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

VOL. XXXV DECEMBER, 1958 No. 386 Notes of the Quarter FIGURES already available show that the class, the 52-feet Barnett type, in any year 1958 has been similar to the two weather and at any state of tide, and preceding years in the demands made that conditions will normally be favour- on life-boat crews. When a record able for re-housing. The life-boats figure for peacetime of 745 launches on now stationed at Cadgwith and the service was established in 1956, this Lizard are 35-feet 6-inches and 41-feet seemed an exceptional event. Yet the in length respectively, and in certain next two years have produced com- conditions launching from both these parable figures. Whether the life-boat stations can be most hazardous; re- service has simply experienced three housing is also frequently difficult. exceptionally busy years in succession or whether the figure of more than 700 COMPLETION OF V.H.F. PROGRAMME launches a year must now be expected The Institution completed during the as normal can be shown only by future summer its programme of installing results. But the contrast with the very high frequency radio-telephones average figure for the 1930's of less than in life-boats. 126 life-boats of the 300 launches a year is certainly striking. active fleet have been fitted with these Vessels of many kinds were helped means of communication and 12 life- by life-boats during the period under boats of the reserve fleet. The fre- review in this number of the Life-boat, quency at first in use was 138.78 and as is usual during the summer megacycles, but in every case this had months there were a considerable to be changed to the standard search number of services to yachts in distress. and rescue (scene of action) frequency The accounts of services beginning on of 123.1 megacycles, which was adopted page 141 describe how time and again by aircraft of all N.A.T.O. countries on yachts were towed to safety, in some the 1st of September, 1958. cases after they had been abandoned by their crews. Yet during the whole GUATEMALAN LIFE-BOAT SERVICE of July claims for salvage of yachts A life-boat service is being founded were put forward from only one life- in Guatemala which will be under the boat station and in August from only control of the State. Captain I. M. two stations. Munn, a representative of the Guate- PROPOSED NEW LIFE-BOAT STATION malan government and son-in-law of The Institution has applied to the the President, visited the headquarters local authorities concerned for the of the Institution in August, 1958. necessary consents for the construction He has now purchased on behalf of his of a new life-boat station at Kilcobben government the reserve life-boat Cove in Cornwall. The ultimate aim W.R.A., which was formerly stationed is to amalgamate at this point the at North Sunderland. He inspected existing life-boat stations at Cadgwith her at Gorleston, where he went afloat. and the Lizard. Kilcobben Cove lies Negotiations are also in progress for the half way between these two stations sale of other life-boats to the Guate- and is a mile and a quarter east of the malan government. Lizard lighthouse. Careful visual and instrumental ob- LIFE-BOAT AT NATIONAL BOAT SHOW servations made at Kilcobben Cove For the second time the Institution during the past winter and spring have will show a new life-boat at the shown that it will be possible to launch National Boat Show at Olympia, Lon- at this point a life-boat of the largest don, which is sponsored by the Daily 130 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 Express. The Ship and Boatbuilders' Patience Gottwald, which will be sent Federation, the organisers of the show, next year to her station at Aldeburgh. have generously given free space, and She is only the second of the 42-feet the life-boat to be displayed is the beach boats to go into service, the other 42-feet beach life-boat Alfred and being stationed at Dungeness.

Rescue from Inside Smugglers' Cave AT 6.35 on the evening of the 9th of bottom, and after the boat had gone August, 1958, the honorary secretary some thirty yards in the cave she was of the St. Ives life-boat station, Captain holed and sank. The four men swam W. H. H. Treloar, learnt from the and waded a further seventy yards to police that four people needed help in the head of the cave, where they found Smugglers' Cave near Hellsmouth. The the injured man and the three young cave lies some five miles east of St. people. The inside of the cave was Ives. very dark, but the members of the life- A party of five people had set out to boat crew could be distinguished by explore the cave. It consisted of two the Scotchlite reflecting material on men. two girls aged eighteen and twelve, their life-jackets. Communication was and a boy of fourteen. They went difficult because of the noise inside the through a tunnel some hundred yards cave. in length and then lowered themselves down a rope thirty-five feet to the floor Hauled Aboard Exhausted of the cave. They stayed there for Signalman Paynter came to the con- about twenty minutes and then decided clusion he must inform Coxswain to return by the way they had come. Roach of the position and decided to In trying to climb up the rope, which swim out to the life-boat. The had become damp and greasy, one of flood tide and ground sea made his the men lost his grip on the rope and task extremely difficult, but once he fell. He injured his head. was clear of the entrance to the cave At 5.45 in the afternoon, an hour he was seen by the coxswain, who before low water, the other man, who manoeuvred the life-boat towards him. was the leader of the party, realizing The coxswain then threw him a line, that exit by the rope was impossible, but Signalman Paynter was too weak to decided to swim out of the cave. He grab it. Motor Mechanic Michael climbed the cliff with great difficulty Peters thereupon jumped overboard, and summoned help. swam to Signalman Paynter and secured the line around him. Signalman Paynter Dinghy Taken in Tow was hauled aboard in an exhausted At 6.56 the 35-feet 6-inches St. Ives state. life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Motor Mechanic Peters then volun- Eva Child was launched. A light wind teered to try to reach the seven remain- was blowing from the south-west. It ing people in the cave by swimming was overcast, misty and drizzling. with a line. Two gun lines were joined The life-boat took a dinghy in tow together, one end of which was secured and reached the entrance to the cave to his life-jacket, and he took a breeches at 7.25. A moderate ground sea was buoy and two spare life-jackets with running at the cave's entrance. him. In this way and with great Coxswain Daniel Roach immediately difficulty he reached the stranded sent the dinghy into the cave manned people. by a crew of four. These were : Bowman Thomas Cocking, Assistant Anchored on Rocky Bottom Mechanic Jack Paynter, Signalman Coxswain Roach realised he must Daniel Paynter and Martin Roach, who allow Motor Mechanic Peters as long is a son of the coxswain. a scope of line as possible. He there- Progress in the dinghy was difficult fore anchored the life-boat on a rocky because of the ground sea and the rocky bottom, which was covered with large DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 131 shingle, by the mouth of the cave in the rocks at the entrance to the cave. three fathoms of water. To ensure When he was satisfied that all was well, that the bow was heading seawards, he he went ahead along the line in order held the boat in this position both by to help the rest of the people on board manoeuvring with the engines and by the life-boat. All seven were taken rigging a line from the stern and secur- on board successfully ; the life-boat ing it to the cable just above the water weighed anchor at 9.5 and reached St. line. Ives at 9.45. On reaching the cave Motor Mech- For this service the Institution made anic Peters immediately assumed the following awards for gallantry :— charge. With the use of the gun line The silver medal to Motor Mechanic he hauled the end of a heavier line Michael Peters ; from the life-boat, and the seven people The bronze medal to Coxswain Daniel were attached to this, one behind the Roach; other. The injured man was put into The bronze medal to Signalman the breeches buoy, the two girls were Daniel Paynter. given the life-jackets, and the boy was The thanks of the Institution inscribed secured to Martin Roach. on vellum were accorded to Bowman Thomas Cocking, Assistant Mechanic All Seven Taken on Board Jack Paynter, and members of the crew Motor Mechanic Peters then pulled Richard Lander and Martin Roach. himself out along the line to a position Scale rewards to the crew, £9 2s. ; from which he could see the coxswain. rewards to the helpers on shore, From here he gave the order to haul £10 17s. ; additional rewards to the away and himself kept the line clear of crew, £14.

Portrait on the Cover THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain south-west, and to bring the life-boat H. O. Thomas of Torbay. He became alongside the tug, which was yawing assistant motor mechanic of the Torbay violently, called for very skilful life-boat in February 1941 and ten years seamanship. Since Mr. Thomas later was appointed coxswain. He was was appointed assistant motor awarded the bronze medal for gallantry mechanic Torbay life-boats have been for the rescue of the crew of eleven of launched on service 177 times and the Royal Engineers' tug Trieste on have rescued 99 lives. The photograph the 30th of January, 1952. A whole is reproduced by courtesy of Nicholas gale was blowing from the south- Home.

Sick Man taken in Gale from Lightvessel AT 7.8 on the evening of the 24th of frequent heavy rain squalls, which re- September, 1958, the honorary secre- duced visibility. The tide was half- tary of the Barrow, Lancashire, life- flood. boat station, Mr. T. Downing, was The Morecambe Bay lightvessel is told by the Superintendent of the Trinity sixteen miles from Barrow life-boat House Depot at Holyhead that a mem- station and eleven miles west-by-south ber of the crew of the Morecambe Bay of the Lightning Knoll buoy. When lightvessel needed hospital treatment the life-boat reached Barrow Bar buoy, urgently. The Superintendent asked if some two miles from the boat-house, the life-boat could land the man, as no she met exceptionally rough conditions. other vessel was available. These continued for the next three Twelve minutes later the Barrow miles while she was making for the life-boat Herbert Leigh, which is one Lightning Knoll buoy. of the 46-feet 9-inches Watson type, There were short steep seas in the was launched. A west-south-westerly channel, where the depth of water was gale was blowing, and there were never more than five fathoms, and the 132 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 life-boat pounded heavily in the would give him better control of the shallow water. At times she was out life-boat and allow him to go alongside of the water as far aft as the steering on the top of a sea. position, which in this life-boat is As he brought the life-boat along the amidships, and she would then fall port side of the light-vessel the sick ten or twelve feet down into the sea. man was grabbed and hauled on board Coxswain Roland Moore decided to without injury to himself or damage to reduce speed, but he soon found that the life-boat. he had to increase speed again, as he This operation had lasted ten minutes. was losing steerage way. There was no sign of any improvement Sea conditions improved somewhat in the weather, and Coxswain Moore in the deeper water after the Lightning decided to make for Moelfre, where he Knoll buoy was passed, but there were would have a good lee to land the from time to time gusts of wind up to patient. It happened that the patient Force 11, which is little less than himself was a native of Anglesey. hurricane force. The life-boat reached Moelfre at The life-boat reached the lightvessel 5.10 on the morning of the 25th of at 10.5. It was then high water. The September, having covered 41 miles lightvessel was pitching violently and from the lightvessel at an average speed offered no lee. of six knots. The sick man was im- The sick man, who was wearing a mediately transferred to an ambulance life-jacket and had a life-line round him, and taken to Bangor hospital, where he was held at the doorway in the bulwarks made good progress after undergoing a on the upper deck of the lightvessel. major operation. The second coxswain and another As a result of the heavy pounding the member of the crew stood by on the life-boat sustained some damage to starboard side of the life-boat, where both bilge keels. the upper chain guard had been let go. For this service the bronze medal for Coxswain Moore approached at slow gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain speed from the stern of the lightvessel Roland Moore. and came up on her port side. At the Rewards to the crew, £27 3s. ; re- first attempt the life-boat took a sheer wards to the helpers on shore, etc., and Coxswain Moore made a second £4 4s. Additional rewards to the run in at half speed. He considered this crew, £18.

Royal Humane Society Award MR. WILLIAM DRYDEN, motor mech- the water, seized the boy and held his anic of the Whitby life-boat, has been head above water. At the same time awarded the Royal Humane Society's he clung to a mooring rope of a fishing testimonial on parchment for the rescue boat and worked his way along it. A on the 17th of July, 1958, of an eleven- woman, who had given the alarm, year-old boy, who was struggling in the scrambled down a ladder into the water in Whitby harbour. Mr. Dryden, fishing boat and helped Mr. Dryden who is a non-swimmer, jumped into and the boy on board.

Accident to Life-boat Inspector LIEUT. E. D. STOGDON, R.N.V.R., knocked down by the winch wire and Eastern District Inspector of Life-boats, received a compound fracture of the suffered a serious accident at Hastings leg. It is likely to be some months on the 27th of July, 1958. The life-boat before he recovers fully, and meanwhile was about to be launched in connection Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N., who with the celebration of the hundredth retired from the service earlier this year, anniversary of the foundation of the has returned temporarily to replace Hastings station. Lieut. Stogdon was him as Eastern District Inspector. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 133 Constellation Aircraft Disaster ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disas- Extra Fuel Taken trous accident occurred when a K.L.M. At 4.30 the Fenit life-boat Peter and Constellation aircraft crashed in the Sarah Blake was launched. This is Atlantic more than 80 miles from the one of the older 51-feet boats driven west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine by petrol engines. Her radius of action people lost their lives. Life-boats were at full speed is only 91 miles and extra unable to effect any rescues, but two of fuel was taken on board and secured them were engaged in an exceptionally on deck in tins. long and arduous search. At 1.30 early on the morning of the The aircraft left Shannon airport for 15th of August the Galway Bay life- Gander at 4.5 in the morning. Shannon boat reached the area of search. radio lost contact after a routine call H.M.C.S. Crusader was co-ordinating had been made at 6.40, and a limited the search and the task allotted to the alert was therefore declared until a life-boat was to join the outer ring of message was received from Gander search vessels, which included a tanker, stating that contact had been made with two large steamers and a number of the aircraft. At 9.30 this message was trawlers. By this time the weather had cancelled and a full alert was declared. deteriorated and there was a freshening Call from Airport Control south-westerly wind with an increasing The first communication made to a sea. life-boat station was at 10.30, when the At two o'clock Fenit life-boat sighted honorary secretary of the Fenit, County flares from an aircraft and altered Kerry, station, Mr. Timothy Barrett, re- course to search. These flares were ceived a call from Shannon airport con- markers from an R.A.F. Hastings air- trol. Ten minutes later a similar call was craft which had been sent from North- made to the honorary secretary of the ern Ireland, and the life-boat later Galway Bay life-boat station, the Very returned to the main area of search. Rev. Father Thomas Varley. In each case the information given was that contact Four Bodies Found had been lost with an aircraft bound for At five o'clock the Galway Bay life- Gander, and no action was asked for boat found four bodies in the sea. until there was more definite news. Later she took on board one more body At 3.15 in the afternoon Shannon from a trawler and some wreckage from airport asked Mr. Barrett if the Fenit the aircraft which had been found. life-boat could be launched to the air- At nine o'clock she left the area of craft, which was now known to have search and at seven o'clock in the crashed 80 miles west-north-west of evening she reached Kilronan. There the Arran Isles. A quarter of an hour she refuelled and made for Galway, later Father Varley was asked if the where she landed the bodies and Galway Bay life-boat could be launched. wreckage. Altogether she was at sea The position now given was approxi- for 31 hours. mately 82 miles from the Arran Isles The Fenit life-boat, after refuelling and 95 miles from Fenit. at sea had been carried out with con- At 3.40 the Galway Bay life-boat siderable difficulty, left the search area Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. at eight o'clock in the morning and This life-boat is one of the 46-feet arrived back at her station at 6.30 in Watson type, and her radius of action the evening after an absence of 26 at full speed is 104 miles. There was a hours. moderate north-westerly breeze with a Galway Bay : rewards to the crew, slight sea. The weather was fine and etc., £62 ; reward to the helper on visibility was good. Father Varley shore, £2 4s. Fenit : rewards to the arranged with the owners of one of the crew, £55 11s. ; reward to the helper island's ferry steamers already taking on shore. 16s. K.L.M. Royal Dutch part in the search for the life-boat to Airlines made a donation to the refuel at sea if necessary. Institution's funds. 134 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 Life-saving and the United States Coast Guard by CAPTAIN R. L. MELLEN, Chief, Public Information Division, United States Coast Guard MARITIME safety in the United States of two outstanding safety organizations took a giant step forward on the 28th of were fused into a new unit of incom- January, 1915, when two historic agen- parably greater utility and efficiency. cies, the Revenue Cutter Service and For the United States, the establishment the Lifesaving Service, were merged into of the new agency was truly the begin- a single organization known as the ning of a modern era in maritime safety. United States Coast Guard. Both So far as the Revenue Cutter Service organizations had long and proud was concerned, the protection of life traditions of humanitarian service and property at sea was certainly not a reaching far back to the early days of new function. It had been actively the Republic. The Revenue Cutter engaged in such work since 1831 when Service, direct ancestor of the Coast Andrew McLane, Andrew Jackson's Guard, had been in existence for more Secretary of the Treasury, ordered the than a century and had already achieved first winter cruise to aid seafarers and a distinguished record both as a ships in distress. In 1836 cutters were fighting force and as a highly veisatile charged " to aid persons at sea, in dis- law enforcement and maritime safety tress, who may be taken aboard," and agency. Similarly, the Lifesaving Ser- in 1843 to preserve property found vice had won for itself an honoured aboard wrecks and to secure the cargoes place in the affections of the American for the owners. The records of the public for its effective and heroic actions former Revenue Cutter Service are on behalf of distressed vessels and replete with daring rescues performed persons at sea. under the most hazardous circumstan- Actually, both agencies had been ces. collaborating with one another for many years before the merger. They Massachusetts Humane Society had worked closely within the Treasury The Lifesaving Service, which repre- Department with a common purpose— sented the other member of the new the protection of life and property at organization, was the heir to a long and sea. The Lifesaving Service had been honourable tradition in shore-based established within the Revenue Marine lifesaving operations. Such work had Division in 1871. but seven years later been initiated as far back as 1785 with had been made a separate bureau. the founding of a volunteer group, the During the separation, however, cutter Massachusetts Humane Society. The officers supervised the drilling and work of the Society constitutes an inspection of life-saving stations. exciting and colourful chapter in the annals of maritime safety in the United Merger of Two Agencies States. In approving the merger of the two The Society was among the first in agencies, President Wilson was putting the world to build places of refuge for into effect the principle of " organiza- the comfort and shelter of shipwrecked tion and combination " developed sev- persons. However, operations were eral years before by President Taft. limited to the coast of Massachusetts, Prior to that time, the work of maritime and in 1807 the Society provided its safety had been carried out by a number first life-boat station at Cohasset. In of agencies with considerable duplica- 1849 a Congressional appropriation tion of function. The consolidation of provided the collector of customs at the two principal maritime safety Boston with $5,000 to buy boathouses organizations, therefore, was designed and equipment for the Society. The to eliminate this confused, irrational, following year Congress appropriated and uneconomic pattern. By this ac- SI0,000 to build Government life-boat tion, the resources, facilities and skills stations along the New Jersey Coast DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 135 and to make available " surfboats, In reversing this process; they can rockets, carronades, and other appara- reinflate their tyres, again without tus for the better preservation of life stopping, when they return to the and property from shipwrecks on the paved roads. coast". One of the first of these life-boat Saved Hundreds of Lives stations was built at Spermaceti Cove, No discussion of life-saving would on Sandy Hook. New Jersey, in 1849. be complete without mention of Joshua The structure has been preserved as a James, one of the most celebrated life- Coast Guard museum. About the size savers of all time and a truly heroic of a garage, the small weather-beaten figure of the sea. Associated with the building holds relics of a bygone age, Massachusetts Humane Society, and including the station's yellowed log- later with the Lifesaving Service, this books, fragments of wrecked ships, remarkable man began his humanitarian early surf-boats, watertight dinghies career at the age of fifteen. By the called surf-cars that were operated like time of his death in 1902 at the age of breeches buoys, and a variety of can- seventy-five he had saved hundreds of nons and projectiles for shooting lines lives. For these heroic actions he was aboard wrecked ships. honoured by the highest medals of the Humane Society, the United States Manned by Volunteers Government and many other organiza- For more than five years these early tions. Other members of the James stations were manned by volunteers family also achieved distinguished life- called together whenever there was a saving careers. shipwreck. In 1854 keepers were ap- There is no question that aviation pointed for the stations at an annual has greatly extended the scope of the salary of $200. However, it was not Coast Guard's maritime safety activity. until 1871 that the Secretary of the Rescue operations formerly restricted Treasury was authorized to employ to coastal waters because of the limited surfmen to man the stations. range of earlier equipment can now be Over the years the intensive ex- carried out on the ocean. Coast perience in launching small boats in the Guard cutters on ocean station or on roughest kind of surf produced a special other missions frequently combine with breed of men—tough, self-reliant and aircraft and shore-based facilities to proud of their calling. This experience effect a rescue. also led to the development of specially designed life-saving equipment. For Use of Helicopters example, there are the life-boats. Each During recent years the helicopter of these craft is designed and built by the has contributed notably to the Coast service for a particular task. There is Guard's increased effectiveness as a the 26-foot surf boat that weighs nearly rescue agency. Because of their ability a ton and is propelled by oars. The to hover and to take off and land same boat comes in a power model, and straight up and down, they are parti- both types are self-baling. Then there cularly suitable for rescue operations are two models of motor life-boats, a in areas which are inaccessible to more 36-footer and a 52-footer. These are conventional air and surface craft. self-baling, self-righting and virtually The Coast Guard has taken an active unsinkable. They also have enclosed, part in the development of helicopters heated compartments. and was one of the first agencies to Among more recent rescue craft are recognize their potentialities. In Nov- the versatile amphibious trucks, more ember, 1943, a helicopter training base commonly referred to as DUKW's. was established at the Coast Guard Air They can travel 55 miles an hour on Station at Floyd Bennett Field in New paved roads ; then without stopping, York. A year later 150 mechanics had partially deflate their tyres for better been graduated from this special school. traction on sand and do 12.4 miles per In 1945 a Coast Guard helicopter hour across beaches and into the water penetrated the snow-covered wastes near where they can make six miles per hour. Goose Bay, Labrador, and brought out 136 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 the crew of a cracked-up Royal Cana- departmental inter-agency Air-Sea Res- dian Air Force plane. The next year cue Agency with the Coast Guard a Belgian airliner crashed near Gander, Commandant at its head. This agency Newfoundland. The accident occurred was primarily engaged in research and in a wilderness that was accessible only development of rescue procedures. to a helicopter. This rescue was a Since then, the work has been continued combined operation with the helicopter by the Coast Guard. ferrying the 18 survivors to a nearby However, there was still no national lake where a flying boat took them policy affecting search and rescue. aboard and flew them on the last lap Therefore, in 1956, at the direction of to civilization. President Eisenhower, a National Search and Rescue Plan was formulated. Added Responsibilities The plan in itself did not supply addi- For the Coast Guard the term " life- tional search and rescue facilities to any saving " has taken on a vastly greater agency or establish a separate agency connotation than was the case in the to handle such matters. It was in- early days of the Revenue Cutters. In tended primarily to define areas of a sense, it represents one of the basic responsibility for the various agencies principles motivating Coast Guard ac- and to provide procedures for co- tivity—protection of life and property ordinating inter-agency efforts. Under at sea. As the service has grown, it has the plan the Coast Guard was designa- acquired new facilities and new re- ted Regional Search and Rescue Co- sources to bring to the accomplishment ordinator for the vast Maritime Region, of this formidable task. Under the thus affirming its primary responsi- principle of " combination and organi- bility for marine safety. zation " of authority promulgated more than half a century ago by President Taft, Rescue Co-ordination Centres it has become the foremost United Pursuant to the plan, the Coast Guard States agency for maritime safety and decentralized its Search and Rescue law enforcement. President after Presi- organization into the Pacific Maritime dent has entrusted the service with Region under the Commander, Western added responsibilities until today it Area, at San Francisco, and the must utilize a vast and complicated net- Atlantic Maritime Region under the work of ships, planes, and communica- Commander, Eastern Area, at New tions to discharge its complex and far- York City. Operational responsibili- flung responsibilities. ties were further delegated to the The " life-saving " concept as it is District Commanders within each re- understood by the Coast Guard today gion. Each of these Search and Rescue involves the utilization of a number of co-ordinators operates a Rescue Co- services. These include the aids to ordination Centre. This is defined as navigation duties formerly charged to an installation having available to its the Lighthouse Service and the marine personnel communications and other safety activities which were the res- facilities required to initiate, control, ponsibility of the Bureau of Marine co-ordinate, and terminate search and Inspection. The search and rescue rescue in a specific area. function is a traditional one inherited Since good communications are es- from the Revenue Cutter Service and sential to effective SAR operations, all the Lifesaving Service. It is through Rescue Co-ordination Centres are con- a highly co-ordinated use of all the nected by telephone or teletype with skills and facilities represented by these Navy, Air Force, Army, Civil Aero- agencies that the Coast Guard carries nautics Administration, State and local out its present day maritime safety police facilities as well as other Coast function. Guard units. Also available to the Controller on duty in the Centre are Search and Rescue Procedures status boards and wall plots to show the In 1944 the Coast Guard established location and availability of primary a pattern for modern search and rescue SAR facilities in the area for which procedures by setting up an inter- the Centre has responsibility. Such DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 137 Centres may be regarded as highly itself in a state of military preparedness specialized nerve centres instantly res- at all times. This imposes a severe ponsive to information of distress. They strain on its relatively limited resources are manned continuously by trained and manpower. personnel for the purpose of gathering In a world which grows daily more and evaluating distress information and complex the Coast Guard anticipates for alerting and co-ordinating search that it will be called upon to solve many and rescue facilities. new problems in the years ahead. But that is an old story for a service which Strain on Resources has repeatedly demonstrated its The task of maintaining an effective resourcefulness in the past. For despite marine safety programme is a formid- rapid scientific and technological prog- able one that demands great versatility ress, the motivation behind the Coast on the part of Coast Guard officers and Guard's peacetime efforts will continue men. It is rendered even more com- to be what it has always been—a plex by the fact that the Coast Guard is humane concern for " those in peril also an armed force and must maintain on the sea ".

Centenaries of Life-boat Stations Two life-boat stations celebrated the cen- district inspector, which is referred to tenary of their foundation in 1958. One on page 132, occurred. was the station at Ballycotton in County Since the station was established Cork ; the other was Hastings in Sussex. Hastings life-boats have been launched The ceremony at Hastings took place on service 182 times and have rescued on the 27th of July, 1958, when an ninety-three lives. impressive open air service was con- ducted by the Rev. J. L. Napier, Rector Ballycotton Ceremony of the borough church of St. Clement The ceremony in Ballycotton was and All Saints, Hastings, assisted by held on the 31st of August, when the Rev. C. Champneys-Burnham, Rec- Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- tor of All Saints, and the Rev. W. A. Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Com- Goss, Minister of the Norman Road mittee of Management, presented the Methodist church. vellum. Among those who also spoke The Mayor of Hastings, Councillor were Mr. Erskine Childers, Minister for R. H. Bryant, took the chair and in the Land and Fisheries; the Lord Mayor of absence of the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Cork, Mr. Sean McCarthy ; and Mr. Lieutenant of the County of Sussex, Robert Mahony, honorary secretary who was prevented from attending by of the branch. illness, he presented the certificate In connection with the ceremony inscribed on vellum awarded by the mass was celebrated in the Star of the Committee of Management of the Sea church, Ballycotton, by the Rev, Institution. Mr. J. J. Adams, honorary John Walsh, and a service was con- secretary of the Hastings and St. ducted in the Church of Ireland church Leonard's branch, accepted the vellum by the Very Rev. Dean P. Bury. and handed it over to the Mayor for Since the station was established safe keeping. Mr. E. M. Cooper-Key, Ballycotton life-boats have been laun- a member of the Committee of Manage- ched on service 124 times and have ment, proposed a vote of thanks, which rescued 179 lives. The outstanding was seconded by Mr. S. L. Clarke, service carried out by a Ballycotton chairman of the Hastings and St. life-boat took place in February, 1936, Leonard's branch. when the crew of the Daunt Rock After the ceremony the life-boat was lightvessel were rescued. Among other launched and the launching was shown awards made was the gold medal to the in the B.B.C. television news. It was coxswain, Patrick Sliney, who is now during the preparations for the launch- retired but who was among those pres- ing that the unfortunate accident to the ent at the ceremony. 138 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 New Ways of Raising Money The Chairman of the Failsworth, Miss Jacob, honorary secretary of Lancashire, Urban District Council, the Burnham-on-Crpuch branch, pro- Mr. George Edge, has adopted the life- vides her friends with free milk from boat service as his particular charity her own Jersey cow, but asks them to during his year of office and is trying to make a contribution to branch funds. persuade a thousand organisations or * * * individuals each to raise a thousand A fishmonger in Hornsey supplies halfpennies. A local newspaper has his customers free of charge with agreed to publish a progress report from parsley, but asks them to put a contri- time to time in the form of a barometer. bution into his collecting box. * * * * * * For the third year running the York Mr. H. W. Rubins of Deal, a foreman- motor boat club has raised a substan- carpenter employed on a contract by tial sum for the Institution, in this case Concrete Piling Ltd., recently received £70, by taking visitors on river cruises a reward for salvaging a marker-buoy to the Archbishop's palace at belonging to the Whitstable yacht club Bishopthorpe. The ladies' committee and promptly gave the full amount of of the club provided light refreshments the reward to the Institution. at the club house. * * * * * * A branch committee member, who Visitors to the Plumbers Arms at wishes to remain anonymous, has Redditch are allowed to borrow darts persuaded her husband, who likes if they put a coin in the life-boat expensive hair shampoos, to allow her collecting box in the bar. to wash his hair and to give to the * * * branch funds the money which it would At the request of his parents a man otherwise have cost him. living in Upminster, Essex, gave to the * * * Institution the money which he would Messrs. Revell (Great Britain) Ltd. otherwise have spent on a present to donated the whole of the profits from mark his parents' golden wedding the sale of plastic assembly kits at the anniversary. "Do It Yourself Exhibition" at * * * Olympia, London, to the Institution, the At a garden fete held by the Stanmore amount received being £100. branch the names of fifty life-boat * * * stations were written on separate pieces The Cloughey branch received a of paper and hidden in the garden. cheque for £40, being part proceeds of Competitors were charged a shilling a local donkey derby. each to enter for a prize which was * * * awarded to the person who found the Miss Nicola Mann and five other largest number of pieces of paper girls of St. Paul's Girls' School, containing station names. London, raised £3 9s., for the Institu- * * * tion from the sale of a magazine Mr. R. Anderson of Seven Kings, written and produced by themselves. Ilford, and Mr. E. May, an old age * * * pensioner, of Forest Hill, London, Two thirteen-year-old North Shields S.E.23, both gave to the Institution the girls, Ann Jenkins and Margaret Wood, money they had saved by not having to raised more than a pound for the pay fares during the London bus strike. Institution from the sale of toffee apples * * * which they made themselves. A member of the Crayford and * * * district branch committee has trained The wife of the Holy Island honorary her budgerigar to fly over her ship secretary. Captain I. B. B. Robertson, halfpenny box when she has visitors sold her crop of lavender in beribboned and to say : " Have you any ship bags, giving all the proceeds to the halfpennies ? " Institution. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 139 Four girls and two boys living in In the life-boat collecting box outside Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, raised more the Belgrave hotel at Tenby a sovereign than £20 for the Institution from ad- and a half sovereign were recently mission money to a zoo containing found. The coins were sold by auction, monkeys, parrots, budgerigars and the sovereign fetching £5 and the half other animals. sovereign £3. New Life-boats Named THREE new life-boats were named in presented to her by the twin daughters July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of of Second Coxswain John MacLeod ; Kent, President of the Institution, members of the crew and their wives agreed to name two of them and her and families were presented ; and the daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, President went for a trip in the boat named the third. The life-boats which round Castlebay harbour. were to be named by the President are At the naming ceremony and also stationed at Barra Island and Mallaig. during the President's visit the Castle- They were both provided out of the bay Children's Choir sang the national legacy of the late Mrs. E. M. M. Gordon anthem and other songs in Gaelic. Cubbin, whose legacy had already pro- vided life-boats for Douglas and Port Mallaig Ceremony St. Mary in the Isle of Man. On the 10th of July H.R.H. the The naming ceremony at Barra Island Duchess of Kent named the new took place on the 8th of July in the Mallaig life-boat E. M. M Gordon harbour at Castlebay. The Duchess of Cubbin at a ceremony held in the Kent was due to fly there for the cere- harbour. A bouquet was presented to mony, but her aircraft was prevented by the Duchess of Kent by Miss Norna low cloud from landing on the island. Watt, daughter of the honorary secre- The life-boat was, therefore, named by tary of the Mallaig branch. Lord MacDonald, Lord Lieutenant of On this occasion Lord MacDonald the County of Inverness, who read the was in the chair. Lieutenant-Com- speech which Her Royal Highness had mander Dutton again described the intended to make. boat, which is also one of the 52-feet The Rev. Father John McCormick, Barnett class. Earl Howe handed the parish priest and chairman of the branch, life-boat over to the branch, Captain was in the chair. Lieutenant-Com- William Simpson, chairman of the mander W. L. G. Dutton, Deputy branch, accepting her. Lord Saltoun Chief Inspector of Life-boats, described proposed a vote of thanks and the Rev. the boat, which is one of the 52-feet Donald McPhail, minister of the parish Barnett type. Earl Howe, Chairman church, Mallaig, dedicated the life- of the Committee of Management of boat. the Institution, then handed the boat The singing was led by the Mallaig over to the branch. Mr. Hugh Morrison, Church of Scotland Choir, and the honorary secretary of the branch, President was piped to the quayside by accepting her. Lord MacDonald, be- the City of Glasgow Pipe Band, which fore naming the life-boat R. A. Colby played before and after the ceremony. Cubbin No. 3, arranged for a telegram Once again the Duchess of Kent went to be sent to the President on behalf of aboard the life-boat, where the crew those present, and Lord Saltoun, a were presented. A guard of honour member of the Committee of Manage- was provided by boy scouts and girl ment and chairman of the Scottish guides from Mallaig and Morar. Life-boat Council, also spoke. The Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, the Torbay Ceremony Right Rev. Kenneth Grant, then dedi- The naming ceremony of the new cated the life-boat. Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of The next day the weather improved Kent took place at the life-boat station and the Duchess of Kent was able to at Brixham on the 25th of July. This visit the station. A bouquet was was the first life-boat to be named by 140 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 Princess Alexandra, who in her speech the life-boat over to the branch, Mr. recalled the fact that her father, the Duke F. W. H. Park, honorary secretary of of Kent, had formerly been the Institu- the branch, accepting her. The Bishop tion's President and that her family had of Plymouth, the Right Rev. N. H. had the closest association with the Clarke, dedicated the life-boat, assisted service for twenty-two years. by the Vicar of Brixham, the Rev. H. Councillor F. P. Lee, chairman of the Yeomans, and by the Minister of the Brixham Urban District Council, wel- Brixham Congregational Church, the comed Princess Alexandra, and after a Rev. Martin Westall. A vote of thanks glass tankard inscribed with the signa- was proposed by Councillor A. J. tures of the crew had been presented to Tremeer, chairman of the Paignton Princess Alexandra by Sea Ranger Urban District Council, and seconded E. M. Park, daughter of the honorary by Miss A. E. Armitage, president of secretary of the Torbay branch, Alder- the Brixham Ladies' Life-boat Guild. man T. F. Adams, president of the Princess Alexandra then named the branch, opened the proceedings. Com- life-boat and in spite of the unpleasant mander S. W. F. Bennetts, Chief weather went afloat in her. Inspector of Life-boats, described the The music at the ceremony was boat, which is one of the 52-feet played by the Brixham British Legion Barnett class. Earl Howe then handed Prize Band. Life-boat Museum at Whitby A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally as a voluntary worker who has raised opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, large sums for the Institution. 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, There are two other life-boat daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of museums in Britain. One is the the Committee of Management of the Eastbourne museum, which was opened Institution. Whitby was the last station on the 22nd of March, 1937. In this case at which a pulling life-boat was in the building was erected in 1898, the service. This was the 34-feet self- money being provided by a fund raised righting boat Robert and Ellen Robson, by the Daily Telegraph as a memorial which was built in 1918. The boat- to the actor William Terriss, who was house in which the pulling life-boat was murdered outside the stage door of the kept has been converted into a museum, Adelphi theatre in London in 1897. and the life-boat is herself one of The other museum is the Grace Darling the principal exhibits. Photographs, museum in Bamburgh, which was models, paintings and records, many of opened in 1938 to mark the hundredth which have been assembled in recent anniversary of the rescue by Grace years by the honorary secretary of the Darling and her father of survivors from branch, Mr. Eric Thomson, tell the the Forfarshire. The money in this story of Whitby life-boats, and in case was raised by the Bamburgh addition there are a number of models Grace Darling Memorial Committee. of vessels of other kinds. The boat- In addition, at a number of life-boat house attendant is Mr. Harry ("Lai") stations historical exhibits are shown in Richardson, a former Whitby cox- the boathouses, and at a few places swain with a distinguished record both former life-boats of earlier types are as a member of the life-boat crew and also on show. French Life-boat Disaster THE life-boat Vice-Amiral Schwerer destroyed. Among those rescued when stationed at Etel in France capsized another boat overturned was Dr. Alain near the entrance to Lorient harbour Bombard, who was carrying out some on the 3rd of October, 1958. Her experiments at the time. On hearing whole crew of five, consisting of the of the disaster the Institution sent an coxswain, mechanic, radio-operator and expression of deep sympathy to the two other members of the crew, lost Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des their lives and the life-boat was Naufrages. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 141 A Hundred Years Ago Extract from the Life-boat dated 1st February, 1859 ON the night of the 19th of October fallen out when she was keel up, she last, in a gale of wind, the small six- was brought up by it. The crew, in oared self-righting life-boat belonging the meantime, having on good life- to the National Life-boat Institution at belts, floated, regained, and got into the Dungeness proceeded through a heavy boat, cut the cable, and returned safely sea, managed by eight Coast-guard to the shore, not one of them even men, to a wreck which was seen to be being hurt. aground at about three-quarters of a May we not safely conclude that this mile from the life-boat station. The is the first instance that has ever oc- v/reck was reached soon after midnight, curred of a whole boat's crew passing and after ascertaining that she had been unscathed through such an ordeal ? deserted by her crew, the life-boat In justice to the brave fellows who returned for the shore. For the first formed the crew of the boat on this half-mile she was rowed safely before a occasion, we must state, that they heavy broken sea, but on crossing a expressed their readiness to have gone deeper channel, between two shoals, out in the boat again immediately after she was caught up and struck by three their landing had their services been heavy seas in succession which followed again required ; and that they, un- so quickly one on the other that the asked for. certified to their entire con- boat could not recover herself, and fidence in her and their readiness to the coxswain losing all command with trust their lives in her whenever they the rudder, she was carried away before should be called on to do so. They the sea, broached to, and upset, throwing likewise bore testimony to the value of her crew out of her. She immediately, the life-belts, on the plan of Capt. however, self-righted, cleared herself J. R. Ward, R.N., supplied by this of all water, and her anchor having Institution to its life-boat crews.

Services of the Life-boats in July, August and September 179 Lives Rescued JULY a flood tide. The fishing boat Margaret Stephen had meanwhile heard of the DURING July life-boats were launched incident and had made for the position. on service 92 times and rescued 58 lives. The life-boat reached the Ailsa three- quarters of a mile south of Ailsa Craig MECHANIC INTERCEPTS MESSAGE and found her in tow of the Margaret Girvan, Ayrshire. At 12.15 on the Stephen. She escorted both vessels afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1958, the to harbour, arriving at 3.30. Rewards motor mechanic, who was on board the to the crew, £8 8s. ; reward to the life-boat at her moorings, intercepted helper on shore, 12s. a radio-telephone message passed between the Ailsa Craig lighthouse MECHANICS REPAIR BARGE'S keeper and Portpatrick coastguard. RUDDER From this he learnt that the local motor Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 vessel Ailsa, which had carried stores to on the morning of the 3rd of July, 1958, the lighthouse, had developed engine the coastguard informed the honorary trouble on her way back to Girvan and secretary that a red flare had been seen had broken down a mile and a half four miles south-south-east of the look- north-north-east of Ailsa Craig. The out. At 2.10 the life-boat Edian Cour- life-boat Robert Lindsay put out at 12.45, tauld put out in a slight sea with a light with the second coxswain in command, east-north-easterly wind blowing and a in a moderate sea. There was a flood tide. She found the auxiliary moderate east-north-easterly gale and barge Ethel of Harwich, with a crew of 142 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 two, two miles north-east of Gunfleet the motor fishing vessel Dorothy of light. The Ethel had damaged her Whitby, with a crew of five, broken rudder and emergency repairs had to be down with an engine failure near made by the life-boat motor mechanics Upgang Rock. Her anchors were drag- before she could be taken in tow to ging, and her crew had burnt seven Harwich. The life-boat reached her flares and a blanket soaked in oil to station at 7.40. Property salvage case. attract attention. The life-boat towed the Dorothy to harbour and reached SWISS GIRLS RESCUED WHILE her station at 7.50. Rewards to the BATHING crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on Swanage, Dorset. At 3.40 on the shore, £1 16s. afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1958, a boy told the coxswain that two bathers LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY STEAMER ON were making little headway in their ROCKS efforts to reach the shore a hundred Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.15 on the and fifty yards north-north-east of morning of the 8th of July, 1958, the Peveril Point. They were being carried coastguard told the motor mechanic by the strong ebb tide towards the that a vessel was ashore on some rocks broken water on Peveril Ledge. The north of Ayr. At 7.45 the life-boat life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 3.50 James and Barbara Aitken put out. with in a slight sea. She found the bathers, the second coxswain in command, in who were two Swiss girls, and took them a slight sea. There were light south- on board. They were wrapped in blan- westerly airs with fog, and the tide was kets and landed at Swanage at 4.5. One ebbing. The life-boat reached the posi- of the girls made a donation to the tion and found the S.S. Kerrymore of Institution's funds. Rewards to the Tralee with a crew of eight. The craw, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on Kerrymore's master told the coxswain shore, £2 18s. that his vessel was in no danger and would probably refloat at the next high ESCORT FOR DUTCH COASTER water. The life-boat stood by until Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the low water, and as the Ayr life-saving afternoon of the 4th of July, 1958, the apparatus team had assembled on shore, motor mechanic informed the honorary the coxswain decided to return to his secretary that a small Dutch coaster was station, which was reached at noon. aground on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate sea, with a moderate MOTOR BOAT TOWED TO EXMOUTH northerly wind blowing and a flood Exmouth, Devon. At 10.55 on the tide. She found that the coaster Fen night of the 8th of July, 1958, the Beer of Groningen had refloated and three coastguard informed the honorary sec- fishermen from local boats were on retary that the Seaton police had board her to pilot her clear of the rocks. reported a 14-feet motor boat adrift She escorted the coaster to the mouth with engine trouble off the western of the River Tees, where she was beach. Her owner had swum ashore boarded by a Tees pilot, and then after dropping anchor, leaving his wife returned to her station, arriving at and one man on board, but when he 7.28. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s.; landed he saw that the boat was drifting. rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 17s. The life-boat Maria Noble was launched at 11.18 in a moderate sea. A moderate FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO WfflTBY northerly wind was blowing and the Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.35 on the tide was flooding. The life-boat found morning of the 6th of July, 1958, the the motor boat Sea Hawk four miles coxswain saw a flare burning north of south-east of Sidmouth, towed her Whitby harbour. At seven o'clock the to Exmouth and reached her station at life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was four o'clock on the morning of the launched in a slight sea. There was a 9th of July. Rewards to the crew, moderate north-westerly wind and it £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on was high water. The life-boat found shore. £9 8s. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 143 SWEDISH VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG motor vessel was under way, arriving at 9.50. Rewards to the crew, £28 13s. ; Port Erin, Isle of Man. At six o'clock on the morning of the 9th of July, 1958, rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 9s. a member of the branch committee LEAKING BOAT TOWED TO RHYL telephoned the honorary secretary to say he had been woken by the noise of Rhyl, Flintshire. At nine o'clock on a ship's siren sounding several short the evening of the 10th of July, 1958, blasts at intervals from the direction the coastguard told the assistant hon- of the Calf of Man. Fog had reduced orary secretary that the fishing boat visibility to half a mile. The honorary Lucia was burning a flare off Llandulas. secretary immediately made enquiries, The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall and at 6.30 he received a message from was launched at 9.50 in a calm sea. the Douglas police that a coaster was There was a light west-north-westerly ashore on the north side of Calf Island. wind and the tide was ebbing. The life- At 6.48 the life-boat Matthew Simpson boat found the Lucia with her engine was launched in a calm sea. There broken down and leaking. Her owner, was a moderate south-westerly wind the only man on board, was transferred and an ebb tide. Shortly after the life- to the life-boat, and the fishing boat boat was launched the fog lifted, and was taken in tow. The life-boat was the motor vessel Saint Ronan of Glas- unable to reach the harbour because of gow was seen aground near the life- low water, and the coxswain anchored boat house. She was bound from opposite the boathouse until enough Koping, Sweden, to Runcorn, with a flood water allowed him to moor the cargo of felspar. Her radio was not Lucia safely. Meanwhile water was working, and two members of her crew continually pumped out of the fishing had climbed the cliffs and found their boat to keep her afloat. The life-boat way to a farmhouse, where they awoke finally reached her station at 5.30 in the the occupant. He telephoned Cregneish morning. Rewards to the crew, £13 4s. ; radio station and reported the casualty. rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s. The Saint Ronan was aground forward RESCUE OF TWO CANOEISTS on a rock with her stern in deep water. Her hull was slightly damaged, but she Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. On the was not making water. The life-boat afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the stood by and later made fast alongside life-boat Rachael and Mary Evans was her quarter. launched on exercise, and at 1.45 a The life-boat returned to Port Erin canoe taking part in a race from Barry at 12.30, taking with her the ship's Dock to Weston-super-Mare was seen cook. At two o'clock she put out to capsize one mile south of Barry again, with the cook and a represen- Dock. There was a moderate sea, a tative of the vessel's owners aboard. moderate south-westerly wind was She then laid out a heavy anchor from blowing, and the tide was flooding. the Saint Ronan, and at high wnter that The life-boat rescued the canoe's two afternoon the vessel was refloated. occupants, picked up the canoe and The anchor wire fouled the Saint landed it and the canoeists at Weston- Ronan's screw while coming clear, and super-Mare. She reached her station the vessel dropped anchor. As the at 7.40. A donation was received from vessel was then in no danger, the life- the Penarth Urban District Council to boat left for her station, reaching Port cover the expense of this launch. Erin at 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £8 2s. 6d. ; Later the owners' representative told rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 13s. the honorary secretary that it was in- tended to cut the wire and make for MAN RESCUED FROM UPTURNED Runcorn. The life-boat returned to the DINGHY Saint Ronan at 8.5 and stood by while Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the wire was cut from the propeller by the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the motor boat's crew. The life-boat the police informed the coxswain that finally returned to her station after the a man was clinging to an upturned 144 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 dinghy five hundred yards from the 12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary shore and two miles north of Skegness Robinson, on temporary duty at the pier. The life-boat The Cuttle was station, put out in a heavy sea. There launched at 2.50 in a heavy ground was a gentle north-north-westerly wind swell. There was a light south-easterly and an ebb tide. The life-boat was wind and a flood tide. The life-boat making for Carrickfergus, when a rescued the man and saved his dinghy message was passed to her that another and returned to her station at 3.25. yacht, with four people on board, was Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards in difficulty at Crawfordsburn, Helen's to the helpers on shore, £4 16s. Bay. The life-boat made for this position and found the yacht Linda. BOAT TOWED TO PORTPATRICK Her crew were very exhausted and were Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.1 taken on board the life-boat. The on the afternoon of the 12th of July, yacht was taken in tow, and the life- 1958, the coastguard told the honorary boat reached her station at three secretary that a small boat was being o'clock. The boat originally reported driven southwards one mile from in difficulties was towed to Carrick- Portpatrick and needed help. The fergus by another boat. Rewards to message was passed by radio-telephone the crew, £8 8s. ; reward to the helper to the life-boat Jeanie Speirs, which was on shore, 14s. already at sea on exercise. There was a slight sea and a light southerly wind FISHING BOAT ESCORTED IN GALE was blowing. The life-boat made for New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.5 the position and took the dinghy Janet, on the afternoon of the 13th of July, which had two people on board, in tow 1958, the New Quay coastguard passed to Portpatrick harbour, arriving at 3.45. on to the honorary secretary a message Rewards to the crew, £7. This figure from the Aberystwyth coastguard that includes the exercise payment. the lobster fishing boat Ynys Lochtyn, with a crew of two, which had been YACHTSMAN RESCUED IN GALE fishing off Aberystwyth, had not re- Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.45 on turned with the other fishing boats and the morning of the 13th of July, 1958, was probably making for New Quay. the coastguard told the honorary secre- The coxswain and motor mechanic were tary that a small yacht was anchored in alerted as the weather was deteriorating, heavy seas in Pevensey Bay and her and at 3.10 the Ynys Lochtyn was crew appeared to be in difficulties. sighted off Aberaeron making a very The honorary secretary went to the rough passage. At 3.20 the life-boat coastguard look-out at Pevensey Point, St. Albans was launched in a very rough and after sighting the yacht decided to sea. A north-westerly gale was blow- launch the life-boat Beryl Tollemache. ing and the tide was flooding. The This was done at 11.4. There was a life-boat escorted the fishing boat into very rough sea, a south-south-westerly harbour and reached her station at 4.20. gale was blowing, and the tide was The Aberystwyth life-boat was also ebbing. The life-boat reached the launched. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; yacht Wildgoose at 11.30 and took off rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 7s. her crew of one. She reached her station at noon. Rewards to the crew, ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT TO RHYL £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, Rhyl, Flintshire. At 2.15 on the £14 18s. afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the assistant motor mechanic told the EXHAUSTED YACHT'S CREW OF honorary secretary that his son had FOUR RESCUED taken a party out fishing in his boat Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon Eureka at 7.30 in the morning to on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock Llandulas and had not returned. The coastguard informed the honorary weather was deteriorating, and as the secretary that a boat had capsized off coastguard could not see the boat, the Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 145 launched at 3.50 in a choppy sea. CREW OF SEA CADET WHALER There was a strong north-westerly wind RESCUED and it was low water. The life-boat New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.40 found the Eureka, with four men on on the afternoon of the 13th of July, board, at anchor in sheltered water 1958, a report was received that a naval four miles off Colwyn Bay pier. They sea cadet whaler was in difficulties did not want to be taken aboard the west of Perch Rock lighthouse. At life-boat, which therefore escorted their 4.45 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett boat back to harbour, arriving at eight put out in a rough sea. A west-north- o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; westerly gale was blowing with rain rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 10s. squalls, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat made for the whaler and TOWS FOR FISHING BOAT AND TWO found that she had blown ashore and DINGHIES the cadets were walking over the sand. Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.25 on A message was then received from Sea- the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, forth radio station that a fishing boat the coxswain informed the honorary was making very heavy weather about secretary that he had seen a fishing boat one mile west of Formby coastguard in difficulties four miles south-east o station. The life-boat found the fishing the life-boat station. Five minutes boat Cedar between C.19 and C.17 later the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden buoys and escorted her to the River was launched in a rough sea. A north- Mersey. During the return journey westerly wind of near gale force was it was seen that the sea cadet whaler blowing, and the tide was flooding. The had refloated and was again in diffi- life-boat made for the fishing boat, but culties two hundred yards east-north- before she reached her the boat was east of the lighthouse. She was at seen to be making progress towards anchor with seas breaking over her. Fleetwood. The coxswain then altered The whaler's rudder had been lost, and course to go to the help of another the crew consisting of two officers and fishing boat, which was in difficulties five cadets were suffering from cold and four and a half miles south-east of the exposure. They were taken on board life-boat station. This was the Eleanor, the life-boat, which towed the whaler whose engine had broken down. She to the New Brighton stage. The life- had a crew of five and had herself gone boat reached her moorings at 7.30. to help a sailing dinghy with two people Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards on board. The life-boat took the to the helpers on shore, £1 8s. fishing boat, and the dinghy in tow, and two miles from the life-boat station ABANDONED YACHT TOWED TO another sailing dinghy was seen to be TROON in trouble. The life-boat towed the Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the Eleanor and the first sailing dinghy to evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the a safe anchorage under the lee of Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- Walney Island and then returned to orary secretary that a motor boat was help the second dinghy, which was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie waterlogged. The two people aboard Point. At six o'clock the life-boat her were the owner, who was a woman, James and Barbara Aitken put out in a and a twelve-year old boy. They were rough sea, with a fresh north-westerly both very wet and distressed. They wind blowing and a flood tide. The were transferred to the life-boat and life-boat made for the position, but a given hot soup, and the dinghy was radio-telephone message was received taken in tow. The life-boat then stating that a motor boat from Lamlash escorted the Eleanor, which had re- had the casualty in tow and was making paired her engine and had the first for Brodick. During the return pas- sailing dinghy in tow, to Roa Island and sage to her station the life-boat inter- finally reached her station at 6.40. cepted a message from the Clyde passen- Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards ger steamer Duchess of Hamilton that to the helpers on shore, £2 10s. she had taken two men off a small yacht 146 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 five miles north of Holy Island. The the Walton coastguard informed the coastguard asked the coxswain to keep a honorary secretary that a small cabin look-out for the abandoned yacht, which cruiser had broken down a quarter of was named Mignonne. The life-boat a mile from the Mid Barrow lightvessel. found her and took her in tow to Troon The life-boat Greater London II (Civil harbour, reaching her own moorings at Service No. 30) was launched, with the 11.15. Rewards to the crew, £10 16s. second coxswain in command, at 7.55 in a moderate sea. There was a light TOW FOR YACHT IN NEAR GALE south-westerly wind and a flood tide. Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.35 on The life-boat came up with the cabin the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, cruiser Hilary Anne in tow of the the coastguard informed the honorary coaster Broughty. The Hilary Anne secretary that a sailing barge was had a crew of five. The skipper of the aground at the mouth of Holehaven Broughty asked the coxswain to take Creek. At 6.45 the life-boat Greater over the tow. This was done and the London II (Civil Service No. 30) was cabin cruiser was taken to Sheerness, launched in a rough sea. A south- where she was moored. Her crew had westerly wind of nearly gale force was had no food for some hours and they blowing and the tide was flooding. were given soup and biscuits. The life- On reaching the position, the life-boat boat finally reached her station at 11.55. found that the barge Dawn of Maldon Property salvage case. had refloated. At 7.46 the coxswain was informed that a yacht was aground FISHING BOAT TOWED TO ST. IVES in almost the same position and was in St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.30 on the danger of being driven ashore. The evening of the 14th of July, 1958, the life-boat found the yacht Leila with a honorary secretary was informed that a crew of two. The coxswain put two of small fishing boat had engine trouble his crew aboard her and took the Leila two miles from St. Ives Head. At 9.3 in tow to Gravesend. The life-boat the life-boat Edgar. George, Orlando finally reached her station at 11.59. and Eva Child was launched in a calm Property salvage case. sea. The tide was ebbing, and there TOW FOR YACHT UP RIVER was no wind. The life-boat found the Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on motor boat Doris with one man on the morning of the 14th of July, 1958, board. She took her in tow and the coastguard told the honorary secre- reached her station at 10.20. Rewards tary that a yacht with a crew of two to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers was missing in the River Blackwater. on shore, £9 12s. The message was passed by radio- INJURED MAN TAKEN FROM telephone to the life-boat Sir Godfrey BEACH Baring, which was anchored at Bright- lingsea after her service on the 13th of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.15 on July. At daylight the life-boat carried the night of the 15th of July, 1958, the out a search in conjunction with a honorary secretary received a message helicopter and found the yacht Freedom that a man had fallen down a cliffside anchored at the entrance to the River and was lying injured on Skrinkle Blackwater. The yacht had run short beach. At 11.30 the life-boat C.D.E.C., of fuel and had lost her dinghy. The on temporary duty at the station, put life-boat towed her up the river to a out in calm weather, taking a punt with safe anchorage and then returned to her. It was low water. The life-boat her station, arriving at 9.30. Rewards reached the position, and the punt was to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the sent in to bring the man out to her. He helpers on shore. £5 4s. was landed at Lydstep haven, where an ambulance took him to hospital. LIFE-BOAT TAKES OVER TOW FROM The life-boat finally reached her station COASTER at 2.30 in the morning. Rewards to Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.22 on the crew, £12 ; rewards to the helpers the evening of the 14th of July, 1958, on shore, £4 3s. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 147 TOW TAKEN OVER FROM PILOT position and found the sailing dinghy CUTTER Rabbit on her side, with a man hanging Dungeness, Kent. At 12.25 early on on to her who was trying to right her. the morning of the 16th of July, 1958, The man told the coxswain that he the Lade coastguard informed the would be in no danger once the dinghy honorary secretary that the yacht had been righted. The second member Salome of Colchester, which was in tow of the crew, a woman, had been rescued of the pilot cutter Pelorus, was half full by the sailing dinghy Ozeezark, which of water and her rigging was defective. was lying a little way off. There had At 12.53 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland also been a dog on board the Rabbit, was launched in a smooth sea. There which had swum ashore. The life-boat were light north-easterly airs and an ebb crew helped the man to right the dinghy tide. The life-boat found the yacht and bale the water out. The man then with one man on board. There were boarded her and the Ozeezark towed three feet of water in her. The cox- her to the beach, escorted by the life- swain put two of his crew aboard to boat. The life-boat returned to her make fast a tow rope and to help pump station, arriving at 6.30. Rewards, out the water. The life-boat then took £13 16s. over the tow and reached Rye harbour YACHT FOUND DRIFTING TOWARDS at 3.15, but she was unable to enter the ROCKS harbour because it was low water. The coxswain waited for the tide, and the St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the life-boat entered the harbour at ten morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the o'clock. She finally reached her station honorary secretary received a message at 12.38. Rewards to the crew. £28 5s. ; that a man fishing at Plemont had rewards to the helpers on shore, £26 9s. heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in TOW FOR CAPSIZED YACHT difficulty close to the shore. At 4.10 Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At four the life-boat Lloyds, on temporary duty o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of at the station, put out and made for the July, 1958, the coastguard informed the position. There was a heavy swell, a honorary secretary that a yacht had fresh north-westerly wind was blowing, capsized on the south side of the boom and the tide was flooding. The life- defence. At 4.20 the life-boat Greater boat found the converted yacht Mary London, II (Civil Service No. 30) was Ann of Jersey with the owner and his launched in a moderate sea, with a daughter on board. Her engine had moderate easterly wind blowing and an broken down, and she was drifting ebb tide. The life-boat made for the towards the rocks. The coxswain put position and found a police launch, a line aboard the yacht, and the life- whose crew informed the coxswain that boat towed her to Rozel. The life- the yacht's crew had been taken ashore. boat reached her station at 10.15. The life-boat towed the capsized yacht Rewards to the crew, £12 13s. to Sheerness and reached her station at 7.50. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; re- FOUR MEN RESCUED FROM ROWING wards to the helpers on shore, £3 15s. BOAT Dover, Kent. At 1.43 on the after- CREW HELP MAN TO RIGHT DINGHY noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on coastguard told the honorary secretary the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, that the police had reported a rowing the coastguard informed the honorary boat in difficulties off Copt Point. At secretary that a small sailing boat had two o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa capsized and her crew of two were in put out in a rough sea, with a moderate the water one mile off Birchington. Ten westerly wind blowing and a flood minutes later the life-boat North Fore- tide. The life-boat made for the posi- land (Civil Service No. 11) was launched tion, but before she reached it a message in a moderate sea, with a moderate was received that the boat had been south-easterly wind blowing and an taken in tow by a motor boat. At 2.52 ebb tide. The life-boat made for the a message was sent to the life-boat that 148 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 four men in a rowing boat needed help trouble near the entrance to Fowey off Sandgate Castle. The life-boat harbour. Seven minutes later the life- immediately made for this position, boat Deneys Reitz put out in a slight rescued the four men and took their sea. There was a gentle west-south- boat in tow to Folkestone. She then westerly wind and an ebb tide. The returned to her moorings, arriving at life-boat found the motor yacht Undine 5.40. Rewards to the crew, etc., £10 Is. of Plymouth, with nine people on board, in tow of a local motor boat. LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER HELP The yacht's engines had broken down TO SAVE BATHERS and the life-boat took over the tow. Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- She towed the yacht to Wiseman's Pool noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the and reached her moorings at 11.35. coastguard informed the honorary sec- Rewards to the crew, etc. £7 2s. 6d. retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 FISHING BOAT TOWED TO PORTRUSH the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 4.11 on in a choppy sea. A fresh south- the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1958, westerly wind was blowing, and the the coastguard reported that a small tide was ebbing. One bather was boat was in difficulties near Skirks found clinging to a beacon pole and Rock. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil was rescued by the life-boat. Mean- Service No. 4) was launched at 4.37 in while a helicopter had carried out a a slight sea, with a moderate north- search for the other two men, but they westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. had scrambled ashore in an exhausted She found a local fishing boat with two condition. The helicopter landed and men on board and took her in tow to took one of these men to hospital. Portrush, which was reached at 5.45. The life-boat landed the bather whom Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to she had rescued and who was also in the helpers on shore, £1 16s. need of medical treatment. A call was LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS YACHT AFTER then made to the helicopter by V.H.F. COLLISION radio-telephone, and the helicopter Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 8.23 on the took the man to hospital. The life- morning of the 26th of July, 1958, the boat reached her station at 6.30. coastguard informed the honorary sec- Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to retary that the yacht Scylla had been the helpers on shore, £4 17s. in collision with a French trawler. The SMALL YACHT TOWED TO DOVER yacht was moored alongside the Ship- wash lightvessel and her crew needed Dover, Kent. At 9.40 on the evening help. At 8.40 the no. 1 life-boat Abdy of the 20th of July, 1958, Lloyds signal Beauclerk was launched in a moderate station informed the honorary secretary sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind that a small yacht was in distress off blowing and an ebb tide. When the Shakespeare Cliff. At 9.50 the life- life-boat reached the yacht it appeared boat Southern Africa put out in a rough that if the yacht were escorted by the sea. There was a strong south-westerly life-boat she would probably be able wind and a flood tide. The life-boat to reach Lowestoft under a shortened found the yacht Galene, which had a sail. This course was adopted, and crew of two, with her jib fouled. She the life-boat finally reached her station took her in tow to Dover, where she at 5.20. Rewards to the crew, £22 5s. ; was safely berthed. The life-boat rewards to the helpers on shore, reached her moorings at 10.50. Rewards £26 18s. 6d. to the crew, etc., £7 5s. SMALL YACHT SAVED FROM TOW TAKEN OVER FROM MOTOR GOING AGROUND BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.15 on the 12.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of night of the 20th of July, 1958, the July, 1958, the honorary secretary was Polruan coastguard informed the hon- told that a small boat appeared to be orary secretary that a yacht had engine in difficulties one mile north of Little DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 149 Orme's Head. At 1.25 the life-boat life had gone to the help of a young Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched German student who had been in in a choppy sea. There was a strong difficulties while climbing the cliffs, westerly wind and an ebb tide. The The student managed to reach safety. life-boat found the sailing yacht Thebe Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to with a crew of two. She had lost her the helpers on shore, £2 8s. rudder and had water in her engine, and she was in imminent danger of TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE going aground on Rhos Point. The Margate, Kent. At 10.15 on the life-boat took the Thebe in tow and morning of the 28th of July, 1958, the reached her station at 3.15. Rewards coastguard informed the honorary sec- to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers retary that a message had been received on shore, £7 10s. from the Tongue lightvessel that a yacht was in difficulties one mile east of the THREE RESCUED FROM SAILING lightvessel. At 10.25 the life-boat BOAT North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the was launched in a rough sea. A south- afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the westerly gale was blowing and it was coastguard informed the honorary sec- high water. The life-boat found the retary that a sailing boat had capsized yacht Joy of Ipswich two miles south- off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- south-east of the lightvessel making boat Robert and Phemia Brown was little headway in the rough weather. launched in a choppy sea. A fresh Her crew of three asked for a tow, and westerly wind was blowing and the the life-boat towed the yacht to tide was ebbing. The life-boat found Margate, arriving at 1.30. Rewards the sailing boat Taw and rescued her to the crew, £12 12s. ; rewards to the crew of two men and a boy. She then helpers on shore, £4 4s. towed the yacht to Watermouth beach, TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER WITH SIX where the yacht's crew were landed; and returned to her station, arriving at 7.20. ABOARD Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.35 on to the helpers on the shore, £12 17s. the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- MAN KILLED TRYING TO HELP tary that a cabin cruiser was showing GERMAN STUDENT distress signals a mile and a half west of Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the Southend pier. At 4.50 the life-boat afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) honorary secretary received a message was launched in a rough sea. There was from the Swanage ambulance station a south-westerly wind of nearly gale that a man had fallen down the cliffs force and an ebb tide. The life-boat near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- found the cabin cruiser Marjon Two of boat R.L.P. was launched with the London ashore with six people on honorary medical adviser on board. board. After she refloated the life- It was low water, the weather was boat towed her to Southend, arriving cloudy and overcast, and there was a at 8.15. Property salvage case. moderate swell with a light south- easterly breeze blowing. The life-boat The following life-boats went out on took a rowing boat in tow. The posi- service, but could find no ships in tion of the man who had fallen was distress, were not needed, or could do indicated by a young man on the fore- nothing : shore, and the coxswain sent in the Newhaven, Sussex.—July 1st.—Re- small boat with the second coxswain in wards, £26 17s. charge and a crew of two. When the Newhaven, Sussex.—July 2nd.—Re- boat reached the shore the man was wards. £9 9s. found to be dead, and his body was St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—July 5th. taken to the life-boat, which returned —Rewards, £7 12s. to her station, arriving at 3.18. It was Fleetwood, Lancashire.—July 5th.— later learnt that the man who lost his Rewards, £11 4s. 150 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—July 6th.— Torbay, Devon.—July 22nd.—Re- Rewards, £10 15s. wards, £8 4s. Cullercoats, Northumberland.—July Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—July 6th.—Rewards, £17 4s. 23rd.—Rewards, £22 8s. Humber, Yorkshire.—July 8th.—Paid Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork. permanent crew. —July 23rd.—Rewards.. £8. St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—July 9th. Dungeness, Kent.—July 24th.—Re- —Rewards, £9 8s. wards, £29 12s. Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—July 9th. Padstow, Cornwall.—July 24th.—Re- Rewards, £9 5s. wards, £9. Newcastle, Co. Down.—July 9th.— Howth, Co. Dublin.—July 25th.— Rewards, £17. Rewards, £9 12s. Dungeness, Kent.—July llth.—Re- Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—July 26th. wards, £23 2s. —Rewards, £9 5s. Rhyl, Flintshire. — July llth. —Re- Lytham - St. Anne's, Lancashire.— wards. £12 12s. July 26th.—Rewards, £11 18s. Mallaig, Invernessshire.—July 12th. Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—July 28th —Rewards, £8 8s. —Rewards, £7 13s. Torbay, Devon. — July 12th. — Re- Fowey, Cornwall.—July 28th.—Re- wards, £8 4s. wards, £11 6s. 6d. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—July Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—July 28th. 13th.—Rewards, £16. —Rewards, £32 10s. Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — July Falmouth, Cornwall.—July 29th.— 13th.—Rewards, £15 6s. Rewards. £9. Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- —July 13th.—Rewards, £19 13s. folk.—July 29th.—Rewards, £15 10s. Torbay, Devon.—July 13th.—Re- Holyhead, Anglesey.—July 29th.— wards, £7 4s. Rewards, £10 18s. Hoylake, Cheshire.—July 13th.—Re- Exmouth, Devon.—July 29th.—Re- wards, £16 9s. wardSj £16 6s. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—July 13th.— Fowey, Cornwall.—July 30th.—Re- Rewards, £22 7s. wards. £7 2s. 6d. Workington, Cumberland.—July 13th. Skegness, Lincolnshire.—July 30th.— —Rewards, £9 2s. Rewards, £13 4s. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—July 30th. Broughty Ferry, Angus.—July 13th. —Rewards, £9 16s. —Rewards, £9 9s. Fowey, CornwaD.—July 31st.—Re- Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — July wards, £7 2s. 6d. 13th.—Rewards, £7. Humber, Yorkshire.—July 31st.— Dover, Kent.—July 15th.—Rewards, Paid permanent crew. Additional re- £4 5s. wards, £6 6s. Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—July 16th. —Rewards, £9 5s. Boulmer, Northumberland. — July AUGUST 17th.—Rewards, £16 17s. DURING August life-boats were Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—July 18th.— launched on service 110 times and Rewards, £13 7s. rescued 67 lives. St. David's, Pembrokeshire. — July 19th.—Rewards, £8 12s. SAILING BOAT TOWED TO HOWTH Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.20 on the folk.—July 20th.—Rewards, £12 8s. afternoon of the 1st of August, 1958, Weymouth, Dorset.—July 20th.— the honorary secretary was informed Rewards, £8 12s. that the sailing boat Dolphin had cap- Padstow, Cornwall.—July 21st.—Re- sized near the Bailey lighthouse. At wards, £6 12s. 5.25 the life-boat R.P.L. put out in St. Ives, Cornwall.—July 21st—Re- smooth sea. There was a moderate wards, £16 16s. westerly wind and a flood tide. The DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 151

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By courtesy of] [Telegraph and Argus, Bradford FLORAL CLOCK IN LISTER PARK, BRADFORD This clock grown by Mr. S. Brook contains 28,400 plants DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 159 life-boat reached the position ten min- the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis utes before the Dun Laoghaire life-boat, put out in a slight sea. A moderate which had also been launched, and south-westerly wind was blowing and took the Dolphin, which had a crew of the tide was flooding. The life-boat two, in tow to Howth, arriving at 6.55. found the yacht Wheatear with a crew A relation of one of those rescued made of five aground on the Brake Sands and a donation to the Institution's funds took her in tow to Ramsgate harbour. and a gift to the life-boat crew. Re- At 11.11 the life-boat put to sea again wards to the crew, £7; rewards to the to tow in the yacht Banshee, with a crew helpers on shore, £1 4s. of seven, which had also grounded on the sands. She finally reached her TOW FOR YACHT IN NEAR GALE moorings at 11.36. Property salvage Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.35 on case. Rewards to the helpers on shore, the evening of the 1st of August, 1958, 10s. the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was aground on CABIN CRUISER FOUND ASHORE the Barrow Sands. A helicopter took Poole, Dorset. At 12.15 early on off and at 8.55 the life-boat Greater the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, London II (Civil Service No. 30) was the police told the honorary secretary launched in a rough sea. A west- that the cabin cruiser Chloe had left south-westerly wind of nearly gale force Wareham for Sandbanks at 5.30 on the was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. afternoon of the 3rd of August and had The life-boat found the yacht Bridget not arrived. They also reported that of Felixstowe with a crew of two. They two men fishing in the harbour were were taken on board the life-boat, missing. At 12.35 the life-boat Thomas which then towed the yacht to Southend, Kirk Wright was launched in a moderate arriving at 3.45. Rewards to the crew, sea. There was a fresh south-westerly £13 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on wind and it was high water. The life- shore, £6 18s. boat found the cabin cruiser with five SEARCH WITH HELICOPTER FOR people on board aground in the River YACHT'S CREW Wareham. The five people were trans- Moelfre, Angelsey. At 2.15 on the ferred to the life-boat and brought to afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1958, Poole. The coxswain was then in- the coastguard told the honorary secre- formed that the fishermen had still not tary that a sailing boat had overturned returned home and a search of the in Red Wharf Bay. At 2.30 the life- harbour was carried out, but the life- boat Watkin Williams was launched in boat found nothing and returned to her a choppy sea. There was a fresh south- station at six o'clock. Later that westerly wind and an ebb tide. The morning the police informed the hon- life-boat found the sailing boat Gladys orary secretary that the missing fisher- capsized, but there was no sign of her men were safely ashore. Rewards to crew. She carried out a search in the crew, £12 12s. ; rewards to the conjunction with a helicopter until helpers on shore, £1 16s. 3.35, when a message was received that YACHT CAPSIZES DURING RACE three survivors had been picked up by a small boat. The life-boat took the Howth, Co. Dublin. At 11.15 on the Gladys in tow to Traethbychan beach morning of the 4th of August, 1958, and reached her station at five o'clock. the honorary secretary saw the yacht Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards Elizabeth capsize during a yacht race. to the helpers on shore, £2 16s. The life-boat R.P.L. put out at 11.20 in a choppy sea. A westerly wind of TWO YACHTS TOWED OFF SANDS nearly gale force was blowing, and the Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.8 on the tide was flooding. The life-boat reached night of the 3rd of August, 1958, the the position of the yacht and found watchman at the east pier informed the that her crew of three had been honorary secretary that red flares had rescued by another yacht. She took the been seen near Quern buoy. At 10.23 Elizabeth in tow to Howth, arriving at 160 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 12.15. A monetary gift was made to reached Howth the harbour master the life-boat crew. Rewards to the informed the coxswain that another crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on yacht, the Finola, had capsized a mile shore, £1 4s. and a half north of the harbour. The life-boat reached the Finola and found FIRST SERVICE CALL FOR TORBAY that her crew had been rescued by the LIFE-BOAT motor cruiser Ann Gail. She took the Torbay, Devon. At 12.45 on the Finola in tow and finally reached her afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, station at 7.10. The owners of the two the coastguard passed on to the hon- yachts towed in made monetary gifts orary secretary a report that a small to the life-boat crew. Rewards to the sailing dinghy had capsized in Mansands crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on Bay and that her crew of two were shore, £1 17s. in the water. At 12.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent put out CREW OF DINGHY RESCUED for the first time on a service call. Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the There was a slight sea, with a gentle afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, west south-westerly wind blowing, and the coastguard informed the honorary an ebb tide. When the life-boat reached secretary that a small boat with an out- the position it was found that the board motor had broken down off sailing dinghy was being towed by Penmon Point. At three o'clock the another boat, her crew having pre- life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts viously been rescued and put ashore. was launched in a rough sea, with a The life-boat took over the tow, and near north-westerly gale blowing, and when approaching Brixham the cox- an ebb tide. She found a dinghy and swain received a message through Niton took her crew of two on board, where radio that a cabin cruiser was drifting they were given hot drinks. The off Berry Head. The life-boat went dinghy was also hauled aboard and the to investigate and found the cabin life-boat returned to Beaumaris pier, cruiser Santa Fe with engine trouble. arriving at 4.45. Shortly afterwards She towed both the dinghy and the the coxswain saw the yacht San Toy cabin cruiser to Brixham harbour, dragging her anchors in the bay and arriving at 2.55. Rewards to the crew, knew she was in danger of drifting on £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, to the pier. The life-boat went to her £1 4s. help and towed her to a safe anchorage off Gallows Point half a mile away. TOW FOR YACHTS IN GALE The life-boat finally reached her station Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock at six o'clock. Rewards to the crew, on the afternoon of the 4th of August, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station shore, £2 2s. for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She FISHING BOAT TOWED OFF ROCKS arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.30 later the coxswain was informed by the on the night of the 6th of August, 1958, Gardai that a yacht was in difficulties a fisherman on returning ashore re- off Loch Shinney. There was a rough ported to the signal station that he had sea, a westerly gale was blowing, and seen a flare east of Herm. He had it was high water. The life-boat made carried out a search but had found for the position and found the yacht nothing. At one o'clock early on the Estelle in tow of another yacht. The morning of the 7th of August the Estelle's rudder had broken and the fishing boat Lynian was reported miss- second yacht was making little progress ing, and at 1.47 the life-boat Euphrosyne in her efforts to leave the lee shore of Kendal put out in a slight sea. A fresh Lambay Island. She was in fact south-westerly wind was blowing and drifting nearer the rocks, and the life- the tide was ebbing. The life-boat boat therefore took the Estelle in tow searched for some time, and when her to Howth, arriving at 5.35. When she engines were stopped cries for help DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 161 were heard, coming from reefs. The Sovereign lightvessel and that one of Lynian was found anchored near the the ships involved, the motor vessel Creux rocks. After careful manoeuvr- Tarbeck of Hamburg, needed help. ing the coxswain brought the life-boat At 12.45 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache alongside the fishing boat, took off her was launched in a moderate sea, with a crew of two, and with their boat in tow light southerly wind blowing, fog and arrived back at her moorings at 2.50. a flood tide. Ten minutes after launch- Rewards to the crew, £7 ; reward to ing the life-boat was given a new the helper on shore, 13s. position of the casualty, which was twelve miles south-west of Beachy MOTOR LAUNCH TOWED TO Head. The life-boat found the Tarbeck DUNMORE EAST and at her master's request stood by until tugs arrived to tow the vessel to Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At Southampton. The life-boat then re- 11.15 on the night of the 7th of August, turned to her station, arriving at 8.30. 1958, a message was received that a Rewards to the crew, £17 9s. ; rewards- motor launch had broken down with to the helpers on shore, £19 5s. engine trouble one mile west of Hook lighthouse. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at 11.30 in a calm sea. A LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY CONVERTED moderate north-westerly wind was FISHING BOAT blowing, and it was high water. The Margate, Kent. At 12.40 early on life-boat found the motor launch the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, Monica of Waterford with three men the coastguard told the coxswain that on board. They had been fishing and a vessel appeared to have broken down had burnt some of their clothing to eight miles north-east of Margate. At attract attention. They were taken on 1.20 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil board the life-boat, and with their boat Service No. 11) was launched in a in tow she returned to Dunmore East, moderate sea. There was a moderate arriving at 1.15. Rewards to the crew, south-south-westerly wind and it was £7 ; reward to the helper on shore, low water. The life-boat found the 13s. converted fishing boat Shikara II of London bound for Ostend with eleven MOTOR YAWL TOWED TO WALMER people on board. Her master told the Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the coxswain that the boat's engines had evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the overheated, and they had been stopped coastguard told the honorary secretary to cool off. The life-boat stood by that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon until the engines were restarted, and was secured alongside the East Goodwin after giving a course for Ostend, she lightvessel, as she had run short of returned to her station, arriving at 3.45. petrol. At 8.5 the life-boat Charles Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty to the helpers on shore, £4 4s. at the station, was launched in a heavy swell, with a light south-westerly wind THREE MEDALS FOR ST. IVES CREW blowing and an ebb tide. The life- boat found the Ivy Lass and took her in On the evening of the 9th of August^ tow to Walmer, arriving at 11.30. 1958, four people were rescued from a Rewards to the crew, £12 12s. ; re- cave after a dinghy manned by four wards to the helpers on shore, £14 15s. members of the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat crew had been holed and sunk. For this service, a full account of which GERMAN VESSEL IN COLLISION IN appears on page 130, the silver medal for FOG gallantry was awarded to Motor Mech- Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten minutes anic Michael Peters, bronze medals ta after midnight on the morning of the Coxswain Daniel Roach and Signalman 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard Daniel Paynter and the thanks of the told the honorary secretary that a Institution inscribed on vellum to the collision had occurred near the Royal other four members of the crew. 162 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 ESCORT FOR VESSEL WITH FLOODED Stephens was launched at 12.37 in a ENGINE ROOM smooth sea, with a light southerly wind Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.45 on the blowing and a flood tide. The Progress night of the 9th of August, 1958, was taken in tow to harbour and the Valentia radio station informed the life-boat reached her station at 1.40. honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to Dun Angus of Dublin needed help some the helpers on shore, £3. six to seven miles south of Skelligs Rock, as her engine room was flooded. ESCORT FOR BOAT IN TOW At 12.10 early on the 10th of August St Helier, Jersey. At 3.34 on the the life-boat Rowland Watts put out in afternoon of the 12th of August, 1958, a rough sea with a south-westerly gale a message was received that a yacht was blowing and a flood tide. When she attempting to tow another yacht two and reached the position the motor vessel's a half miles from St. Helier harbour. master told the coxswain that because The tow rope was seen to part on two of the water in the engine room his occasions, after which the vessel towing radio and lights had failed. The life- gave up the attempt and the casualty boat escorted the Dun Angus to anchored. The local boat Duchess of Lawrence Cove, where her master was Normandy put out to help, and the brought ashore to enable him to contact casualty was seen to be dragging her the vessel's owner. The life-boat then anchor. The life-boat Lloyds, on tem- returned to her station, arriving at 5.45 porary duty at the station, was therefore that evening. Rewards to the crew, launched. The weather was fine with a £40 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on smooth sea and a flood tide, but there shore, £1 9s. was some ground sea caused by a fresh FISHING VESSEL REFLOATED westerly breeze. When the life-boat Bonlmer, Northumberland. At 5.8 reached the position she found that the on the afternoon of the 10th of August, casualty was the motor boat Bernard 1958, the coastguard informed the Claudine, with a crew of six. She was honorary secretary that the fishing being towed by the Duchess of Normandy, vessel Claire Rita of Banff was aground and the life-boat escorted both vessels off Hauxley Head. At 5.57 the life- to harbour, returning to her moorings boat Clarissa Langdon was launched at 4.45. Rewards to the crew, £7. in calm weather and a slight swell. Fog LEAKING YACHT TOWED TO had reduced visibility to fifty yards. HARWICH The fishing vessel was leaking, and the life-boat stood by while attempts were Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.25 being made to refloat her by the Amble on the night of the 13th of August, pilot cutter. At the request of the 1958, the coastguard told the honorary master of the Claire Rita the life-boat secretary that a message had been helped in the salvage operations, and received from the Norwegian tanker when the fishing vessel refloated, she Sagona that red flares had been seen escorted her to Amble harbour. She east of the West Sunk buoy. At 11.50 then returned to her station, arriving at the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out in 11.10. Property salvage case. a rough sea. A moderate west-south- westerly wind was blowing, and it was TOW FOR NAVAL CADET TRAINING high water. The life-boat made for the SHIP position, and when she had reached the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Sunk Towers a flare was seen off the Norfolk. At 12.33 on the afternoon of Longsand Head buoy. The life-boat the 10th of August, 1958, the coastguard altered course in the direction of the informed the honorary secretary that flare and found the yacht Nicolinda of the motor fishing vessel Progress, a Harwich with a crew of three. The naval cadet training ship, with about yacht was leaking and rolling heavily, thirty cadets on board, had broken her and the life-boat took her in tow to steering gear half a mile north-east Harwich, arriving there at 4.15 on the of the harbour. The life-boat Louise morning of the 14th of August. She DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 163 then returned to her station, arriving TWO MEN RESCUED FROM SCROBY at 6.15. Rewards to the crew, £18 15s.; SANDS rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 3s. Caister, Norfolk. At 9.20 on the morning of the 16th of August, 1958, LONG SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS OF two men were seen ashore on Scroby CRASH Sands from the boathouse. A small boat was near them. Ten minutes later On the 14th-15th of August, 1958, the men began waving to a passing ship, the Fenit and Galway Bay life-boats and it was decided to launch the life- carried out a long and unsuccessful boat Jose Neville at 9.45. There was search for survivors of a K.L.M. a moderate swell, with a moderate Constellation aircraft, which had westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. crashed into the sea. An account of The life-boat reached Scroby Sands their search appears on page 133. and found the converted ship's boat Ocean Queen anchored about a hun- LINE FIRED TO VESSEL ON ROCKS dred yards from the bank. Three Penlee, Cornwall. At 3.14 on the members of the life-boat's crew were morning of the 15th of August, 1958, the put aboard with a pair of oars. They coastguard told the motor mechanic rowed the Ocean Queen to the edge of that the motor fishing vessel Hesperian the sands and picked up the two men. was ashore west of Lamorna. At 3.40 The men were transferred to the life- the lifeboat W and S was launched in a boat, and with the Ocean Queen in tow, moderate sea, with a gentle west-south- the life-boat returned to Yarmouth westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. harbour. She reached her station at The life-boat found the fishing vessel in 12.45. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; thick fog bumping heavily on the rocks rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 7s. close to Cam Dhu. A line was fired across to the Hesperian and a tow rope YACHT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH was passed to her. She was success- SEA fully pulled off the rocks and taken in Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At tow to Newlyn, arriving at six o'clock. 12.14 on the afternoon of the 16th of The skipper of the Hesperian expressed August, 1958, the coastguard informed his thanks. The company which insured the coxswain that a yacht was in diffi- the vessel made a gift to the crew and culties with engine trouble one mile helpers. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; west-north-west of Breaksea lightvessel. rewards to the helpers on shore, Six minutes later the life-boat Rachel £5 8s. and Mary Evans was launched in a rough sea, with a fresh west-north- CHILD TAKEN OFF DRIFTING BOAT westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She found the yacht Marga with a crew Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the of three rolling heavily and shipping a afternoon of the 15th of August, 1958, great deal of water. A tow rope was the coastguard told the coxswain that connected, and the life-boat towed the a rowing boat was in difficulties three yacht to Barry, arriving at 2.10. Re- miles east of Moelfre Island. Ten wards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards minutes later the life-boat Watkin to the helpers on shore, £2 14s. Williams was launched in a choppy sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blow- ing and an ebb tide. The life-boat COXSWAIN WARNED NOT TO ENTER found the rowing boat Sea Gull, with COVE two adults and a child on board, Galway Bay. At 9.15 on the evening drifting out to sea. They were trans- of the 18th of August, 1958, a message ferred to the life-boat, which then took was received from Inishmaine Island the boat in tow to Bentleck Bay. The that a sailing boat carrying turf had life-boat reached her station at 4.25. grounded in a nearby cove. At 9.30 the Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put the helpers on shore, £2 12s. out in a choppy sea. There was a strong 164 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 north-westerly wind and a flood tide. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to The life-boat reached the entrance to the helpers on shore, £3 17s. the cove, but the crew of the sailing boat shone a red light at the coxswain to FISHING BOAT FOUND AFTER SEARCH warn him not to enter the cove in dark- AMONG ROCKS ness. It was decided therefore to wait St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 until morning, and as the two men on on the night of the 20th of August, board the boat were in no danger, the 1958, the police reported that two life-boat returned to her station, arriv- fishermen were overdue and that flames ing at 11.59, where she was secured had been seen from Cobo Bay in a alongside the pier. At ten o'clock the north-westerly direction. At 10.45 the next day the life-boat put out and towed life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out in the sailing boat out of the cove to a rough sea. There was a strong Kilronan. She finally reached her southerly wind and it was high water. station at noon. Rewards to the crew, Many confusing reports were received £14 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on of lights in the vicinity, but these were shore, £2 7s. apparently lights from passing vessels. TRAWLER ESCORTED THROUGH At two o'clock in the morning further DENSE FOG flares were seen from the shore, and it Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.28 was thought that the casualty had on the evening of the 19th of August, anchored inside the reefs off Cobo Bay. 1958, the coxswain intercepted a mes- The life-boat threaded her way through sage from the trawler Ocean Star of numerous outlying rocks in poor visi- Lerwick that she was in broken water bility and heavy rain squalls. At four near the rocks not far from Peterhead o'clock, when visibility was down to a harbour and needed help. At 9.49 few yards, the coxswain anchored to the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow await better conditions. At 5.45 the was launched in a slight swell. A fishing boat was seen at anchor some light south-easterly wind was blowing three hundred yards from the life-boat ; and the tide was ebbing. The position the life-boat closed her and the cox- of the trawler was given as one mile swain put a member of his crew aboard. north-east of Buchanness. The life- The fishing boat had engine trouble, boat found her and escorted her in dense and she was taken in tow by the life- fog to harbour, which was reached at boat and anchored in Cobo Bay. The 11.10. The life-boat was rehoused the two fishermen were then transferred to next day. Rewards to the crew, the life-boat, which landed them at St. £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on Peter Port at 7.45. Rewards to the shore, £3 8s. crew, £17 9s. ; reward to the helper on shore, £1. MAN RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF WRECKED ROWING BOAT FOUND Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on Wicklow. At 4.10 on the afternoon the evening of the 20th of August, 1958, of the 20th of August, 1958, the cox- the coastguard told the honorary secre- swain was told that a partly submerged tary that a man had fallen over the cliff boat was being driven southwards three at Monkstone beach, and that a doctor miles north-east of Wicklow. At 4.30 who was attending him had asked for the life-boat /. W. Archer was launched. the life-boat. At 5.42 the life-boat The sea was smooth, there was a light Henry Comber Brown was launched, east-north-easterly wind, and the tide towing a punt. The weather was calm was ebbing. The life-boat found a badly and the tide was flooding. The life- damaged rowing boat and searched the boat reached the position, and the area for any possible survivors, but injured man, who had a fractured skull, none was found. The wrecked boat the doctor and two of the man's rela- was recovered, and the life-boat reached tions were taken aboard the punt. They her station at 6.10. Rewards to the were then transferred to the life-boat, crew, £7 ; rewards to helpers on shore, which reached her station at 6.15. £3 2s. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 165 HELP TO TRAWLER WITH FOULED to a paddle. Five minutes later the PROPELLERS life-boat Mabel E. Holland-was launched Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on in a choppy sea. There was a moderate the morning of the 21st of August, south-westerly wind and it was high 1958, the honorary secretary received a water. The life-boat went to the message that a trawler had engine position and found that the dinghy had trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys sunk and the two men were in the water. eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat They were rescued and landed at Lade. Henry Comber Brown was launched at The life-boat reached her station at 11.10 in a choppy sea. There was a 6.20 One of the men rescued made a moderate south-westerly wind and it donation to the Institution's funds. was high water. The life-boat found Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to that the trawler, which was the Helping the helpers on shore, £17 8s. Hand of Swansea, with a crew of three, had a trawl foul of her propellers. ESCORT FOR BOATS IN ROUGH SEA After towing the trawler to Caldey Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Island, where she was beached on Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of Priory beach, the life-boat returned to the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard moorings at Tenby. At low water the told the honorary secretary that a party trawler's crew cleared the propellers, of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands and at seven o'clock in the evening the in a longshore boat and a small motor life-boat returned to stand by until the boat in the morning, but because of the trawler floated clear. When it was freshening wind and increasing seas evident that the trawler needed no they were having difficulty in returning further help, the life-boat returned to to the mainland. The honorary her station and was rehoused at 8.30. secretary was in the boathouse at the Rewards to the crew, £11 11s. ; re- time with a representative of the wards to the helpers on shore, £6. Guatemalan government, and three minutes after the maroons were fired DUTCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS the life-boat W.R.A., on temporary duty Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 at the station, was launched in a rough on the morning of the 22nd of August, sea, with a moderate southerly wind 1958, the coastguard told the honorary blowing and a flood tide. As the life- secretary that the trawler Ada of boat left the harbour a wireless message Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick was received that a bather was in diffi- Rocks three miles north of Boulmer. culties off Yarmouth beach. The life- The life-boat Clarissa Langdon was boat made for the position, but within launched in dense fog at 3.57. There ten minutes the bather was reported was a heavy swell and the tide was safely aboard one of the beach boats in flooding. On finding the trawler the the area. The life-boat then continued life-boat went alongside. Shortly after- to Scroby Sands but found on arrival wards the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop that the two boats had begun to leave. reached the scene, and the life-boat ran One of the boats had had her propeller a tow rope from the trawler to the fouled by a rope, but this had been hospital ship. As the tide made, the cleared. The life-boat escorted the boats De Hoop successfully towed the trawler to harbour, providing a lee for the off the rocks. The life-boat stood by smaller boat, and reached her station while this was done and then returned at 3.50. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; to her station. Property salvage case. rewards to the helpers on shore, £3. TWO RESCUED AFTER DINGHY SINKS YACHT TOWED OFF ROCKS Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the Exmouth, Devon. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1958, morning of the 25th of August, 1958, the coxswain was informed that a the coastguard told the honorary secre- dinghy with two people on board was tary that a yacht was ashore on Maer in difficulties off Lade. One of the men Rocks. The life-boat Maria Noble was was waving a red handkerchief attached launched at 2.55 in a heavy ground 166 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 swell. There was a moderate south- off Trimingham with five people on westerly wind and a flood tide. The board. The second coxswain went life-boat made for the position in heavy aboard her and made fast a tow rope. rain and found the yacht Cyrhenn with The life-boat then towed the Wima to a crew of two. A tow rope was Yarmouth and returned to her station, connected and the yacht towed to arriving at 3.35. Property salvage case. Exmouth docks. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock. POLISH TRAWLER AGROUND ON Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to ROCKS the helpers on shore, £8 10s. Boulmer, Northumberland. At 6.55 on the morning of the 28th of August, ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At three ashore on the south side of Dunstan- o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of borough Castle. At 7.19 the life-boat August, 1958, the honorary secretary Clarissa Langdon was launched in a received a message that a yacht was slight swell, with a gentle north-north- dismasted and in difficulties off Avon- easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. wen beach. The South Caernarvon- The life-boat found the Polish trawler shire Yacht Club was asked whether Arko aground on Nova Scotia Island the services of the life-boat were re- four and a half miles north of Boulmer. quired. An answer was received that She stood by until the trawler was high one of the club's own boats was putting and dry, and after the trawler's crew out to help, but the weather was had landed returned to her station. worsening and the life-boat crew were At noon she put out again to stand by alerted. Another yacht, the Priscilla, while attempts were made to refloat made for the position and tried to take the Arko, but these were unsuccessful the disabled yacht in tow, but she made and the trawler finally broke up and very little progress, and eventually the became a total wreck. Rewards to the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 3.50. There was a rough crew, £12 5s. ; rewards to the helpers sea, with a strong south-westerly wind on shore, £7 15s. blowing and a flood tide. The Priscilla SEARCH FOR MAN IN SMALL continued to tow the disabled yacht, DINGHY which had a crew of four. The life- Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.7 on the boat escorted them to moorings at afternoon of the 28th of August, 1958, Abersoch and then returned to her the police at Broadford reported that a station, arriving at 8.30. The yacht small dinghy with one man on board club expressed its thanks. Rewards to was adrift off the south end of Palay the crew, £12 16s. ; rewards to the Island, two miles north of Broadford. helpers on shore, £7 19s. At 3.15 the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out, with the second cox- YACHT TOWED TO CROMER swain in command, in a smooth sea. Cromer, Norfolk. At 6.20 on the There was a moderate southerly wind evening of the 27th of August, 1958, the and a flood tide. The life-boat carried coastguard informed the honorary sec- out a search over a very wide area retary that a yacht had broken down helped by a small boat from Broadford, and was drifting east of Cromer. At and when darkness came the coxswain 6.37 the motor vessel Antiquity of decided to enter Kyle. At 2.30 in the London approached the yacht and morning the life-boat resumed the reported that although she was in no search. A message was received from immediate danger the help of a life- the coastguard giving a new position, boat might be needed. At seven and the boat and man were found at ten o'clock the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg o'clock on the beach at Loch Airport. was launched in a moderate sea. A The man left by car and the life-boat moderate south-easterly wind was blow- took the dinghy in tow to her station, ing and it was high water. The life- arriving at 4.30 that afternoon. boat found the yacht Wima three miles Rewards to the crew, £44 13s. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 167 FISHING BOAT TOWED TO being swept under Seacombe landing BARMOUTH stage. The coxswain manoeuvred the Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 life-boat alongside, and after the second on the evening of the 30th of August, coxswain had cut the anchor rope both 1958, the coastguard passed on to the vessels were taken in tow to Birkenhead. honorary secretary a message that a The life-boat reached her station at fishing boat was making distress signals 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; re- off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At wards to the helpers on shore, £1 6s. 9.20 the life-boat The Chieftain was The following life-boats went out on launched in a heavy swell, with a light service, but could find no ships in westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. distress, were not needed, or could do She found the fishing boat, and at the nothing : request of her owner, who was aboard her with another man, took her in tow Holyhead, Anglesey.—August 1st.— to harbour, arriving at 9.10. The Rewards, £14 6s. fishing boat had lost a propeller. Re- Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—August wards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the 1st.—Rewards, £10 Is. helpers on shore, £2 8s. St. Ives, Cornwall.—August 1st.— Rewards, £15 2s. MOTOR BOAT TOWED TO PADSTOW Portrush, Co. Antrim.—August 2nd. —Rewards, £10 4s. Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.46 on the Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—August evening of the 29th of August, 1958, a 2nd.—Rewards, £15 19s. message was received by the honorary Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—August secretary that calls for help had been 2nd.—Rewards, £10 9s. heard coming from a boat off Pentine Appledore, Devon.—August 2nd.— Head. At 7.5 the no. 1 life-boat Rewards, £10. Joseph Hiram Chadwick put out in a Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—August smooth sea, with a gentle south- 3rd.—Rewards, £9 8s. westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Aug- She found the motor boat St. Minver of ust 3rd.—Rewards, £14 5s. Padstow with eight people on board, Swanage, Dorset.—August 3rd.—Re- took her in tow, and finally reached her wards, £10 16s. moorings at 8.45. A donation was Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork. made to the branch funds. Rewards —August 4th.—Rewards, £20 6s. to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers Lowestoft, Suffolk.—August 4th.— on shore, £1 4s. Rewards, £11 4s. Salcombe, Devon.—August 4th.—Re- TWO BOATS IN DANGER NEAR wards, £8 4s. LANDING STAGE Howth, Co. Dublin.—August 4th.— New Brighton, Cheshire. At noon Rewards, £8 16s. on the 31st of August, 1958, the motor Padstow, Cornwall.—August 5th.— mechanic's wife told the coxswain that Rewards, £9. a message had been received that a Galway Bay.—August 6th.—Rewards motor launch was in difficulties north £12. of Seacombe stage. At 12.30 the life- Barrow, Lancashire.—August 6th.— boat Norman B. Corlett put out in a Rewards, £15 2s. smooth sea. There was a gentle south- Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—August 7th. south-easterly wind and a flood tide. —Rewards, £15 5s. The life-boat reached the position and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— found two boats, one a converted ship's August 8th.—Rewards, £6 14s. boat and the other an old local fishing Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—August boat, secured alongside each other and 8th.—Rewards, £18 4s. lying to a single anchor. The anchor Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—August was not holding, and with the flood tide 9th.—Rewards, £8 19s. the boats, which had a total of nine Cloughey, Co. Down.—August 10th. people on board, were in danger of —Rewards, £25 18s. 168 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 Margate, Kent.—August 10th.—Re- Criccietn, Caernarvonshire.—August wards, £13 16s. 22nd.—Rewards, £12 17s. Peel, Isle of Man.—August 10th.— Falmouth, Cornwall.—August 24th. Rewards, £18. —Rewards, £7 12s. Lowestoft, Suffolk.—August llth.— Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—August Rewards, £8. 25th.—Rewards, £13. Appledore, Devon.—August llth.— Walmer, Kent.—August 25th.—Re- Rewards, £10 Is. wards, £24 9s. Walmer, Kent.—August llth.—Re- Moelfre, Anglesey.—August 27th.— wards, £26 14s. Rewards, £8 16s. Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—August Rhyl, Anglesey.—August 27th.—Re- 12th.—Rewards, £9 5s. wards, £16 15s. St. Ives, Cornwall.—August 12th.— Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—August Rewards, £23. 27th.—Rewards, £7 12s. Baltimore, Co. Cork.—August 12th. Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—August —Rewards, £23 13s. 28th.—Rewards, £17 15s. Holyhead, Anglesey.—August 12th. Ramsgate, Kent.—August 28th.— -—Rewards, £31 Is. Rewards, £7 10s. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—August August 13th.—Rewards, £25 10s. 29th.—Rewards, £9 8s. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Hastings, Sussex.—August 30th.— Norfolk.—August 13th.—Rewards, Rewards, £33 14s. £10 10s. Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—August Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—August 30th.—Rewards, £10. 13th.—Rewards, £13 16s. Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—August Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—August 13th. 30th.—Rewards, £10 9s. —Rewards, £11 18s. Ramsgate, Kent.—August 15th.—Re- wards, £6 10s. SEPTEMBER Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—August 16th. —Rewards, £27 13s. DURING September life-boats were Beaumaris, Anglesey.—August 16th. launched on service 87 times and rescued —Rewards, £11 9s. 54 lives. Portrush, Co. Antrim.—August 17th. TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S Rewards, £11 8s. BOAT Fleetwood, Lancashire.—August 19th. Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.52 —Rewards, £9 8s. on the morning of the 1st of September, Hastings, Sussex.—August 19th.— 1958, the coastguard told the honorary Rewards, £28 16s. secretary that the converted ship's Padstow, Cornwall.—August 19th.— boat Judorka of Swansea had not Rewards, £6 4s. returned to her berth in the river. Montrose, Angus.—August 20th.— Relations of the boat's crew, who Rewards, £10 10s. numbered four, had informed the Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—August police that the Judorka had been due to 20th.—Rewards, £9 5s. return at ten o'clock the evening before, Hastings, Sussex.—August 20th.— and after further enquiries had been Rewards, £30 16s. made it was decided to launch the life- Montrose, Angus.—August 20th.— boat. At 2.55 the life-boat William Rewards, £10 8s. Gammon (Manchester and District Stronsay, Orkneys.—August 21st.— XXX) was launched in a calm sea. Rewards, £11 9s. There was a moderate south-easterly Caister, Norfolk.—August 21st.—Re- wind and it was low water. At 4.37 the wards, £27 10s. life-boat sighted the Judorka nine Cromer, Norfolk.—August 21st.— hundred yards off the west pier. The Rewards, £13 8s. boat's propeller was fouled, and she was Dungeness, Kent.—August 21st.—Re- taken in tow and safely berthed in the wards, £24 12s. river. The life-boat then returned to her DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 169 •station, arriving at 5.50. Rewards to to Salcombe, where the body was the crew, £10 17s. ; rewards to the handed over to the police. The life- helpers on shore, £6 16s. boat reached her moorings at 7.15. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to GERMAN VESSEL FOUND LISTING the helpers on shore, £1 4s. HEAVILY ESCORT IN FOG FOR FISHING Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the VESSELS -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.20 secretary that a vessel was stranded near on the evening of the 1st of September, the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James 1958, the coxswain received a message and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a that a fishing boat had been in collision calm sea, with a light southerly wind with the trawler Strathdon off Peter- blowing, and an ebb tide. The life- head. The motor fishing vessel Wave boat made for the position in fog and Sheaf was trying to find her in dense found the motor vessel Dixy Porr of fog. At 7.33 it was learnt that the Hamburg, with a crew of thirteen, list- Wave Sheaf had found the boat, which ing heavily to starboard. Her captain was the motor fishing vessel Jeannie. asked the coxswain to stand by in the She took her in tow The life-boat hope that she would refloat on the next Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was high tide. Some of her crew had already launched at 7.49 in a moderate sea. been transferred to the fishery cruiser There were light airs and an ebb tide. Minna and were later taken on board The life-boat escorted the Wave Sheaf the life-boat. Shortly after seven and the Jeannie to harbour, which was o'clock the motor vessel refloated, but reached at 8.24. Rewards to the crew, she was well down by the head and still £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on listing heavily to starboard. A member shore, £3 8s. of the life-boat's crew went aboard her to act as pilot, and escorted by the life- BOATS IN TOW IN THICK FOG boat she made for Stornoway, which Runswick, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on she reached at 10.40. Rewards to the the evening of the 1st of September, crew, £17 9s. 1958, two motor boats, one towing the other, left Whitby for Staithes in fine SEARCH FOR WOMAN AFTER FALL weather. There was a strong south- FROM CLIFF easterly wind, with a heavy swell and an Salcombe, Devon. At 5.16 on the ebb tide. At 8.15 thick fog developed, afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, and because by 8.30 the two boats had the coastguard at Bolt Head told the not arrived some anxiety was felt. honorary secretary that a woman had There were five people on board each fallen over a cliff between Sewer Mill boat, including two women and four Cove and Bolberry Down. The life- children, and after making enquiries boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put the honorary secretary decided to out with the second coxswain in com- launch the life-boat The Elliott Gill at mand at 5.30 in a calm sea. There 9.13. The life-boat found the boats was a light south-westerly wind and the near Kettleness Point. They were at tide was flooding. The life-boat was anchor, and their position was a nearing the position when she met the dangerous one, particularly because pleasure boat Janet, whose master told the tide was ebbing. Eight people were the coxswain he had seen signals from taken on board the life-boat, leaving the cliff top while returning from Hope only the two owners on board the Cove. He had therefore gone ashore motor boats. The life-boat took the in a dinghy and picked up the woman, boats in tow, but because of the dense who was lying in the water. She had fog the coxswain decided to anchor a died from her injuries. The Janet had short distance off until the fog cleared towed the dinghy with the body slightly. At 1.15 conditions improved, aboard, and the life-boat now took and the life-boat towed the boats to over the tow and brought the dinghy Runswick, where the men, women and 170 THE LIFE-BOAT (DECEMBER, 1958 children were landed at 2.15. Re- in the boarding boat and transferred wards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the life-boat. Two of the men were to the helpers on shore, £13 8s. affected by cramp and shock, and MAN AND CHILD RESCUED FROM when the life-boat reached St. Helier DINGHY at 5.40 they had to be moved by Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 on stretcher to an ambulance which was the evening of the 1st of September, waiting there. Rewards to the crew, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary £6 ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. secretary that two people in a dinghy LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TWO fitted with an outboard motor were YACHTS shouting for help off the south beach. New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.55 on At 9.44 the life-boat Henry Comber the afternoon of the 3rd of September, Brown was launched in a rough sea. 1958, the New Brighton stageman There was a moderate south-easterly learnt from the dredger Otterspool wind and it was high water. The life- when she entered harbour that a small boat took the dinghy in tow, and the yacht was in difficulties in the Rock two rescued people, who were a man Channel. The motor mechanic was and a seven-year-old girl, were landed told of this, and at 4.10 the life-boat at Tenby at 10.10. Rewards to the Norman B. Corlett put out in a choppy crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on sea. There was a fresh easterly wind shore, £4 4s. and an ebb tide. The life-boat found FIVE RESCUED AFTER SAILING two yachts having difficulty in making BOAT CAPSIZES the shore because of the weather con- Salcombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the ditions. She stood by until the yachts morning of the 2nd of September, 1958, were safe and then returned to her the coastguard at Bolt Head informed moorings, arriving at 5.27. Rewards the honorary secretary that a sailing to the crew, £5 ; rewards to the helpers boat had capsized half a mile south- on shore, £1 6s. west of Steeple Cove look-out hut and that two people were clinging to her. INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER The life-boat Samuel and Marie Park- Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the house put out immediately in a moderate evening of the 4th of September, 1958, sea, with a gentle east-south-easterly a message was received from Valentia wind blowing and an ebb tide. She radio station that the trawler Ros found five people in the water, rescued Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles them and landed them at Salcombe at north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; re- had been badly injured. At 8.30 the wards to helpers on shore, £1 4s. life-boat Rowland Watts put out with a doctor on board in a calm sea. There THREE MEN TAKEN OFF ROCKS was a moderate easterly wind and it was St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.35 on the high water. The injured man was trans- morning of the 3rd of September, 1958, ferred to the life-boat and landed at the harbour master told the honorary Reenard quay at 12.40, where an secretary that three men were marooned ambulance was waiting to take him to on the rocks at Greve d'Agette, but Tralee hospital. The life-boat reached that they were in no immediate danger her moorings at 1.30. Rewards to the as it was low water. The police had crew, £14 18s. ; reward to the helper on attempted to reach them by life line, shore, 16s. but the line had been too short. The police and the harbour master had also MAN TAKEN FROM PUNT AFTER tried to find a suitable boat to land the BOAT ABANDONED men, but they had failed to do so, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on at 4.25 the life-boat Elizabeth Rippon the evening of the 4th of September, put out, towing her boarding boat. 1958, the honorary secretary was in- There was a calm sea with a light vari- formed that the motor boat Memosa able wind. The life-boat reached the was drifting out of control off Ragan rocks, and the three men were taken off Point. At 5.40 the life-boat Henry DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 171 Comber Brown was launched in a calm life-boat escorted the two vessels to sea, with light airs blowing and a flood Fleetwood harbour, which was reached tide. She found the Memosa aban- at seven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, doned about a quarter of a mile off £12 19s. ; rewards to the helpers on Marras beach and took her in tow. On shore, £4 4s. the way back to her station the life- boat picked up the motor boat's FISHING BOAT TOWED TO skipper, who was rowing a punt off DUNMORE EAST Markstone Point. He had landed his Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At five passengers at Saundersfoot and 10.10 on the morning of the 4th of was making for Tenby. The punt was September, 1958, a message was re- also taken in tow, and the life-boat ceived from Ballymacaw harbour that a reached her station at 6.50. Rewards fishing boat had broken down with to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers engine trouble a quarter of a mile off on shore, £3 15s. shore. At 10.15 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched in a heavy LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY DUTCH YAWL swell. A fresh easterly wind was blow- Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.3 ing and the tide was ebbing. The life- on the night of the 4th of September, boat took the fishing boat in tow to 1958, the coastguard received a message Dunmore East, which was reached at from the police at Brighton that a two- 11.25. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; masted boat was sending distress signals. reward to the helper on shore, 13s. Her position was given as a hundred yards to sea from the Sackville Hotel TWENTY HOURS ADRIFT IN at Hove, and she appeared to be drift- FISHING VESSEL ing east towards Brighton. At 10.18 Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 6.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis on the morning of the 7th of September, Lunn was launched in a slight sea, with 1958, the coastguard informed the a light easterly wind blowing and an honorary secretary that a flashing ebb tide. She found the Dutch yawl white light had been seen four miles Tenente Roberth, which had grounded west-north-west of Aberystwyth. The off King Alfred Hove, at anchor close honorary secretary went to the coast- to the shore. Her owner told the guard look-out, where he saw a boat coxswain he did not need help, but as flying two flags at the masthead. The the weather was deteriorating the life-boat Aguila Wren was launched at life-boat stood by until high water, 7.15 in a slight sea. There was a as the yacht was in a dangerous moderate south-westerly wind, and the position. The life-boat reached her tide was ebbing. The life-boat found station at 3.16 the next morning. the motor fishing vessel Speedwell of Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards Cardigan with her engines broken to the helpers on shore, £3 4s. down. There was one man aboard her, who had been adrift for over twenty ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL hours. The life-boat took the Speed- IN TOW well in tow to harbour, arriving at Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.45 8.30. Rewards to the crew, £5 ; re- early on the morning of the 4th of wards to the helpers on shore, £7 6s. September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red FISHING BOAT TOWED TO PIER flares had been seen three miles east- Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on north-east of Morecambe Bay light- the morning of the 7th of September, vessel. At 2.10 the life-boat Ann 1958, the coxswain was told by his Letitia Russell was launched in a brother that the fishing boat John moderate sea, with a moderate easterly Patrick was missing from her moorings. wind blowing and a flood tide. She The boat could be seen circling west of found the fishing vessel Pamela of the boom, and at ten o'clock the life- Fleetwood in tow of the fishing vessel boat Greater London II (Civil Service Zyaba. The Pamela had a crew of two, No. 30) was launched. There was a and her engine had broken down. The calm sea, with a light easterly wind 172 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 blowing and a flood tide. The life- ported that a small boat had been seen boat found the John Patrick with four near the Buxey Sands at 5.30 the evening youths on board and towed her to the before. She had engine trouble, but pier, arriving at 11.15. Rewards to the her crew appeared to be in no danger. crew, £5 ; rewards to the helpers on At 7.2 a helicopter was sent to investi- shore, £3 18s. gate and reported that the boat was still in difficulties and needed help. At MECHANIC JUMPS IN TO PICK 7.25 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring UP MAN was launched in a slight sea. There Newhaven, Sussex. At 2.11 on the was a moderate west-south-westerJy afternoon of the 7th of September, 1958, wind and it was high water. The life- the coastguard informed the honorary boat found the converted naval whaler secretary that a boat had capsized off Trojan, with four people on board, and Buckmere River and that one of her took her in tow to Burnham, reaching crew had swum ashore and the second her station at 3.45. Rewards to the was in the water. The life-boat Cecil crew, £17 9s. ; rewards to the helpers, and Lilian Philpott was launched at on shore, £5 5s. 2.20 in a choppy sea, with a south- westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. SEARCH AFTER SHOUTS HEARD When she reached the position a canoe IN FOG was being carried along the beach, and Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'cJock on the coxswain sent a radio-telephone the evening of the llth of September, message asking if this had any con- 1958, the coastguard at Portpatrick nexion with the incident. The coast- told the coxswain that cries for help guard replied that there was no con- had been heard by the coastguard at nexion, but that a man had been seen Kildonan. After further enquiries the in the water east of Cuckmere River. life-boat Robert Lindsay put out at The life-boat found the man, who was 6.50 in dense fog to carry out a search unconscious, and the assistant mechanic from Pladda East to Kildonan. The jumped into the water to recover him. sea was calm, and the tide was flooding. Immediately the man was on board the At 8.40 the coxswain received a message life-boat the motor mechanic began from the coastguard at Arran that a artificial respiration. The man was small yacht was making slow progress then transferred to a fast R.A.F. air- towards Whiting Bay. The life-boat sea rescue launch, and the life-boat found the yacht Rahoneen, whose mechanic went with him to continue engine had broken down, and towed her giving treatment. The launch landed to Lamlash, where the yacht was him, and he was taken by ambulance to anchored. The life-boat then con- hospital, but in spite of the treatment tinued her search along the coast as given by the motor mechanic, by a far as Kildonan, but found nothing, doctor and a police constable in the further and returned to her moorings, ambulance and by hospital staff after arriving at one o'clock early on the he arrived, he never regained con- morning of the 12th of September. sciousness. The life-boat reached her The coastguard later reported that the station at 4.50. At an inquest held shouting which had caused the alarm later it was stated that the man, who had evidently come from Pladda. had been swimming with his wife, had Rewards to the crew, £12 5s. ; reward died of acute heart failure. Subse- to the helper on shore, 12s. quent reports indicated that no boat had capsized. Rewards to the crew, MECHANIC SWIMS ASHORE TO £9 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on MAKE LINE FAST shore, £3 14s. Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, TOW FOR CONVERTED NAVAL 1958, the coastguard at Polruan in- WHALER formed the honorary secretary that the Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.10 coastguard at Charlestown had gone to- early on the morning of the 8th of help a young woman who had been cut September, 1958, the coastguard re- off by the tide about three hundred- DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 173 yards west of Charlestown. Five The tanker eventually refloated, and minutes later the police reported that it the tug towed her stern first clear of the had been found impossible to haul the pier. The towing rope was cast off, girl up the cliffside and asked if the and later under her own power and life-boat would put out to rescue her. escorted by the life-boat the tanker At 5.32 the life-boat Deneys Reitz left entered the River Tyne. The life- her moorings in a rough sea. There boat reached her station at 5.25. was a moderate easterly wind and it Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards was high water. The life-boat reached to the helpers on shore, £4 4s. the position, and after a line had been fired ashore by Schermuly pistol, the TWO SAILING BOATS CAPSIZE .assistant motor mechanic swam ashore Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. At 2.2 on to make the line fast to a rock. The the afternoon of the 20th of September, girl and a coastguardsman who had 1958, the coastguard at Mumbles told gone to help her were taken off by the honorary secretary that two sailing breeches buoy and landed at Fowey at boats had capsized between Ferryside 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £7 2s. 6d. and Llanstephan. At 2.40 the life- boat Caroline Oates Aver and William INJURED MAN LANDED FROM Maine was launched in a choppy sea. MOTOR VESSEL There was a squally south-westerly Dungeness, Kent. At 10.10 on the wind with an ebb tide. The life-boat night of the 13th of September, 1958, reached the position where the boats the coastguard informed the honorary had capsized and found the crews had secretary that there was an injured man reached the shore. One of the sailing on board the motor vessel Bluemaster, boats had grounded, but the life-boat .and that her master wanted to land him. took the other in tow and reached her At 11.25 the life-boat Mabel E. station at 4.45. Rewards to the crew, Holland was launched in a calm sea. £7 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, There was a light easterly wind and it £8 6s. was high water. The life-boat reached the Bluemaster, embarked the injured TOW FOR YACHT WITH BROKEN man, and landed him at Dungeness at RUDDER 1.20. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.40 on the rewards to the helpers on the shore, afternoon of the 21st of September, £18 4s. 1958, the coastguard reported that the police had seen a small sailing yacht in TANKER AGROUND IN FOG distress one mile off Peacehaven with Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.20 clothing tied to the masthead. At •early on the morning of the 17th of five o'clock the life-boat Cecil and .September, 1958, the coastguard in- Lilian Philpott was launched, with the formed the honorary secretary that a second coxswain in command, in a vessel was ashore below Tynemouth rough sea. There was a strong south- •Castle, fifty yards north of Tyne north westerly wind and a flood tide. The life- pier. Visibility was reduced to half boat found the yacht Topaz, which had .a mile by fog, and the coastguard a crew of three, with a broken rudder off received no reply to repeated signals Newhaven breakwater. She took her warning the master of the danger his in tow, reaching Newhaven at 5.45. vessel was in. No call had been made Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to for help, but as conditions were be- the helpers on shore, £3 12s. •coming worse it was decided to launch the life-boat Tynesider at 2.15. It was RESCUED MAN TRANSFERRED still foggy with light north-westerly airs. FROM STEAMER There was a slight swell and the tide Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.41 was flooding. The life-boat found the on the evening of the 21st of September, tanker Clyde Crusader of Glasgow, 1958, the coastguard at Forelands re- •with a tug named Tynesider standing by ported that the s.s. Ardingly had re- •with a line to the casualty's stern. ported that a small boat had overturned 174 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 and that a man was clinging to her. Rewards to the crew, £12 16s. ; re- Two minutes later the steamer reported wards to the helpers on shore, £5. that she had lowered a boat to pick the man up, but as she was outward bound, DINGHY TOWED AFTER CREW a request was made for a boat to land the TAKEN ABOARD man. No other boat being available, PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of at 8.15 in a moderate sea, with a fresh September, 1958, a message was re- south-westerly wind blowing and an ebb ceived from the coastguard that a small tide. The coxswain found the Ardingly dinghy was in difficulties north-east anchored between the South and West of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Ryde middle buoys. The man was Charles Henry Ashley was launched at transferred to the life-boat, and his 7.48 in a rough sea, with a strong south- dinghy was taken in tow to Cowes, westerly gale blowing and an ebb tide. where he was landed. The life-boat She found the dinghy and took her reached her station at 11.35. Rewards crew of two on board. With the to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the dinghy in tow, she reached her station helpers on shore, £3 5s. at nine o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on YACHT FOUND WITH PARACHUTE shore, £7 18s. FLARES Walmer, Kent. At 8.56 on the even- FOUR MEN TAKEN FROM FISHING ing of the 21st of September, 1958, the VESSEL Deal coastguard told the honorary Seaham, Co. Durham, At 5.50 on secretary that two red flares had been the evening of the 24th of September, seen four to five miles south-east of the 1958, the coastguard informed the cox- look-out. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles swain that a small fishing vessel was Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was drifting four miles east-north-east of launched in a rough sea. A south- Seaham. At 6.15 the life-boat George westerly gale was blowing and there Elmy was launched in a heavy swell. A was an ebb tide. The life-boat set off strong westerly wind was blowing and parachute flares and found the yacht the tide was ebbing. The coxswain Widgeon II, with a crew of two, saw a motor vessel near the position between the south-west and south indicated. This was the Brendonia of Goodwin buoys. She took her in tow Goole, which had picked up the fishing to Walmer, arriving at 11.59. Pro- vessel's crew of four. The four men perty salvage case. were transferred to the life-boat, and the fishing vessel, which had engine TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL WITH trouble, was towed to Seaham. arriving FOULED PROPELLER at 8.15. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; Walton and Frinton, Essex. At. 1.5 on rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s. the afternoon of the 22nd of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the BOAT ESCORTED TO ST. HELIER honorary secretary that a fishing vessel St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.55 on the was in distress three to four miles south- evening of the 24th of September, 1958, east of the coastguard look-out. At the honorary secretary received a 1.28 the life-boat Edian Courtauld put message that a small boat appeared to out, with the bowman in command, in a be in difficulties half a mile south of moderate sea, with a moderate west- Icho tower. The life-boat Elizabeth south-westerly wind blowing and a flood Rippon put out at 7.12 in a moderate tide. A helicopter also took off. The swell, with a strong south-south- life-boat found the fishing vessel Dawn westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. with a trawl foul of her propeller. Her She reached the position and found the crew of four had tried unsuccessfully motor boat Avec Dieu of Granville on for four hours to free it, and the life- passage from Chansey to St. Helier boat took the Dawn in tow to Harwich, with a priest in charge and five other finally reaching her station at 5.20. people on board. The priest told the DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 175 coxswain that he had lost his bearings, out the night. Rewards to the crew, and the life-boat escorted the motor £32 9s. ; rewards to the helpers on boat to St. Helier, arriving at 8.25. shore, £2 14s. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; reward to the TOW ROPE PARTS IN GALE helper on shore, 12s. Dover, Kent. At 7.10 on the morn- MEDAL FOR BARROW COXSWAIN ing of the 25th of September, 1958, the On the night of the 24th of September, coastguard at Sandgate informed the 1958, the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat honorary secretary that the yacht Grey took a sick man off the Morecambe Bay Lady needed help four miles south of lightvessel in very heavy seas. For this Folkestone. The life-boat Southern service, a full account of which appears Africa put out at 7.20 in a very rough on page 131, Coxwain Roland Moore sea. A west-south-westerly gale was was awarded the bronze medal for blowing and the tide was flooding. gallantry. The coaster Ronsan, which was stand- ing by the yacht, made a lee for the YACHT FOUND NEAR REEFS AFTER life-boat while a tow rope was con- LONG SEARCH nected. Because of the sea conditions Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 7.35 very slow progress was made towards on the evening of the 24th of Septem- Dover. The tow rope parted once ber, 1958, the coastguard reported and was reconnected with great diffi- that a message had been received from culty, and Dover was finally reached at the wife of a salmon fisherman at eleven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, Machrihanish that a yacht was dragging etc., £8 13s. her anchor in Machrihanish Bay. At BOAT TOWED TO LLANDUDNO 8.7 the life-boat City of Glasgow II put out in a very heavy sea. A strong Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.5 north-westerly gale was blowing and on the afternoon of the 27th of Septem- the tide was flooding. The life-boat ber, 1958, the coastguard at Rhyl reached the area indicated at 12.30 informed the coxswain that two men in a early on the 25th of September and rowing boat were in difficulties one mile began an extensive search, with the help north of the pier. At 4.50 the life- of parachute flares, but the yacht was boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was not found. At 1.10 lights were re- launched in a choppy sea, with a moder- ported to have been seen at the south ate south-south-easterly wind blowing end of Machrihanish Bay, and the life- and an ebb tide. She found that the boat made for this position. People two men had lost their anchor and had on the beach and the life-saving appara- broken a rowlock. They were taken tus team, who were standing by, could on board, and the life-boat towed the see the yacht very close to the Skerryvore rowing boat to the shore, arriving at reefs. The life-boat sighted the yacht six o'clock. Rewards to the crew, Einnan and stood by while the yacht £5 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, was navigated clear of the reefs by her £6 10s. crew into the open sea. She then YACHT TOWED TO WANFLEET escorted her until she was clear of the Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on Mull of Kintyre, by which time it was the evening of the 27th of September, found that the yacht's steering was 1958, the motor mechanic told the defective. The life-boat therefore towed coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier her to Campbeltown, arriving at 11.20. needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the During this service communications life-boat The Cuttle was launched in were very difficult because of atmos- a heavy ground swell. There was a spheric conditions and valuable help moderate south-easterly wind and a was given to the coxswain by the radio flood tide. The yacht, which had her operators on board the steamers Royal American owner aboard, had engine Scotsman and Lairds Loch. The salmon trouble and was towed to Wanfleet fisherman and his wife, who first reported haven. The life-boat reached her station the casualty, also gave valuable help at 8.30. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. re- ashore by passing information through- wards to the helpers on shore, £4 10s. 176 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 TWO YACHTS TOWED TO SAFETY the fishing boat Pamela of Grimsby Poole, Dorset. At 7.42 on the had left Tresco at 7.30 for St. Martin's evening of the 27th of September, 1958, but had not arrived. At 10.12 the life- the coastguard informed the coxswain boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched that the yacht Yarinya was aground on in a very rough sea. There was a a bank in South Deep in Poole harbour south-westerly gale with heavy rain and was making water. At eight squalls, and the tide was ebbing. The o'clock the life-boat Thomas Kirk coxswain had to take the life-boat Wright was launched in a rough sea. over the shallow flats between Tresco There was a strong south-easterly and St. Martin's and found the Pamela wind and a flood tide. While the life- at moorings in Tean Sound. As the boat was making for the Yarinya the sea was too rough for the fishing boat's auxiliary cutter Cossar was also seen to owner to land on the nearby beach, the be aground. Her crew were taken on life-boat took him and a punt, by board and the vessel was left at anchor. which he had been trying to land, to a The life-boat then made for the Yarinya more sheltered landing on St. Martin's and found her with six people on board. and then returned to her station, arriv- She towed her off the bank to a safe ing at 12.12 early on the 28th of Septem- anchorage at Goathorn pier. She then ber. The life-boat was rehoused later returned to the Cossar and towed her to that day. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; Parkstone Lake, where she was anchor- rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 8s. ed. The life-boat finally returned to her station at 10.45, when the Cossar's ESCORT FOR VESSEL WITH crew were landed. Rewards to the ENGINE TROUBLE crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s. Holyhead, Anglesey. At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 28th of September, DRIFTING YACHT TAKEN IN 1958, the coastguard informed the TOW honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fleurita of Chester had engine Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 trouble and was drifting off Rocky on the evening of the 27th of Septem- Coast. At 12.52 the life-boat St. Cybi ber, 1958, the coastguard at Foreland (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a informed the honorary secretary that choppy sea. There was a strong south- a vessel was in distress two miles south south-easterly wind and an ebb tide. of the look-out. At 9.14 the life-boat After searching the life-boat found the Jesse Lumb was launched in a rough sea. Fleurita, which had a crew of six, under There was a strong south-easterly wind way and escorted her to harbour. and a flood tide. The life-boat found the yacht Ratafia, with two people on Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to board, drifting towards Culver. As the helpers on shore, £3 12s. there was too much sea on the slipway at Bembridge, the yacht was taken in MOTOR BOAT TOWED TO tow to Cowes, which was reached at RAMSGATE two o'clock early on the 28th of Septem- Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.50 on the ber. The life-boat returned to her afternoon of the 27th of September, station later that day. A gift was made 1958, the watchman at the east pier by the owner of the yacht to the life- informed the honorary secretary that a boat crew. Rewards to the crew, motor boat had broken down a mile £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on and a half off Ramsgate. At 1.4 the shore, £3 5s. life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight sea, with a moderate south- FISHERMEN TAKEN FROM BOAT easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. IN GALE She found the motor boat Belinda with St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 9.55 on three men on board and took her in the evening of the 27th of September, tow to Ramsgate harbour, arriving at 1958, the coxswain told the honorary 1.36. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; secretary he had received a message that rewards to the helpers on shore, 10s. DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 177 YACHT FOUND DRIVING ON ROCKS First service : rewards to the crew, Exmouth, Devon. At 9.48 on the £14 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on morning of the 29th of September, 1958, shore, £3 2s. Second service : re- the coastguard told the honorary wards to the crew, £25 15s. ; rewards to secretary that a yacht was burning the helpers on shore, £3 3s. flares one mile south of Otterton Head. The life-boat Maria Noble was launched COBLE ESCORTED TO HARBOUR at 10.1 in a very rough sea. There was Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on a south-south-westerly wind of gale the afternoon of the 30th of September, force, with rain squalls, and the tide 1958, the coxswain told the honorary was ebbing. The life-boat found the secretary that two local fishing cobles yawl Dawn of Dartmouth, with a crew were at sea. As the weather was of three, being driven on to the rocks. deteriorating, the life-boat Friendly She took her in tow to Brixham, Forester was launched at three o'clock which was reached at 2.10, and then in a rough sea. There was a strong returned to her station, arriving at south-easterly wind and a flood tide. 6.35. Property salvage case. The life-boat found the fishing coble Soy's Own a mile and a half east- LIFE-BOAT PUTS OUT TWICE north-east of Flamborough and es- TO YACHT corted her to harbour. By then the Swanage, Dorset. At 11.59 on the second coble had also reached the night of the 29th of September, 1958, harbour, and the life-boat returned to the coastguard informed the honorary her station, arriving at 4.15. Rewards secretary that Niton radio station had to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers received a signal from the Dutch tanker on shore, £13 4s. Capricornus that she was standing by the yacht Farida of Poole. The yacht PATIENT WITH APPENDICITIS had run short of petrol on return TAKEN TO MAINLAND passage from Cherbourg to Hamble, Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening and her position was seven and a half of the 30th of September, 1958, the miles south-south-east of Durleston Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was local doctor asked the honorary secre- launched at 12.14 in a south-south- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey westerly gale. The sea was very rough, him to Inishere to attend a patient and the tide was ebbing. The life- believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 boat found the yacht, which had a the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson crew of two, and took her in tow to was launched in a heavy swell. There Swanage, arriving at 4.15. The yacht was a strong south-westerly wind and was anchored and the life-boat was re- it was high water. The life-boat housed at seven o'clock. brought the doctor to Inishere. He At 8.53 the honorary secretary was found the appendicitis was acute, and informed that the yacht was dragging the patient was embarked and taken to her anchor, for the tide was now flood- Rossaveal. The life-boat then returned ing, and the gale had backed to the to her station, arriving at 1.15. Re- south-east. The yacht's crew fired a wards to the crew, £14 5s. ; reward to distress signal, and the life-boat was the helper on shore, 18s. launched at 9.8. By this time the Farida was in a dangerous position two YACHT ESCORTED TO BLYTH hundred yards from the north shore of Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on Swanage Bay. Her fairleads were the evening of the 30th of September, damaged, and as it was not possible to 1958, the coastguard informed the moor her safely, she was towed to Poole honorary secretary that a yacht was harbour. Weather conditions had de- dragging her anchor one mile south teriorated considerably by this time. of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the The life-boat could not be rehoused life-boat City of Bradford II, on tempor- and she had to remain at Poole until ary duty at the station, was launched the morning of the 1st of October. in a heavy swell. There was a strong 178 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1958 south-easterly wind and an ebb tide. Exmouth, Devon.—September 12th.— The life-boat found the yacht Molli- Rewards, £18 12s. hawke IV of London, with a crew of Fowey, Cornwall.—September 12th. two, and escorted her to harbour, —Rewards, £8 10s. 6d. arriving at 10.54. The owner expressed Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—September his thanks. Rewards to the crew, 12th.—Rewards, £32 19s. £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on Wicklow.—September 12th.—Re- shore, £2 8s. ward, £10 10s. Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—Septem- The following life-boats went out on ber, 13th.—Rewards, £8 8s. service, but could find no ships in dis- Humber, Yorkshire.—September, tress, were not needed, or could do 14th. Paid permanent crew. nothing : Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—Septem- North Sunderland, Northumberland. ber 15th.—Rewards, £11 13s. —September 1st.—Rewards, £12 Is. Howth, Co. Dublin.—September 15th. Margate, Kent.—September 2nd.— —Rewards, £8 4s. Rewards, £32 9s. The Lizard, Cornwall.—September Girvan, Ayrshire.—September 2nd.— 16th.—Reward, £21 2s. Rewards, £5. The Lizard, Cornwall.—September Lowestoft, Suffolk.—September 2nd. 16th.—Reward, £25 13s. —Rewards, £9 4s. Penlee, Cornwall.—September 17th. Penlee, Cornwall.—September 3rd.— —Rewards, £17 4s. 6d. Rewards, £18 16s. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—Sep- Salcombe, Devon.—September 3rd.— tember 21st.—Rewards, £11 11s. Rewards, £12 8s. Sheringham, Norfolk. — September Dungeness, Kent.—September 4th.— 22nd.—Rewards, £31 9s. Rewards, £17 2s. Swanage, Dorset.—September 22nd. Plymouth, Devon.—September 4th.— —Rewards, £10 16s. Rewards, £8 8s. Clovelly, Devon.—September 25th.— Newhaven, Sussex.—September 5th. Rewards, £22 16s. —Rewards, £10 13s. Appledore, Devon.—September 25th. Kirkcudbright.—September 6th.—Re- —Rewards, £15 Is. wards, £19 12s. Appledore, Devon.—September 26th. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Septem- —Reward, £19 17s. ber 7th.—Rewards, £11 11s. Poole, Dorset.—September 8th.—Re- Walmer, Kent.—September 26th.— wards, £10 4s. Rewards, £28 16s. Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— New Brighton, Cheshire.—September September 9th.—Rewards, £6 12s. 27th.—Rewards, £8 6s. Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—Septem- Newhaven, Sussex.—September 27th. ber 9th.—Rewards, £9 8s. —Rewards, £10 13s. Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—September Margate, Kent.—September 28th.— 10th.—Rewards, £11 15s. Rewards, £15 8s. Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—Sept- Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—Septem- ember 10th.—Rewards, £10 13s. ber 28th.—Rewards, £9 12s. Arbroath, Angus.—September llth.— Newhaven, Sussex.—September 29th. Rewards, £11 12s. —Rewards, £13 6s.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Life-boats LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1958 - - 81,767 DECEMBER, 1958] THE LIFE-BOAT 179 Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-boat Crews To HAROLD J. BRADFORD, on his retirement, To PAUL O. WILLIMENT, on his retirement, after serving for 6j years as coxswain, ~l\ years after serving for 4,'5 years as coxswain, 4£ as second coxswain and 4| years as bowman years as second coxswain and 2}J years as a of the Exmouth life-boat, a coxswain's member of the crew of the Great Yarmouth certificate of service and an ex-gratia grant. and Gorlestpn life-boat, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service. To ROBERT CAMPBELL, on his retirement, after serving for 10^ years as coxswain, 8 years To JACK PHILLIPS, on bis retirement, after as second coxswain and 1 year as a member serving for d\ years as second coxswain and of the crew of the Boulmer life-boat, a 17 years as a member of the crew of the coxswain's certificate of service and an Exmouth life-boat, a certificate of service and annuity. an ex-gratia grant. To WILLIAM H. BENNISON, C.G.M., on hi

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