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

VOL. XXIV. -No. 274.] NOVEMBER, 1921. [PRICE 6d.

Notes and News. By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. UNEMPLOYMENT, strikes, the world- have to be spread over a longer period wide trade depression, and the political than was at first contemplated. uncertainty—in a word, the full re- ***** action after the years of war from which we have been suffering during this Naturally, this method of meeting the present year—have necessarily had a deficit by the realisation of investments grave effect on all public charities. cannot be continued indefinitely, par- The Institution has suffered with the ticularly as the annual revenue from rest. If it has perhaps suffered less investments is a most important part of than most, that is because we have a our ordinary income, and without it the most capable and devoted body of sums received from subscriptions and honorary helpers, working for us all donations would not be sufficient to meet through the country, and because the the expenses of the Service. I mention national value of the Service must, what- these facts lest anyone should think, ever be the circumstances of the time, on reading of the many developments make a direct appeal to every patriotic which we are now making, that we have man and woman. i1 not suffered from the prevailing depres- sion. On the contrary, the Institution is passing through a period of grave Nevertheless, the Institution is face to anxiety, and there is urgent need to face with a very heavy deficit on the obtain a great increase of public year's working. It amounts, at the date support. of writing, to over £90,000, and is due entirely to increased expenditure con- Manchester and Salford's Record nected with Motor Boats, new Boat Contribution. Houses, and Slipways. It will therefore In spite of the exceptional difficulties again be necessary to make up the deficit to which I have just referred, the Man- by a transfer from general capital. The chester, Salford and District Branch has Institution is fortunate in this that, again raised a record sum. Its con- during the war, when all construction tribution in 1920 was £5,230, the largest of new Life-boats ceased, it was able sum which the Institution has ever to put by considerable sums. Were it received from it; and had the Branch not for this fact, the only way to meet succeeded in maintaining this record our present difficulties would have been during the past year we should have to curtail the important programme of felt that it was giving the Institution Motor Life-boat construction on which really splendid support. But Man- the Institution embarked some time chester was not content to do this. ago. That would have meant some Determined to show in the most striking sacrifice of the efficiency of the Service ; way that, whatever else might be affected and to sacrifice its efficiency would be to by the scarcity of money, by strikes and risk the loss of lives which could have unemployment, the Life-boat Service been saved. The Committee of Manage- ought not to suffer, it has beaten last ment decided, therefore, that the build- year's record by £340. This increase ing of the new Motor Life-boats should would have been still greater but for go on. But, as was indicated in the the fact that the largest of the Works Annual Report, the programme may Collections had not been completed 190 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. when the Branch financial year ended 1920. In Ireland, in spite of the excep- on the 30th September. Oar cordial tional difficulties of these times, both congratulations and most grateful Dublin and Belfast Lough had splendid thanks to Manchester and Salford ! results; and Portrush fell only a little Such help is a great encouragement to below its record sum of 1920. the Institution at a time of grave * * * * * difficulty and anxiety. Oxford, as already reported, had Life-boat Days. a record result, and in the Eastern The general depression and unemploy- Counties, Cromer raised twice as much ment have necessarily had a marked as in 1920, Colchester showed an increase, effect on the results of the Life-boat successful Days were held at Margate, Day Efforts, as will be seen from the list Walton-on-the-Naze, Skegness, and published elsewhere ; but; taken as a Mablethorpe, and a Day was held for whole, they have been extraordinarily the first time at Ely. In the South of good, and are yet another proof of the England there were many successes, hold which the Life-boat Service has on record results being obtained at East- the affection and generosity of the bourne, Southampton, Portsmouth, Ex- public. It is indeed something to be mouth, Teignmouth, Banbury, Truro, proud of that in a year of unexampled Taunton, Ventnor, Shanklin, Frome, difficulty it is possible actually to report Clevedon, and Newbury; while for a number of record results. the first time Days were held at Weston-Super-Mare and Swindon, and ***** proved a great success. As one would expect, the effect of stagnant trade has been greatest in the Efforts in the industrial areas. It has To summarise: In about eighty been most marked in the Midlands and places, which, in 1920, brought in in South Wales. In the agricultural over £5,000, no Days have been held districts and in the seaside resorts the during 1921, and 60 per cent, of the decrease in results has not been so " Days " held show a decrease on the great. The chief effect of the depres- results of 1920. The remaining 40 per sion, however, has been not so much cent, show an increase on 1920, and a decrease where Days have actually about thirty Days were held at places been held, as an inability to carry out which did not have a Day in 1920. Efforts in a good many places. I should add that this summary of ***** results, like the list of Days published elsewhere in this issue, is for the Branch To start with Scotland : Edinburgh, year ending the 30th September, 1921, Aberdeen, Dumferline, Largs, Stranraer, and does not take into account a num- and a number of smaller places have ber of Days held during October, which all actually raised larger sums than belong to the financial year 1922. last year; while the result in Glasgow, though smaller than last year, was, in "House to House" Appeals and the circumstances, very good. In the Collecting Cards. North of England, Manchester and In spite of these notable and encour- Bradford both raised large sums; Preston aging successes, the fact remains that Bridlington, Morecambe, Whitby, and there has been this year a great falling- Hornsea all raised larger sums than in ofl in the income obtained by street 1920. Life-boat Day was revived at appeals. This fact has to be faced, and Wigan, and Middleton held a Day for the the best way of facing it is not simply first time. The Welsh holiday resorts— to say—true though this may be— Colwyn Bay, Llandudno, Aberystwyth, that as the country recovers from its and Barmouth—all had very successful present unexampled business depression Days; and, in spite of the acute depres- so will the proceeds of our Life-boat sion in South Wales, Newport, in the Days increase, but at once to use all neighbouring county of Monmouth- other possible means of appealing to shire, more than doubled its result of the public. We know by experience that, NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 191 in bad times as well as good, the public tribute as the Institution could ever will give to the Life-boats as generously hope to receive to the high and uni- as they can. The chief need is for versal appeal of its work. workers to carry our appeals everywhere. I would ask all those who are willing Sir William Hillary's Descendants. to help us in this way, and especially, It is very gratifying to be able to of course, members of the Ladies' report that, as a result of the article on Life-boat Guild, to read the article Sir William Hillary in the May number, published elsewhere in this number on the Institution has heard from his " House to House Collections." I am descendants. It will be remembered confident that if we could get some that his son died withovit issue, but his thousands of ladies who would be daughter, Elizabeth Mary, married a willing systematically to appeal for the Captain Preston and had children, and Institution, in this way, and also with her descendants, who have taken the individual collecting cards, we should name Preston-Hillary, have written and obtain such an increase in our income most kindly offered to place at the dis- as would remove all our present anxiety. posal of the Institution any information which they have about its founder. Life-boat Collecting under Fire. The present head of the family is Mr. The ladies who help the Institution S. R. Preston-Hillary, of Upminster, in by working for it on Life-boat Days Essex, who has become an Honorary have often to endure great fatigue and Vice-President for Life of the Institu- serious discomforts of weather, but I tion, while his two sons have become think they will all admit that no condi- Life Governors. tions have ever been more trying than those most bravely faced by the ladies Certificates for Life-boat Men. of Dublin who were collecting on the The Committee of Management de- 24th June, when there was fighting cided some little time ago that Certifi- actually going on in the Dublin streets. cates of Service should be awarded not The Assistant Secretary of the Branch only, as has long been the practice, to wrote to me on that day: " There Coxswains, but to all members of the were two serious ambushes in our crews, in recognition of long and meri- streets to-day—several persons wounded. torious service. The first of these awards Some of our Collectors (Ladies) were were made in July, and are reported else- actually at the scene in Dorset Street, where in The Life-Boat. The Certificate and had narrow escapes, while one of is a reproduction in colours of a painting our ladies rendered first aid to a woman of a Life-boat launch by the famous who fainted. The same lady helpers marine painter, Mr. W. L. Wyllie, R.A. are nevertheless continuing to sell It records the number of years wThich flags, and we are doing very well in the the recipient passed in the Service and special effort generally/' the position which he held in the Boat. ***** When the Committee decided to have This brave devotion to the Life-boat this new Certificate it consulted Mr. Cause was well rewarded by the result of Wyllie about the design, knowing that the Dublin appeal. I am sure it must it had in him a friend who had taken have given a very special pleasure to all a life-long interest in the Life-boat who took part in the Day—as it most Service, and that in the past he had certainly did to the Institution—when always been most ready to give it his they heard that the total sum realised help and advice. was £572, which exceeded last year's * * * * result by over £80. In the midst of In fact, on one famous occasion Mr. civil war, with fighting in its streets, Wyllie and a number of other distin- Dublin ladies collected and Dublin guished artists played the part of very people contributed still more than candid friends. They did it by sending before to the Life-boat Service. It is a " Round Robin " (now framed and an amazing comment on Irish character hanging at the House of the Institu- and Irish affairs. It is also as signal a tion) in which they wrote—" Meaning 192 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. no offence, and asking pardon for the last to return. On his way in he saw liberty "—that however much they another boat in distress, labouring in wished to immortalise the heroic deeds the sea, and went to her help. A strong of the Life-boat men, they were'' daunted southerly gale was now blowing, with by the excruciating blue paint'' used on squalls and a rough sea. Before the Institution's Boats. They prayed Griffiths could reach the boat, she was that we would adopt some other of the swamped and sank, leaving her one one hundred and fifty tints of blue. occupant struggling in the water. Among the famous names on the Griffiths had to lower his sail, but with " Round Robin," besides Mr. Wyllie's, oars managed to reach the drowning are Millais, Dicksee, Sant, Alma Tadema, man just in time, and got him on Pettie, and Orchardson. It was charac- board, completely exhausted. Not only teristic of Mr. Wyllie that he was not was the rescue most promptly carried content simply to sign the " Round out. but Griffiths and Davies ran a con- Robin," but sent the Institution a siderable risk themselves, and the Com- painting of a Life-boat at sea, to show mittee of Management have awarded how much more beautiful she would look the Thanks of the Institution inscribed when painted a delicate pale blue. If on Vellum to Griffiths, and a monetary the Institution did not adopt this award both to him and to Davies. colour, nor any other of the remain- The Motor Life-boat Programme. ing one hundred and forty-nine tints, Excellent progress has been made but obstinately adhered to its original with the building of Motor Lite-boats, French ultramarine, it was not out of and the Boats for six Stations have want of sympathy or respect for the already been completed and senb to the distinguished painters who had so coast this year, those for Gorleston, Peter- courteously criticised it, but because it head, WTick, Eastbourne, Wexford, and was compelled to put such practical Blyth. This makes a total of thirty-one questions as cost and durability before now on the coast, out of the fleet of even the feelings of the artist. two hundred and forty-three Life-boats. * * * * In addition to the completion of these That, however, is by the way. When Boats, work has gone on satisfactorily consulted about the Certificate, Mr. with the first twelve of the large pro- Wyllie's advice took the most practical gramme of Motor Life-boat construc- and generous form of a very fine painting tion. The Boats for Brixham, Selsey of a Life-boat being launched through and Sennen Cove should be finished breakers, which he presented to the before the end of this year, and the Institution. This painting showed not Boats for Buckie, Bembridge, Barry only his skill as an artist—which other Dock and Appledore early in the people can appreciate—but also his inti- new year. Meanwhile, the plans for mate knowledge—which we appreciate the New Brighton Life - boat — the as others cannot—of even the smallest new and larger type, with cabin details of Life-boat work. It was accu- accommodation, of which particulars rate in every particular except—need I were given in the Annual Report of say ?—the blue of the Life-boat. last year — are now finished, the Boat A Plucky Rescue. has been ordered, and I hope to be able to publish, in the next issue, an article A service which deserves a word of by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats special mention was performed by fully describing this Boat. Thoma? Griffiths, the Second Coxswain of the Cardigan Life-boat, on the 16th Motor Tractors for Launching. August. Several small sailing boats There are now four Tractors stationed were fishing outside Cardigan Bar when on the coast, at Hunstanton, Bridling- the weather became squally, and they ton, Rhyl, and Hoylake, while there is had to run for shelter. Griffiths was in a fifth at Newquay, Cornwall, not yet one of the boats, with a boy named available for service. In June a very David Davies. He was farther out successful night practice was carried in the Bay than the others, and was the out at Hoylake under exact Service NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 193 conditions. No notice was given to the shipping of the British Life-boats. On crew, and a night was chosen when a seventeen different occasions our Life- strong on-shore wind was blowing and boat men have received presentations there was a high sea. The alarm-rocket or special thanks from the Norwegian was fired at five minutes to eleven, and Government. at a quarter past eleven the Boat was Two More Gifts from Salvage. launched. The night was dark, the moon being covered with heavy clouds, but The Committee of Management have the work was made very much easier rith. much, pleasure a gift of by the acetylene headlight which the from the crew of the Blyth Life- Tractors carry. Not only was it found , which, they have made to the that the Boat was more easily and Institution out of money awarded to promptly launched than had ever been them in connexion with the salvage of possible with horses, but in the surf the ketch Arkley, of Liverpool, on the the Tractor was able to push the 13th June, 1920; and a gift of £5 from Boat-carriage farther out than horses the Sennen Cove crew out of the had been able to take it. Altogether it amount awarded them for services to was a launch which not only showed the s.s. Haliartus, also of Liverpool, on the value of the Tractor, but the smart- the 22nd January last. The Institution ness of the Hoylake crew. has now received three gifts of this kind from its own crews during the A Line-Throwing Gun. present year. I had hoped to publish in this issue A Life-boat Crew's Generosity. an article by the Chief Inspector of Another very fine instance of the Life-boats on the Line-throwing Gun generosity of the Life-boat men them- which the Institution has adopted, and selves towards the Institution comes which we hope to instal in all Motor from Scarborough. On the 20th Sep- Life-boats, and in other Life-boats tember last the Life-boat was launched, where it is considered necessary. This during the forenoon, to the help of two gun is now being tested at different fishing and pleasure cobles full of pas- Stations by the District Inspectors, and sengers, which were in danger of being as these tests have not yet been com- swamped. The Life-boat took off the pleted, the Chief Inspector's article must passengers, sixteen in all, landed them, be postponed until the February issue. and, again going out, stood by the cobles until they had come safely into Gift from a Norwegian Shipping Firm. harbour. Meanwhile the rescued pas- I have, before this, called attention sengers had made a collection among to the generous way in which many themselves and other visitors, and on foreign shipping companies support the Life-boat's return offered the money the Institution. They contributed to the Coxswain and crew ; but they nearly £1,000 to our funds in 1920— refused it, asking, instead, that it should about a quarter the total received be put in the Institution's Collecting from the shipping community of the Box at the Boat-house. When the United Kingdom—and we have just Life-boat men themselves, who are received another proof of their recog- prepared to risk their lives in the nition of the international value of Service, remember also its need of the Service. A Norwegian firm, who financial help, I am sure that those were already subscribers, Messrs. H. M. whose only way of helping is with Wrangell & Co., of Hangesund, have money will feel that they must not fall sent the Institution a cheque for over below this generous example. £15, this being the whole of a sum which they received from the Admiralty A Life-boat Man's Gift of his Pension. as their share of a salvage award for Under "Awards to Coxswains and the salving, by one of their ships, of ; Life-boat Men" it is reported that an Admiralty buoy. No country has | Joseph. Bell has been awarded a Certifi- been more ready than Norway to show j cate of Service and a Pension on his its appreciation of the services to its retirement after twenty-seven years' 194 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. service as Signalman at Mablethorpe. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. There are the There is something to be added to this. children on the shore in their hundreds, When told of the award, Bell said that ready to be their willing h3lpers. he did not wish to receive a pension. The Committee therefore commuted it Life-boats in Bolshevist Russia. to a lump sum, and this sum was sent In his speech at the Annual Meeting, to him. He has returned it as a donation the Prince of Wales gave a list of those to the Institution. foreign countries—seven in all—which in the course of the previous few weeks Practical Gratitude. had applied to the Institution for advice On the night of the 19th August, the i and help. To this list is now to be added Porthdinllaen Boarding-boat went out | the present Russian Government, which, to the rescue of three boys, who had through its Trade Commission in this been caught by the fog while fishing, : country, applied for a copy of The Life- and had not returned. The alarm was Boat, and on receipt of this asked that given by the friends of one of the boys, its Department of Salvage, Diving, and who offered to pay all expenses of the j Life-saving Work might be supplied launch. They were told that in no with full particulars of the recent im- circumstances could the Institution provements and innovations carried out accept payment for the saving of life, I by the Institution. These particulars and the father of the boy thereupon were at once sent to Russia. sent a generous donation to the Branch. Trinity House and the Coast-guard Sand Picture Appeals. Service. In the issue for last November I gave I am very glad to be able to publish an account of a charming sand-model together, in this number of The Life- of a Life-boat rescue and a Light- Boat, articles on Trinity House and the house which was made at Rhyl, during Coast-guard Service, which have been their summer holiday, by two boys specially written for it respectively by of Royton, in Lancashire, and by three Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, the Birmingham girls. Again, this summer, Deputy Master of Trinity House, and a girl and two boys, all three from by Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, Nottingham, built a fine lighthouse until recently Admiral commanding the and sea scene out of sand, with toy Coast-guard and Reserves. With these figures and ships. The model was lighted two very interesting historical articles at night with Chinese lanterns, and the before them, readers of The Life-Boat following stirring appeal was shown will be able to see clearly how the with it :— duties of watching and protecting the S. 0. S. 5,000 miles of coast of the United HELP THEM TO LAUNCH Kingdom are distributed, and how the THE LIFE-BOAT. Coast-guard and Trinity House work with the Life-Boat Institution to pre- Saturday . . .£160 vent disaster and to save life. Monday . Depends upon you. * * * * * It is interesting to note that for UP THE VISITORS ! many years the Corporation of Trinity And the visitors did "up" to the ex- House were large contributors to the cellent sum of £15 Is. 2d. in eight days. funds of the Institution. In the first I hope that many others will realise the year of its existence, 1824, they were possibilities of sand-models as a way of the most generous of its supporters appealing to people when they are on with a contribution of £500, and this their holidays, that is, at the time when sum was given regularly for over twenty they are feeling happy and generous, years. It was then increased to £1,250, and when, for the one time in the and this remained the Corporation's year, they see ships and the sea. I annual donation until 18C4. In that should like to see such appeals made year—and the reason for the change I at all the big seaside places, and I have, not been able to discover—it was recommend it to all members of the ,' reduced to £."iii, and four years later it NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 195 ceased altogether. Twenty years later Companies as well as from many ship- it was revived, and from 1885 to 1888 ping firms, but that these contributions the Corporation gave the Institution ceased altogether long since, or else 100 guineas a year. This new con- contributions of hundreds of pounds tribution then ceased, but from 1895 became contributions of a few guineas. onwards the Corporation have con- When I reflect on the urgent needs of tributed 10 guineas a year to the City the Service, and the meagre support Branch. In this connexion it may be j which it at present receives from some interesting to recall that, in the early ! quarters which have most cause to re- days of the Institution, very large con- cognise its value to the nation, I feel tributions were received yearly not the truth of the poet's words :—Nessun only from Trinity Plouse,. but from maggior dolore cine, ricordarsi del tempo Lloyd's and many big Marine Insurance i felice nella miseria.

The Prince of Wales in a Motor Life-boat. IN his speech at the Annual General of the 2nd December last, one of the most Meeting the Prince of Wales said that gallant and hazardous feats ever per- he hoped one day to have an oppor- formed in the annals of Life-boat work, tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This to which full tribute is paid in a letter opportunity came when, a month later, from the German Embassy displayed he made his tour through his Duchy of in the Boat House.* Cornwall, and visited the Isles of Scilly. " The men, a statuesque array of One of the incidents of that two days' ! bronzed and burly seafarers, stood drawn visit was a trip in the new Motor Life- j up in their life-belts and red stocking boat at St. Mary's, which took place j caps, under CoxswainLethbridge. With immediately after the Prince had un- each of them the Prince shook hands veiled the War Memorial of the Isles. We and exchanged a few words. quote the description which appeared " Then ' Man the boat, boys,' was the in the Western Morning News and cry. There was a rush for the craft, the Mercury from the pen of Sir Herbert Prince, yielding to the infectious excite- Russell:— ment, scrambling inwards with the rest. " The Atlantic curled in subdued The haul-up stopper was released, and murmuring notes upon the sand below, with her motor beginning to whirr, the and the wind whispered in low, rustling Life-boat sped down the slip and took through the little glen as we filed out in the water with a fine burst of spray. For solemn silence. But the melancholy of half-an-hour the Elsie cruised about the this moving requiem refused to be Sound. The Prince yarned with Cox- nursed under the spell of this joyous swain Lethbridge, and learned of the May morning, and by the time we had poor man's sorrow when, his five sons reached the Life-boat House, perched having served unscathed throughout the under the pinnacle of Cam Thomas war, two of them were drowned whilst Rock, we were back in the crowded hour fishing twelve months ago. He asked of life. The Elsie, brilliant in her coat of the crew to tell him some of their life- blue and white enamel, had been brought j saving experiences, and promptly had forth from her shed, and rested slantwise them all talking at once. With half a on the launching-slip, with triangles of score of unfinished thrills still ringing flags flickering from her masts. This in his ears his Royal Highness stepped magnificent Life-boat, presented by the ashore at St. Mary's Pier." Right Hon. Arnold Morley in memory It should be added to this account of his wife, has a fine record since she that the Prince, like the good sailor he first started on her splendid career on is, " paid his footing " on the Life- the 3rd March, 1920. One of her latest boat. exploits was the rescue of twenty-four German seamen from the Hamburg * This service was described in the steamer Hathor, in the howling blackness February issue ot-_The Life-Boat. 196 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921.

The Corporation of Trinity House. By Captain Sir HERBERT ACTON BLAKE, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Deputy Master of Trinity House. IN the Journal of THE ROYAL NATIONAL Street. Finally, in 1792, an estate was LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION it is fitting purchased on Tower Hill, where the that there should appear a brief account present Trinity House was built in 1798 of the history and functions of the Cor- from designs by Thomas Wyatt. poration of Trinity House, the General The birth of the Corporation, as such, Lighthouse and Pilotage Authority for coincided with other manifestations of the United Kingdom, who are allied to the zeal and interest of the Tudor the Institution by the common bond of Monarchs for the naval and maritime service to the mariner navigating the affairs of England. About six years waters surrounding our coasts. after the grant of the Trinity House In proof that this bond is a real one Charter there was begun the formation it may be mentioned that, in addition of Admiralty and Navy Boards, the to the means established at various inception of which is primarily ascribed Lighthouses for communicating with to Henry VII. ; and when, following Life-boat Stations, a complete system this, dockyards and arsenals were of signalling exists between Trinity established, the Deptford Building Yard House Light Vessels and the shore was placed under the direction of the whereby the Life-boat can be summoned Corporation of Trinity House, together at short notice to a vessel in distress with the superintendence of all stores on the shoals lying farthest from the and provisions for the Navy. As evi- coast. dence of the close connection of the The history of the Corporation of Services it may be mentioned that the Trinity House, as such, properly be- first Master of the Corporation under gins with the original Charter of King the Charter was Sir Thomas Spert, Henry VIII. granted in 1514, but be- Commander of the Henry Grace-a-Dieu yond all doubt it can claim much (the first English man-of-war) and also greater antiquity, for that Charter not for a time Controller of the Navy. only mentions the Almshouses at Dept- The Corporation thus became, as it ford (which were erected probably a were, the civil branch of the English century before) as the headquarters of maritime service with a naval element the Society of Mariners which the which, to some extent, exists even at Charter incorporated, but it also con- the present day. There is abundant tains much evidence of a practically proof from contemporary records that corporate influence already long exist- the Corporation exercised very con- ing, and so well established as to have siderable powers both in manning and inspired sufficient confidence, and to out-fitting the Navy and in protecting have acquired sufficient authority, to the interests of the Mercantile Marine. enable the Society to make regula- After the Restoration the Corpora- tions for the navigation of ships and tion's Charters were renewed and con- the good government of seamen. Fol- firmed by the Sovereign, to whom, lowing on the grant of the Charter an shortly before his death, they were sur- Act of Parliament was passed in the | rendered in proof of loyalty. His suc- reign of Elizabeth giving authority to cessor, King James II., in 1685, formally the Corporation of Trinity House to re-granted the Charter, which remains " Erect and maintain Beacons, Marks in force up to the present time. It and Signs for the Sea, for the better is worthy of note that the Charter of navigation of the Coasts of England." King James II. named, as Master of The affairs of the Corporation were the Corporation, the immortal Samuel first conducted at their House or Hall Pepys, at that time Secretary of the at Deptford, and then, at succeeding Admiralty—a further proof of the close periods, at Ratcliffe, at Stepney, and connection between the Royal Navy at a^house in.Water Lane, Great Tower and the Trinity House Corporation. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 197 Although the principal duties en- Authority, as a Pilotage Authority, and trusted to the Corporation were essen- ; as a private Corporation. tially of a peaceful character, the As the General Lighthouse Authority Charter stipulated that its members for England and WTaIes, the Channel should be liable to serve the Crown at Islands and Gibraltar (under the Mer- sea if required, and in recognition of chant Shipping Act 1894 ) the Corpora- this liability the Brethren and their tion are responsible for the establish- subordinates were exempted from land ment and maintenance of lighthouses, service of every kind. On two notable light - vessels, buoys, beacons and occasions at least, the Corporation were seamarks for the guidance of general called upon to give their services under navigation; and also exercise, by this liability. During the mutiny at the statute, a supervisory control over Nore, in 1797, the Elder Brethren re- the lights and seamarks established moved or destroyed every beacon and and maintained by Local Lighthouse buoy which could guide the mutinous Authorities in or near the ports, har- fleet to sea ; and in 1803. when a French bours, and estuaries, etc., round the invasion appeared to be imminent, the coast of England, whilst, subject to the Elder Brethren undertook the defence of over-riding authority of the Board of the entrance to the Thames by manning Trade, the approval of the Corporation and themselves officering a cordon of is necessary prior to the establishment fully-armed ships moored across the of new Seamarks or the alteration of river below G-ravesend. Further, it existing ones on the coasts of Scotland has been from time immemorial, and and Ireland. still is, the prescriptive and highly- j For the purpose of lighthouse ad- prized duty and privilege of the Elder j ministration the coast of England is Brethren to attend the Sovereign on divided into seven Trinity House Dis- journeys by sea. tricts, each of which is in charge of a .In connection with the Corporation's District Superintendent who has under liability for service under their Charter him the requisite staff of officers and it may perhaps be of interest here to men, together with (except in one case) mention that during the Great Euro- a specially built and equipped steamer pean War the Corporation of Trinity to carry out the work of maintaining House rendered continuous service in the lights and seamarks in his district. connection with the maritime defence As evidence of the extent of the of the kingdom, which has been fully Trinity House Service it may be men- acknowledged by the Admiralty, and • tioned that for the guidance of shipping, that a very large number of the officers and in order to guard rocks, shoals, and men of all branches of the Trinity and other dangers to navigation round House Service gave personal service in [ the coasts of England, the Corporation His Majesty's Forces both on land and maintain 95 lighthouses, 51 light- by sea. vessels, 66 beacons, and some 620 buoys, The governing body of the Corpora- of which 125 are lighted. tion are the ten Acting Elder Brethren, Another branch of the work of the all of whom are practical seamen, one Corporation, which perhaps specially of them being always the Masters affects THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- Deputy, whilst there are also a number BOAT INSTITUTION, is that relating of Honorary Elder Brethren, including to wrecks. Under the provisions of His Majesty the King, His Royal High- the Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, since ness the Prince of Wales, and other embodied in the Merchant Shipping members of the Royal Family. The Act, 1894, the Corporation of Trinity Master of the Corporation at the pre- House is empowered to deal with, re- sent time is His Royal Highness the move, or destroy, any vessel or wreck- Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, age which sinks or strands on or near E.G. the coast of England and Wales in a In the present day the Corporation position where it constitutes a danger of Trinity House exists in a three-fold to navigation or to Life-boats on Life- capacity—as a General Lighthouse boat service. This duty it performs, 198 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. except where there is a Harbour or Isle of Wight District (which includes Conservancy Authority having juris- Spithead and the Solent, Southamp- diction over the locality in which the ton and Portsmouth), Plymouth, Pal- wreck lies. In this case the onus of ; mouth, Penzance, Beaumaris and Menai dealing with the wreck devolves on the Straits, Barrow, Fleetwood and Solway Local Authority. Firth, etc. The wrecks so dealt with each year As a private Corporation the Trinity are very numerous at all times, and, House administers certain charitable owing to the great number of wrecks | funds specially dedicated to the relief resulting from enemy action in the late ; of aged and distressed master mariners war, the work of Trinity House in this and their widows, and the Corporation connexion has enormously increased. also possess certain private funds which It is estimated that it will take four or j are devoted to other Corporate pur- five years to deal with all the wrecks : poses. caused during the war. Space does not permit of more than As the principal Pilotage Authority the foregoing brief outline of the his- of the United Kingdom, the Corporation tory, constitution and functions of the examine and licence pilots and control Corporation of Trinity House, but it is the Pilotage Service for the River Thames hoped that enough has been said to and its Estuary and approaches from give a general idea of the Corporation's Orfordness to Dungeness, and also for activities in the service of the seafaring certain outport districts, such as the community.

Ten Crews Rescued in Seven Hours. ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat help, the Susanne Yvonne, the St. performed a series of arduous services, Mauday, and the Eclair, and from these going out five times to the rescue of three twelve men were rescued. The no fewer than ten vessels, and saving final call came just after 12 A.M., and forty men, in the course of seven hours. the Life-boat put out for the fifth time, On the 28th July a strong gale was bringing in the crews, sixteen men in blowing from the S.S.W., which, early all, of four more of the crabbers, the on the following morning, suddenly Anne Marie, the En Avant, the Tur- veered to N.N.W., throwing a very quoise, and the Providence. Altogether heavy sea into St. Ives Bay, where a she saved, during the morning, seven fleet of over thirty Breton crabbers had Englishmen and thirty-three French- taken shelter, as well as a number of men. other vessels. The first signal of distress In view of the prolonged and arduous was shown about 6 A.M., when a Bide- nature of the service, and the skill with ford ketch, the F. H. Bolt, was seen to which the Coxswain, Robert Wedge, be dragging her anchors and driving handled the Life-boat, the Committee towards Porthminster Point. The Life- of Management have awarded him the boat was immediately launched, and Thanks of the Institution inscribed on took off the crew of three men. Shortly Vellum, and have given extra monetary afterwards another ketch, the Anne, of rewards to the crew. A Letter of Thanks Gloucester, signalled for help, and her has also been sent to the Honorary crew of four men were brought safely Secretary of the Station, Mr. C. J. A. ashore. The next signal came at 10 A.M. French, who remained on duty the from one of the Breton fishing-boats, whole time and kept the Life-boat afloat the St. Eloi, of Camaret, and her five until the gale began to moderate and men were taken off. Immediately after- the remaining craft in the Bay were wards, three other crabbers asked for out of danger. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 199

The Coast-guard Service: Its Origin and Life-saving Work. By Admiral Sir DUDLEY R. S. de CHAIR, K.C.B., M.V.O., lately Admiral Commanding Coaat-guard and Reserves. A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- Captain of the Royal Navy was, for the vention of smuggling, from which the first time, appointed to be Superin- present Coast-guard Service has evolved, tendent of the Revenue Service, all was already in existence in this country preventive boats and stationary vessels in the early part of the eighteenth being placed under his orders. Then century. In those days a consider- in 1882 the Revenue Cruisers and the able force was employed afloat; a whole of the Preventive Waterguard large fleet of small vessels, heavily were again placed under the authority armed, being kept in commission for of the Board of Customs, and the term the purpose of capturing or destroying " Coast-guard" was substituted for

COAST-GUARD FIXING THE LIFE-SAVING ROCKET PREPARATORY TO FIRING. smuggling craft. In addition, Com- that of " Preventive Service." A con- manders of Men-of-War were instructed siderable number of Naval Officers were by the Admiralty to assist the Customs at this time employed in the Coast- officers in carrying out these duties. guard, and in 1831 a regulation, by Later in the century the Admiralty which seamen in the Navy were ad- took a more active part in the work by mitted into the Service, came into force. appointing a number of small vessels Later, orders were issued that the to cruise on the coasts of the United arrangements for filling all vacancies by Kingdom for the prevention of smug- the appointment of seamen from the gling- Navy were to be strictly adhered to. In 1816 all the Revenue Cruisers In 1845 the Admiralty first required were transferred to the Admiralty— nominees for the Coast-guard from although their crews continued to be amongst the seamen in the Navy to paid by the Board of Customs—and a enter into a written agreement to serve 200 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. in the Fleet should their services be their places on shore being filled as required in an emergency. In 1848 a necessary by civilians. Those whose number of Coast-guard men were em- services could not be spared were em- barked for service in vessels on the ployed for the most part at the War coast of Ireland ; and in the spring of Signal Stations on the coasts and 1854, 3,000 were drafted to the Fleet the Wireless Stations in the United during the Russian War. j Kingdom, where their numbers were In 1857 the Coast-guard was once 1 augmented by newly-enrolled men of again transferred from the Board of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Customs to the Admiralty, under whose At the conclusion of hostilities the control it still remains, and in 1869 Force was so far depleted by casualties arrangements were made by the Ad- sustained in action, deaths, and in- miralty for dispensing with the services validing due to exposure and war strain, of all civilians employed in the Service. and the discharge of men who had

COAST-GUARD AND VOLUNTEERS SETTING UP THE HAWSER AFTER CREW OF SHIP HAVE SECURED THEIR END OF IT.

Since the carrying out of this order, reached the age limit, that it was some the Coast-guard has been manned 1,200 below strength. Owing partly to exclusively by officers and men from this, and in order to obviate in future the Royal Navy. the loss of efficiency which was the result From the time the Coast-guard was of so many men being drafted to the brought under the entire control of the Fleet, it was decided to re-organise the Admiralty down to the outbreak of the Force on a pensioner basis, so that the Great War, officers and men were em- personnel would not be required to barked in the Fleet periodically for train- serve afloat in the event of war, but ing. They were kept always in readiness would remain available as in peace. It for instant mobilisation, and formed the was also decided to admit pensioners First Reserve for the Fleet. On the from the Royal Marines, for the tirst outbreak of the war a considerable time, into the Force. number were drafted to sea. for service, This re-organisation is now complete. NOVEMBER, 1921.1 THE LIFE-BOAT. 201 All new entries are either Naval or About the year 1864 the Board of Marine Pensioners who have completed Trade took over the administration of the full period of their engagements in the Life-saving Apparatus, and the the Royal Navy or Royal Marines. provision of the present efficient, well There is still some of the Old Force equipped Life-saving Stations around remaining, consisting mostly of men our coasts was proceeded with. The who have not yet completed the time substitution of Rockets for the Mortars for their pensions and, for that reason, which had hitherto been used in firing are not eligible to join the new force. a line over wrecked vessels was also They are, however, a rapidly dwindling carried out about this time. body, and in a few years the Coast- The Life-saving Apparatus (L.S.A.) guard man dressed as a bluejacket will in its present form is exceedingly mo- have disappeared from our coasts. bile. It is kept ready for immediate The connexion of the Coast-guard use in either cart or wagon, whichever

ROCKET LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS IN ACTION.

with Life-saving dates back many years. is more suitable for the nature of the Soon after 1824, the year in which dwell- coast at the place where it is stationed, ing houses for the crews of Stations and in this cart or wagon the rockets, were first built, orders were issued that lines, whips, ladders, hawser, lights, on a wreck taking place every individual lifebuoy, breeches buoy, etc., are stowed. on the spot'or within reasonable distance The apparatus is taken in the cart or was to use his utmost endeavours to wagon to the scene of the wreck, and save the lives of the persons on board ; if it is necessary for it to be brought and a list comprising a full set of into action at a spot which the vehicle "apparatus for saving life" was promul- cannot reach, the several parts com- gated at the same time. This apparatus prising the apparatus can be readily was the property of the Crown, and was carried where required by the men administered by the Board of Customs. forming its crew. Arrangements are It has nothing in common with the made in cases vrhere a wreck occurs at apparatus in use at the present time. a considerable distance from a station, 202 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. to transfer the gear to a motor vehicle at a number of places, and also assist to for rapid transport. launch the Life-boats at many others. The Life-saving Apparatus can only Keeping a strict look-out for shipping be used when a wreck occurs close to casualties and passing early information the shore, its range being limited. It to the Life-boat authorities respecting is specially useful where, owing to the them is an important duty of the Coast- rocky nature of the coast, it is im- guard. Close co-operation between the possible or extremely hazardous for the two Services has been maintained for Life-boat to approach a wreck. Volun- many years in their efforts to save life teer companies assist the Coast-guard from shipwreck. A few years before in working the Life-saving Apparatus, the war the Board of Trade decided to and the service has reached a high state construct watch huts on various exposed of efficiency. By its means, upwards of headlands and at points where casual- 11,000 lives have been saved from ship- ties were considered likely to occur. wreck since 1870. These watch huts were erected on sites The crew of the Life-saving Apparatus selected by Inspectors of Life-saving is made up of Coast-guard ratings under the Board of Trade, assisted by and " enrolled " or volunteer members, Coast-guard Officers. The huts are in and they are exercised once a quarter almost all cases connected by telephone at a dummy wreck, when everything is to the nearest Coast-guard Station, and carried out as far as possible to repre- thus early warning can be given to the sent a vessel driven ashore. The crew Life-boats and to the Rocket Apparatus usually consists of from fifteen to crews. When a Life-boat is launched, twenty-five men including the Coast- the fact is communicated by the Coast- guard, and its strength depends prin- guard telephone system to the Life-boats cipally on the locality and the number on either side, in order that they may of available men. In addition to their hold themselves in readiness, and news care of some 300 Life-saving Stations, the of her return is sent to them in the Coast guard assist to man the Life-boats same way. Passenger Steamers and the Life-boat Service. THE Institution receives each year from remains that the red ensign does not pull a number of the big shipping com- its weight beside the Navy, which calls upon the Service comparatively rarely. It panies part of the proceeds of collec- occurs to one that there is one scheme tions which have been made on board which has not yet been tried, and which their ships on behalf of different chari- would do infinite good to the funds of the ties. The increasing numbers, as well as Institution, and that is to have a rake-off of 10 per cent, on the daily sweepstake which the wealth, in a very great many cases, takes place in the smoking-room of every of those who travel by the great trans- liner on the day's run. The average liner Atlantic and other liners, and the fact passenger is the most generous of mortals, that they, more than most people, and contributes handsomely towards the orphanages, but the Life-Boat Society, in should realise the importance of sup- which he is very -willing to be keenly inter- porting the Life-boat Service, make ested, gets very little from him. In a first- one hope that we shall receive in- class ship on the Atlantic ferry £50 would creasingly large sums from this source. be quite a moderate sum to hand over to the Institution at the end of each voyage, and In this connexion the following very every penny of it given with.the best of practical proposal which appeared some good feeling. In a year some of the big time ago in the Liverpool Journal of \ companies would collect enough to endow Commerce will be read with interest:— a Motor Life-boat, and one must admit that Cunard Passengers or White Star LIFE-BOAT CONTRIBUTIONS. j Passengers would not look ill as the name of " One constantly hears the complaint i the Life-boats presented to the country and that the Life-Boat Institution is very in- j the seafaring community by this means." adequately supported by the British mer- j eantile marine, arid investigation into the There is little doubt that the passen- matter forces one reluctantly to admit that gers themselves would welcome such it is well founded. Many companies are splendid, many others are forgetful, while a proposal if the shipping companies for some there is no excuse. The fact would allow this appeal to reach them. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 203

The Ladies' Life-boat Guild. " / have given all those fifty badges " Those to whom I have been able out, and now am wanting many more to send their Certificates and Badges as I have more new members to give are delighted about the Ladies' Life- them to, and also many of the old boat Guild, and 'proud' to be mem- workers are very anxious to join. .. . bers. ... It is like a tonic to the I am quite sure that the Guild is a work here."—FROM A FINANCIAL great attraction, and the workers feel BRANCH. that Headquarters are really ' taking notice of them.' "—FROM A STATION* BRANCH. THESE two quotations from letters re- The Inaugural Meeting of the Guild ceived from two of the largest and most was held in London on the 21st June, successful Branches of the Institution, at Claridge's Hotel, at the invitation as well as the reports from other of the President, the Duchess of Port- Branches, describing not only the land, who took the chair, and who de- launching of the Guild, but the actual livered an address on the aims of the work which its members have already Guild. The other speakers were Sir done, go far to confirm the hope Godfrey Baring, Bt., the Deputy-Chair- with which the idea of a Ladies' Life- man of the Institution, Lady Baring, boat Guild was started, that it would Lady Cynthia Colville, and Mr. George be a real encouragement and incentive F. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of the to Life-boat workers. Institution. This inaugural meeting was On one point, however, there has immediately followed by two others in evidently been a slight misunderstand- and near London, one at Hampstead ing with regard to the purpose and Garden Suburb and the other at St. working of the Guild, and it will be as Albans, both of which are reported in well to remove this at once. In a number " News from the Branches." In the case of places, where meetings were held in of the first, the launching of the Guild response to the Duchess of Portland's coincided with the formation of a new request, the opinion was expressed that Branch, and in the second with the it was a mistake to add to the already revival of a Branch where, for some large number of charitable organi- years, little had been done. zations, and that it would be better to ; In the South of England the Guild continue working for the Institution 1 has been warmly welcomed at East- without joining a separate Guild. So , bourne, where, as is reported elsewhere, fully does the Institution share this I a record sum was raised by the Life- feeling that when the Guild was first boat Day. Other places in the South of discussed all idea of a separate organi- | England where it has been most suc- zation was at once set aside, and the j cessfully launched are Andover, Sid- Duchess of Portland, in her letter to mouth, Torquay, andWeymouth; and it the Branches, wrote that it was not is especially interesting to note that at proposed to have " any central organiza- Andover it led to a revival of Life-boat tion." It should be made clear that, for Day, which had not been held in 1920, the same reason, there is no idea of and at Sidmouth to a special fete (re- forming separate organizations locally, ported in " News from the Branches ") that is to say, of having Branches of in addition to the ordinary Effort, with the Guild as distinct from the existing the result that the Branch has more Branches of the Institution. The inten- than doubled its remittance. tion is simply to bring all women workers At Oxford, as at Eastbourne, the into closer touch with each other and Guild has been most warmly received, with the Honorary Secretaries and Com- and a great many members have been mittees of the Branches in virtue of the enrolled. fact that they will be recognised as In the North of England the Guild members of a Guild. was inaugurated at Manchester and 204 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. Salford, at a meeting, on the 4th July, meeting, and on the llth October at which the Lady Mayoress presided. special meetings were held to inaugu- Lady Sheffield, the President of rate the Guild at Bradford and Hkley. the Ladies' Auxiliary, delivered an In Scotland it has been launched with address " appealing very earnestly to special success at Wick in Caithness, all present to use their best efforts to where its members took a prominent secure new members of the Guild," and ' part in making the arrangements for the following resolution was moved by the launching ceremony of the New the Lady Mayoress of Manchester, j Wick Motor Life-boat, of which an seconded by the Mayoress of Sallord, i account appears on another page of and unanimously carried : " That in ' The Life-Boat. harmony with the desires of H.R.H. Reports have been received that the The Prince of Wales (President) and of Guild will be inaugurated during the THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- j autumn in a number of places where it TUTION, this meeting hereby resolves was not found possible to take any steps that the Manchester, Salford and District immediately, and we feel sure that the Branch Ladies' Auxiliary be in future facts given in this article will encourage known as the Manchester, Salford and the Branches in those and other places District Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and to adopt the Guild, and enroll their that those present, in heartily com- helpers as members of it without delay. mending such Guild, further resolve to Enough has been done already to do all possible to secure new members entitle us to hope that by next year of the Guild, in the confident and not only will the Guild be established fervent hope that the women of this in the great majority of the places great district will continue to show where there are Branches of the Insti- their high appreciation of the truly tution, but that it will have enlisted national and humane work of THE ROYAL the help of many new workers, and led NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION." to the starting of Branches where at On the 17th August a special meeting present none exist. All this will prove was held at Blackpool, presided over most helpful in 1924, when the Insti- by the Mayoress, and a similar resolution tution celebrates the Centenary of its was passed to that at the Manchester foundation.

Danish Honour for the Life-boat Men of Johnshaven. IT is with much pleasure that we record tion : " Awarded by the Royal Danish that the King of Denmark has gener- Government, in recognition of bravery ously recognised the courageous, but and self-sacrifice on the occasion of the tragic, service of the Johnshaven Life- rescue of the crew of the schooner Fre- boat James Marsh, last December, to densborg, of Korsor, wrecked in St. Cyrus the Danish schooner Fredensborg. The Bay, on the 21st December, 1920." service was fully described in the The King has also made a monetary February issue of The Life-Boat. It award to Mrs. Jane McBay, the widow will be remembered that in a whole gale, of James McBay, the member of the with a very heavy sea, the Life-boat crew who lost his life. The presenta- succeeded in taking off the schooner's tion took place on the llth October, crew of nine, but that, in attempting to the cups being handed to the crew by make the very difficult entrance to the Captain R. C. Hoyer Millar, the Danish harbour, she heeled over so far that Vice-Consul at Montrose. all on board were thrown into the water, This is the third occasion since 1873 on and, although she righted herself at once, which the King of Denmark has made a two of the crew of the schooner and one presentation to British Life-boat men in of the Life-boat men were drowned. recognition of services to Danish vessels. The King of Denmark has presented Altogether, since 1873, sixty-five awards to Coxswain John McBay and to each or special records of thanks have been of the eleven members of the crew, a received from foreign Governments, Silver Cup with the following inscrip- Monarchs, or Life Saving Societies. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 205

William Wouldhave's Centenary. By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. THE 28th September of this year was Wouldhave died as he had lived, a poor the centenary of the death of William man. There was no self-interest in his Wouldhave, of South Shields, whose efforts to invent a Life-boat. He was name will always be honourably remem- moved only by his desire to prevent bered, with those of Lionel Lukin, of some of the terrible and familiar scenes London, and John Greathead, also of of shipwreck at the mouth of the Tyne, South Shields, as one of the three men just as, over thirty years later, Sir to whom we owe the modern Life-boat. William Hillary, moved by similar scenes There was controversy at the time, and in Douglas Bay, made his famous appeal it was revived again over fifty years to his countrymen for a National Life- later, with regard to the respective boat Service. The story is told of claims of the three. But it is enough Wouldhave that, when he submitted his now that we remember them all with model, in response to a public offer of a gratitude—Lukin as the man who first, reward for the best Life-boat design, in this country, tackled the problem of he was offered only half the promised making boats, to use his own word, sum, as the Committee were not entirely " unimmergible," and as the father of satisfied with his, or any of the plans the buoyant non-self-righting Sailing submitted. He refused to take only Life-boat, the type still most popular half, and handed the money back ; but, on the East Coast ; Wouldhave as the in spite of his own feeling of anger, discoverer of the self-righting principle, and in spite of the remonstrances of and Greathead as the actual builder of his friends, he left his model with the the first Life-boat, the Original, which Committee, knowing, as he said, that was launched at Tynemouth in 1789. they would have the sense to adopt It is not the least interesting circum- its good points, and certain that, stance in the birth of the Life-boat that, though he went unrewarded, he would of these three men, only one was in any " be instrumental in saving the lives of way connected with the sea. Greathead some of his fellow-creatures." It was was a boat-builder, but Wouldhave was not until sixty-two years later that the a house-painter, and became the parish self-righting principle, which was his clerk of the parish church of St. Hilda, in great discovery, was actually used in a South Shields; while Lukin was a coach- Life-boat; but to-day, of the Institu- builder, becoming Master of the Worship- j tions fleet of 243 Life-boats, nearly 150 ful Company of Coach-makers in 1793. [ are self-righters. He has indeed been South Shields is rightly proud of the j " instrumental " in saving the lives, not part taken by her citizens in the work of " some," but of many thousands, of of the Life-boat Service, and has cele- his fellow-men and women. brated the centenary of Woodhave's His character is clearly written on il death by erecting a new headstone on the bust which is in the Public Museum his grave in St. Hilda's churchyard, at South Shields. It is a fine, indeed the old having begun to crumble away. a beautiful face, full of sensitiveness, A sum of money has also been left by intellect, character, and, one would say, a citizen of South Shields, the late suffering also. The new stone on his Mr. John Hinde, to be used for keeping grave bears the same words that were the grave always covered with flowers. inscribed on the old. They are not The ceremony took place on the 2nd unworthy of him :— October, the first Sunday after the anni- "Heaven genius scientifiek gave versary day. The Mayors of South Surpassing vulgar boast, yet he, from soil Shields and Tynemouth went in pro- So rich, no golden harvest reap'd, no wreath cession from the Town Hall to St. Of laurel gleaned, none but the sailor's heart, Hilda's Church, where a special Nor that ingrate, a palm unfading this, memorial service was held, and the Till shipwrecks cease, or Life-boats cease to new headstone was then unveiled. save." 206 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921.

" House to House" Collections: A Suggestion for the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. By a Life-boat Worker of Twenty-five Years' Experience. Now that the Ladies' Life-boat Guild tation. This is a happy way of interest- has been formed and many new members ing the " Lady of the House " in the are being enrolled who are not yet Institution's work, and of securing her acquainted with the methods which the as an Annual Subscriber. For this Institution employs for raising its funds, system the Lady Collector is provided it seems an opportune moment to call with leaflets dealing with Life-boat attention to one of the best and most work and an official receipt book, and, inexpensive methods of making appeals generally, a well-defined district is taken. —the " House to House " Collection. One lady who had " done " a district There is no surer means of reaching for many years, called during the recent the generosity of the public, and old j coal strike at a house in a working-class Life-boat workers, as well as new, may street, and was told, " I'm sorry I can't like to be reminded of it, and of the help you this year, as my husband is out different ways in which it can be of employment; but, you know, I'm carried out. i doing what I can for the Institution by There are three such ways. The first, buying its soap " ! It was quite some and perhaps most comprehensive, is time before the Collector could get the what is known as the "Envelope" lady to believe that the Institution was system. The town, or district, is divided not the owner of that soap which is into streets or roads of, roughly, a ; advertised so conspicuously with a Life- hundred houses, and the Collector is boat man in a life-buoy. given a card showing the precise locality, The third method is by the use of with instructions to deliver the Appeal, ,' the new Collecting Card, issued to attached to which is a small donation members of the Ladies' Life-boat envelope, at each house, and to state Guild; but, as the space on this card that the reply will be called for the next | is limited, it is best, in systematic day. Experience has shown that few " House to House" collecting, to use one householders fail to avail themselves of of the other two methods, reserving the the opportunity to show practical sym- 1 card for obtaining, from time to time, pathy with the '"' Life-boat," and, very personal contributions from among often, the multiplicity of coins in the one's own friends and acquaintances. envelope proves that father, mother, and It is becoming more and more evident the other members of the family have that those who help the Institution in all contributed individually. its task of raising the funds to maintain The " Appeal " itself is an attractive the Service—and it now needs £250,000 reproduction of the Wreck Chart of the a year—must use each and every method British Isles, with short concise facts of approaching the public and asking for about the Institution's work. The their help if this sum is to be obtained. Collectors receive their supplies, badges, New workers may be encouraged by this and instructions on the Thursday ; on fact, which older workers will already the Friday they deliver the appeals ; and have discovered for themselves : The on the Saturday call for the responses, national claims of the Service are so which are taken to the Committee Room clear, and the appeal of its heroism so and opened, all contributions of 5s. and simple and direct, that those who work upwards being acknowledged by formal for it may depend on being received with receipt. sympathy, and, in the great majority of The second method of " House to cases, on obtaining an immediate re- House " collecting is by personal solici- sponse to their appeal. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 207

The Voyage of the Motor Life-boat "William Evans" from Cowes to Wexford. By Lieutenant P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Inspector for the Irish District. THE following are some extracts from westerly breeze. 2.30 P.M. Made sail the report of the Irish District Inspector and reduced to 550 revolutions, as the on the voyage which the new Wexford petrol was reported to be scarce. Motor Life-boat made to her Station, 4.40 P.M. Made fast close to Plymouth under her own power, as soon as her Life-boat Station. The Nyria and trials at Cowes had been completed. White Heather raced from Weymouth She was in charge of the District In- Bay to Plymouth, leaving at 8 A.M. and spector, who had with him the District arriving Plymouth at 7.30 P.M., so un- Assistant Surveyor of Machinery for the fortunately we were unable to watch South - Western District, the Wexford the race. Distance, 84 miles. Time Coxswain, the Motor Mechanic, and lOf hours. Average speed, 7-8 knots. three members of the Wexford crew. The new Boat is a sister Boat to the Tuesday, 16th August. Dunleary,* at Kingstown, and the Left Plymouth 6.15 A.M. and pro- Shamrock, at Baltimore, being of the ceeded to Penzance. Sky overcast and Watson type, 45 feet by 12 feet 6 inches. misty; sea calm ; light airs from She is fitted with a Tylor engine of W.S.W. 10.30. Fog came down, lifting 60 b.h.p., and is capable of taking for short intervals periodically. 1 P.M. ninety people on board. Wind shifted to N.W. by N., and in- Five out of the twenty-six Irish creased to a fresh breeze, with a rough Stations are now provided with Motor sea. 1.15 P.M. Lizard abeam ; made Life-boats, and for yet another, Dun- sail. 3.30 P.M. Made fast in Penzance more East, a Motor Life-boat is under Harbour. St. Michael's Mount only construction. just visible when abeam. Distance run, The Wexford Boat made her voyage 69 miles. Time, 9J hours. Average of 408 miles in six days, being actually speed, 7'5 knots. at sea for fifty-four hours, which gives an average speed for the whole voyage Wednesday, 17th August. of 7-3 knots. Left Penzance 7.15A.M., and pro- Sunday, 14th August. ceeded to Padstow. Weather fine ; sea 10.10 A.M. Left West Cowes pontoon calm ; light airs. 8.25 A.M. Off Eunnel- and proceeded to Portland. Weather stone ; very heavy W.N.W. swell, and fine; sea smooth; westerly breeze. light north-easterly airs, with rain 11.35A.M. Shingle buoys abeam; wind squalls. 3.30 P.M. Made fast to schooner in Padstow Harbour. Distance, 63 miles. increased to fresh breeze ; sea rough. - 3.40 P.M. Made Portland Harbour and Time, 8J hours. Average speed, 7 6 ran alongside H.M.S. Tiger in order to knots. give my crew an opportunity of seeing Thursday, 18th August. over a powerful and comparatively 6.40 A.M. Left Padstow (we were modern battle cruiser. 5.0 P.M. Picked piloted in and out of Padstow by Cox- up moorings off Life-boat Station at swain of Padstow Life-boat) and pro- Weymouth. Distance run, 48 miles. ceeded to Angle. Moderate wind from Time, 6 hours. Average speed, 8 knots. N.E.; confused sea; weather fine. NOON. Lundy Island abeam. Made sail, Monday, 15th August. but wind backed to N.N.B. and dropped, 6.0 A.M. Slipped from Weymouth and so an hour later we reduced sail. Sea proceeded to Plymouth. Weather calm; light airs. 5.15 P.M. Made Angle. cloudy; sea choppy; wind, a gentle 5.45 P.M. Came to moorings. Distance run, 77 miles. Time, lOf hours. Average * An account of the Dunleary''s very successful voyage appeared in The Life-Boat speed, 7'1 knots. The Coxswain of the for February, 1920.—ED. Angle Life-boat informed us that it had 208 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. been blowing a gale, and that a large ran exceptionally well all the time, and tramp steamer, anchored in Angle Bay, developed no defects. The only adjust- had parted her cable. This was very ments made at all were cleaning and curious, as we had had light airs from easing the ignition plug on No. 4 noon onwards. cylinder, which occasionally missed, but Friday, 19th August. only for short periods of time. We made 5.30 A.M. Slipped and proceeded to very good landfalls, particularly so as Wexford. Weather fine ; light airs from we had fog to deal with ; and I con- N.E. by N. ; sea calm. 6.30 A.M. sider this is due to the comparative ease Skokham Island abeam ; shaped course and comfort with which one can steer between Bishop and Smalls. 7.15 A.M. a compass course with the centre line Thick fog. Visibility about 100 yards compass. We were very unlucky with or less. Wind backed to N. and become our winds, as wherever we went the fresh ; sea getting very rough. 11.30 A.M. wind headed us. Visibility increased to about 2 miles ; The conduct of the crew ashore and sea grew calmer. 1 P.M. Made sail. afloat was all that could possibly be Blackwater Bank on starboard bow, a desired. I think they enjoyed their trip few miles to the N. of Kosslare Point. considerably, and were most interested 2.30 P.M. Made fast off Rosslare Point to in what they saw of the South of Old Wexford Life-boat. Distance, 68 England, as they had not seen that miles. Time, 9 hours. Average speed, coast 'before. Cowes was of particular 7-6 knots. interest, as there were some 23, 19 and I was informed on arrival at Wexford 6 metre boats about, also the Britannia that the Fishguard-Rosslare steamer and the Quest. was five hours late in making her passage On entering Wexford we found a rat on account of the weather conditions, in the fore part of the Boat; it had but I cannot vouch for the truth of this. eaten the best * part of one oilskin The remainder of the crew at the Wex- jacket, and I was afraid it might have ford Life-boat Station were veiy sur- begun on the cable, but owing to the prised to see us in so early. They in- prompt action of the crew, armed with formed us that a steamer, anchored off the lead cane and sundry axes and the Point, had dragged during the fore- hammers, the rat was slain. noon with two anchors out. * This statement caused much interest Generally speaking, we had a good among the experts of the Institution, who passage round. The Coxswain and crew had been of opinion that every part of an oil-skin, except the buttons, would taste were very pleased with the way in which exactly the same, and have the same food the Boat behaved in all states of sea, value. The matter still remains in doubt, particularly whilst off Land's End, when the rat being dead (without having expressed we had a very heavy swell on the quarter. any opinion), and the experts, so far, refusing to verify their opinion by personal experi- Of course, the Boat was very wet, but ment, in spite of the Secretary's warm that was to be expected. The engine appeal to their public spirit.—ED.

Life-boat Day Results. WE give below a list of the results, so London. £. far received, of Life-boat Days which city of London 87 have been held during the Branch Hampstead 142 financial year which ended on the Kingston 71 Lewisham * 15 30th September. With regard to the Richmond 40 London list it should be added that a Sheen 24 Surbiton 120 Day was held in another 19 districts i -\vimbledon .... 37 on the 18th October, but these are ; Winchmore Hill . ... 100 not included as they belong to the * The result of the Day in Lewisham financial year 1921-22. on the 18th October last was £115. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 209

South-West of England. £. s. d. £. s. d Weston-super-Mare . . £126 Andover . 27 - Cheddar 31 Banbury . . 122 - _ : Total ... 157 - - Basingstoke . 25 - _ Weymouth 122 - - Bath . . . 111 - _ : Yeovil 75 - - Blandford 20 - Bournemouth 300 - ~_ South-East of England. Bridge-water 22 - - Aylesbury 90 - - Bude 118 - - Bexhill 82 - - Chard 24 - _ Brighton £211 Clevedon 43 - _ i Hove 174 Dartmouth 40 - _ ! Total ... — 385 - - Dawlish 25 - _ j Bury St. Edmunds 39 - - Dorchester 29 - _ I Canterbury 70 - - Clacton-on-Sea 143 - - Exeter 168 - ~ ; Colchester 83 - - Exmouth & 186 Cromer Ill - - and Budleigh Salterton . 20 Deal 97 - - Total ... 206 - Diss 36 - - Fareham 20 - Dover 79 - - Prome 48 - Eastbourne 590 - - Gosport 44 - Ely 53 - - Hayling Island 30 - Farnham 69 - - Ilfracombe 60 - Folkestone 73 - - Isle of Wight - Frinton-on-Sea 39 - - Bembridge .... £15 Gravesend 46 - - East Cowes .... 16 Guildford 64 - - Newport 46 Halstead 85 - - Ryde 46 Hunstanton 59 - - Sandown 67 Hythe 25 - - Shanklin 59 King's Lynn 55 - - Ventnor 69 Lewes 56 - - West Cowes .... 32 Littlehampton .... £45 Yarmouth ..... 5 Arundel 13 Total ... — 355 - Total ... — 58 - - Looe 20 ~ Lowestoft 70 - - Lyinington 16 - Maidenhead 35 - - Lynmouth 113 - Margate 165 - - Melksham 17 - Mundesley 12 - - Minehead 30 - Newhaven 21 - - Newbury 41 - Norwich 65 - - Newquay (Corn.) 131 - Ramsgate 84 - - Newton Abbot 24 - Eochford and District .... 24 - - Oxford 212 - Seaford 56 - - Paignton 143 - Selsey £35 Plymouth 375 - Bognor 81 Port Isaac 50 - Total ... — 116 - - -D , ,, i Oct. 1920 346 - Sheringham 66 - - Portsmouth - • • { „ 1921 323 - Southend £94 Beading 65 - Leigh-on-Sea .... 41 Romsey 19 - Total ... — 135 - - St. Ives (Corn.) 57 - Southwold 48 - - Salcombe 38 - Tonbridge 31 - - Salisbury £120 Tunbridge Wells 75 - - Gillingham .... 15 Walton-on-the-Naze .... 190 - - Wilton 6 Westgate-on-Sea 20 - - Total ... 141 - Wisbech 78 - - Scilly 65 - Worthing 146 - - Sherborne 16 - Sidmouth 228 - Midlands. Southampton 541 - Bedworth 25 - - Swanage 57 - Birmingham 475 - - Swindon 125 - Bishop's Castle 12 - - Taunton 52 - Boston 23 - - Teignmouth 166 - Bridgnorth 66 - - Torquay 154 - Bromsgrove 12 - - Trowbridge 45 - Burton-on-Trent 197 - - Truro 60 - Buxton 82 - - Warminster 18 - Cheltenham 80 - - Wells (Som.) 21 - Chepstow 47 - - 210 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. £. s. d. North of England. Chesteraeld . . 50 £. s. d. Cleobury-Mortimer . . . 10 - Berwick-on-Tweed . ... 60 - - Coventry . . 281 - - Blackpool ...... 520 - .- Cradley Heath ...... 24 - - Bolton ... 90 - - Derby ...... 189 - ; Bradford . . . 850 - - Droitwich ...... 26 - - Bridlington ...... 150 - - Gloucester . . 73 - - i Castleford ...... 43 - - Grantham . . 38 : Castletown ...... 230 - - Grimsby . . 182 Dewsbury ...... 113 - - Halesowen . . 16 Durham ... 44 - - Henley-in-Arden 7 - Elland ... 26 - - Hereford . . 38 - - Piley . . . 56 - - Kettering 93 - - Plamborough . . . 28 - - Kidderminster . . . 130 Fleetwood ...... 90 - - Lampeter ...... 18 Goole ... 61 - - Leicester . . 330 Grange-over-Sands . ... 35 - - Leominster . . 10 - - Harrogate ...... 80 - - Lincoln . . 112 - - Hauxley . . . 15 - - Louth . . 20 - - ; Holy Island ...... 5 - - Ludlow . . 60 Hornsea ... 65 - - ! Mablethorpe . . 28 - - Keighley . . . 160 - - Much Wenlock ...... 10 - - Kendal ... 51 - - Newcastle (Stafls.) . . . . . 21 - - Leeds . . . 316 - - Newport (Mon.) . . 174 - - Lytham ... 69 - - Nottingham . . 350 Manchester ...... 1,651 - - Oswestry . . 23 - - ' Maryport ...... 33 - - Peterborough ...... 75 Middleton ...... 113 - - Bedditch . . 12 Morecambe ...... 101 - - Retford . . 82 North. Sunderland . . . . 15 - - Skegness . . 232 - - Peel (I. of M.) ...... 110 - - Sleaford and Billinghay . . 8 - - Preston . . . 349 - - Smethwick . . 39 - - Runswick and Staithes ... 33 - - Spalding . . 43 - - Saltburn ... 46 - - Stoke-ou-Trent ...... 150 Scarborough . . . 271 - - Stone . . 20 Sheffield . . . 223 Stourbridge . . 85 - - South Shields . . . . ' . . 112 - - Stratford-on-Avon . . . 24 - - Southport ...... 470 - - Walsall . . 41 Stockport ...... 381 - - West Bromwich . . 30 Sunderland ...... 422 Woodhall Spa ...... 9 - - Whitby . . . 96 - - Worcester ...... 100 - - Wigau . . . 108 - - Worksop 13 Scotland. Ireland. Aberdeen ...... 329 - - Alloa . . . 134 - Belfast 300 Arbroath . . . 62 Bray and Greystones . . . 42 Dublin ~~ ~~ Bathgate ... 33 572 ~ ~ Dumbarton ...... 77 - - Howth 20 Dunfermline . . . 152 - - Kingstown . . 70 Dunoon . . . 64 Portrush . . 92 ~ ~~ Edinburgh ...... 654 Skerries . . 26 ~ ~~ Findhorn ...... 8 - - Gourock . . . 47 - - Wales. i Girvaii . . . 49 - - Aberystwith . . 157 - - Glasgow and District . . . . 925 - - Barmouth . . 27 - - Grangemouth . . . 28 Borth . . 17 - - i Greenock ...... 176 - - Cardiff . . 110 - - Hamilton ...... 53 - - Colwyn Bay . . 240 - - Inverurie ...... 11 - - Holyhead . . 29 - - Johnstone ...... 35 Llandrindod Wells . . . 25 - - Kilmarnock ...... 54 - - Llandudno . . 560 - - Kirkcudbright . . . . 23 - - Llanwrtyd Wells . . . . . 19 - - : Kirkintilloch ... 29 - - Milford Haven ...... 20 - - Largs . . . 115 - - Mountain Ash ...... 6 - - Peebles . . . 47 New Quay (Card.) . . . 27 - - : Perth ... 305 Pembroke Dock ...... 27 - - Rothesay ... 77 - - Pontypridd . . 80 - - St. Andrews ...... 42 - - i Rhyl . . 80 - - Stranraer ...... 79 Swansea . . 214 - - Wick . . . 124 Tenby 60 - - Wishaw ... 30 NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 211

Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 3. Mr. J. A. GARDINER, Honorary Secretary of Ihe Campbeltown, Southend, and Machrihanith Branch. BEFORE Mr. Gardiner became Honorary been in sole charge of all the financial Secretary of the Campbeltown Branch, and administrative work of the Branch. he had had an adventurous career in In 1912 a Motor Life-boat was sent to many parts of the Campbeltown, in world. He was place of the the second son of Pulling and Sail- Sheriff Gardiner, ing Boat already and began his there, and in the career in the office same year a of a big Glasgow Station was firmof shipowners opened at Machri- and brokers. But hanish under the he was of a control of the character that Ca mpb e 1 town asked for some- Branch. Mr. Gar- thing more diner, therefore, strenuous and for the past ten adventurous in years has admin- life than the work istered three Life- of an office. After boat Stations for a few years in the Institution. Glasgow he went During that time to Canada, where the Life-boats he took up farm- have been ing in Manitoba. launched on many He had always useful services, been fond of sail- have rescued ing, and after five nearly fifty lives, years of farming and saved three he left Manitoba vessels. to ship before the Mr. Gardiner mast. The next {Lafayette. has been equally ten years of his MR. J. A GARDINER. successful in de- life he spent at veloping the sea, almost entirely aboard sailing ships. financial side of the Branch. When he In that time he rose to the position of became Honorary Secretary its income acting Chief Officer, and then, in 1894, from local subscriptions and donations for family reasons, he left the sea. After was only £30. Last year the Branch fifteen years abroad he settled down at raised nearly £200. home, and since that time has devoted As one would expect of such a man, himself to the business of the family he has not been satisfied only to do the estate of Kildalloig, in Argyllshire, near administrative work. Hardly an exercise Campbeltown. of any of the Boats under his care has Five years after he returned home taken place when he was not on board, he became Joint Honorary Secretary, and on fifteen occasions he has gone with the Rev. C. T. Wakeham, of the out on service. He holds a Norwegian Life-boat Stations at Campbeltown and medal, presented to him and to each Southend ; and from 1907 until the member of the crew of the Canipbeltown present year, when a second Honorary Boat, which went out, in February Secretary was appointed to help him, 1903, to the help of the barque Argo, of chiefly with the clerical work, he has Frederikstad. She had been driven 212 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. ashore in a whole gale, with a very Mr. Gardiner has brought to the work heavy sea, on the rocks known as the of the Branch not only a wide and Arranman's Barrels, on the south-east practical experience of the sea, gained coast of Kintyre. Her hull was nearly in the hardest of seafaring schools, but under water and her crew were in the the abundant energy and enthusiasm, rigging. A few minutes after they which are characteristic of him. One had been rescued the barque went to has only to meet him and talk with him pieces. Mr. Gardiner was also presented, for a few minutes to realise why it is in 1908, with a pair of Binoculars, in that he commands the ready and affec- recognition of his services to the In- tionate service of all those who work stitution. with him for the Life-boat Cause ; and He is a keen yachtsman, and a familiar his vigorous but unconventional style figure on the lower reaches of the Clyde as a correspondent is a delight to the during the Clyde Fortnight. Here, also, officials of the Institution. he has saved life. In the middle of a No Life-boat worker, indeed, has race he jumped into the sea from his given the Institution more generous yacht and rescued a man who had and unstinted service, nor brought fallen overboard from another of the to that service more valuable gifts of competing yachts. experience and character.

Two Motor Life-boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick. Two Life-boat launches have taken the humane and Christian work of the place this year, those of the Motor Life- Life-boat Service. boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, As in the cases of the launches at and Wick in Caithness-shire. Kingstown and Baltimore last year, there was a double religious ceremony. The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- The parish priest, the Rev. Father J. Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! Breen, blessed the Boat and her crew, fitted with a Tylor engine developing and the Roman Catholic choir sang 40 h.p., was one of the Motor Life-boats : " Sweet Star of the Sea." The Church of completed before the war. She went ! Ireland clergyman, the Rev. C. Strong, to her Station in 1914, but it was not then dedicated the Boat, and the Pro- until this year that it was possible to ; testant choir sang the hymn " For Those arrange for the launching ceremony. It at Sea." took place on the 3rd June, in the pres- When the religious services were ence of several hundreds of spectators. finished, the crew, and the two clergy- Lieutenant-Commander Lord George I men with them, manned the Boat, and Seymour, R.N., presided, and the Lady Caroline Howard gave her the Boat was formally presented to the name of John Taylor Cardwett, in Branch by the Secretary of the Institu- memory of the late Mr. Cardwell, by tion, Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., who whose generosity she was built. represented the Committee of Manage- As soon as the bottle of wine had ment in the unavoidable absence of the been broken on her bows the Boat was Deputy-Chairman, Sir Godfrey Baring, launched, and the first trip in her was Bt. The Boat was received on behalf made together by the Catholic priest of the Branch byits Honorary Secretary, and the Church of Ireland clergyman. Colonel the Earl of Wicklow, who had When Ireland is at last united, the Life- made all the arrangements for what boat might well be taken as one of the proved to be a most successful and im- symbols of that unity. pressive ceremony—a ceremony which once again showed that even in the midst Wick and AchergiU. of civil war in Ireland it was possible for The new Wick Motor Life-boat left Irishmen, widely separated though they the shipyard at Cowes on the 1st June, might be by their political ideals and to go to her Station by sea, in company their religious beliefs, still to unite in with the new Motor Life-boat for NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 213 Peterhead. She was manned by Life- After the hymn " Star of Peace " had boat men from Wick, and Commander been sung, the Boat was dedicated by Drury, O.B.E., R.N.E., Inspector of the Rev. N. C. Robertson, and Miss Life-boats for the Northern District, Henderson named her Frederick and was in command of the two Boats. It Emma,. This name was given to her at was not until the 22nd June that Wick the wish of Miss Beer, in memory of was reached, very rough weather being the late Mr. Frederick Smith, a ship- encountered nearly the whole way. The owner of London, and of his wife. The Boat arrived at Wick, in fact, after a Boat was then launched, and made a thorough testing, which she had stood tour of the bay. very well indeed. She is a Life-boat of Following the launching ceremony, the Watson type, 45 feet by 12 feet a Garden Party was held, which had 6 inches, one of the largest yet built, and been organized by Mrs. Henderson, of is fitted with a Tylor engine developing j Bilbster, the local President of the GOh.p. She can carry up to ninety people Ladies' Life-boat Guild, with the help before her decks are brought awash. ' of other members of the Guild. Lord The launching ceremony took place Home, Sir John Sinclair, and Colonel six weeks after the arrival of the Boat, Henderson had all made urgent appeals on the 8th August. The chair at the for increased support for the Insti- ceremony was taken by General Lord tution, Colonel Henderson saying that Home, who was supported by all the although the upkeep of such a large leading men of Wick and the neighbour- Boat would necessarily mean a much hood ; and the launch was witnessed by heavier annual expenditure, he hoped a large crowd, the Town Council having that, with the help of the Ladies' made it known that they would like the Life-boat Guild, the Branch would not day to be observed as a public half- only be self-supporting, but able to holiday. The new Boat was formally contribute to the general funds of the presented to the Branch by Sir John Institution. R. G. Sinclair, Bt., D.S.O., on behalf of The response to these appeals was the relatives of the late Miss Elizabeth immediate, a sum of £124 being col- Mary Beer, of Selly Park, Birmingham, lected, of which £31 was obtained at the to whose generosity the Institution was Garden Party. The success of the cere- indebted for the Boat; and Colonel mony was in great measure due to the Henderson, of Bilbster, Chairman of the admirable way in which it had been Local Committee, accepted her on behalf arranged by the Acting Honorary of the Branch, and expressed their great Secretary of the Branch, Mr. James pleasure at receiving from the Institu- Stevens, and to the excellent work of tion a Motor Life-boat of the latest and Mrs. Henderson and her fellow-members most powerful type. of the Guild.

Obituary. WE regret to report two serious losses Sir Edward Coates had been a which the Committee of Management member of the Committee of Manage- have suffered by the death, on the ment for six years, and his colleagues llth September, of Admiral of the will greatly miss his genial help and his Fleet the MARQUESS or MILFORD HAVEN, deep interest in the Life-boat Service. and, on the 14th August, of Sir As business man, as politician, and as EDWARD FEETHAM COAXES, BT. yachtsman he brought valued qualities ( The Marquess of Milford Haven was to the work of the_Institution. Nor elected a member of the Committee at was he content to.,help it only at the lastjAnnual Meeting, and it is a the meetings of the Committee. He matter of deep regret that the Insti- was a practised and able speaker, and tutionjshould have lost, almost at once, on many occasions put before the the help of the wide and ripe experi- public, with force and persuasion, the ence of so distinguished a sailor. claims of the Institution. 214 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBEK, 1921.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Wednesday, llth May, 1921. Granted additional rewards to the crew and helpers at Crail for an arduous service The Rt. Hon. the EABL WALDEGBAVE, P.O., performed in severe weather, on the 2nd in the Chair. May, 1921. Reported the receipt of the following Voted £7 15s. to twelve men for saving special contributions :— the two hands and two passengers of a ANCIENT OBDEB OF FOEESTEES £. s. d. small ferry-boat which got out of control FKIENDLY SOCIETY (sub.) . 120 - - during a whole N.N.E. gale at Warrenpoint, THE MINE SWEEPEBS' FUND, Co. Down, on the 29th March. Also granted per Mrs. ABTHUB THESIGEB, 17s. 6rf. to the owner of a motor boat for O.B.E., (additional) ... 25 - - oil and petrol used. —To be thanked. Voted £3 15s. to five men for saving two children who, with their dog, were cut ANNUAL MEETING, COLLECTION off by the rising tide at Ilfracombe, on the AT 27 17 9 22nd April, and who would certainly have Suitably recognized the services of Mrs. been drowned but for the prompt action of SHIMWELL, for many years President of the their rescuers. Also granted 4s. to another Gatley District of the Manchester Branch. man who assisted. Voted £4 10s. to six men for putting off Paid £17,204 2s. 9d. for sundry charges | from Blackpool and saving the three occu- in connexion with the construction of Life- [ pants of a small boat which was in distress, boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and on the 10th April. Also granted 10s. to the maintenance of the various Life-boat another man who assisted. establishments. I Voted £130 17s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Friday, 17th June, 1921. Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved. The Rt. Hon. the EABL WALDEGBAVE, P.C., Crail. . . . S.S. North Inch, of in the Chair. Dundee. Landed Co-opted Rear Admiral Sir LIONEL 5. HALSEY, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., and Cullercoats . . Cobles Undaunted, Mr. T. W. H. INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P., Queen Elizabeth members of the Committee of Management. and George and Bedford, of Culler- Reported the receipt of the following coats. Escorted special contributions :— cobles into har- CIVIL SEBVICE LIFE - BOAT £. s. d. bour. FUND (per W. FOBTESCUE Hythe . . . Fishing-boat Bread- BABBATT, Esq.), Expenditure winner, of Folke- connected with Civil Service stone. Stood by Life-boats in 1920 . . . 2,530 8 6 and assisted vessel. " BATH " (additional) . . . 1,000 - - Poole and S.8. Fernande, of WHITE STAB LINE, being a por- Bournemouth Ostend. Stood by tion of the contributions vessel. made by passengers on board Spurn (Motor) . Sloop Liberty, of their steamers 25 — — Hull. Saved vessel. EXECUTOES or THE LATE SAMUEL EESKINE, Esq. (balance) . 11 5 - Also voted £107 2,?. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assem- —To be thanked. blies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting Suitably recognized the services of the persons on vessels in distress :—Dunbar, following lady and gentlemen for valuable Fishguard (Motor), Fraserburgh (Motor), help extending over many years :—• Newhaven (Motor), Ramsgate, and St. Mrs. WALTEB BEAMISH . Coventry. David's (Motor). Alderman GEOEGE REN- Granted £20 17s. to men for injury in the NAED Bridlington. Life-boat service at Ilfracombe and St. Mr. WM. COTTAM. . . Lincoln. Anne's. Paid £20,308 18s. 8d. for sundry charges Produced a copy of the provisional in connexion with the construction of Life- scheme for the disposal of the money boats, Life-boat Houses and Slip-ways, and contributed to the Rhoscolyn Life-boat the maintenance of the various Life-boat Disaster Fund. establishments. NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 215

Voted £74 2s. to pay the expenses of the carried out to sea off Tenby, on the 1st June. following Life-boat Services :— Also directed that a Letter of Thanks be Lives sent to Major LATHAM, and that £1 be Life-boat. Vessel. saved. sent to two other men, who, with Major Eastbourne No. 2 Motor yacht Don- Latham, also put off to the rescue. avon. Stood by vessel. Voted £4 to four men for saving two Newbiggin . . Coble Isabella, of persons who were cut off on the rocks by Newbiggin. Saved the tide at Ilfracombe on the 8th May. boat and ... 4 There was a flood tide, with a strong N.W. Walton-on-the- Steam trawler wind and a heavy ground swell, and con- Naze (Motor) William John- siderable difficulty was experienced in son, of Hull. effecting the rescue. Stood by vessel. Voted £2 5s. to three men for going out Also voted £167 4s. 2d. to pay the ex- in a motor boat to rescue three men and penses of the following Life-boat launches, their boat, at Hythe, on the 2nd June. assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to Also granted 13s. to cover the cost of petrol assisting persons on vessels in distress :— and oil used. The three rescued men were Eastbourne No. 2, Folkestone, Newhaven a military bathing picket, and were carried (Motor), North Deal, Totland Bay, and out to sea by a high N.E. wind. Winterton No. 2. Voted £1 10*. to three men for attempting Friday, 22nd July, 1921. to save life, off New Quay (Cardigan), on the llth May, 1921. Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair. Voted £4 to four men for saving a small I Co-opted General Sir CHABLES MONKO, boat and her two occupants, at Bridlington, Bt., G.C.M.G., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., a member on the 6th May, 1921, during a strong of the Committee of Management. S.S.E. gale with a high sea. Also granted Reported the receipt of the following 12*. 6d. to the owner of the boat in which j special contribution:— the service was performed, to cover the cost I of oil used. COXSWAINS AND CBEW or £. s. d. BLYTH LIFE-BOAT, from Voted £1 10s. to two men for saving the salvage money received (don.) 33 - - occupant of the small yacht Elizabeth, which was blown on the Tower of Refuge —To be thanked. rocks in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, on the Paid £25,182 4s. 6eZ. for sundry charges 16th September, 1920. Also gran ted 15s. for in connexion with the construction of Life- damage to the boat which was used for the boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and rescue. the maintenance of the various Life-boat Directed that a Letter of Thanks be establishments. sent to Mr. W. H. MOOBE, Assistant Har- Voted £101 19s. 6d. to pay the expenses bour Master, Douglas, and voted £1 10s. to of the following Life-boat services :— four other men for saving the lives of three Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved. boys who were drifting in a boat without Kessingland . Fishing-boat Maria, oars, at Douglas, on the 14th April. of Southwold. Directed that a Letter of Thanks be Stood by boat. sent to Mr. WM. JAMES, Assistant Secretary, New Brighton Fishing-boat Mona . 2 Runswick and Staithes Branch, and voted No. 2 (Steam) £3 15s. to five other men for saving the St. Mary's S.S. Western Front, of two hands of a coble which was caught in (Scilly) (Motor) Seattle. Landed 40. a heavy squall and foundered off Staithes, Sunderland Two fishing-boats, of on the 29th May. (Motor) Sunderland . . 12 Also voted £4 10s. to nine men who put ,, ,, A fishing-boat,of Sun- off, with a view to saving life, on the same derland. Assisted occasion. boat into harbour. Walton-on-the- Fishing-smack Cele- Voted the Thanks of the Institution Naze (Motor) nty, of Harwich. inscribed on Vellum and the sum of £2 10s. Saved vessel and . 2 each to THOMAS QUIRK and JOHN KISSACK, Walton-on-the- S.S. Hani IV., of in recognition of their very meritorious Naze (Motor) Cardiff. Stood conduct in saving, at considerable personal by vessel. risk, two men whose boat was swamped in a rough sea during a strong N.N.E. The Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor) Life- breeze, off the Harbour Peel, Isle of Man, boat saved the barge Siola, of London, and on the 4th May, 1921.* her crew of four, and also saved the barge Toots, of London, and her two hands. Voted £1 to two men for saving the three Also voted £151 19$. 6cl. to pay the occupants of a small boat which was being expenses of the following Life-boat launches, * An account of this service is given in the paragraph assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to "Peel, Isle of Man," in "News from the Branched." assisting persons on vessels in distress :— 216 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. Aldeburgh No. 2, Berwick-on-Tweed, Culler- Voted £4 to two men, a man of sixty-eight coats, Howth, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), and his grandson of seventeen, for putting Ramsgate, and Winterton No. 2. off in a sailing boat in rough weather and saving the two occupants of a small boat Granted £2 to a man for injury in the which was being blown out to sea, off Life-boat service at Kessingland. Howth Head, on the 12th June. Voted an additional reward to THOMAS j VATJGHAN, who, in the absence of both Voted £1 to two men. for putting off in Coxswains, took charge of the Howth a motor boat and bringing ashore a small Life-boat, on service, on the 12th June. ; pleasure-boat, containing a man and a i woman, who were being blown out to sea off Also reported that a Letter of Thanks Shoreham, on the 2nd June. Also granted had been sent to Mr. B. J. NEWCOMBE, : 10*. for the expenses of the motor boat used. Honorary Secretary, for going out in the ; Life-boat on this occasion. Voted £6 to four men for saving two Eeported that Letters of Thanks had fishing-boats, with seven occupants, which been sent to Capt. W. J. OLIVER, Joint were being blown out to sea off South Honorary Secretary, who went out in the Shields, on the llth June. Also granted Sunderland Life-boat on the 10th June, and ! 30s. as compensation for damage to the to Mr. E. WOOLFIELD, Honorary Secretary, salvors' net, and a further 5s. for oil and who went out in the Kessingland Life- petrol consumed. boat on the 10th June. Voted £4 to eight men for saving, or attempting to save, the five occupants Decided that a Letter of Thanks be sent of a pleasure-boat, at Swanage, on the 8th to Dr. W. B. ADDISON, Honorary Secretary, June. Also directed that a Letter of at St. Mary's, Scilly, for going out in the Appreciation be sent to Coxswain MASTERS, Life-boat, on service, and for giving medical and that he be granted a further os. for aid to several injured men belonging to petrol and oil used. The boat was reported the s.s. Western Front, of Seattle, which to be dangerously near the tide race over had caught fire and been abandoned on Peveril Ledge, and the Coxswain, on the llth July, 1921. learning this, promptly put off in his motor Voted £2 10s. to four men for putting boat. In the meantime a small pleasure- off in a boat from St. Helier, Jersey, with boat, manned by one man, put off, as a view to saving life, on the 24th March, also did the Coast-guard boat, with a 1921. crew of three, but a small yacht with two Voted £8 to the four hands of the motor hands picked up the drifting boat and took fishing-boat New Sea Flower, for saving her in tow. When the motor boat reached the crew, nine in number, of the motor the casualty, she towed the yacht and fishing-boat Majestic, when in a sinking pleasure-boats to the shore against a strong condition off Peterhead, on the 29th June. ebb tide. The motor boat then towed the Also granted 5s. for petrol and oil used. Coast-guard's boat back to her Station.

Awards to Honorary Workers. DURING May, June, July, August, and To GEORGE RENNABD, Esq., in recognition of his valuable co-operation for many September, 1921, the following awards years at Bridlington, a Pair of Binocular were made to Honorary Secretaries of Glasses. Branches and to other Honorary Workers To M. J. O'CONNOR, Esq., upon his retire- in recognition of their services on behalf ment after ten years as Honorary Secre- of the Institution :— tary of the Wexford Branch, the Thanks To Mrs. SHIMWEIX, in recognition of her of the Committee of Management in- valuable co-operation as President of the scribed on Vellum. Gatley District of the Manchester Branch, a Framed Photograph, " The Life-boat." To Mrs. C. F. GRANTBAM, M.B.E., in recog- nition of her valuable co-operation as To Mrs. BEAMISH, in recognition of her President of the Ladies' Auxiliary at valuable co-operation for niany years as Skegness, the Record of Thanks and the Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Aux- Gold Brooch. iliary at Coventry, the Record of Thanks and the Gold Brooch. To the SECRETARY, Prince Albert Con- To WM. COTTAM, Esq., in recognition of valescent Home, Worthing, for assisting his valuable co-operation for very many I the Life-boat Cause through the co- years as Chairman and Honorary Treas- operation of the patients of the Home • urer of the Lincoln Branch, a Mounted | as Honorary Collectors, a Framed Record Aneroid Barometer. ' of Thanks. NOVEMBEB, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 217

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boat Men. DURING May, June, July, August, and To SAMUEL McCujRG, on his retirement, after thirty years' service as Bowman of September, 1921, the following awaids the Port Logan Life-boat, a Certificate were made to Coxswains and Life-boat of Service and a pension. men :— To WILLIAM GEOBGE DOUGLAS, on his To THOMAS HENRY NICHOLAS, on his retire- retirement, after forty years' service as ment, after ten years' .service as Coxswain Signalman of the Whitby Life-boats, a of the Sennen Cove Life-boat, and, pre- Certificate of Service and a pension, viously, eighteen years as Second Cox- commuted, at his request, to a lump sum. swain, a Framed Certificate of Service To JOSEPH BELL^on his retirement, after and a Pension. Coxswain Nicholas was twenty-seven years' service as Signalman awarded the Silver Service Medal in of the Mablethorpe Life-boat, a Certificate 1919. of Service and a pension.* To the widow of JAMES GALLOWAY, who To GEORGE FENNEY, on his retirement, after was Coxswain of the Port Logan Life- twenty-seven years' service as a member boat for twenty-nine years, and, pre- of the crew, and then as Bowman, of the viously, Second Coxswain for three years, Saltburn Life-boat, a Certificate of and was drowned, while fishing, in June, Service. 1920, a Certificate of Service.. To THOMAS STEVENS, on his retirement, To RICHAHD WILLIAM STEVENS, on his after nineteen years' service as a member retirement, after twenty-six years' serxace of the crew, and then as Bowman, of the in the St. Ives Life-boat, during the last St. Ives Life-boat, a Certificate of Service. three years of which he was Coxswain, To ALEXANDER HILL GOURLAY, on his a Certificate of Service. retirement, after twenty-eight years' To HENRY MTJKI/EY ANDREWS, on his retire- service as a member of the crew, and. then ment, after twenty years' service in the as Bowman, of the St. Andrews Life-boat, St. Ives Life-boat, during the last three a Certificate of Service. years of which time he was Second Coxswain, a Certificate of Service. * See "Notes and News," page 193.

Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries. THE Secretary of the Institution pro- return them eventually. In the case of poses, if possible, to compile its history photographs, it should also be stated on for publication in 1924, and he will be each photograph if it is necessary to ob- most grateful to all Honorary Secre- tain permission to reproduce it and, if so, taries, especially of Station Branches, to whom such application should be made. for every assistance which they may be It is also proposed, if possible, to form good enough to afford in connexion with a Life-boat Exhibition, which is to be the history of their respective Branches made one of the prominent features of (Stations), and for photographs dealing the Centenary Celebrations. For this with such history, e.g., photographs Exhibition the Secretary will be very of past coxswains, previous Life-boat glad to receive any relics which can be Houses, past Life - boats, and other procured from vessels which have become valuable records. All such documents total wrecks. Such relics, if large, should be marked "Centenary Records," should be sent direct to the Store-yard, and should have an accurate descrip- marked " Centenary " on the outside, tion, with names, dates, etc. It is and with a strong linen label attached, hoped that they can be placed per- inside, containing full particulars. manently at the disposal of the Insti- This notice will appear in every future tution, but, where it is particularly issue of The Life-Boat until the end of desired, every effort would be made to 1923. 218 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921.

News from the Branches. Gateshead. Interest in the work of the Branch The Annual Meeting was held on the has been still further stimulated by a 1st June, the chair being taken by Life-boat Exhibition at the Corporation the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The Art Gallery, admirably arranged by report for the year ending the 30th its Curator, Miss Marian Frost, which September, 1920, showed that the attracted large crowds. Besides a Branch had raised a sum of nearly number of local exhibits and photo- £108, and that the number of regular graphs of the Worthing Life-boat and subscribers—which was now forty-five crew, the exhibition contained a dozen —had been nearly doubled in the course models of Life-boats, several Life-boat of the year. In moving the adoption paintings and photographs, and a case of the report, which was felt to be of medals specially lent by the Institu- very satisfactory, Lord Ravensworth tion . Other models were lent by the Hull expressed his earnest hope that the Museum. The exhibition was opened, Life-boat Service would always remain on the 3rd August, by the Mayor of voluntary, for he believed that the Worthing (Alderman Mrs. Chapman, country could never get results half as [ J.P.), and Mr. Harry Hargood, who had satisfactory from a State Service. The first proposed this exhibition, and given Mayor was re-elected President, and his help and advice in arranging it, the other honorary officials were also presided at the opening ceremony, and re-elected. gave a short history of the Life-boat Worthing, Service. Altogether, during the six A most successful garden fete, organ- weeks the Exhibition was open, nearly ized by Lady Louisa Cecil, Chairman of 18,000 persons visited the Art Gallery. the Ladies' Committee, was held on the Newport. 2nd June in the grounds of Tisree, The Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Wykeham Eoad, lent by Mrs. Chrestien. i Auxiliary was held on the 3rd June, The fete was opened by Lord William ] the chair being taken by the Mayor, who Cecil, and among those present were the was supported by the Mayoress, Presi- Mayor (Alderman Mrs. Chapman, J.P.) dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and by and Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., Mrs. Claude Martyn, its Chairman. Mr. J.P., President of the Branch and a A. J. Phillips, the Chairman of the member of the Committee of Manage- Branch, paid a warm tribute to the ment. Lord William Cecil appealed to work done by the Ladies' Auxiliary, all present to make the fete such a and said that it was fortunate in having success that the Institution would say, obtained so capable a Chairman as Mrs. " Well done, Worthing ! " Mr. Hargood Claude Marfcyn. In the course of an spoke of the urgent need of the Institu- address on the work of the Institution, tion for increased funds, and also of the serious tendency which there was among ; Mr. H. G. Solomon, the Organizing Secretary for the Midlands, Ireland and the fishing population—who manned Wales, referred to the splendid services the Life-boats and also sent so many to the Institution of Mr. Phillips, who men to the Fleet and the Mercantile ! had been associated with its work for Marine—to forsake the sea for higher over thirty years, and said that the work paid work elsewhere. It was a question of the Branch was greatly appreciated which he thought should be taken up by the Committee of Management. by the educational authorities in sea- side towns. Sheffield. A number of very attractive stalls The Annual Meeting was held on the had been prepared by ladies interested 7th June, the chair being taken by the in the work of the Branch, and, in Lord Mayor (Alderman W. F. Wardley). addition, games and competitions were The report for the year ending the organized. Altogether the f<"te raised i 30th September, 1920, which was pre- the excellent sum of over £146. ' sented to the meeting, showed that the NOVEMBER, 1921.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 219 Branch had raised a sum of £1,227. To attended, and proved a great success. this sum the collections in works and • Forty new subscribers were obtained, factories had contributed £161, and the ! ten ladies at once joined the Ladies' Special Appeal made by the ex-Lady Life-boat Guild, and a number have Mayoress (Mrs. S. Roberts) had ob- since enrolled themselves as members. tained the fine response of £328. The report suggested that in the churches i St. Albans. special reference should be made to the A most successful Garden Meeting work and needs of the Institution at was held on the 3rd July for the purpose least once a year, to be followed by of reviving the work of the Branch. The collections on its behalf. In moving the meeting was organized by Miss Silvester, adoption of the report the Lord Mayor Honorary Secretary of the Branch, with spoke of the great revolution which the the help of her co-Honorary Secretary, Motor Life-boat was making in the work Miss I. Toulmin, and an influential of the Service. The Lord Mayor was committee, on which both the Mayor elected President of the Branch. and Mayoress (Councillor and Mrs. E. Watson) sat. The chair at the meeting Glasgow. was taken by Lord Salisbury, who was The Annual Meeting was held on the supported by the Mayor of St. Albans, 8th June, the chair being taken by Sir Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Deputy-Chair- Samuel Chisholm, Bt. The report for man of the Committee of Management, the year ending the 30th September, and Captain the Viscount Curzon, 1920, showed that the Branch had E.N.V.R., M.P., a member of the Com- raised a sum of £3,150. In submitting mittee of Management. Many well- the report to the meeting, Mr. Leonard known people of St. Albans and the Gow, the Honorary Secretary, said that county of Herts attended, and a letter one of its gratifying features was that was read from Admiral Sir Lionel £555 had been raised by collections on Halsey regretting that he could aot be board Clyde-owned deep-sea vessels. present to help an Institution second to In contrast to this Mr. F. Bedford, none in national importance. Lord Manager of the Clan Line, in seconding Salisbury asked St. Albans to help the the adoption of the report, expressed Prince of Wales in the efforts which he regret that the shipowners themselves was making to increase the public had not done all that they might support of the Life-boat Service. St. financially to help the Institution. The Albans in recent years had done very Chairman made a special appeal to the little for the Life-boat Cause, but, public to help the Institution to carry although it was an inland city, it must on its work without the continual strain remember that the sea was of as vital of financial anxiety. The office-holders importance to its people as to those were re-elected. of any sea-coast town. He appealed to all present to help the Institution by Hampstead Garden Suburb. putting their hands not only in their A Garden Party and meeting were own pockets, but in other people's held on the 23rd June at the house of I pockets as well. Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, for the purpose Sir Godfrey Baring gave an account of inaugurating a new Branch which of the Institution's record, and described had just been formed in the Suburb. the great developments in life-saving The chair was taken by the Honorary work which were now being made ; and Secretary, Mrs. Blount, and the speakers Lord Curzon spoke of the immense were Major Sir Maurice Cameron, value of the work which women all K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of over the country were doing for the Management, and Lieut. Colonel Murray, Life-boat Cause as collectors of its O.B.B., the District Organizing Secre- indispensable funds. tary for Greater London. Thanks, in Votes of thanks were passed to the great measure, to the kindness of Chairman, the speakers, and the organ- Mrs. Stobart, who had spared no efforts izers of the meeting; to Mr. Mcllwraith organizing the meeting, it was well for lending his grounds for the meeting, 220 THE LIFE-BOAT. [NOVEMBER, 1921. to Messrs. Butler and Angel for lending boat Guild was entrusted to the Ladies' a motor charabanc to bring people to Auxiliary. it, and to Mr. Harry Ress for arranging Peel, Isle of Man. the music. The Annual Sacred Service on behalf An evening meeting was also held, of the Institution was held on the 24th which was addressed by Lt.-Col. F. E. July in the grounds of Peel Castle. The Fremantle, O.B.E.,M.P. for St.Albans. different churches were represented, and As a result of these two meetings many the music was played by the Salvation ladies have joined the Ladies' Life-boat Army's band. Besides the Life-boat men Guild, and it is hoped that the Branch of Peel, detachments of Boy Scouts took will now give the Institution generous part in the Service. The preacher was and increasing support. the Rev. W. C. Jordan, who made an earnest appeal for funds for the Insti- Portsmouth. tution, with the result that nearly £50 The Annual Meeting was held on the was collected. After the Service the 18th July, the chair being taken by presentation was made of the Thanks the Mayor (Councillor John Tompson, of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, J.P.). The annual report, which was which had been voted by the Committee presented by the Honorary Secretary, of Management, together with a mone- Mr. E. S. Butler, M.B.E., referred to tary award, to Mr. Thomas Quirk and the greatly increased interest in the Mr." John Kissack, both over seventy work of the Life-boat Service which years of age, for their gallantry in had been shown during the previous rescuing two men whose craft had been year. Early in the year a Special swamped and sunk in a heavy sea on the Appeal had brought in a number of 4th May. Being unable, owing to the new subscribers, and attention had been sea, to take the two men on board their directed to the work of the Service by own boat, the rescuers lashed them to addresses which had been delivered to it, and in this way brought them safely the Portsmouth Brotherhood and to to land. A sad feature of the ceremony various P.S.A.'s. As a result of this ! was that Mr. Kissack, who was taken ill increased activity the Branch had j shortly after the rescue, died just before raised, during the year ending the 30th the news of the recognition of his September, 1920, a sum of £113 Is. 8d. gallantry reached Peel, and his Vellum Special reference was made in the was presented to a member of his family. report to the fact that, of the sum of £346 obtained by the Life-boat Day, Sidmouth. held shortly after the close of the On the 1st September a most success- financial year, over £86 was collected ful Garden Fete was held in the grounds in the schools. A vote of thanks was of Sidmouth Manor, which had been passed to Mrs. Arnold Forster for her lent by Colonel and Mrs. Balfour. Mrs. services to the Branch as Honorary Balfour is President of the Ladies' Life- Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and boat Guild at Sidmouth, and spared of regret that she was compelled to nothing to make the fete attractive. resign; and Miss D. Hole was elected She arranged a firework display, lent Honorary Secretary in her place. The her horses for rides round the grounds, Mayor was elected President of the and had all the gardens specially Branch, Alderman Sir Harold Pink, illuminated with electric light for J.P., Chairman, Lady Pink President the dancing which took place in the of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and the evening. As a result of these and Mayoress Chairman. The question of many other attractions the Fete realised enlisting members for the Ladies' Life- £197"

NOTICE. The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in Frbruary, 1922.