.—Presentation of a prize won schools. in the life-boat essay competition for WESTHOUGHTON.—Life-boat day. elementary schools. Cricket match collections. ORMSKIRK.—Presentation of a prize WHALEY BRIDGE.—Life-boat day. won in the life-boat essay competition for WHITEHAVEN.—Presentations of prizes elementary schools. won in the life-boat essay competition for ORRELL.—Life-boat day. Annual golf elementary schools. competition by the Dean Wood Golf Club, WIDNES.—Presentation by the Mayoress ladies' section. of a prize won in the life-boat essay com- PADIHAM.—House-to-house collection. petition for elementary schools. PEEL.—Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (A special report will North-East of England. appear in the next issue of The Life-bnnt.) Annual sacred service. Presentation of a BAMBURGH.—Opening ceremony of the prize won in the life-boat essay competition Grace Darling National Memorial Museum. for elementary schools. (See special report on page 529.) BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Life-boat day. PORT ERIN.—After-dinner collection. Annual Sunday service. BRADFORD.—Garden party, given by PORT ST. MARY.—Presentation by the Mrs. Rawnsley. Esholt. Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man of BRIDLINGTON.—Life-boat day. Grounds the challenge shield for the North-West of of Burton Agnes Hall on view. 574 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

COLLINGHAM, AND CONISBOROUGH. Midlands. —Life-boat days. A District Conference was held in Bir- CONSETT.—Garden whist and bridge mingham on 13th and 14th May. A special drive. report was published in The Life-boat for CRESSWELL.—House-to-house collection. June. CULLERCOATS, AND DARLINGTON. ALFRETON, AND ATHERSTONE.— —Life-boat days. Life-boat days. DEWSBURY.—House-to-house collection. BAKEWELL.—Life-boat day. Lecture to the British Legion. DONCASTER DISTRICT.—Whist drives at Thurnscoe and Littl; Smeaton. Life- BARTON-ON-HUMBER.—Life-boat day boat day at Great Houghton. Special efforts at South Ferriby. at South Emsall and Goldthorpe. BIRMINGHAM.—Presentation of the DURHAM.—Bring-and-buysale. records of thanks awarded by the Institution to Mrs. T. O. Stevens, chairman of the Ladies' GATESHEAD, GOLCAR, AND . Life-boat Guild, and to Mr. C. Corbett, a —Life-boat days. member of the branch committee, of the HARROGATE.—Dancing display. life-boat picture, awarded to Mrs. Pendle, a member of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and HARTLEPOOL, AND HOLMFIRTH.— of the statuette of a life-boatman awarded Life-boat days. to Mrs. Shakespear, ex-chairman of the HOLY ISLAND.—Presentation of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Life-boat day. challenge shield for the North-East of Annual meeting at . The England, in the life-boat essay competition Mayor in the chair. Speaker: The district for elementary schools, won by Henry organizing secretary. Presentation of the Walker, of the Holy Island Church of statuette of a life-boatman awarded by the England School. Institution to Mrs. Livingstone. HONLEY.—House-to-house collection. Life-boat day at Smethwick. Bridge drive at Quinton, organized by Mrs. Penny. HUDDERSFIELD.—American sale. Address to Leigh Road and Ada Road Boys' KEIGHLEY.—Annual meeting on 23rd Schools. May, the Mayor, president, in the chair. BLOCKLEY.—Life-boat day. Efforts of the past year: House-to-house col- lection, life-boat day, American tea. Amount BRISTOL.—Annual meeting, the Lord collected in 1937, £359, an increase of £69 on Mayor, patron, in the chair. Speakers: 1936. Colonel the Lord Sempill, a member of the committee of management of the Institution, KIRKHEATON. — House-to-house col- and Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., lection. secretary of the Institution. Presentation LEEDS, MIDDLESBROUGH, AND by Lord Sempill of the gold badge awarded NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.—Life-boat days. by the Institution to Lady Davies, president NEW MILL.—House-to-house collection. of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and the hono- NORMANTON.—Whist drive. Social. rary life-governor's vellum to Mrs. C. Hartly- OUTWOOD AND STANLEY.—House-to- Hodder, honorary secretary of the Ladies' house collection. Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £1,233, an increase of £22 on 1936. PATRINGTON.—Whist drive. Life-boat day. REDCAR.—Life-boat day. ROTHERHAM.—Exhibition of life-boat BROWNHILLS.—Whist drive. photographs at the Art Gallery. (A special BURTON-ON-TRENT.—Life-boat day. account will bs published in the next issue.) BUXTON. — House-to-house collection. Scavenge hunt. Lantern lecture. SCARBOROUGH.—Treasure hunt. CANNOCK.—" Riders of the Storm " film SEAHAM, AND SELBY.—Life-boat days. shown. SHEFFIELD.—American tea. CHELTENHAM.—Annual meeting, the SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Life-boat day. Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: STAINDROP.—House-to-house collection. Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., STOCKTON.—Life-boat day. secretary of the Institution. Presentation SUNDERLAND.—District life-boat day. of the gold badge awarded by the Institution TYNEMOUTH.—The station has lost an to Miss Wanklyn, honorary secretary of the old coxswain by the death of Coxswain branch, and the record of thanks to Mrs. R. Joseph Taylor. He retired in 1938, having Jones, a member of the branch committee. then served as coxswain at Tynemouth for Amount collected in 1937, £146. fifteen years and before that at Cullercoats Life-boat day. for two years. CONINGSBY.—Life-boat day. WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Life-boat day. COVENTRY.—Special meeting, attended WHITBY.—Naming ceremony of the new by the Mayor. Speaker: The district organ- motor life-boat. (A special report will izing secretary. Presentation by the Mayor appear in the next issue.) of the statuette of a life-boatman awarded by .—Life-boat day. the Institution to Mr. H. Reynolds, honorary YORK.—Sunday concert. secretary, of the life-boat picture awarded OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 575

to Mr. A. Longbottom, a member of the CAMBRIDGE.—Annual meeting, Mrs. branch committee, and of the record of thanks Giles, president, in the chair. Speaker: awarded to Mr. G. H. Gould, a member of Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the branch committee. Presentation of two secretary of the Institution. Efforts of tlje certificates won in the life-boat essay com- past year: House-to-house collections. petition for elementary schools. Lift-boat Amount collected in 1937, £109, an increase day. of £13 on 1936. DERBY (ALVASTON BRANCH), FAIR- CANTERBURY.—Annual meeting, Surg.- FORD AND LECHLADE, GLOUCESTER, Capt. K. H. Jones, R.N., M.B., F.Z.S., GRIMSBY, HORNCASTLE, ILKESTON, chairman, presiding. Speaker: the district AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH. — Life-boat organizing secretary. Efforts of the past days. year: Church and house-to-house collections, KETTERING.—Collection at the Savoy whist drive, golf competition. Amount Cinema. collected in 1937, £79. At a special service of the sea held in KIDDERMINSTER. — Life-boat day. Canterbury Cathedral the Institution was Life-boat films shown. represented by Lieut.-Commander the Lord LANGWITH.—Life-boat day. Teynham, R.N., a member of the committee of management and members of the life- LINCOLN.—Mr. Ernest Bower appointed boat crews from Margate, Ramsgate, branch secretary. Walmer, Dover, Hythe and Dungeness. LONG EATON—Life-boat day. CATERHAM AND DISTRICT.—Life- MABLETHORPE AND SUTTON-ON- boat day. SEA, AND MALVERN.—Life-boat days. CHICHESTER.—Whist drive at Slindon. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—House-to- CLACTON-ON-SEA.—Annual meeting, house collection. Mr. H. J. Grant, president, in the chair. MATLOCK.—Life-boat day. Mr. L. Jackson appointed honorary treasurer NEW MILLS.—" Boats that Save Life " in place of Mr. A. W. Kerry. Efforts of the and " Riders of the Storm " films shown at past year: Life-boat Sunday and boat-house local cinemas. collections, and life-boat day and whist drive arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat NUNEATON, AND OAKHAM.—Life- Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £409. boat days. Life-boat Sunday. Golf competition. PETERBOROUGH.—Presentation by the The branch has suffered a severe loss Mayor of the challenge shield for the Midlands through the death of Councillor Mrs. F. E. in the life-boat essay competition for ele- White, honorary treasurer of the Ladies' mentary schools, won by Betty Ann Langley, Life-boat Guild. of Orchard Street Council School, and by Lady Winfrey, president of the branch, of CROMER.—Exhibition of life-boat models, two certificates won in this competition. photographs, and moving pictures. REDDITCH, AND RETFORD.—Life- CROWBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— boat days. Life-boat day. DARTFORD.—Life-boat film " Boats that RIPLEY.—House-to-house collection. Save Life " shown, with collections. Garden RUGBY (SOUTHAM AND DUN- meeting and " bring-and-buy" sale, with CHURCH), RUSHDEN, AND SLEAFORD. address by the district organizing secretary. —Life-boat days. Garden whist drive. STOKE - ON - TRENT AND NEW- DORKING.—Life-boat day. CASTLE-UNDER-LYME.—Mr. J, H. Jack- DOVER.—A centenary vellum was pre- son appointed assistant secretary. sented to the Mayor by the district organizing secretary. (A special account will be published STOW-ON-WOLD, STRATFORD-ON- in the next issue.) AVON, UPPINGHAM, AND UPTON-ON- Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat SEVERN.—Life-boat days. Guild. Tennis tournament. UTTOXETER.—House-to-house collec- EASTBOURNE.—Records of thanks tion. awarded by the Institution to a number of WALSALL, AND WOODHALL SPA.— honorary workers were presented by Mr. Life-boat days. H. A. Baker, a member of the committee of management of the Institution, at a broad- South-East of England. cast tea dance. Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat ALDEBURGH.—Another of the famous Guild. Mrs. Astley Roberts, president, in Cable family has passed away by the death the chair. Speaker : the district organizing of Mr. Robert A. Cable, at the age of 83. secretary. Life-boat days in Eastbourne He went to sea at the age of twelve, in a and country districts, arranged by the Ladies' fishing smack, joined the life-boat crew in Life-boat Guild. 1881, was appointed bowman in 1905, and Lectures to the Women's Institutes at retired in 1927. He had then done 46 years Catsfield, Dicker, Heathfield, Hellingly, and service in the life-boat and had taken part Robertsbridge. in the rescue of over 170 lives. EPPING—Garden meeting and American BOGNOR REGIS.—Golf competition. tea. 576 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

ESHER.—Life-boat day. SHOREHAM HARBOUR. — Life-boat GRAYS.—Golf competition at Orsett. days at Shoreham and Southwick. Life- boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown at . GUILDFORD.—Church collections at South wick. Shamley Green. Lecture at Shere and Gomshall Women's Institute, and address TONBRIDGE.—Life-boat day. to the Round Table, by Captain Basil Hall, TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—American tea. R.N. Speaker: Lieut.-Ccl. C. R. Satterthwaite, HARWICH.—Collection on cross-channel O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Lecture steamers and at Shotley on the occasion of at Mark Cross VVomen's Institute. the King's birthday review. WALTON AND FRINTON.—Life-boat HASTINGS.—" Blessing of the sea " Sunday. service. Lecture at Staplehurst and Ew- WEYBRIDGE.—Life-boat day. hurst Women's Institute. WINDSOR, ETON, AND DISTRICT.— HERNE BAY.—Framed letters of thanks Life-boat day at Windlesham. awarded by the Institution to Mr. Alfred WOKINGHAM.—Life-boat day. Pressley and Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bay, for the rescue, on 17th April last, of a WOLVERTON.—Collection at L.M.S. man and a boy from a yacht, presented by Railway Company's works. Councillor W. S. Pullinger, J.P., chairman of WORTHING.—Life-boat day. Lecture at the Urban District Council. Storrington Women's Institute. Presenta- HUNTINGDON AND DISTRICT.—Life- tion of prizes won in the life-boat essay boat day. competition at two elementary schools. HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH.—Life-boat GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLE- day. Life-boat film " Boats that Save STON.—Life-boat day. Presentation of Life " shown. prizes won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools. ISLE OF SHEPPEY.—Life-boat day in Queenborough and district. Lectures were also given to the Godalming Townswomen's Guild, and to the Women's KING'S LYNN.—Joint flag-day with the Institutes at Barnston, Billericay, Bucking- Hull Sailors' Orphanage. ham, Campton, Chiddingstone Causeway, LEATHERHEAD.—Life-boat day. Golf Crockham Hill, Hutton, Midhurst, Mundon, competition. Scaynes Hill, Sible Hedingham, Stanbridge, LEWES AND DISTRICT. — Life-boat Water Eaton, and Woolbeding. days. Life-boat film " Boats that Save Life " Prizes won in the life-boat essay competi- shown. Lectures at Hamsey and Newick tion for elementary schools were also pre- Women's Institutes. sented at Beaconsfield, Deal, Dunstable, LITTLEHAMPTON.—Life-boat day. Life- Folkestone, Lydd, Midhurst, Ripple, Stone, boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown. Welwyn Garden City, and Westerham. LOWESTOFT.—Address to the Round South-West of England. Table by Captain E. S. Carver, R.D., R.N.R., superintendent of stores. ALDERSHOT. — Special meeting. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. MAIDENHEAD.—Life-boat day. ANDOVER.—Life-boat day in Andover, MAIDSTONE.—Golf competition at Bear- Stockbridge and villages, and in Whitchurch sted. and district and Kingsclere. MISTLEY, MANNINGTREE AND DIS- APPLEDORE.—Life-boat day at Apple- TRICT.—House-to-house collections. dore and Bideford. REIGATE AND REDHILL.—Golf com- BANBURY.—Life-boat day in Banbury petition at Kingswood. and villages. ROCHESTER.—Life-boat day. BARNSTAPLE.—Life-boat day. RYE AND WINCHELSEA.—Garden sale. BASINGSTOKE.—Presentation of framed ST. IVES.—Presentation of the gold badge life-boat picture awarded by the Institution awarded by the Institution to Mrs. G. G. G. to Mrs. Stratford, chairman of the branch. Wheeler, late president of the branch. BATH.—Life-boat day. ST. NEOTS.—Life-boat day. BICESTER.—Life-boat day in Bicester and villages. SANDWICH.—Life-boat day. Life-boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown. BOURNEMOUTH.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. SEAFORD.—Life-boat day. Speaker: Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, SHERINGHAM.—The station has lost a C.B., M.P., a member of the committee of former coxswain by the death, at the age of management of the Institution. Efforts of 88, of Coxswain William Bishop. He retired past year: Life-boat day and house-to-house in 1914, having then served as coxswain for collections. Amount collected in 1937, £452. 17 years. BRIDPORT.—Life-boat day at Beamin- I Exhibition of life-boat models, photographs, ster. Presentation of prize won in the life-boat and moving pictures. essay competition for elementary schools, by OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 577

Rear-Admiral C. H. Fox, C.B., president of NEWBURY.—Life-boat day at Hunger- the branch. . • ford. BUDE.—Life-boat day at Holsworthy. NEWQUAY.—Special meeting, Mrs. BURNHAM-ON-SEA.—Life-boat day at Gibson in the chair. Speaker: The district Burnham and Highbridge. organizing secretary. OKEHAMPTON, AND PAIGNTON.— CALNE.—Life-boat day. Life-boat days. CHARD.—Life-boat day at Chard. Bridge PETERSFIELD.—Life-boat day in Peters- tournament at Ilminster. field and Liss. • CHIPPENHAM. — Life-boat day at Corsham. PLYMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Plymouth CHIPPING NORTON.—Life-boat day. and Saltash. Address by district organizing Garden fete at Kingham, organized by Mrs. secretary to the South Brent Women's Parsons. Institute. CLEVEDON, AND CLOVELLY.—Life- POOLE.—Life-boat day at Poole and boat days. Wimborne. Balloon race at Poole. The DARTMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Dart- three winning balloons came down in France, mouth and Kingswear, with visit of Torbay and Belgium. motor life-boat. PORTSMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Ports- DAWLISH.—Life-boat day in Dawlish mouth, Havant and Emsworth. and district. Life-boat film shown at Scala REDRUTH.—Bridge and whist drive. Cinema. ROMSEY.—Life-boat day in Romsey and EASTLEIGH.—Life-boat day. villages. EXETER.—Life-boat day and stall. ST. AUSTELL.—Special meeting. Speak- EXMOUTH.—Golf competition and life- er : The district organizing secretary. Ladies' boat day at Budleigh Salterton. Life-boat Guild formed, with Mrs. H. Coode FALMOUTH.—Golf competition. as president and Mrs. E. Saunders as hono- FARNBOROUGH AND FLEET.—Life- rary secretary. boat day at Fleet. Presentation by Mr. W. Coode of the FOWEY, FROME, AND GOSPORT.— challenge shield for the South-West of Life-boat days. England in the life-boat essay competition GUERNSEY. —Presentation by the for elementary schools won by William Lieutenant-Governor of the thanks of the Hobba, of the Central Senior Boys' School, Institulion, inscribed on vellum, awarded to St. Austell. Mr. W. Frampton on his retirement as Bridge and whist drive. honorary secretary. SALISBURY.—Special meeting at HENLEY-ON-THAMES.—Life-boat day " Riversfield," by kind invitation of Mrs. at Henley and Shiplake. Golf competition. Norman Rawlence. The Mayoress of Salis- ILFRACOMBE.—Life-boat day in Ilfra- bury in the chair. Life-boat day at Gilling- combe and surrounding villages. Life-boat ham. Treasure hunt for cars. film shown. " Bring-and-buy" sale at Windover ISLE OF WIGHT.—Annual meeting of House, by kind permission of Mr. and Mrs. the Isle of Wight life-boat board, Major- Lovibond. General The Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, SEATON.—Life-boat day at Beer, with C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., president of the branch visit of Exmouth motor life-boat. and a vice-president of the Institution, in SHEPTON MALLET, AND SHER- the chair. Amount collected in 1937, £833 BORNE.—Life-boat days. Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chair- SIDMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Ottery man of the Institution, to the Shanklin St. Mary. Life-boat film shown at cinema. Townswomen's Guild. Mrs. Walmsley in the chair. Opening of Gardens, Luccombe SOUTHAMPTON.—Life-boat day in Chine, Bonchurch, by kind permission of Southampton and district, s.s. Asturias open Mrs. Cholmondeley. to public. Presentations of framed life-boat picture SWANAGE.—Special meeting of Ladies' awarded by the Institution to Mr. P. W. Day, Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Field, president, in the honorary treasurer; framed record of thanks chair. Speaker: The district organizing to Mrs. Denham of East Cowes; statuette of a secretary. life-boatman to Mrs. Drayson of Brading. SWINDON.—Presentation of framed life- Annual meeting of Cowes Ladies' Life-boat boat picture awarded by the Institution to Guild. Annual meeting of Ryde Ladies' Mrs. George, honorary secretary. Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The district TAVISTOCK.—Life-boat day. organizing secretary. TEIGNMOUTH.—Life-boat day and stall. JERSEY.—Visit of life-boat to St. Malo. THAME.—Life-boat day at Thame and (See special article on page 566.) Watlington. LYMINGTON.—Visit of Milford-on-Sea TIVERTON.—Life-boat day at Tiverfon Women's Institute to Building Yard at Cowes. and Bampton. MALMESBURY.—Life-boat day. TORQUAY.—Life-boat day, with life- MARLBOROUGH.—Life-boat day at boat films shown at cinemas. "The Mayoress Pewsey. visited all depots. 578 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

TOTNES.—Life-boat day in Totnes and BURNTISLAND.—Life-boat day at district. Burntisland and Aberdour. TRURO.—Life-boat day. CAMPBELTOWN.—Golf tournament at Carradale, arranged by Mr. P. McKinven. WANTAGE.—Life-boat day at Faringdon. CARRONBRIDGE, CARSTAIRS, AND WESTBURY.—Life-boat day. COUfeSTREAM.—Life-boat days. WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Special Meet- COWDENBEATH.—Special meeting, Pro- ing of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Porcher, vost Primmer presiding. Speakers :• Mr. C. president, in the chair.* Speaker: The dis- Carlow Reid, president of the branch, the trict organizing secretary. Presentation of Rev. Mr. McAuslane and the Scottish awards by the Institution to Guild workers. organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Life-boat day. Guild formed. WEYMOUTH.—Special meeting of Ladies' CRIEFF, CUPAR, DARVEL, AND Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The district DUMFRIES.—Life-boat days. organizing secretary. DUNDEE.—Life-boat day. Presentation WINCHESTER.—Life-boat day and stall of a prize won in the life-boat essay com- at Butter Cross. petition for elementary schools. WITNEY, AND WOODSTOCK.—Life- DUNOON.—Life-boat ball, held in con- boat days. nection with the International Clyde Regatta, YEOVIL.—Life-boat day in Crewkerne under the patronage of the Clyde Yacht and Yeovil villages. Clubs (International Fortnight Regattas). .^Life-boat day. Scotland. EDINBURGH.—Life-boat day. Open golf meeting at Longniddry, arranged by • Meeting of the Scottish Life-boat Council Miss E. H. Sawers, a member of the Edin- in Edinburgh on 27th May, the Duke of burgh Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Presentation Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., chair- by Mr. David S. Wallace, a member of the man of the council and a vice-president of branch committee, of a prize won in the life- the Institution, in the chair. The Lord boat essay competition for elementary schools. Saltoun, M.C., and Mr. Ralph C. Cowper, Presentation of other prizes won in this J.P., were welcomed by the council as the competition. new vice-chairmen. Speakers: The Lord Address to the Rotary Club by the Lord Saltoun, M.C., Harriet Lady Findlay, D.B.E., Saltoun, M.C., a vice-chairman of the Scottish honorary secretary of the council and presi- Life-boat Council. dent of the Edinburgh Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Rear-Admiral Evelyn C. O. Thomson, ELGIN.—Life-boat day. D.S.O., R.N., Commanding Officer, Coast of FALKIRK.—Golf competition. Scotland, and Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of FORFAR.—Whist drive at Cairnhill. life-boats. FRASERBURGH.—Model yacht exhibi- tion. ABERDEEN.—Life-boat day. Presenta- tion by Madame Murray, a member of the GIRVAN, GLASGOW, GRANGEMOUTH, branch committee, of a prize won in the AND GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY.—Life-boat life-boat essay competition for elementary days. schools. GREENOCK.—Life-boat day. Presenta- ALLOA.—Life-boat days. Golf compe- tion of a prize won in the life-boat essay titions at Dollar, Tulliallan, and Braehead. competition for elementary schools. HAMILTON.—Special meeting, Provost ANNAN.—Life-boat day. Presentation of John Cassells presiding. Speakers: The a prize won in the life-boat essay competition Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, a vice- for elementary schools. president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Sir ANSTRUTHER.—Life-boat days at An- Henry S. Keith, Major W. Dykes Louden and struther, Pittenweem and St. Monance. the Scottish organizing secretary. Ladies' ARBROATH, ARDRISHAIG, ARDROS- Life-boat Guild formed. Badges presented to SAN, AND AYTON AND BURNMOUTH.— Guild members by the Duchess of Hamilton Life-boat days. and Brandon. Presentation of a prize won in the life-boat BANFF. — House-to-house collection. essay competition for elementary schools. Special meeting. Speakers: Mrs. Kilgour, president, and Mrs. Anderson, honorary HELENSBURGH, AND INVERBER- secretary, of the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat VIE.—Life-boat days. Guild. Cruises in Whitehills motor life- 1NVERGORDON.—Annual meeting of boat. Dancing displays by the pupils of Miss the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Efforts of the Lexy Wilson. past year : Life-boat day. Amount collected BO'NESS.—Life-boat day. in 1937, £23, an increase of £1 on 1936. BRECHIN.—Special meeting on 1st June, INVERKEITHING, IRVINE, ISLE OF Bailie Ogilvie presiding, at which a Ladies' ARRAN, AND ISLE OF BUTE.—Life- Life-boat Guild was formed. Speaker : The boat days. Scottish organizing secretary. KEITH.—House-to-house collection. OCTOBER, 1938.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 579

KELSO, KILMARNOCK, KILSYTH, station. (An account of his services to the KINGUSSIE, AND KINROSS.—Life-boat Institution will appear in the next issue of days. The Life-boat.} KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. — Life-boat BARRY.—Naming ceremony of the new days. motor life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans. (A LARBERT.—Life-boat day. special report will appear in the next issue of The Life-boat.) Life-boat day. LARGS.—Life-boat day at Wemyss Bay Presentation by Mrs. T. Rowlands, chair- and Skelmorlie. man of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of a prize LERWICK, LEVEN, LOCHGELLY, won in the life-boat essay competition for LOCHGILPHEAD, AND LOCHMABEN.— elementary schools, and presentation of two Life-boat days. other prizes won in the same competition. LOCKERBIE.—Presentation by Mr. BETHESDA, BETT WS - Y - COED, David Cormack of a prize won in the life- BRIDGNORTH, AND CAERNARVON.— boat essay competition for elementary Life-boat days. schools. CARDIFF.—Presentation by the Lord LOSSIEMOUTH, AND MARKINCH.— Mayor of the challenge shield for in the Life-boat days. life-boat essay competition for elementary schools won by Thomas Godfrey of the MONTR/)SE.—Life-boat day and dance. Lansdowne Road Boys' School, Canton, NEWTOWNMORE, AND NORTH Cardiff. Presentation by the Lady Mayoress BERWICK.—Life-boat days. of nine other prizes, won by other Cardiff OBAN.—Life-boat day at Ballachulish, schools in the same competition. Speaker: Benderloch and Easdale. The district organizing secretary. PERTH.—Life-boat days. COLWYN BAY.—Annual meeting on July 12th, Alderman T. E. Purdy, J.P., PETERHEAD. — Life-boat day. Pre- president, in the chair. Speaker: The dis- sentation of a prize won in the life-boat essay trict organizing secretary. Efforts of the competition for elementary schools. past year: Annual appeal for subscriptions, PORTPATRICK, ROSEHEARTY, AND cinema collections, life-boat day and house- ST. ANDREWS.—Life-boat days. to-house collections. Amount collected in . SALTCOATS.—Life-boat day, with visit of 1937, £278, an increase of £25 on 1936. Troon motor life-boat. Presentation of the statuette of a life- boatman awarded by the Institution to Mr. SANQUHAR, AND STEWARTON.— P. W. Aston, honorary secretary. Life-boat days. CONWAY, CRICCIETH, DENBIGH, STORNOWAY.—Life-boat day. Golf DINAS POWIS, EDEYRN, FLINT, competition. Presentation of a prize won HAVERFORDWEST, HOLYHEAD, LEO- in the life-boat essay competition for ele- MINSTER, LLANDOVERY, LLANFAIR- mentary schools. FECHAN, AND LLANIDLOES.—Life-boat STRANRAER, TOBERMORY, AND days. TROON.—Life-boat days. LUDLOW.—Annual meeting on 22nd Prizes won in the life-boat essay com- June, Mrs. E. Tyrell, honorary secretary, in petition for elementary schools were also the chair. Speaker: The district organizing presented at Beauly, Burnbank, Castle secretary. Efforts of the past year: Annual Douglas, Firth (Orkney), Inverness, Kin- appeal for subscriptions, house-to-house lochleven, Kirkhill, Lochcarron, Monymusk, collection. Amount collected in 19.37, £32. Newmains, North Uist, Prestwick, Sandwick Life-boat day. (Orkney), Stornoway and Tarland. MILFORD HAVEN.—Annual meeting on 17th May, Mrs. H. E. Rees, chairman, Wales. presiding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Annual (Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire appeal for subscriptions, bridge drive, life- and Shropshire.) boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £44, ABERDOVEY, ABERGELE, AND an increase of £1 on 1936. ABERDARON.—Life-boat days. MOLD, MONMOUTH, AND MUMBLES. ABERYSTWYTH.—Presentation by the —Life-boat days. Mayor of the statuette of a life-boatman NEATH.—Annual meeting, Mrs. Godfrey awarded by the Institution to Mrs. D. C. Llewellyn, president, in the chair. Efforts Edwards, organizer of the annual life-boat of the past year: Life-boat day, annual day in Berth, and of the record of thanks appeal for subscriptions, whist drive. awarded to Miss Roberta Williams, of Penllan, Amount collected in 1937, £44. life-boat collector. Life-boat day. ANGLE.—Presentation of the life-boat- NEVIN AND MORFA NEVIN.—Life- man's certificate awarded by the Institution boat day. to Mr. William Watkins, bowman. NEWPORT (MON.) —Annual meeting on ANGLESEY.—The branch has suffered a 5th May, Mr. G. F. Colbourne, B.A., in the very severe loss by the death of Mr, J. H. chair. Speaker: The district organizing Burton, honorary secretary of the Beaumaris secretary. Efforts of the past year: Annual 580 THE LIFE-BOAT. [OCTOBER, 1938.

appeal for subscriptions, annual life-boat day, Ireland. life-boat ball, whist drive and works collec- tion. Amount collected in 1937, £104, an BAGENALSTOWN.—Life-boat day. increase of £2 on 1936. BALLYCOTTON.—First life-boat day. Life-boat day. BANGOR.—Life-boat film shown at Tonic NEWQUAY.—The branch has lost an Cinema, with collection. Life-boat day. old coxswain, by the death of Coxswain Frederick Shaylor, who retired in 1935, after BELFAST.—Life-boat day. Stall at serving for 12 years as second-coxswain and Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's Show at 17 years as coxswain. Balmoral. (A special account will be pub- OSWESTRY, PENMAENMAWR, PORTH- lished in the next issue.) Lantern lectures. CAWL, PORTHDINLLAEN, PRESTEIGN, CLOGHER HEAD.—Life-boat day. PWLLHELI, AND RHAYADER.—Life- CLONAKILTY.—Competition at Inchy- boat days. doney Golf Club. RHYL.—Annual meeting on 13th July, Mr. C. H. Roberts, president, in the chair. DROGHEDA AND DUBLIN.—Life-boat Speaker: The district organizing secretary. days. Efforts of the past year: Annual appeal for DUNDALK.—Golf competition. subscriptions, house-to-house collection, hotel collection, life-boat day. Amount collected DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Life-boat^lay. Golf in 1937, £297, an increase of £5 on 1936. competition. ROSS, AND SARN.—Life-boat days. ENNIS.—Life-boat day and house-to- SHREWSBURY.—A silent appeal. house collection. SWANSEA.—Life-boat day. TENBY.—Special meeting on 18th May, FERMOY.—Life-boat day. the Mayor presiding, supported by the GALWAY, AND KINSALE.—Golf com- Mayoress, Councillors and the officers and petitions. committee of the branch. Speaker: The dis- trict organizing secretary. The Mayoress LARNE, AND MULLINGAR.—Life-boat presented the thanks of the Institution in- days. scribed on vellum awarded to each member NENAGH.—Golf competition. of the life-boat crew for the service on 15th January, 1938, to the Fermanagh, of Belfast. NEWCASTLE (CO. DOWN).—Life-boat Mrs. Hulton, president of the Ladies' Life- day. boat Guild, presented a silver watch to each PORTRUSH.—Life-boat day. Midnight member of the crew, a gift from the in- matinee at Portrush cinema. Concert. habitants of Tenby. Dinner to the life-boat crew by public subscription. PORTUMNA.—Golf competition. Garden party at Norton Lodge by kind permission of Mrs. Guy Ward, organized by ROSSLARE, AND STRABANE.—Life- the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and opened by boat days. Major Grimwood Phillips. WESTMEATH.—Golf competition. TOWYN, TREVOR AND CLYNNOG, WEXFORD.—Presentation of centenary TYDWIELIOG, WELLINGTON, AND vellum. (A special report will be published WHITCHURCH (SALOP).—Life-boat days. in the next issue.) Life-boat day. Prizes in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools were also presented at WICKLOW, AND WOODENBRIDGE.— Llanfyrnach and Penygraig. Golf competitions.

Notice. THE LIFE-BOAT is published quarterly and is sent free to all honorary secretaries of branches and the Ladies' Life-boaf Guild, to coxswains, honorary workers, subscribers of ten shillings and over, libraries, the principal hotels, and the Press. Unless you are keeping a complete set of the journal you will help the Institution if, after reading this number, you will pass it on to a friend. All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42. Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I. The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in December, 1938.