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

VOL. XXVI.—No. 291.] AUGUST, 1927. [PRICE 6d.

Since the War only three issues of THE LIFEBOAT "ham been published annually. Owing to the, great increase in the, amount of matter for publication, particularly in reports of the work of Branches, the Committee have decided to revert to the practice of four issues in the year, dated February, May, August, and November. This is the third number published thin year, and it Kill therefore be followed by another number in November.

The Plymouth Motor Life-boat: Inaugural Ceremony.

THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, boats. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chair of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the man of the Committee of Management, third Life-boat to be built of the 60- who was to have presented the Life- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one boat to the Branch, was prevented at of the most successful ever held. It the last moment by the death of a took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, near relative from being present. for which seven ships oi the Atlantic The presence of a large number of the Fleet visited the port. These ships officers of the Fleet in uniform made the were the Third Battle Squadron con- east side of the Pier, which formed the sisting of the Iron Duke (Flagship), " platform," a brilliant sight. Moreover, Marlborough and Emperor of India, the weather was perfect, a fact which and the Second Cruiser Squadron con- deserves special mention in a summer of sisting of the Curacoa (Flagship), phenomenal gloom. Cambrian, Canterbury and Oomus, The The singing was led by a choir con- City authorities and the Eoyal Navy ducted by Mr. David Parkes, Mus. Bac. joined whole-heartedly with the Institu- (Oxon), F.R.C.O., accompanied by tion in giving this new Life-boat a most the Commander - in - Chief's Band. impressive and solemn inauguration. Thousands of people thronged the The Mayor of Plymouth, Alderman Promenade Pier, where the ceremony J. J. Hamyln Moses, one of the Vice- was held, and the slopes of the Hoe; Presidents of the Branch, presided; and the speeches and singing were the Countess Jellicoe of Scapa performed not only broadcast but also made the naming ceremony, and the Bishop audible by loud speakers, so that all of Exeter, the Rt. Rev. Lord William present were able to take part in the Gascoyue Cecil, D.D., dedicated the ceremony. Life-boat. Among those who also took The proceedings were opened by the part in the ceremony were Admiral Mayor in an admirable speech, and Mr. John de M. Hutchison, Chairman of Shee, in the absence of Sir Godfrey the Branch, Vice-Admiral Sir Rudolf Baring, then formally presented the Life- Bentinck, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Com- boat to the Branch. She was, he said, mander-in-Chief at Plymouth, the one of three Life-boats of the same type, Viscountess Astor and Sir Arthur and he had no hesitation in saying that Shirley Benn, two of Plymouth's three those three were the finest Life-boats in members of Parliament, Mr. George the world. She had been provided out F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institu- of a legacy which the Institution owed tion, and Captain H. F. J. Rowley, to the generosity of the late Mr. Robert C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- Alexander Beck, of Worthing. 476 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

ay permission oj\ [ The Western Morning Newt. THE NAMING CEREMONY OF THE PLYMOUTH LIFE-BOAT.

an permission oft [ The Western Homing Seat. THE BISHOP OF EXETER DEDICATING THE PLYMOUTH LIFE-BOAT. {Behind him are Lady Jellicoe and the District Inspector ol Life-boats.) AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 477 In accepting the boat on. behalf of Life-boat, named and dedicated, moved the Branch, Admiral Hutchison said out into the harbour to the noise of that, so far as was humanly possible, sirens and hooters from the ships and she should at all times be ready for boats in the Sound and amid the loud service. She had already been well cheers of the great crowd. As these tested in a south-westerly gale and Cox- sounds died away the voices of the choir swain and Crew had every confidence were heard singing a sea-chanty. in her. The Bishop of Exeter then dedi- Mr. Scantlebury then presented to cated the Life-boat to the service of Lady Jellioce a handsomely bound God in eloquent and solemn language. album of photographs, showing the Captain Rowley gave the following history and development of the Station, description of the Life-boat. She is to be completed later with photographs 60 feet long with 15 feet beam, draws of the ceremony itself. 4 feet 4 inches and displaces 44 tons of Mr. Shee, in the absence of Sir water. She is driven by two 76-h.p. Godfrey Baring, presented to Coxswain petrol engines, which give her a speed of Henry Hockaday, of the Yealm §•5 knots. It may not seem a high River Life-boat, the Certificate which, speed, but such is the engines' reserve with a pension, had been awarded to of power that the Life-boat can main- him after 30 years' service, on the tain this speed under practically any closing of the Statioa; and to Mrs. conditions of "weather; whereas, at G. H. Philips, of the Plymouth Ladies' a higher speed, the crew would simply Lifeboat Guild, the Framed Photograph be swept out of her in bad weather. of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in She is built of two thicknesses of teak distress, which had been awarded her in and has 15 main and 100 minor water- recognition of long and valuable services. tight compartments, so that even if Sir Arthur Shirley Benn proposed, severely damaged she would remain and Admiral Bentinck seconded, the afloat and be manageable, while her vote of thanks to Lady Jellicoe; and Mr. engines would continue to work although Shee proposed, and Lady Astor seconded, otherwise entirely submerged, provided the vote of thanks to the Mayor. that the air-inlets were above water. After the ceremony the Life-boat took She has two cabins with accommo- Lady Jellicoe out to the Flagship of the dation for between 50 and 60 people, Third Battle Squadron. By a happy and in a calm sea could take 300 people coincidence, quite unexpected by her on deck. Under the worst conditions or anyone else, it was the Iron Duke, of weather she could in safety carry which had been the Flagship of Lord 150 people in addition to her crew. Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland. She carries 500 gallons of petrol, which. In writing of the ceremony afterwards at a cruising speed of 8 knots enable her the Mayor said, " It was one of the most to travel 500 miles. She is fitted with thrilling and impressive ceremonies in jets in alt compartments, by which' an connexion with the great week which outbreak of fire can be smothered by was held at Plymouth and has done pyrene fumes, and has oil-sprays in more to revive interest in the Life-boat her bows for spraying oil on heavy Institution in Plymouth than any seas. She carries a line-throwing gun happening of recent years." with a range of 80 yards, is lit by This account would be incomplete electricity, and has an electric search- without a warm tribute to the admirable light, an electrically driven capstan, and way in which Mr. Scantlebury, the Hon- a life-saving net into which the ship- orary Secretary, had organised a very wrecked can jump as the Life-boat lies splendid and important function, his alongside their vessel. work having been so complete that When this description of the Life-boat everything went off without a hitch had been given, Lady Jellicoe named her from start to finish, the success being Robert and MarceUa Beck, asking God to of course ensured by the generous and bless her and all who sailed in her. spontaneous help of the Commander- It was an inspiring moment when the in-Chief and the naval authorities. 478 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

The "Princess Victoria" Life-boat Tractor. IT is now six years since the first of Life-boats, Commander Stopford C. experiments were made with Motor Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector, Caterpillar Tractors for launching Life- Mr. Henry Nyberg and Mr. C. F. boats off flat beaches. Tractors have Cleaver, directors of the Four Wheel been placed at a number of Stations, Drive Lorry Company, and Sir William and although the type used has not been Jones and Lieut.-Col. P. H. Johnson suitable for launching off shingle 01 very of Roadless Traction, Ltd. soft mud its success on sandy beaches When Princess Victoria had taken her has established the tractor as an essen- place on the platform, Miss Geraldine tial part of the Service. When, there- Rowley presented her with a bouquet. fore, the first of a new type—which it The factory doors then swung open and is hoped will be capable of launching the Tractor appeared with a Life-boat, Life-boats off all kinds of flat beach— and.drew up facing the platform. The was completed this summer, it was Life-boat was dressed rainbow fasWon decided to do what is done in the case and manned by Life-boatmen from of all Life-boats, and inaugurate its Boulmer, Hoylake and Southend-on- work for the rescue of life from ship- Sea, Coxswain Stephenson, of Boulmer, wreck by a dedication service and being in charge. naming ceremony. This ceremony took place, on 10th A Description of the Tractor. June, at Slough, at the works of the The Bishop of Buckingham then Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company, the conducted a short religious service. designers and builders of the Tractor, Following this Captain Rowley gave a on the Slough Trading Estate, H.R.H. description of the Tractor. It consists the Princess Victoria performed the of a Four-Wheel Drive Chassis with naming ceremony, giving the Tractor Roadless Tracks on the rear axle, and her own name; the Bishop Suffragan a long single-axle trailer, also mounted of Buckingham, the Rt. Rev. Philip H. on Roadless Tracks, which carries the Eliott, D.D., conducted the dedication Life-boat. The Tractor has a 60-h.p. service; and Sir Godfrey Bating, Bt., engine, with six changes of gear, four Chairman of the Committee of Manage- ahead and two astern, and is capable ment, presided. Some 3,000 people of a speed of from one to twelve miles were present. Among them were many an hour. The engine has been, made children, the schools having been given •waterproof by having the magneto and a half-holiday. Girl Guides formed a carburettor enclosed in water-tight guard of honour, Boy Scouts and covers and the sparking plugs protected. members of the Boys' Brigade gave The total weight of Tractor and trailer their help, music was provided by the is 11J tons. Band of the Licensed Victuallers' School, On a hard surface the Tractor exerts and the singing was led by a voluntary a pressure of about 20 Ibs. per square Choir. The main roads and many of inch, but as soon as it sinks a little the buildings on the Slough Trading this pressure is decreased to 8 Ibs., Estate were decorated. which is less than that of a man's foot. Among those present were the Mayor The old design of Life-boat carriage, and Mayoress of Windsor (Sir William, with a wheel some 6 feet in diameter and Lady Carter), the Dean of Windsor, and a girdle of plates round it, exerts the Military Attache to the American a pressure, when the wheels are standing Embassy, and Miss M. A. Gaskill, in the centre of these plates, of 21 Ibs. Honorary Secretary of the Slough per square inch. When, however, the and Windsor Branch, Mr. George wheels are in the joints between two F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the plates the pressure is greatly increased Institution, Captain Howard F. J. and the wheels sink unduly. With the Eowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector track on the new type of carriage AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 479

By permission of] IGreville's Studios. TRACTOR NAMING CEREMONY. In the centre is H.R.H. Princess Victoria, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management, on her left.

THE SPANISH MOTOR LIFE-BOAT, "SIR WILLIAM HILLARY." 480 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. the pressure per square inch is only journey had its interesting and at times 14 Ibs. on ail soft surfaces. exciting moments for the officer in The launching process is very simple. charge. The Tractor draws the Life-boat to the A route was followed which had been water's edge and turning round leaves carefully chosen to minimize the risks her with her bow facing seawards. It from heavy traffic, sharp corners and then goes into reverse and pushes the bridges, and the police gave most boat into the water until the trailer's willing and courteous help. The good tracks are just submerged. There is nature and ready help of motorists also a winding-drum on tie Tractor, worked deserve to be mentioned. Many of by its engine, and by this means them were compelled to drive their cars the boat is hauled ofi the trailer into into the ditches and even into the the sea. fields, and sometimes there was a When this description of the Tractor stream of waiting cars a hundred yards had been given, Princess Victoria broke long. a bottle of champagne over the radiator There was but one exception to this and named the Tractor " Princess courtesy—the owner of a Rolls-Royce— Victoria." who was very indignant that a Life- After Sir Godfrey Baring had pro- boat should have been allowed on the posed, and Mi. Shee had seconded, a roads during the week-end. One vote of thanks, the Tractor carried out wonders if he would object to being some evolutions. Then the Life-boat rescued from shipwreck " during the Crew, standing with tossed oars, gave week-end." En route the Life-boat was the Princess three cheers. tested, not in a gale of wind but against the parapet of a bridge, where there was only an inch or two to spare. The The Life-boat's Journey to the Coast. Life-boat won easily, but it is only fair Very early on the following morning to add that the bridge was, in the (Saturday) the Tractor and Life-boat military phrase, " part worn." Also left Slough for New Romney, in Kent, a bystander did his best to exonerate where the trials were to be held on the the boat by asserting that the dis- very heavy beach of shingle. The appearance of the parapet was due to Tractor went by train, as its tracks, a Ford car which had just crossed. being intended for work over soft The Life-boat reached New Bomney ground, -would be needlessly damaged on the Sunday afternoon. Testa were on. a long road journey. A Four held during the next three days and Wheel Drive Lorry took the boat showed that some alterations to the in tow, and as the total weight of boat, Tractor would have to be made. carriage and lorry was 14 tons, the When these have been completed the length over 52 feet and the width of trials will be continued at difierent the wheel base 11 feet 6 inches, the Stations.

Sir William Hillary : "A Son of all Countries." THE Spanish Society for Saving the the Institution's Gold Medal for Ms Shipwrecked has named the new Motor gallantry. In its resolution naming Life-boat which it has stationed at the Malaga boat the Spanish Society Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William says, " To Sir William Hillary's initia- Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tive and sacrifice humanity owes all the tion, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., Institutions which are unselfishly helping \ who published his appeal for the forma- ships in danger. He must rightly be j tion of a national Life-boat Service in considered a son of all the countries ; 1823, and who himself took part in carrying on this International Service, the rescue of over 300 lives at Douglas, and he deserves that his memory should Isle of Man, being three times awarded be venerated with deep gratitude." AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 481

Life-boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland. By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne. THERE are thirty-four houses in the 1825, the year after the founding of village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied the Institution itself, a Life-boat was by Stephensons and nine by Stantons. stationed at Boulmer. Sixteen years There are twenty-three men, two of later, the placing of the light on Coquet them being the signalmen, from among Island, and still later the installation of whom the Life-boat is manned. Ten of the fog-signal, did much to diminish them are Stephensons and seven are the number of wrecks, but it remains a Stantons. Of the remaining six, only dangerous coast in spite of what has three are not connected with either of been done to direct and wain shipping. the two families. Both families are very old. The Border Raids. Stantons are the older of the two, being In the early days Boulmer had other of Saxon origin. The Stephensons are dangers to face besides the sea. The of Norse descent, and in the Parish village of Longhoughton, which lies a Registers the name often appears as mile and a half inland, was the original Steanson. Only two miles to the north home of the fishing industry, each fish- is an old Norse settlement Ho-vik, now ing-boat with its crew of four having called Howick; and it is noticeable, allotted to it a certain amount of land to even at the present day, that the family cultivate, and each boat paying so much is above the average in stamina and to the viear. This village was gathered physique. In fact, a number of Stephen- round the Church with its fortified sons who visited the Fisheries Exhibi- towei, which was the place of refuge for tion some years ago attracted consider- all its inhabitants in those sudden and able attention by reason of their size. frequent raids which for centuries made Since the families are so old, I should life so exciting and dangerous in all like to preface the record of their Life- this border-country. It was probably boat services during the past hundred after the union of the-Crowns in 1603, years by some account of Boulmer that conditions became sufficiently itself. The origin of the name, which safe for the people to move away from is pronounced locally Boomer, is given their fortified towers and for the fisher- as Bull's Mere or Bow Mere, but the men to live on the coast. They first second is more probably right, and has moved to Seaton, a little to the south of come from the shape of the water in the Boulmer, and later to Boulmer itself, haven which is enclosed by the reefs with its more commodious haven, but in of rocks in the shape of a bow. The 1624, more than twenty years after the haven itself is known as the Mer-Mouth, union, a plan of it shows only one house. pronounced locally as Marmoothe. Pishing is still the industry of Boulmer lies midway between the Boulmer, and the fishing season is Tyne and the Tweed in the red segment divided into three periods—crab and of the Coquet Island Light, It is lobster in the spring, salmon in the considered by mariners as one of the summer, and white fish in the " back most dangerous points on the North- end " until the crabbing begins again. umbrian coast, and in the days of The herring industry is long since dead. sailing-ships its shore was continually So also is the burning of sea-weed, strewn with wreckage. It is on record known, after it was dried, as kelp. It that in 1785 twenty-six, vessels were was burnt either in brick-kilns or shallow wrecked in the six miles between trenches. From the ashes, sodium car- Coquet Island and Boulmer, besides bonate, potash and iodine were obtained. those that had foundered. Then, in The two kinds of laminaria were the 482 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

EX-COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEPHENSON AND THE LATE MRS. STEPHENSON.

LAUNCHING THE BOULMER LIFE-BOAT. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 483 most valuable sea-weed. They grew Stephensons. Bartholomew Stephen- below low-water mark, and after heavy son succeeded Addison, retiring in 1866. storms was harvest-time. There is still He had then served in the Life-boat a kelp-house at Boulmer, but it is now for 40 years. He was awarded the used as a store for fish, and the word Institution's Silver Medal in recogni- kelp means nothing to the new gene- tion of his long services. Penment ration. Stephenson succeeded Bartholomew, Dead, too, alas ! is the more lucrative and was Coxswain for 32 years, retiring smuggling. For many generations in 1898. He in turn was succeeded by " Boomer and its gin " were famous William Stephenson, who married his all over the borderland. The ruined daughter, and who was Coxswain for refuge tower on Coquet Island and 24| years, retiring in 19 2 2. William was the cells of its vanished monks were awarded the Institution's Silver Medal the favourite rendezvous for the " free in 1913 for one of the finest services of traders," of whom Isaac Addison (the the Boulmer Life-boats, the rescue of name will appear again when we come twenty-five of the crew of thirty of to the Life-boat Crew) was the great the steam trawler, Tadorne of Boulogne. hero, and many tales are told of his The trawler had gone ashore in a fog. dexterity and effrontery. There were She lay surrounded by rocks, with her rhymes, too, about Bouhnet's gin. decks awash, heavy seas rolling over her, and the crew in the rigging so Jimmy Turner of Ford Didna' think it a sin numbed with the cold that they could To saddle his horse on Sundays do little to help themselves (two, in fact, To ride to Bomaer lor gin. had already died of exposure) even And when the Life-boat had got alongside Blind WuII Bawmer of Jethart, the wreck. The French Government His grips no guid to come in, presented William Stephenson with a He felled a' the gangers of Jethart Gold Medal, and the Societe des Hospita- When coming frae Boomer wi' gin, liers Sauveteurs Bretons with its medal, Jethart, it may be mentioned, is the in gratitude for this service. When he famous Jedburgh, and a Jethart stave retired after 32 years' service in all he was used in border warfare. was awarded a pension and the Cox- Like other fishing villages, Boulmer swain's Certificate of Service. has its tradition of wealth coming to a household in a single night, and stories The Work of a Coxswain's Wife. are still told round the winter fireside Mrs. Stephenson, who died in 1923 at of the wreck of the Priscitta and of the age of sixty-five, a Coxswain's wife Queen Mary's treasure ship in 1565, and a Coxswain's daughter, had for fifty when £2000 came as his share to the years taken her share in the work of Lord of the Manor. the Station, both in caring for the ship- wrecked who were brought ashore and Old Superstitions. m the sterner work of launching. Only Those days are long since gone. two years before her death, on a bitter Vanished with them is the old supersti- winter's day, she was in the sea for two tion that it was sacrilege to attempt to hours with the other launchers strug- save a drowning sailor, because that was gling to get the boat afloat, to the help to rob the sea of its appointed toll of of the Craster motor fishing-boat May- victims. For a century Boulmer men flower. But her worst experience was (and women too) have given to the when the Life-boat carriage was washed Life-boat Service the daring, energy, away after the Boat had been launched, and knowledge of the sea which in while the Boat herself had to ride at earlier times were turned to other uses. anchor all night, for the sea and tide The first Coxswain of the Life-boat were so high that she could not have was James Addison—his sister mar- made the shore, even had she tried, ried a Stephenson—but the succeed- and the wind was so fierce that hei ing four Coxswains have all been Crew could not use the oars. When

K2 484 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

SECOND COXSWAIN B. STANTON OF BOULMER.

FORTIFIED CHURCH TOWER, LONGHOUGHTON. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 485 day broke, Mrs. Stephenson, whose nor Stanton, one is a Stephenson on his father and husband were both in the mother's side, and another is brother- Life-boat, saw part of the carriage in- law to one of the Stephensons in the sticking out of the sea, and thought Crew. that it was a piece of the wrecked Boat The Second Coxswain is Barty Stan- and that all her Crew had perished. ton, and one of the Crew is his brother. The present Coxswain is Robert There are two other brothers in the Crew, Stephonson, nephew of Penment both Stantons, and two other members Stephenson. On his appointment in of it are their nephews. The seventh 1922 he had been Second Coxswain Stanton in the present Crew has a for six years. The Bowman, Edward brother who has just retired, and one Stephenson, is his cousin, and he has a of the six who are neither Stephenson nephew and a second cousin among the nor Stanton is the son-in-law of one of Crew. the Stantons in the Crew. There are three other Stephensons in Such is the Life-boat record of these the Crew who are brothers. Their two old Northumbrian families, which father has just retired, and a fourth ioi centuries have earned their liveli- brother is. one of the signalmen. hood on this dangerous coast, and Another member of the Crew is their though there has been no actual loss uncle, and another is their cousin, of life, there is no doubt that the lives making the total of Stephensons up to both of men and women have been ten; while of the six Life-boatmen shortened by the hardship'and exposure whose names are neither Stephenson of Life-boat service.

Life-boat Conferences. Midlands: London : Dumfries. LIFE-BOAT Week at Bristol this year taken by Major C. B. Satterthwaite, included a most successful and well the Deputy-Secretary. organised Life-boat Day on Thursday, The proceedings opened on Friday 16th June, and an assembly from 11 evening, 17th June, with a reception Branches in the Midlands District for for the delegates at the beautiful house a Conference which was held on Satur- of Mr. F. 0. Wills, Chairman of the day, 18th June. In spite of generally Bristol Branch, at Clifton Down. The unfavourable weather this appears to Lord Mayor attended and welcomed have been found stimulating and en- the delegates with a most cordial speech. joyable by all those who attended. Mrs. Horace Walker, President of the Branches represented were : Birming- Bristol Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and ham, Bristol, Cheltenham, Cleethorpes, Mr. Herbert Major, "Vice-Chairman of Lichfield, Leicester, Nottingham, Bet- the Bristol Branch, and Mr. and Mrs. ford, Smethwick, Spilsby, and Button Haitly Hodder, Honorary Secretaries Coldfield. respectively of the Branch and Guild, The Lord Mayor of Bristol gave his were present, together with many patronage, as President of the Bristol members of the Bristol Branch Com- Branch, and would, no doubt, have mittee and the Guild. been able to give more time to the The Conference itself was held in Conference had the Assizes not been the Bristol Branch of the Royal Colonial in progress in the city. Sir Godfrey Institute. The Lord Mayor was pre- Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- vented from attending by important mittee of Management, addressed the civic business, and Mr. F. 0. Wills, Conference, but Mr. George F. Shee, Chairman of the Branch, welcomed the the Secretary, was unfortunately delegates and expressed appreciation prevented by ill-health from making of the work of the Bristol ladies. the journey to Bristol. His place was Sir Godfrey Baring, in his opening 486 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. • address, declared that such Conferences She concluded with an appeal to Bristol tad always been uniformly success- to do even better than that in the future. ful. He referred particularly to the Captain P. T. Winter, the District valuable work of the ladies to whose Organising Secretary for the Midlands, agency at least two-thirds of the then read a report on the general con- money collected for the Institution was dition of the Midlands District. He due, and he emphasised the value of mentioned that of the 111 Branches in small regular subscriptions. He gave the District there were 59 which did an account of the Institution's pro- not possess a working Committee, and gramme for the building of Motor very many towns of considerable im- Life-boats, and stated that the total portance where no Branch existed at cost of that programme would be over all. He drew special attention to the half a million pounds. He referred value of the Works Collection, and gave to the vague charges of extravagant details showing the considerable increase administration which are sometimes which had resulted from it in recent thoughtlessly levelled against the years. Institution, and mentioned that the administrative expenses were under Value of the Ladies' life-boat Guild. 5 per cent, of the whole expenditure. A general discussion on matters of He declared that if the Life-boats were publicity and propaganda followed. handed over to the State the Service Mr. Hartly Hodder emphasised the would lose a great deal of its elasticity value of the personal note in appeals, in administration and that red-tape and urged that every member of a methods would creep in. Branch or Guild ought to make it a point of honour to secure at least one Need for New Branches. fresh subscriber each year. The value Major Satterthwaite, after conveying of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was the Secretary's apologies and regrets referred to by a number of delegates, for his absence, referred to the general and it is hoped that some Branches state of the Midlands District, and to where no Guild exists will be enabled to the large number of towns where no form one as a result of the discussion. Branch exists. He appealed to those Captain Crookes, of the Sir John present to put the District Organising Franklin (Spilsby) Branch, called atten- Secretary in touch with any persons tion to the fact that Branches in the of either sex in such towns who might Midlands District had few chances of be ready to assist in forming Branches. seeing actual Life-boat Stations, and He referred in some detail to the number asked whether arrangements could be of rescues in recent years, and concluded made to notify inland Branches when by an appeal for regular subscriptions, practice launches of Life-boats on the particularly asking that members of coast were taking place. the Local Committee should ensure On the subject of the Works Collec- that their own names appeared yearly tions discussion took place as to the as subscribers. advisability of issuing these locally, Mrs. Horace Walker, President of and the general opinion was undoubtedly; the Bristol Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in favour of this. The proceedings referred to the work of the Bristol terminated with a vote of thanks, ladies, and said that although the local proposed by Mr. Hartly Hodder, and Guild had only been in existence for seconded by Mr. George Ward, Vice- three and a half years it had fully Chairman of the Birmingham Branch.; justified its existence. She stated that The Conference broke up shortly before Life-boat Days were really the only 1 o'clock, and it was felt that had time way of getting into touch with the permitted it might well have been con- people who could afford to give only tinued f 01 a longer period. small sums, and mentioned that the In the afternoon the delegates were result of the Life-boat Day in Bristol enabled to inspect the Institution's on the 16th June would be over £300. Padstow steam tug Helen Peele, 'which AUGUST, 1927-] THE LIFEBOAT. 487 was moored at St. Augustine's Bridge. supported by Lady Florence Pery, Captain H. G. Innes, the Western Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' District Inspector, was in charge of the Life-boat Guild, and Mr. George F. tug, and the delegates were much Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, struck by the beautiful condition of and Captain the Hon. R. S. Mansfield, the vessel. After the inspection the O.B.E., Organising Secretary for delegates were taken for a motor drive Greater London, There were present in various private cars provided by the Honorary Secretaries of Bexley, the members of the Bristol Branch, Bexley Heath, Fulham, New Maiden, and were finally taken to Mrs. Horace Pinner, St. Albans, Tottenham, West Walker's house at Yate, where a Garden Norwood, Barking, Woodford and Party was held. Unfortunately the Epping, Roehampton and Putney. weather was unfavourable, but all Sir Godfrey Baring thanked the Life- those present enjoyed Mrs. Walker's boat workers of London for the great hospitality. On Sunday, 19th June, efforts which they had made on Life- an Organ Recital took place at St. boat Day. The results never quite Mary Bedclifie, and the delegates were came up to expectations, but it was able to inspect this beautiful church. becoming more and more -difficult to Too much praise cannot be given to organise such appeals, and in the ten Mr. and Mrs. Hartly Hodder for the days before Life-boat Day this year no enormous amount of work which they fewer than four other Flag Days had did in arranging the Conference and the I been held. other items of entertainment which An effort must be made next year to were so much enjoyed by the delegates. get an earlier date, for street appeals The Institution is deeply grateful also were the only means of reaching every to Mrs. Walker and Mr. F. O. Wills class of the community. The Chairman for their hospitality. It is hoped that also emphasised the importance of these Conferences will become an annual getting more regular subscribers in affair and that next year possibly two London. There were districts with Conferences may be arranged for the 30,000 and 40,000 inhabitants where the Midlands District—one in the eastern subscription list was almost nothing. part of the area and one in the west. Mr. Shee then spoke on some of the By this means delegates from more methods of appeals which the Institution Branches should be able to attend, and asked its workers to use, and their there is little doubt that it will be ad- suitability for the different types of visable for sucb Conferences to sit in district. The first was the postal the afternoon as well as the morning so circular. It was less suitable to as to give more time for a general dis- London than to other towns, but there cussion. were boroughs of London, such as Kensington and Paddington, where its The London Conference. use should certainly be considered. The Annual Conference of Honorary To be of value, however, it was im- Secretaries of Branches in Greater portant that the Branch should get it London was held at the City Hall, signed by some one of real local influence, Westminster, where the delegates were that it should be addressed to the welcomed by the Mayor, who said that right class of house, and that it should while the City of London was the be so worded as to show the particular birthplace of the Life-boat Service, claim of the Life-boat Service on the the City of Westminster had been the Borough in which it was issued. home of its headquarters for many The House-to-House Envelope Ap- years, and that he was very glad to peal, again, while it would be useless in have an opportunity of showing his the West End, might be used with great pleasure in the close association between effect in the suburbs. It entailed heavy Westminster and the Service. work on the ladies carrying it out, for Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the essence of the appeal was that they the Committee of Management, presided, should personally leave the envelopes, THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. and personally call for them two days to time area conferences should be later. arranged by the Scottish Council. The small drawing-room meeting; at The first of these Conferences was held which the hostess collected no more at Dumfries on April 28th, Provost than five or six of hei friends, might O'Brien taking the chair. The Duke be of great value, if widely used, in of Montrose, Chairman of the Scottish enlisting new workers. Council, was present, and the following The collecting card was a very simple Branches were represented : Dumfries, way of helping the Institution, especially Annan, Kirkcudbright, Port Logan, for ladies who might feel shy of speaking Stranraer, and Newton Stewart. Ad- or collecting in the streets. One lady dresses were given by the Duke of had collected £15 with one card and Montrose, the Rev. Robert Primrose, then £11 with a second one. Mr. Shee V.D., the District Inspector, and the toped that every member of the Guild District Organising Secretary. The Duke would undertake to get at least three of Montiose pointed out that the basis 5s. subscribers. of representation on the Scottish Council On the subject of Life-boat Day, was that every Branch raising £100 Mr. Shee said that a Committee was was entitled to send one representative, to be set up which would take London Branches raising £200 two, and Edin- borough by borough, with the object burgh and Glasgow three each. It was of setting up a good organisation in a matter for great regret that out of each. 105 Scottish Branches only 18 were A discussion followed, principally on entitled to be represented on the Council. the most suitaWe date for Life-boat He also pointed out that £18,000 a year Day, and the best type of badge. The was required simply to maintain the majority were in favour of holding the Scottish Life-boats and at present day in April. They were also in favour of Scotland raised only £11,000. They having only the house-flag and the small ought, he thought, to have sufficient paper badge in the form of a Life-boat, national pride to provide the money being unanimous against adopting a for maintaining their own Life-boats. flower or having two types of badge, Reports were received from the one to be given in return for copper Branches, and the District Organising and the other for silver. Secretary reported that new Branches had been formed at Lockerbie and Newton Stewart, and asked for the The Dumfries Conference. names of those who might help in At the Conference of all the Scottish forming Branches in Mofiat, Ecclefe- Branches, held in Edinburgh last chan, Dalbeattie, Castle Douglas, and January, it was decided that from time Ballantrae.

Practice Launches. AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers Stations will arrange for such announce- held at Bristol on June 18th, of which ments to appear, as long as possible a report appears on page 485, one of before the date, not only in their local the speakers pointed out how much papers but in the principal paper in the it would interest the workers of inland county so that as many ae possible of Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and the workers of neighbouring inland he asked if it -would not be possible Branch es may see it. It is not suggested for such Branches to be notified when that the date should be advertised, for the nearest Station was holding a prac- this expense would not be justified, tice launch. The simplest way of doing but we feel sure that the Press will this would be by getting the date always be ready to publish the dates published in advance in the Press, and of launches—a number of papers in we hope that Honorary Secretaries of fact already do so—as items of news. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 489

Honours for Honorary Workers. Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth. THE Committee of Management at their the Motor Life-boat at Tynemouth. meeting last June elected Miss Alice It was, in fact, the prospect of having Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secre- his help which decided the Institution tary of its Oxford Branch, a Vice- to place at Tynemouth, in 1905, its President of the Institution. She is first experimental Motor Life-boat, a the first lady to receive this, the highest converted Pulling and Sailing Life-boat honour which the Institution can give with a 9-h.p. engine. The difficulties to one of its honorary workers. Miss which Major Burton faced and overcame Marshall, who has been compelled to may be judged by the fact that such give up her Life-boat work on account was the distrust of local fishermen that of ill-health, has been Honorary Secre- for eight months he manned the new tary of the Oxford Branch since 1911. Life-boat with a crew of his own Before that she had been an Honorary sappers. During this time he carried Collector for the Life-boat Saturday out a rescue for which the Institution Fund and was Honorary Treasurer of awarded him Binoculars. the Ladies' Auxiliary of that Fund from Major Barton's work for the Life-boat 1905 to 1910. la 1914 she was awarded Service has brought him many other and the Institution's Gold Brooch, and iu deserved honours. In 1913 he received 1922 elected the first Honorary Life- the Institution's Silver Medal for his Governor. During the sixteen years part in the service to the S.S. Dunelm. that she has been Honorary Secretary In 1914 he won the Gold Medal for the of the Branch, Miss Marshall has service to the Hospital Ship RoMlla, collected for the Life-boat Service over and was presented by the United States £13,500, and has made Oxford, by its of America with its Gold Cross of Honour; generous and regular support, one of and in 1924, with the other Gold the outstanding Branches of the Institu- Medallists of the Institution, he was tion. An account of Miss Marshall's decorated by the King with the Medal work appeared in The Lifeboat for of the Order of the British Empire. February, 1921. Major Burton has now given up his At their meeting in July the Com- work for the Institution only because mittee elected Major H. E. Burton, he is leaving Tynemouth. An account O.B.E., R.E., retiring Honorary Super- of Major Burton's work appeared in intendent of the Tynemouth Motor The Lifeboat for March, 1923. Life-boat, an Honorary Life Governor. I* is a pleasure to extend to both An officer in the Royal Engineers, and these devoted and brilliantly successful a yachtsman holding a Board of Trade workers on behalf of the Life-boat Master's Certificate, Major Burton, Service the hearty congratulations of brought exceptional qualifications and the Institution, and to wish them experience to Life-boat work when he happiness in the leisure which they have became Honorary Superintendent of so well earned.

The Fishwives of CuIIercoats, FOE the sixth year running the fishwives do it indefinitely—they have collected of CuIIercoats have held their collection the splendid sum of £114. Altogether for the Institution on the occasion of in six years they have collected £615. the August road exercise and Launch Mrs. Polly Dankin has again done what I of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay, and seemed almost impossible and increased | although, for the first time, they have her collection. Last year it was £28; not succeeded in beating their record this year it is actually four pounds —and they could hardly continue to more. 490 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927. By Captain H. G. lanes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District. [Each summer the Institution's steam- are more used to the Swansea or Milford tug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at steam trawlers : fine craft, but certainly Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of no things of beauty. taking<7 the two Padstow Life-boatsJ out On to the Mumbles, and while wait- to wrecks, does a fortnight's cruise, partly ing here for the tide many schools of as an exercise and partly to give the 'public mackerel were seen, darkening the sea an opportunity of seeing her. This year's in aJl directions. Hooks and lines were cruise was across the Bristol Channel to over the stern quickly—we are Padstow Tenby, and then to Swansea and up the mea with sea-fishing in our bones—but Channel to Bristol. It is one of the no rack. It was predicted by one of last cruises the Helen Peele will make, the crew, and an ancient fisherman, as a Motor Life-boat of the largest type that, " Them don't take when they'm is to be built for Padstow.] schooling," and so we found. We entered the South Dock about Thursday, 9th June.—The Helen Peele 4 p.m., and. secured astern of a fine left Padstow at 1 p.m. on her Summer Brixham sailing trawler, one of the Cruise. "We waited till this rather late larger type and vulgarly known as a hour to start the trip to Tenby as we " Tosher "—why, I could not ascertain. had a faint hope that our President She Lad just sold her catch. Our might pay us a visit, especially as we skipper is an ex-Brixham fisherman, Lad placed our little ship right under having been brought up in that rough the window of His Royal Highness' school from quite early boyhood; so room at the Metropole Hotel. Perhaps, we soon had visitors on board. Later as he was on a holiday, he thought in the evening the tug was open to the the tug looked too much like " work." Swansea townsfolk, but, as it was a Anyhow, he went to play golf, and the damp evening, there were not many most I can say is that he cast an who took an interest in us. Quite a (I hope) admiring glance or two in our number of our fishing friends came on direction. board, however. And so to sea, as the great diarist might have said, and a very fine trip At Swansea. we Lad to Tenby, passing quite close Saturday, \\th June.—The tug was to Lundy Island. The sea was smooth open to visitors as usual. Some came and the visibility very markedly high— on board in the morning, but the counter foretelling rain. attraction of a sea trip in a " Campbell's We anchored at Tenby about Steamer" to Ilfracombe somewhat 8.30 p.m., and here the Honorary spoiled oui market in the afternoon. Secretary gave me the welcome news Sunday, 12J& June.—-We kept " our- that Ms Life-boat was " on service " selves to ourselves," it being the again—had, as a fact, been out that Sabbath. As a fact, the Swansea very morning on what proved a suc- citizens and citizenesses really got a cessful motor trial. better view of the Helen Peele from the Although the weather was fine, with, dockside than one got by coming on occasional showers, there is always board, and perhaps the thoughts of something of a swell here, and we rolled possible damage to their Sunday best about most of the night. may have kept them at arm's (or rather Friday, IQth June.—At 10 a.m. we " leg's," as it was a good step over the weighed and proceeded for Swansea. gangway) length. This afternoon I went Weather moderate with a fresh breeze. over to Cardiff to be ready for a Barry Close under the Worms Head we saw Dock inspection on Monday. eight Brixham sailing trawlers at work, Monday, 13th June.—The tug open as pretty a sight as uncommon now-a- to visitors and a few on board, but as days in the Bristol Channel, where we it was Monday, and " work while there AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 491

THE PADSTOW LIFE-BOAT TUG, "HELEN PEELE."

ILR.H. PRINCE HENRY INSPECTS THE FOLKESTONE LIFE-BOAT ON 13TH JULY. (The photograph is reproduced by permission of Messrs. Rolls Royce, Ltd., one of whose cars Prince Henry uses.)

K 3 492 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. is any going " is the Swansea motto, tanks and liners. Past " Hangman's only the fair sex was represented. I Dock," where pirates are said to have got back in the afternoon to find half been executed in the good old days. a dozen steam trawlers in from " S.W. Past " Adam and Eve," badly in need of the Smalls/' with good catches. of a coat of paint—two heroic figures, Generous souls, too; no sooner had they one each side of an ancient gateway, made fast than, round they came with " Sea Mills " from whose creek or " pill" parcels (as the city men say) of fresh John Cabot is said to have set sail to fish—soles, whiting, magram (often find Newfoundland, or Terra Nova as skinned and palmed off for soles on the it was called then. Up a tree-lined unwary), gurnet, etc.—all free gratis reach where, in the old " clipper " days, and for nothing, and promises of more the top-gallant and royal yards of the next morning. No town or seaside vessels used to brush the boughs of the dweller knows the taste of a Dover oaks in passing. Under " Cook's Folly," sole fresh from the trawl. The former a wonderful house perched high above as it only comes to them via Billings- our port side. The river now running gate and the fishmonger's shop; and alongside the magnificent " Portway," the latter—well, because no one gets we had a good view of this new road fresh fish at the seaside, it all goes to from Bristol to Avonmouth, the finest Billingsgate! road in the Kingdom. Under Clifton Bridge, hanging above us in the haze On the way to Bristol. like a giant spider's web spun from clifE Tuesday, Uth June.—6 a.m. under to cliff. weigh, bat not so early but one of our Arrived at the Cumberland Basin " hands " has been twice to the good our pilot leaves us. He had rendered ship Oystermouih Castle—once for a us his services most kindly free of generous " fry" of fish (about three charge, and had added to our obliga- stone!) and the second time for some tions by his lively descriptions of all " fat " to fry them in! At the dock the sights on the way up, from the gates we gave a " pluck " to Gem, a banana ships at Avonmouth to the fine Brixham smack who was proceeding tobacco warehouses at Bristol City. to sea on her " lawful occasion," now From the Cumberland Basin we were with all her pretty tanned sails set, but our own pilots to our berth at St. minus a breath of wind so early. We Augustine's Bridge, where we secured— took her right down to the Mumbles right in the heart of the city—at 7 p.m. Light—much to her joy—where we left On the way we passed the smart Gem with a fine breeze springing up B.N.V.R. training-ship, not forgetting to take her to the westward. Helen to dip our red to her white ensign. Peele shaped course for the Scarweather Lightship, on our way to King Eoad Over a. Thousand Visitors. and Bristol City. As we got near the From Ibth-l'dth June.—We lay at vessel the idea was conceived to give Bristol, the occasion of our visit being her some papers and surplus fish, and, the Bristol City Life-boat Day on the better still, some " squid" as bait. 16th, and tie delegates' visit in con- A hail soon brought the Lightship's nection with the Life-boat Conference men alongside in their " small boat," on the 18th. and the fish and a big bundle of papers I should not like to guess at the and magazines were soon transhipped. number of visitors who came on board She was blowing her fog-horn, and we here, it probably runs into four figures. •were glad to leave such a noisy craft On the Day we dressed ship " rainbow astern. fashion " and tried to look our smartest, By 5 p.m. we were up at King Road an effort rather spoiled by heavy showers, looking out for our pilot. With him each longer than the last. Our boxes on board and a young flood under our were kept busy—the two we had on keel we were soon steaming up the board—by their collectors, but I wish Avon. Past Avonmouth with its oil- the public had been busier with their AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 493 money. A very active A.B. of the of Helen Peele ! At noon we entered Bristol Division R.N.V.R. shook one the docks at Portishead and secured box, one of our crew the other. We the tug. The afternoon was spent in could not claim any of the collections removing some of the Bristol mud and for the tug, of course. Mr. Hartly cleaning the snip generally. Hodder, the very energetic Honorary Tuesday, 21si June.—Lying at Portis- Secretary of the Bristol Branch, saw head the tug was open to visitors as to that. usual, but there were very few about. I should like here to pay a tribute to Wednesday, 22nd June.-—We left the the very good work which Mr. and Mrs. docks at 11 a.m. and proceeded down Hartly Hodder, and all their helpers channel for Clovelly. We had the ebb did that day, in spite of rain. It was tide •with, us but also a westerly wind 10 p.m. and later before all the money against us, which latter we could have was safely banked. The workers— very well done without. As it was it quite an army of them—must have sent up a short high sea which suited been dead beat. the tug's " pitching period " admirably. On the Saturday afternoon Mr. By the time we had got half-way Hodder had arranged for motor drives across Barnstaple Bay there was quite into the surrounding country for the a sea on, and as Clovelly did not look delegates. He most kindly included like much shelter we pushed on for me, and my charming hostess for the Hartland and home (Padstow). The afternoon took me a very enjoyable tide had now turned against us and it round before " casting anchor " at Mrs. was a tedious " plug" to Tintagel, Horace Walker's " At Home." dark and forbidding in the twilight, We went along " Portway," even and needing little imagination to see more wonderful than it looked from Merlin at bis incantations. Thence to the river, to Shirehamptom, and Aust, Pentire, 10.30 p.m. and cold. No where in the old days, before tie lights to guide us, but our skipper Severn tunnel was made, travellers knows Ms way and we are soon over from the Welsh coast landed for their the Doom Bar—past the buoys-—and ten-mile drive to Bristol, and from all alongside by 11 p.m.—a good day's accounts the ferry from South Wales run for a 26-year-old. to Aust was not to be lightly undertaken, Thursday, 2Zrd June.—The day was lion Acton we visited, much prettier spent coaling and later cleaning, the than, its name. Altogether, and in spite inevitable sequel, and so ended the of rain, a lovely run. cruise. On the whole, I think it aroused On Sunday Mr. Hodder provided an interest in what visitors there were, organ recital at St. Mary Redclifie— and it kept the Institution before the eyes pronounced by experts to be the finest of the South Wales and Bristol public. parish church in England. It certainly Rain spoiled a good many of our has a wonderful organ and organist. days, and if a great deal of money was Early on Monday we were under weigh not collected—and we did not do so again, steaming through the basins and badly at Bristol—the " bad times" locks and down the river now full of must be borne in mind. daft coming and going. Quite exciting As regards the tug and her equip- navigation, too—passing the big ones— ment, no fault could be found, and knowing as we did that a touch on the the conduct of the crew was, as usual, bank would probably mean the end excellent.

Forthcoming Articles. IN the next number of The Lifeboat of the visit of the Margate Motor will appear accounts of the naming of Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat of a memorial to distinguished Calais by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and Life-boatmen. 494 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. ]. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-boat Station. THERE has been a Life-boat of the to be seen but a smother of broken Institution at Teignmouth, in South water. Through this the Life-boat was Devon, for 76 years, and for well over taken. At times she was completely half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who enveloped, and one heavy sea, breaking is one of three honorary Life-boat right into her, knocked over every man workers of the same name) has been of the Crew, carried every oar over- its Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. board, and swept the boat herself For many years also he has been back towards the harbour. Her Crew the Chairman of the Teignmouth got her under control again, and when Harbour Commis- she was beyond the sioners and he is a breakers, although Sub - Commissioner the seas were very of Pilotage under heavy, sail could be Trinity House. set. When she Thus he brings reached the wreck special knowledge she found her with and experience to the seas breaking his Life-boat work. clean over her, her He is, moreover, crew in the rigging, one of those and the sea all Honorary Secre- round covered with taries who not only wreckage and the take the closest timber which she interest in the had been carrying Station, but share as a deck cargo. with the Life-boat To get near to her Crew their hard- in a sea so heavy ships and dangers. and so strewn with He was appointed timber was very in April, 1885. difficult and During the forty- dangerous, but the three years of his Life-boat, very Honorary Secre- MR. W. J. BURDEN. skilfully handled, taryship the Teign- Honorary Secretary and Treasurer at Teignmouth, was brought near mouth Lifeboat Devon. enough for a rope has rescued 70 to be passed be- lives, and on practically every service, tween the two, and the eight men of as well as every exercise, Mr. Burden the schooner's crew were safely hauled has gone out in the Life-boat. through the breaking seas into the Of the many services in which he Life-boat. They were only just in time. has taken part the most arduous and Fifteen minutes later the three masts dangerous was the service to a three- went by the board, and all that re- masted schooner from Riga, the mained of the Tehwija was wreckage. Tehwija, which on the afternoon of In this gallant service Mr. Burden October 10th, 1907, in a strong S.S.W. took a distinguished part, and himself gale, with a very heavy sea, was driven steered the Life-boat at the critical ashore on the outer part of the Pole time when she was crossing the bar, so Sands. When the Teignmouth Life- that the Coxswain and Second Cox- boat was launched it was nearly low swain might be free to help in double- water, and on the harbour bar, and for banking the oars. Both Mr. Burden half a mile to seaward, there was nothing and the Coxswain were awarded the AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 495 Institution's Silver Medal for their Branch raised altogether £209. During gallantry. the past 10 years it has raised nearly On the financial side of the Branch's £1,200. work Mr. Burden has also given the In addition to the Silver Medal, Mr. Institution valuable help. Teignmouth Burden was presented by the Institu- was one of the first places to hold a tion with Binoculars in 1896, and in Life-boat Day, nearly 40 years ago, 1907 he received the Decoration (now and its record year was in 1920 when the Gold Badge), which is given only Life-boat Day collected £163 and the for long and distinguished services.

On the High Seas. ALTHOUGH the work of the Institution Compulsory Insurance of Passengers. is to succour those in peril from ship- A matter of great importance to wreck round our coasts, it is well that seafarers has been under discussion— we should never forget the perils of the compulsory insurance of passengers those on the high seas, the gallant by the shipping companies. It has rescues performed there, and the long twice before been discussed by the suffering which may come to those Comite International Maritime and it shipwrecked or adrift in mid-ocean even again came before the Comite at its in these days of wireless. There have meeting at Amsterdam at the begin- been several cases during the past ning of August, after having been dis- summer to remind us that in spite of cussed by a sub-committee since the modern inventions those perils remain. last full conference. The two countries On June 27th two men from a New- advocating this very important scheme foundland fishing schooner, the Donald are Great Britain and Italy, and it H. Creaser, were lost in a fog. They has the support generally of British were then 150 miles from land. For shipowners. In one or two countries eleven days they were adrift in mid- opinion is divided, but the majority are ocean, losing three of their four oars. at present opposed to the idea, the During that time they had only a few feeling being that the scheme asks dozen biscuits, and for drink, pieces of shipowners to undertake a new and ice which they had broken off an ice- undetermined expense. The English berg. When they were picked up they view was put by Sir Norman Hill, had drifted between 4CO and 500 miles. Bt., Chairman of the Board of Trade The steamer which found them brought Advisory Committee on Merchant them to this country, and from here Shipping, who pointed out how wide- they were sent home to Newfound- spread was the desire for some such land. scheme among passengers, and also Two French fishermen nearly lost among those responsible for emigrants. their lives in the same way. They got It was on his suggestion that the adrift in a dory from the Theresa, of Comite asked the Sub-Committee to Granville, France, in a thick fog on the continue its work on the scheme, and Newfoundland fishing banks, and were decided to call a special conference of the adrift for eight days. For three days Comite to consider the question when the weather was rough and they were the Sub-Committee had reported. constantly baling. They, too, had only a few biscuits on board and a little water, both of which were finished Distress Signals at Sea. several days before they were picked As long ago as 1919 the possibility up by a steamer. was considered of inventing an automatic Several awards have also been made device for the purpose of registering during the summer by foreign govern- distress signals received on board ship, ments to British seamen for gallantry and since then experiments have been on the high seas in rescuing lives from going on. The first apparatus designed sinking vessels. was not found to be sufficiently reliable 496 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. and the experiments were continued, two wireless operators, and these vessels with the result that the Radio Com- will now only have to carry one oper- munication Company and the Marconi ator. On the larger vessels with|three Company have now both designed appa- operators, and the smaller with only ratus which have passed the tests of one,, its use is optional. the Admiralty, Post Office, and Board There seems no doubt that this new of Trade, as able to maintain a safe invention will make still more certain watch under the most adverse condi- that appeals for help will be heard. tions and have been officially approved Thus, although the perils of the sea for use on British ships. remain, and will always remain, each The use of the apparatus has been year brings new inventions both on our made compulsory by the Board of coasts and on the high seas for defend- Trade on all vessels which have to carry ing seafarers against them.

Review. The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large the endless changing of our coast-lines print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges through the action of the sea. Those has succeeded in compressing an extra- who are familiar with the Institution's ordinary number of facts, almost work on the coast know the great bewildering in their variety, but very difficulties which these changes some- interesting not only to the amateur but times cause it in the construction of even to the professional sailor. The boathouses and slipways. After this sea, Mr. Bridges tells us, is the Mother chapter Mr. Bridges takes us on a of Life, aud then he goes on to give an rapid tour among Pirates and Privateers, account of its movements. Those who Floating Cities, Ships of Pleasure, Sea feel that they have already learnt all Fish and Sea Food, Sea Serpents, and that they want to know on that subject Lighthouses, and ends a most readable on cross-Channel steamers will possibly and entertaining book with a short but pass on with relief to the next chapter excellent account—with eight illustra- on Sea versus Land, with its account of tions—of our Life-boat Service.

Gifts from Crews. ON the 8th October, 1926, the Aber- On the 23rd July of this year, the dovey Life-boat rescued the crew of Lowestoft Motor Life-boat rescued the four of the ketch Madge, of Chester, and crew of four of the Belgian motor trawler saved the vessel. Out of the salvage Yolande and helped to save the vessel. money received the Crew have given Out of the salvage money received the £5 11s. to the Institution. Life-boat Crew have given a donation On December 13th of the same year, of £3 16*. 8d. to the Institution. the Ramsgate Life-boat went out to On 21st May last, the Ramsgate the help of the S.S. GoHoni, of Fiume, Motor Life-boat helped the motor which had stranded on the Goodwin launch Vanitie, of Wivenhoe, which Sands. With her help the steamer was was disabled by engine trouble when refloated. Out of the salvage money near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. Out received for this service the Crew of the salvage money received for this have given £16 10s, id. to the Institu- service the Life-boat Crew have given tion. £2 Os. Gd. to the Institution. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 497

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. To WILLIAM MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 19 years as a member of the Life- serving 26 years as Coxswain of the Eye- boat crew, latterly as Bowman, a Life- mouth Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and boatman's Certificate of Service. a Pension. To JOHN GATK, on his retirement on the closing To ALFRED BINDING, on his retirement, after of the Station, after serving nearly 20 years serving 24 years as Coxswain of the Watchet as Signalman and previously 7 years as a Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a member of the crew of the Cambois Life- commuted Pension. boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service To GEORGE McEAOHRAN, on his retirement, and a Pension. after serving 26J years as Coxswain and Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service have previously 2J years as Bowman of the been awarded to the following men who have Campbeltown Life-boat, a Certificate of retired on the closing of the Cambois Life- Service and a Pension. boat Station, the figures after their names To NEIL MCK.ENKIE, on his retirement, after being their years of service:— serving 10 years as Second Coxswain and previously 16 years as Bowman of the ISAIAH HYDE (13). Campbeltown Life-boat, a Life-boatman's GEORGE RICHARDSON (11). Certificate of Service and a Pension. THOMAS HENRY KENNEDY (10). To JOHN DAWSON, on his retirement on the ROBERT CRAFT (19). closing of the Cambois Station, after MATTHEW WATSON (28). serving 17 years as a member of the Life- EMMANUEL SIMMONS (37). boat crew, latterly as Coxswain and pre- JOHS WA.TSON (29). viously as Second Coxswain, a Life- CUTHBERT DUNN (10). boatman's Certificate of Service. JOHN JONES (35). To THOMAS Fox, on his retirement on the WILLIAM WADE (33). closing of the Cambois Station, after HENRY WHITE (15). serving 15 years as a member of the Life- WILLIAM TODD (15). boat crew, latterly as Second Coxswain and GEORGE WILSON (14). previously as Bowman, a Life-boatman's To JAMES STEPHEN, of Montrose, on his re- Certificate of Service. tirement, after 49 years as a member of the To ROBERT WILLIAMSON, on his retirement Life-boat crew, a Life-boatman's Certificate on the closing of the Cambois Station, after of Service.

Awards to Honorary Workers. The election of Miss ALICE MARSHALL, of gave at the Royal Life-boat Matinee at the Oxford, a Vice-President of the Institution, Lyceum Theatre, London, on the 3rd May, and of Major H. E. BURTON, of Tynemouth, 1927, Records of Thanks were awarded to an Honorary Life-Governor, is recorded the following :— elsewhere in this issue. The following Miss GWEN FFRANGCON-DAVIES. awards have also been made:— Mr. JOHN GIELGUD. To Mr. DANIEL MoBsiDK, B.L., upon his Miss ALICE NAYUSB.. retirement after sixteen years as Honorary Mr. BILLY BENNETT. Secretary of the Dumbarton Branch, pre- Miss MARIE DATNTON. vious to which he had for many years Miss WENDY TOYE. worked for the Life-boat Saturday Fund, Miss EDNA LESLIE. being a member of the Central Committee Mr. FRED DIXON. of the Fund, the Gold Pendant and the THE SAVOY ORPHEANS. Record of Thanks. Mile. DELYSIA. To Mr. CHARLES A. HAY, on his retirement, Miss MARJORIE CLAKKE-JERVOISE. after 23 years' service as Honorary Secre- Miss ULA SHARON. tary of the Lossiemouth Branch, the Miss IRENE MAWER. Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Miss RUBY GINNER. vellum and framed. Miss KATHLEEN SIMPSON, L.R.A.M. To Mr. JAMES STEVEN, on his retirement, after To Mr. G. McWiLLiAM, on his retirement, 6 years' service as Honorary Secretary of after upwards of 40 years' service as the Wick and Ackergill Branch, a Framed Honorary Treasurer of the Bournemouth Photograph of a Life-boat going out to a Section of the Poole, Bournemouth, vessel in distress. Wimborne and Christchurch Branch, a To Mrs. G. H. PHILLIPS, of the Plymouth Framed Photograph of a Life-boat going Branch, in recognition of her many years out to a vessel in distress. work, a Framed Photograph of a Life-boat To Mrs. G. McWiLLiAM, in recognition of her going out to a vessel in distress. valuable co-operation, the Gold Brooch In recognition of the services which they and the Record of Thanks. 498 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927-

Obituary. Ex-Coxswain John Hayter, of Brooke, Isle of Wight. MR. JOHN HAYTER, who was for 32 waves and they themselves were ex- ! years Coxswain of the Life-boat at hausted. Four years later, in February, Brooke, Isle of Wight, died on 17th 1892, Coxswain Hayter received the July, at the age of 91. He was Third Service Clasp when the Life-boats appointed Coxswain when the Station at Brooke, Atheifield, and Brighstone I was opened in 1860 and retired in Grange went out to the help of the S.S. 1892. He was four times awarded the Eider, of Bremen, bound for South- Institution's Silver Medal. The first ampton, and Bremen from New York. occasion was in 1886, when he received She, like the Sirenia, had stranded on it for good services extending over the Atherfield Ledge in a thick fog. twenty-six years. Two years later he The weather was stormy and a very won the Second Seivice Clasp when the rough" sea vras running. Between them Sirenia, of Glasgow, stranded on the reef the three Life-boats made forty-one of rocks known as the Atherfield Ledge journeys to the Eider and brought in a thick fog, her crew being rescued ashore 379 persons, mails and specie. by the Brighstone Grange Life-boat. The three Coxswains, besides receiving The Brooke Life-boat was also launched, the Institution's Silver Medal, were and was struck by a very heavy breaker each presented with a Gold Watch by when close to the vessel. Three of the the German Emperor. In November Crew were washed out of her, one of of the same year Coxswain Hayter them, the Second Coxswain, losing his retired and was awarded a fourth life. In attempting to rescue him the Clasp to his Silver Medal and a gratuity. Life-boat was carried away from the In the thirty-two years during which he j wreck, bat her Drew continued their had been Coxswain the Brooke Life- I efforts to get back to her until a number boat had rescued from shipwreck 222 of their oars had been, broken by the lives.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 28th April, 1927. Voted £130 13*. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair. lives Life-boat. Vessel. rescued. Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, Beaumaris (Motor). Motor ketch Try- and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members fan, of Liverpool. of the Committee of Management. Landed 3. Decided to close the Grimsby Life-boat Dungent-ss No. 1 . S.S. Fvlmar, of Station. Liverpool. Ren- Reported the receipt of the following special dered assistance. contributions:— Holy Island No. 1 . Motor yawls Vic- £ a. d. (Motor) tory, Isabella, J, J. CKOSFIEID, Esq. (donation, Breadwinner, and interest to cover annual sub- Provider, of Holy- scription) 200 - - Island, and Edith MissPANTiiro (additional donation) 50 - - Cavell, of Sea- LEO. M. TOBHT, Esq. (additional houses. Stood donation) 30 - - by fishing boats. ALAN C. HABBJS, Esq. (additional North Sunderiand . Eleven fishing donation) 25 - - cobles of North —To be thanked. Sunder! and. Stood by fishing Paid £22,594 3s. lid. for sundry charges cobles. in connexion with the construction of Life- Scarborough . . Coble Reliance 11., boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and (Motor) of Scarborough. the maintenance of the various Life-boat Escorted coble establishments. into harbour. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 499 Lives the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat and holder Life-boat. Vessel. rescued. of the Institution's Silver Medal. The Seaham (Motor) A motor boat accident happened as the boats were returning and two small from fishing, and the Margery, which was boats. Saved safely over the bar, immediately put about. three boats and . 1 Careful search was made, but only one sur- Swanage. French ketch Sel- vivor could be found. The salvors incurred lock. Stood by a certain amount of risk, and it was only vessel. the handling of the boat by Robert Tait Whitby (Motor) , Fishing cobles Jo/m which prevented it being swamped like the Bay, Unity, and Lenvick. Mary, of Whitby. Stood by cobles. Voted £6 to four men for rescuing the four Yarmouth, I. of W. S.S. Yapalaga, of men of a salmon yawl who were washed out (Motor) Philadelphia. of her by heavy seas when fishing off Youghal, Landed an in- on the 17th March, in a strong S.E. gale. jured man. Fortunately they were able to cling to their Yarmouth, I. of W. Schooner Anna- boat until the salvors, who were also out (Motor) marie, of Ham- fishing, were able to reach them. With some burg. Rendered risk and difficulty the rescuers were able to assistance. get the four men into their boat, and also salved the disabled yawl. The Angle Life-boat saved the tug Wrestler, Decided that a Letter of Thanks be addressed of Glasgow. to Captain JOHN CSAGIE, of the S.S. Orcadia, Also voted £218 5s. 6rf. to pay the expenses and voted £2 to the Boatswain and £1 10*. to of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies four other members of the crew, for rescuing of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons the three men of the ketch Royal Exchange, on vessels in distress:—Angle, Caister, of Wick, which was wrecked on the Holm of Caister No. 2, Berwick-on-Tweed, Brightstone, Spurness on the 15th November. The ketch, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor), which was on passage from Wick to Caithness, Holyhead, Looe, New Brighton, Penlee lost her staysail during a strong squall from (Motor), Ramsgate, Walmer, Wells and Whitby. the N.W. and became unmanageable. Both Granted £68 15*. to persons for injury in anchors were dropped, but the cables parted, the Life-boat service at Blackpool, Bfafceney, and the crew launched their small boat and Cardigan, Lyme Regis, Moelfre, Ramsey, succeeded in reaching some rocks. They were out of range of the life-saving apparatus, Scarborough, and Walton-on-the-Naze. and the Orcadia went to their help and after Granted a special pension to THOMAS G. two attempts her ship's boat was successful Hi5 ABD, Coxswain at Wai mer, who was partially in rescuing the three men. disabled by breaking his thigh when trans- ferring the Life-boat from Kingsdown on the 8th January, 1927. Thursday, 26th May, 1927. Voted a grant of £5 to JOHN MACKENZIE, who after serving as Bowman and Second Coxswain The Hon. GEORGE COLVOI/E in theX'hair. of the Machrihanish Life-boat for several years Reported the death of His GKACE THE DBKE resigned in order to emigrate. OF LEEDS, a Vice-President of the Institution. Voted £4 to the Coxswain of the Yarmouth, Reported the receipt of the following Isle of Wight, Motor Life-boat and three other special contributions : — men for rescuing a woman and two men who £ *. d. were thrown into the water when their boat— Messrs. SASDOH & Co., Ltd. (dona- the dinghy of the yacht Z/urKe—was capsized tion) ...... 52 10 - off Yarmouth, on the night of I7th April. Anonymous (additional donation) 50 - - Their cries were heard, and the four men " A. W." (donation) . ... 30 - - put off at once in a boat and found them "A. W." (subscription) ... 5 - - clinging to the overturned dinghy. A strong PEBCY E. ttrasi, Esq., per Philip flood tide was running -with, a moderate G. Peabody, Esq ..... 26 5 - •westerly wind and had it not been for the Mrs. P. E. HURST, per Philip G. promptness of the resellers they would, in Peabody, Esq ...... 26 5 - all probability, have been drowned. A Miss LUCIA PEABOBY, per Philip reward was also given to the four men by the G. Peabody, Esq ..... 26 5 - three rescued persons. Miss LOTJISA Ssow, per Philip G. Voted £3 to EOBEBT TAIT, Skipper, and Peabody, Esq ...... 26 5 - £2 each to the other three men of the fishing The Hon. and Rev. EDWARD V. R. boat Margery, who by their promptitude and POWYS (additional donation) . 26 5 - seamanship rescued one of the crew of the The late Miss AKEJLA HTOJT (dona- motor yawl Lertvick, which was swamped tion) ...... 25 - - when crossing the bar at Berwick-on-Tweed, — To be thanked. on the 24th March. The other three members £18,695 17s. 2Redcar Life-boat launched to the breeze, a racing gig, with a crew of five, S.S. Holywett, oi Sunderiand. j capsized when turning near the Block Light- ) house. Seeing the accident from their Head- Voted a compassionate grant of -£5 to quarters, the Scoutmaster and four Scouts F. W. PABKY, ex-Bowman of the Llandudno immediately manned the nearest boat and Life-boat, who is now unable to work owing went to the rescue. Four men were picked up, to illness due to some estent to his Life-boat but the other man could not be found. One service. of the men picked up was unconscious and Granted an additional reward to the crew unfortunately could not be revived, although of the Burnham Life-boat in recognition of every effort was made. No great risk was an arduous service launch on the night of the incurred by the rescuers, but their promptness 5th June. Also directed that a Letter of and skill were the means of saving the lives Appreciation be sent to Mr. DOWLAS RIDD, of the three men. who rendered assistance on this occasion. Voted £3 to two men for rescuing the two Addressed a Letter of Appreciation to the occupants of the sailing coble Jean and Alice, Porthdinllaen Life-boat Crew, and to the of Whitby, on the 5th May. Also granted Honorary Secretary, Capt. OWEN EVAJJS, 2s. 6d. for petrol used. While hauling crab who accompanied them, for an arduous pots the coble was struck by a heavy squall service launch on the 16th June. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 501 Voted £8 to four men who rescued the only Lives occupant of a small boat off Wicklow, on the Life-boat. Vessel. rescued. 5th June, which had been overtaken by a Cullercoats S.S. Homewood, of squall from the N.N.W., with a rough sea, Middlesbrough. and was being rapidly carried out to sea. Stood by vessel. The promptness with which the salvors put Holy Island No. 1 Motor yawl Sarah out in a boat to the rescue probably saved (Motor) Brigham, of Holy the man's life. Island. Saved vessel and rescued 3 Voted 10s. to two men who, with the Life- Margate (Motor). Yacht Smew, of boat's Chief Motor Mechanic, put off, on the Woodbridge. Saved 4th June, from New Brighton, in a motor yacht and rescued 1 boat to the help of a small boat, the occupants New Brighton No. The Formby Light- of which were reported to be waving a flag 2 (Birkenhead) vessel. Stood by to attract attention. It was found that the (Motor) vessel. boat contained soldiers who were signalling Ramsey . Steam trawler Cevic, to a battery ashore. of Fleetwood . . 6 Voted 15s. to two men who, with the Scarborough . Motor coble Morning Life-boat's Chief Motor Mechanic, manned a (Motor) Star, of Scar- motor boat and searched for a small vessel borough. Rendered reported to be in difficulties off New Brighton, assistance. on the 16th June. No casualty could be Whitby . Motor 'fishing coble found nor was one afterwards reported. (Motor) Francis, of Whitby. Directed that Letters of Appreciation be Escorted coble into addressed to Messrs. ROBINSON, SCOTT, and harbour. GABBTJT, Coxswain, Chief Motor Mechanic, Yarmouth Ketch Nelly, of Ports- and Second Motor Mechanic, respectively, of I. of W. (Motor) mouth. Landed 1. the New Brighton Life-boat, for their prompt rescue of a man who had fallen from the land- The Cromer (Motor) Life-boat saved the ing stage, on the llth June. The rescuers, steam trawler Anson, of Grimsby, and rescued who were returning in a dinghy from the her crew of nine ; and the Rosslare Harbour Life-boat, were just in time to save him, as he (Motor) Life-boat saved the lugger Mona, of was exhausted. Wexford, and rescued her four hands. Also voted £196 2s. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons Thursday, 21st July, 1927. on vessels in distress :—Brighstone Grange, Sir GODFBEY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair. Brighton, Caister No. 2, Dunbar, Eastbourne, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor), Co-opted Sir FREDERICK T. HOPKINSON, Hoylake, New Brighton, Palling No 2, K.B.E., a Member of the Committee of Porthdinllaen (Motor), Portrush (Motor), Management. Rhoscolyn, Seaham (Motor), Selsey and Elected Major H. E. BUHTON, O.B.E., Bognor (Motor), Whitby, Wells, and Wicklow E.E., retiring Hon. Superintendent of the Tyne- (Motor). moMtb, Motor Life-boat, an Honorary Life Voted a special gratuity of £20 to WILLIAM Governor. WALSH, in recognition of his services in the Decided to close the Peterhead No. 1 Wexford Life-boat, on his retirement after Life-boat Station. many years as a member of the crew. Reported the re-opening of the Rosslare Voted a special grant of £2 to ELLIS DOYLE, Harbour Life-boat Station and the closing of Penmon, in recognition of his services as of the Wexford Station. Also reported the Signalman and Night Watchman. opening of the new Station at Galway Bay. Granted an additional reward to the Crew of Appointed Mr. ROBERT W. ASCROIT, M.B.E., the Margate (Motor) Life-boat for an arduous Organizing Secretary for the Midlands Dis- service on the 26th June, when the yacht trict, vice Captain F. T. WINTER retired. Smew was saved and her only occupant rescued. Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Granted additional rewards to the Crew £ s. d. and helpers of the Ramsey Life-boat for an White Star Steamers' Charity arduous service on the 26th June, when six Account (additional donation) . 50 - - men were rescued from the steam trawler —To be thanked. Cevic, of Fleetwood. Paid £21,757 19*. 3d. for sundry charges in Voted £2 to four men for rescuing the four connexion with the construction of Life-boats, occupants of a small pleasure boat which Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the was in danger of being carried out to sea maintenance of the various Life-boat establish- at Blackrock,' on the 19th June. Also ments. granted 5s. to the owner of the boat used Voted £110 18s. 9d. to pay the expenses of by the rescuers. the following Life-boat services :— Voted £1 to four men for putting out in a 6 502 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. •< motor boat to the rescue ol a bather at Black- Voted £7 10s. to ten men who put out from poo), on the 1st July. Also granted 2s. 6d. for Newcastle, Co. Down, on the 25th June, to fuel consumed. The bather was being carried help the occupant of a small boat which was out to sea by the ebbing tide and an off- in distress. A boat from H.M.S. Hood, which shore breeze, and the prompt action of the was lying in the bay, rescued the man just rescuers undoubtedly saved his life. before the motor boat reached him. Owing Voted £2 to two men for rescuing the crew, to the wind and sea the motor boat had a five in number, of the schooner Western Lass, rough journey back and did not arrive until of Plymouth, on the 13th July. During a midnight, "frith her crew suffering from cold very thick fog the vessel had struck the and exposure, having been out since about Brissons Bock, near Cape Cornwall, and 8 p.m. foundered. Her crew took to the ship's boat Voted £6 17.9. 6d. to the Coxswain of the in an endeavour to reach land. They were Blakeney Life-boat and ten other men for sighted by the two men, who were going out putting off, in a motor boat, to the help of fishing, and who picked them up and landed two motor boats which had run ashore at them at Sennen. No risk was incurred by the Blakeney Point, on the 26th June. Also salvors, but their knowledge of the coast granted £1 to the owner of the motor boat used. probably saved the lives of the five men, who As the Blakeney Life-boat was under overhaul, had intended to land at a, spot where their the boat went out in response to a signal boat could not have lived. hoisted by the bird-watcher at the Point. Voted £2 to four-men for landing six soldiers Just before she reached the position the who had got into difficulties while bathing signal was hauled down as the occupants of from an open boat near Tenby, on the 9th the boats had landed safely. July. Also granted 7s. Gd. for petrol used.

Protect your Car in Stormy Weather. THE Prince of Wales, President of the boatmen who lost their lives in 1897, Institution, the Duke of York, Prince when going out in a surf-boat to a Henry, Prince George, Princess Louise, vessel in distress, and there is a life- Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' size reproduction on the outside of Life-boat Guild, and Princess Victoria, Life-boat House, London. The mascot have all accepted for use on. their cars is made in two sizes, and a photograph the Institution's Motor Mascot in the of it appeared in The Lifeboat for form of a Life-boatmaa. This mascot September last year. It is hoped that is a reproduction of the figure of the all Life-boat workers with cars will Life-boatman which, stands on the follow the roval example and help the memorial at Margate to nine Life- Institution by using it.

A Big Increase in the World's Shipping. THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of This is the result partly of new building Shipping which have just been published and partly of a falling off in the break- record the very interesting fact that ing up of old tonnage. Shipowners find during the past year the total tonnage cause for congratulation in the fact that of the world has been increased by freights have been found for so many 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big additional ships. To the Life-boats it an increase as in the previous year. may mean more calls on their services.

" Leave Me To Drown.' AN Irishman who was asked to help the ing in a storm to leave me there." It Life-boat Service to form a Branch has is quite a safe thing to say. The Cox- replied that he has so many other things swains of the Life-boats never ask the to subscribe to that he can do no more, shipwrecked to produce receipts showing and adds, " the only way the Life-boat that they ate subscribers to the Institu- can retaliate is when they see me drown- tion before rescuing them. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 503

News from the Branches. Since the War only three issues of THE LIFEBOAT have been published annually. Owing to the great increase in the amount of matter for publication, particularly in reports of the work of Branches, the Committee have dec^ded to revert to the practice of four issues in the year, dated February, May, August, and November. This is the third number published this year and it will therefore be followed by another number in November. Annual Meetings : Station Branches. coasts. He also appealed to the Civil BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE). •— On Service in the Free State to follow the 22nd March, Mr. C. H. Turver, Chair- example of the Civil Service in Great man, presiding in the absence of the Britain which in the past sixty years Mayor. The report for the year ending had raised over £70,000 for the Life- 30th September, 1926, showed that the boat Service, and start a similar fund. Life-boat had been out on service once He felt sure that such a fund would and that £501 had been collected as have its support. The Meeting thanked compared with £371 in the previous the Officers and Committee of the year. In presenting the report, Mr. Branch, and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. L. H. Franceys, the Honorary Treasurer, said that the subscriptions amounted DUNDEE (FORFARSHIRE) .—On 22nd only to £34, and though this was an April, Mr. J. M. Hunter Mitchell, J.P., increase of £12 they were altogether President, in the chair, supported by inadequate for a town of the size of Lord Provost High. The report for Blackpool. the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that £384 had been collected CLACTON-ON-SEA (Esssx).—On 21st as compared with £381 in the previous April, Dr. J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman year. Of this sum over £283 had been of the Branch, presiding. The report contributed by the Ladies' Life-boat for the year ending 30th September, Guild. Lord Provost High and other 1926, showed that the Life-boat had speakers expressed the feeling that been out on service once, and that £259 Dundee was not giving the Life-boat had been collected as compared with Service the support which it had a right £291 in the previous year. Of this sum to expect. nearly £69 was raised by annual sub- scriptions, £41 by Life-boat Sunday, DUN LAOGHAIRE (KINGSTOWN, Co. over £96 by Life-boat Day, and nearly DUBLIN).—On 4th May, Mr. H. R. £22 by a Concert, while the crew had Tweedy, Chairman of the Branch, pre- collected over £10. The Officers were siding. The report for the year ending re-elected. 30th September, 1926, showed that the Life-boat had been out on service on DUBLIN (Co. DUBLIN).—On 7thMarch, two occasions, and that £179 had been Senator Andrew Jameson, Chairman of collected as compared with £200 in the the Branch, presiding. The report for previous year. In moving the adoption the year ending SCth September, 1926, of the report, the Chairman said that showed that the Kingstown Life-boat the maintenance of the Station had had been out on service on two occasions, cost a good deal more than the money and that £926 has been collected as collected, and that the deficit had been compared with £938 in the previous made up from headquarters. He hoped, year. It was also pointed out that while however, that the local income would the maintenance of the Irish Life-boat steadily increase until the Branch be- Stations had cost £8,150 during the came self-supporting. He paid a tribute year, the amount collected in Ireland to the work of the Ladies' Life-boat amounted to only £4,450. In moving Guilds, which had raised £83 out of the the adoption of the report, Senator total income. Jameson said that they would like in Ireland to raise enough to pay for the EXMOUTH AND BUDLEIGH SALTEETON upkeep of the Life-boats on their own (DEVONSHIRE).—On 19th March, Captain 504 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927.

By permission of] [Eastbourne Gazette. EASTBOURNE LIFE-BOAT DAY: THE R.A.F. BAND LEADING THE PROCESSION. This Day raised the record sum of over £724.

By permission of} [The Belfast Newsletter. THE BELFAST ANNUAL MEETING. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 505 A. B. Grenfell, K.K, Chairman of NEW BRIGHTON (LIVERPOOL).—On the Branch, presiding. The report 7th April. The report for the year for the year ending 30th September, ending 30th September, 1926, showed 1926, showed that £202 had been that the Life-boats had been out on collected as compared with £116 in the service on four occasions, and that £23 previous year. had been collected as compared with £53 in the previous year. Following HASTINGS (SUSSEX).—On 6th May, the meeting, the Committee of the the Mayor (Councillor T. S. Dymond) Branch entertained the Crew to their presiding, supported by Sir Godfrey annual " Hot Pot " Supper, Mr. Jerrett, Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee Chairman of the Committee, presiding. of Management. The report for the Captain F. W. Mace, O.B.E., R.N.E., year ending 30th September, 1926, Marine Surveyor of the Mersey Docks showed that £85 had been collected as and Harbour Board, in proposing the compared with £83 in the previous toast of " The New Brighton Coxswain year. The report also pointed out that and Crew," said that one of the greatest the money raised was not sufficient to problems which the Life-boat Service maintain the Station, and that one had to face was the decline each year would expect that a town which prided in the number of fishermen, the men itself on being the first of the Cinque from whom the Life-boat Crews were Ports would be able not only to main- drawn. He was very glad to see so ( tain its own Life-boat, but, in addition, many young men present, and he hoped to make a substantial contribution to that they would carry on the great the funds of the Institution. Sir traditions of the Mersey Life-boat Godfrey Baring appealed in particular Service. for an increase in the number of annual subscriptions, which in the previous NEWCASTLE (DUNDRUM, Co. DOWN). year contributed only £35. Both he —The Eev. Otway Woodward, Chair- and the Mayor referred to the fact that man of the Branch, presiding. The the Board of Trade had established a report for the year ending 30th Look-out on the Fire Hills, which the September, 1926, showed that the Life- Corporation had just acquired as an boat had been out on service on open space, and from which a wonderful one occasion, and that £94 had been view could be obtained of the Channel. collected as compared with £71 in the They felt that this would be of great previous year. Of this sum £35 was _ help to the Hastings Life-boat, for the annual subscriptions. Service was largely dependent for its POOLB, BOURNEMOUTH, WIMBORHE opportunities to save life on information AND CHRISTCHURCH (DORSETSHIRE).— I received from the Coastguard. On 29th April, the Mayor (Alderman H. J. Thwaites) presiding, supported HOWTH (Co. DUBLIN).—On 4th April, by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman Commander J. C. Gaisford St. Lawrence, of the Committee of Management, and Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of The report for the year ending 30th the Institution. The report for the September, 1926, showed that £107 had year ending 30th September, 1926, been collected as compared with £109 presented by the Honorary Secretary in the previous year, and of this sum of the Bournemouth section of the £82 was raised by the Ladies' Life-boat Branch, Mr. Stacey Hall, showed that Guild. the Poole Life-boat had been out on LYTHAM (LANCASHIRE).—On 29th service once, and that £785 had been April, Mr. E. Mellor, Chairman of the collected as compared with £715 in the Branch, presiding. The report for the previous year. Mr. Hall concluded the year ending 30th September, 1926, report by saying that he could not showed that £167 had been collected as present his 33rd and last Annual Re- compared with. £355 in the previous port without expressing his apprecia- year. tion of the uniform kindness which THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. had been extended to him by all the A fortnight later a meeting of the Institution's officials in London. The Committee and friends was held, the report of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild chair being taken by Alderman Mate, showed that the Guild had collected the Deputy-Mayor, supported by the £635 as compared with. £617 in the Mayor and Mayoress. Mr. William previous year. Sir Godfrey Baring Fox, the new Honorary Secretary, thanked the Branch for the generous appealed for more organizers for the support which it gave the Institution, House-to-House Collection, there being and at the same time pointed out that vacancies in a number of districts. He the combined population of the districts also pointed out that the Ladies' Life- in the Branch area came to nearly boat Guild had a membership of 120, 150,000 people, so that the actual col- and he hoped that this would be in- lection amounted to Id. per head of the creased. Mr. Henry Burden said that population. He appealed particularly if every family in Bournemouth were to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to to subscribe only 2s. 6d. a year between extend their work, saying how extra- £3,000 and £4,000 would be raised. ordinarily successful the Guild tad been PORT OF LIVERPOOL (LANCASHIRE). in all parts of the country. Mr. Shee —On 28th March, the Mayor, Mr. G. also spoke on the work of the Institution. W. Hope, President of the Branch, in Sir Godfrey Bating then presented the the Chair, supported by the Lady Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Mayoress, and the Hon. George Col- Vellum to Mr. Stacey Hall on his retire- ville, Deputy-Chairman of the Com- ment after 33 years' service for the mittee of Management. The report Branch, and to Mi. Henry Burden, after 22 years' service as Honorary for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that £4,724 had been Secretary, and 12 years as Chairman of raised, as compared with £5,324 in the Branch. Mr. Hemy Burden, in returning thanks, said that since the the previous year. This sum included the annual contribution of £1,000 from first Life-boat was stationed at Poole the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, in 1865 not a single life had been lost and £1,611 collected by the Ladies' Life- from shipwreck in Bournemouth Bay boat Guild, which was specially con- and 172 had been saved. If they gratulated by the Mayor on its splendid capitalized that according to an able work. An address was given by Mr. seaman's value it would amount to a Colville, in the course of which he sum equal to half the rateable value of suggested that Liverpool should have Bournemouth. He recalled that when in 1898 three vessels were in danger in a Life-boat Day. The Lord Mayor the Bay, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, replied that at one time Liverpool had had a Day, and he hoped that it would Mr. John Hughes, although over 70 be revived. years of age, remained in charge of the Life-boat for 48 hours, almost without EAMSEY (!SLB or MAN).—On 3rd a break. Sir Godfrey Baring also pro- May. The Chairman's seat was left posed a very hearty yote of thanks to unoccupied. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. and Mrs. G. Me William, which was Mr. A. H. Teare, first paid a tribute to carried with acclamation. On page 49? the -work of the late Chairman, Mi. T. will be. found the record of the awards H. Midwood, J.P., and the Rev. M. W. which the Institution has just made to Harrison, M.A., was then elected Chair- Mr. and Mrs. Me William in recognition man. The report for the year ending of their long and valued services. 30th September, 1926, showed that the The Mayor was elected President Life-boat had been out on service once, of the Branch, and the Mayoress and that £129 had been collected as President of the Ladies' Life-boat compared with £125 in the previous Guild. Mr. K. H. Mooring Aldridge year. This included £34 which was and Mr. William Fox were elected collected at the Life-boat House, a Honorary Treasurer and Honorary record sum. The Honorary Secretary Secretary, respectively. thought that, with a little more energy, AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. it would be possible to increase the year ending SGth September, 1926, annual subscriptions, which amounted showed that £671 had been collected as to under £19. compared with £962 in the previous SUNDEKLAND AND DISTRICT (DlJR- year. In moving the adoption of the HAM).—On llth April, the Mayor report, the Lord Mayor said that during (Aldetmau D, Cairns), who was accom- the year separate Branches had been panied by the Mayoress, presiding, formed at Bangor and Larne, which supported by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., had previously formed part of the Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Belfast Lough Branch. The amount ment. The report for the year ending of £671 raised in this reduced area could £Gth September, 1926, showed that the not compare very favourably with the Life-boat had been out on service on City of Dublin's collection of £926. On two occasions, and that £516 had been the other hand, it was gratifying to see collected as compared with £549 in the increase iii the collections made the previous year. Sir Godfrey Baring, in offices, works and factories, and he in moving the adoption q| the report, cordially congratulated the contributors warmly congratulated the Branch on 1 o this collection on the splendid support its work, and said that the Institution which they were giving to the Service. was very anxious to see the number of The Lord Mayor pointed out that annual subscribers increased. Ireland raised little more than half the sum required to maintain the Life-boats Annual Meetings : Financial Branches and on the Irish coasts, leaving out of Guilds. account the large capital expenditure AIAOA (CLACKMANNANSHIBE). — OH on the provision of Motor Life-boats. 3rd June, Ex-Provost Duncanson pre- This meant that the subscribers to the siding. The report for the year end- Institution in England, Scotland and ing 30th September, 1926, showed that Wales were contributing many thou- £205 had been collected as compared sands of pounds a year to enable the with £238 in the previous year. The Service on the Irish coasts to be carried District Organizing Secretary pointed on. He was sure it was not too much out that in spite of the excellent work to ask the Irish people to raise annually being done by such Branches as Alloa the £8,CCO required to maintain the it had been a reproach to Scotland for Irish Life-boats, and at the same time some time that she was not contributing to contribute towards the capital her share to the cost of the Life-boat expenditure. In seconding the adop- Service. The annual maintenance of tion of the report, Mr. John Devlin, the Life-boats on the Scottish coasts, M.P., said that at such a meeting there apart from the cost of providing them, could be no religious, political or racial would shortly amount to something like distinctions, and that in a sea-girt £18,000 a year, and towards this the country like Ireland the claims of such Scottish Branches were contributing a Service as the Life-boats must be only £11,CCO. obvious to all Christian citizens. He BARNSLEY (YORKS).—The Annual did not think it was to the national Meeting of the Guild was held on credit that Ireland should have to look SGth March, at the house of the to other countries to help to provide Mayoress (Mrs. Foulstone), President of the money needed for the Irish Life- the Guild. The report for the year boats. The Lord Mayor was re-elected ending SOth September last showed that President, and the other Officers were £131 had been collected, as compared also re-elected. A Ladies' Life-boat with £75 in the previous year. About Guild was formed with the Marchioness 40 members of the Guild were present. of Londonderry as President and an influential Committee. BELFAST LOUGH (Co. ANTRIM).—On 25th April, the Lord Mayor, Sir William BRWLIKGTON (YORKSHIRE). — The Turner, accompanied by the Lady Annual Meeting of the Guild was held Mayoress, presiding. The report for the in the Town Hall on 7th March, the 508 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. Mayor, supported by the Mayoress, Colville, Deputy-Chairman of the Com- presiding. The meeting was so well mittee of Management, Admiral T. P. attended that every seat in the large H. Beamish, M.P., a member of the Committee room was occupied. Mrs. Committee of Management, and Mr. Gray, the Honorary Secretary of the George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Guild, gave an account of its activities Institution. The report for the year end- since last November, which had included ing 30th September, 1926, showed that a Whist Drive and a Sunday Concert, £8,972 had been collected, as compared while twenty-four members of the Guild, with £9,729 in the previous year. Aldet- at the invitation of the Mayor, had man J. G. Howell, Chairman of the walked in the procession on Fishermen's Branch, in moving the adoption of the Sunday. Mrs. Gray also reported to report, said that he would like to see the Guild on the visit which she and the subscriptions of the City considerably Miss Walker had made to London to increased. He appealed in particular attend the first meeting of the General to the textile trade to respond. Captain Council. Miss Walker presented the F. B". D. Acland seconded the motion, report for the previous year, the details and Mr. Percy G. Mackinnon, Chairman, of which were given in The Lifeboat for of Lloyd's, the Hon. George ColviUe, last February in the report of the Admiral Beamish, and Mr. Shee also Annual Meeting • of the Branch. The spoke, Mayor congratulated the Guild on its DARLINGTON (DURHAM).—On 18th untiring efforts, and said that he wished March, the Mayor, Councillor J. G. he had such a Committee in connexion Snaith, accompanied by the Mayoress, with the Town Council. presiding. The report for the year BURY (LANCASHIRE).—On 31st March, ending the 30th September, 1926, showed the Mayor (Councillor J. Hill) presiding, that £131 had been collected as com- supported by the Mayoress, President pared with £175 in the previous year. of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The re- It was announced that the Marchioness port for the year ending 30th September, of Londonderry had accepted the office 1926, showed that £182 had been col- of President of the Guild for the county lected, as compared with £95 in the of Durham, and hoped to hold a con- previous year. Of this sum over £50 ference of Ladies' Life-boat Guilds in consisted of subscriptions, while over the autumn. £110 had been collected on Life-boat DURHAM (DURHAM).—On 18th March, Day. the Mayor presiding. The report for CHESTER (CHESHIRE).'—On 9th April, the year ending 30th September, 1926, the acting Mayoress (Mrs. C. C. Taylor) showed that £84 had been collected. presiding, in the absence of the Mayor. In the previous year no work had been, The report for the year ending 30th done by the Branch. It was disappoint- September, 1926, showed that £255 had ing that the sum raised was so small, been collected as compared with £318 but this was partly due to the fact in the previous year. Of this sum that Life-boat Day had had to be nearly £9 had been obtained by the abandoned owing to the coal stoppage. collecting box which, with the permis- EXETEB (DEVONSHIRE).—At a meet- sion of the Dean, had been placed in ing held on 9th March, over which the the Sailors' Chapel of the Cathedral. Mayor (Dr. Ransom Pickard) presided, Miss Hewitt, the Honorary Secretary, supported by the Mayoress, the Sheriff welcomed the Countess of Stamford, who and Mrs. Micaelmore, it was decided had accepted the Presidency of the to form a Ladies' Life-boat Guild, The Ladies' Life-boat Guild for the county Mayoress consented to be the first of Cheshire. Patron, Mrs. A. S. Reed was elected CITY os LONDON BRANCH.—On llth President, and Mrs. P. Frost, Honorary March, Mr. Sheriff Percy Shepherd Secretary. Within two months of this presiding, in the absence of the Lord meeting the Guild had raised nearly Mayor, supported by the Hon. George £400. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 509 GLASGOW (RENFREWSHIRE).—On 9th KENDAL (WESTMORLAND).—The An- June, Mr. Fred Bedford presiding. The nual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat report for the year ending 30th Guild was held on 18th April, Mrs. September, 1926, showed that £2,391 C. H. Whitaker, President, in the chair. had been collected as compared with The report for the first year of the £2,660 in the previous year. In pre- Guild's work showed that £96 had been senting the report, Mr. Leonard Gow, raised, of which sum over £51 came from the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Life-boat Day, nearly £20 from collect- pointed out that the deficit was almost ing cards, and £22 from subscriptions entirely due to the coal stoppage. The and donations. In moving the adoption appeal to Captains and Crews of Clyde- of the report the District Organizing owned vessels was meeting with in- Secretary pointed out that this sum had creased success, and £375 had been actually been raised within four months received as compared with £328 in the and congratulated the Guild on the previous year. Mr. Gow also pointed excellent start which it had made. out that with the greatly increased LABNE (Co. ANTRIM). — On 28th cost of the Service, due to the provision April, Mr. Samuel Magill, Chairman of of Motor Life-boats, Scotland was con- the Urban District Council and Presi- tributing much less than the cost of dent of the Branch, in the chair. The the Life-boat Stations round her coasts. report for the first year of the Branch's Instead of the £11,000 a year which work showed that £63 had been con- was actually subscribed she should tributed, an increase on what Larne raise £30,000 a year if she was to pay raised in previous years when part of for the provision and maintenance of the Belfast Lough Branch. Special her own Life-boats. He hoped that reference was made to the work which when these facts were realized there Miss Morrow had done as Honorary would be an increased response by the Secretary. Mi. Magill was re-elected people of Scotland's great sea-port. President, Miss Morrow, Honorary Mi. Leonard Gow was elected Chairman, Secretary, and Mr. J. L. Joyce, Honorary Mr. Fred Bedford, Honorary Secretary, Treasurer. and Mr. William Henderson, Honorary Treasurer. MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE).—On 18th March, Mr. Robert Brown, J.P., pre- ILFORD (ESSEX).—On 4th March, siding in the absence of the Mayor. Councillor J. H. Shjpman, Yice-Chair- The report for the year ending 30th man, presiding. The report for the September, 1926, showed that £120 year ending 30th September, 1926, the had been collected as compared with first year's work of the Branch, showed £180 in the previous year. that nearly £14 had been collected. It MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT was announced that the Mayor, had (LANCASHIRE).—On 28th March, Sir promised his support, and he was William Milligan, J.P., Chairman of elected President, Sir Frederick Wise, the Branch, and a Vice-President of the M.P., being elected a Patron, and Institution, in. the chair, supported by Councillor J. H. Shipman, Chairman. the Hon. George Colville, Deputy- It was hoped greatly to increase the Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Branch's contribution. ment. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that KEIGHLEY (YORKSHIRE).—On 27th £4,132 had been collected, as compared May, Mrs. Percy dough, Vice-President with £4,234 in the previous year. An of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild,, presiding. address was given by Mr. Colville, who The report for the year ending 30th congratulated Manchester on the success September, 1926, showed that £356 both of its Life-boat Day and its total had been collected as compared with contribution to the Institution, and £393 in the previous year. Reference referred to the legacy of £20,000 recently was made to the very fine work done by received from the late Mrs. Ann Eussell, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. of Cheetham, near Manchester, which 510 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927. would provide two Motor Life-boats. to give up the work. Lady Winfrey Such legacies were the return which, also spoke of the enthusiasm for the the Institution received for its work Service which was shown in Peter- and expenditure on propaganda and borough, which she thought was very advertising, fine for an inland town. An address MIDDLESBROUGH (YORKSHIRE).—On OB the work of the Institution was given 12th April, the Mayor (Councillor A. by Major Shipley Ellis. Weathered) presiding, supported by REDCAR (YORKSHIRE).—Mrs. B, 0. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of Davies, J.P., presided at the Annual the Committee of Management of the Meeting of the Guild on 14th March. Institution, and Sir Christopher Furniss. Notwithstanding the coal stoppage and The report for the year ending 30th bad trade in 1926, the Guild had in- September, 1926, showed that £211 had creased its contributions from £85 to been collected as compared with £380 £103. An address was given on the in the previous year. The report work of the Institution by the District referred to the splendid work being Organizing Secretary. done by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, which, since its formation in 1920, had ROTHERHAM (YORKSHIRE).—On 13th raised over £1,OCO. Sir Godfrey Baring May, Councillor J. Dickson, J.P., said that the Institution was deeply Chairman of the Branch, presiding. grateful for the work which was being The report for the year ending 30th done at Middlesbrough, and he thought September, 1926, showed that £174 had that the Branch should be warmly been collected as compared with £212 congratulated on having raised so much in the previous year. It was decided at a time of such industrial depression. to ask the Mayor and Mayoress to Sir Christopher Furniss said that he become Patrons of the Branch. took a great interest in the Service not SALISBURY (WILTSHIRE).—On 30th only as a shipowner but as a yachtsman. March, the Mayor (Mr. J. C. Hudson), NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE).—The Chairman of the Committee, presiding, Mayor (Councillor A. T. W. James), supported by the Mayor of Wilton, and supported by the Mayoress and members Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., of the Branch, presided at a meeting a member of the Committee of Manage- on 22nd March, at which it was decided ment. The report for the year ending to form a Guild. The Mayor referred 30th September, 1926, showed that to the work which had already been, £826 had been raised as compared with done for the Institution by the Jadies £334 in the previous year. Of this sum in Newport, and congratulated them on £19 was from annual subscriptions, having Mrs. Claude Martyn as their £263 from donations and collections, President and Mrs. Rees as Chairman £425 from the Fete held in the and Honorary Organizer. Mrs. Rees grounds of the Bishop of Salisbury's thanked the Mayoress for becoming a Palace, £105 from. Life-boat Day, and Patroness of the Guild. £11 from Dances. In presenting the report, Major Rawlence, D.S.O., one PETERBOROUGH (NORTHAMPTON- of the joint Honorary Secretaries, paid SHIRE).—On 6th April, Lady Winfrey, a tribute to the energy of 108 collectors President of the Branch, in the chair. who worked for the Branch. Sir The report for the year ending 30th Maurice Cameron cordially thanked the September, 1926, showed that £170 had Branch in the name of the Institution. been collected as compared with £95 in the previous year, £66 resulting from SALTBURN (YORKSHIRE).—On 14th a House-to-House Collection, £63 from March, with Mrs. Marshall, J.P., Yice- Life-boat Day, and £26 from a Whist President of the Branch in the Chair, Drive. Lady Winfrey appealed for the first Annual Meeting was held. The more collectors, and a tribute was paid report for the year ending 30th Septem- to the work of Mrs. Dickenson, who, ber, 1926, showed that £69 iad been after thirty years, had been compelled collected. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 511 SEAHAM (DURHAM).—On 13th April, the illness of Miss Moser, who, for so the Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life- many years, had been Honorary Secre- boat Guild was held. The report for tary of the Branch, and had given the the year ending 30th September, 1926, Life-boat Cause not only great personal showed that £22 had been collected as service, but very generous financial compared with £24 in the previous year. support. They must do all in their The Marchioness of Londonderry was power to carry on the good work which elected President, Mrs. T. Turner, Vice- she had done. A resolution was passed President, and Mrs. John Adaznson, expressing the gratitude of the Branch Honorary Secretary. to Miss Moser for her inspiring efforts during 30 years. In moving this SHEFFIELD (YORKSHIRE).—On 17th resolution, Lieut.-Colonel Donaldson June, the Lord Mayor (Alderman J. G. said that he was sure that among the Graves) presiding, supported by the ladies who helped Miss Moser one would Lady Mayoress, and the Master and be found who would take charge of the Mistress Cutler (Mr. and Mrs. David House-to-House Collection, and he sug- Flather). The report for the year gested that they should aim at getting ending 30th September, 1926, showed an annual sum equivalent to 2d. a that £554 had been collected as com- head of the population of the county. pared with £614 in the previous year. Admiral Sir Cecil Thursby, at one time The Lord Mayor said that the time had Admiral Commanding the Coastguard now arrived when they should cease and Reserves, also paid a tribute to Miss thinking so much of bad trade and Moser: and Mr. P. B. Moser said that difficult industrial conditions as reasons the best thanks which they could give for keeping in the background their his sister would be to carry on the work. duty towards such organizations as the Life-boat Service. It was time now to SOUTHPORT (LANCASHIRE).—On 24th consider the Service's claims and to March, the Mayor (Councillor Hibbott) work harder for it and increase its presiding, supported by the Mayoress. subscription list. Mr. J. W. IlifE said The report for the year ending 30th that while Sheffield raised a fair sum September, 1926, showed that £581 by street collections, its subscription had been collected, as compared with list was not as high as it should be, £540 in the previous year. Of this and the Master Cutler pointed out that sum £215 was the result of the while Sheffield was the fifth city in the Mayoress's Appeal, and £273 of Life- Kingdom in population it was only boat Day. A meeting of the Ladies' nineteenth * in the Institution's list of Life-boat Guild was held the same Branches. Although it was an inJand afternoon, at which the Mayoress, as town it had wide association with the President, promised again to issue an sea, and its place in the Life-boat lists appeal. should be much higher. SWANSEA (GLAMORGANSHIRE) . — On SHREWSBURY (SHROPSHIRE). — On 10th May, the Mayor (Councillor D. J. 15th March, the Viscountess Sandon, Bassett) presiding. The report for the President, in the chair. The" report year ending 30th September, 1926, for the year ending 30th September, showed that £222 had been collected as 1926, showed that £176 had been col- compared with £225 in the previous lected as compared with £175 in the year. In moving the adoption of the previous year. Of this sum £28 was in report, the Mayor said that it was a the form of annual subscriptions and great reproach to Glamorganshire that £121 was raised by the House-to-House it had only raised £8,000 out of the Collection. Lady Sandon said that £20,000 which it had been intended to they had all heard with great regret of collect in order to pay for the Motor Life-boats stationed by the Institution at Barry Dock and The Mumbles, as a * This uras Sheffield's position in 1924-1825. Unfortunately in 1925-1926 it just failed to be gift to the Prince of Wales. He hoped among the first twenty Branches. that the fund would soon be completed. 512 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927 THAME (OXFORD SHIREJ.—On 21st proposed, and it was unanimously March, Captain W. Biuce, C.B.E., R.D., decided, to form a Ladies' Life-boat R.N., presiding, supported by Mrs. Guild, the Mayor being elected Presi- R. O. Lee, President, and the Vis- dent, Mrs, Hume, Vice-President, Mr. countess Bertie of Thame, Chairman of E. S. LatcLmore, Treasurer, and Mis. the Central London Committee of the H. Ollerensbaw and Mrs. G. Gledhffi, Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The report Honorary Secretaries. for the year ending 30th September, HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM).—The Mayor 1926, showed that £90 had been col- (Alderman A. Hyde), accompanied by lected. An address was given by the Mayoress, presided at a meeting on Captain Basil Hall, E.N., late District 13th April for the purpose of forming a Inspector of Life-boats, and a number Ladies1 Life-boat Guild, among those of Life-boat films were shown, after present being Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., which there was a concert. Lady Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Bertie proposed, and Admiral Sir Nelson ment of the Institution, a number of Ommaney, O.B.E., C.B., seconded, a former Mayoresses and a number of vote of thanks to Captain Hall. Life-boatmen. After Sir Godfrey had WAEBINBTON (LANCASHIRE). — On given an address on the work of the 31st March, the Mayor (Alderman Institution, the Mayoress proposed the Arthur Bennett) presiding. The report formation of a Guild, and this was for the year ending 30th September, seconded by Mr. Alfred Belk, Honorary 1926, showed that £160 had been col- Secretary of the Branch, who said that lected as compared with 1137 in the the Institution had spent on the Hartle- previous year. In moving the adoption pool Station, established in 1875, over of the report, the Mayor said that the £30,CCO. The resolution was unani- work of the Life-boats deserved all the mously adopted, the Mayoress being support which they could give it, and elected President, Mrs. 3. W. Wilson, Mr. F. A. Frost, in seconding, said that Vice-President, Mrs. B. R. Kendal, he would like to see a Warrington Honorary Treasurer, and Miss A. D. Motor Life-boat on the coast. He Hyde, Honorary Secretary. looked forward to the time when they HINDLEY (LANCASHIRE).—At a meet- could raise the money needed to provide ing held on 29th April it was decided it. to form a Ladies' Life-boat Guild, New Branches and Guilds. Mrs. W. Taylor being elected President, ARBROATH (FORFARSHIRE).—At a Miss Helen Southworth, Honorary meeting convened by Provost and Mrs. Treasurer, and Mrs. J. W. Hurst, Honor- Robertson on 21st April it was unani- ary Secretary. Guild Badges, Certifi- mously decided to form a Ladies' cates of Membership and collecting cards Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Lindsay Carnegie were distributed, and it was decided to being elected Honorary President, adopt the following methods of raising Mrs. A. Maclaren Robertson, President, funds : Life-boat Day, American Teas, and Mrs. J. D. Gilruth, Honorary ' Whist Drives and Dances, and Collec- Secretary. tions in Churches and places of amuse- HALIFAX (YORKSHIRE).—The Mayor ment. (Councillor A. H. Gledhill), accompanied HOHKEY (YORKSHIRE).—A meeting by the Mayoress, presided at a meeting was held on 22nd June at which it was on 1st April, for the purpose of form- decided to form a Ladies' Life-boat ing a Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The Guild, Mis. B,. Rippon being elected Mayor pointed out that before the war President, Mrs. T. G. Oldham and Mrs. there had been a Branch of the Institu- C. B. Thornton, Vice-Presidents, Mis. tion at Halifax, but that this had been Martin, Honorary Treasurer, and Mrs. allowed to lapse and that only £34 9s. J. S. Garside, Honorary Secretary. had been collected for the Institution Three weeks later a House-to-House during the past year, whereas Bradford Collectiott was held which raised over subscribed over £2,000 annually. He £20. AUGUST, 1927.] THE LIFEBOAT. 513

KlRKHEATON (YORKSHIRE).-—At a B.C., R.N.R., District Inspector of meeting held on 28th June it was Life-boats, spoke about the work on the decided to form a Ladies' Life-boat coast. Guild, Mrs. E. M. Johnson being elected CALNE (WILTSHIRE). — A special President, Mrs. Taylor, Vice-President, meeting was held at the Palace Theatre, Mrs. Broughton, Honorary Secretary, lent by Mr. Albany Ward, on 14th March, and Mrs. Whittell, Honorary Treasurer. at which Colonel Earl presided in the It was decided to organize a House-to- absence of the Mayot (Councillor J. ¥. House Collection, and also later on to Bodinna), President of the Branch. hold a social event of some kind. The meeting was organized by the LONDONDERRY (Co. LONDONDERRY). Ladies' Committee in order to bring —Mrs. Gilbert Magee, ex-Mayoress, the newly-formed Branch to the notice presided at a meeting on 13th June of the public. Captain Basil Hall, R .N., at which it was decided to form a late Inspector of Life-boats, gave an Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Magee address, Life-boat films were shown, and being elected President, and Mts. Dunn, a collection was made to be given to Honorary Secretary. It was decided Mr. Albany Ward's fund for the to hold a Life-boat Day on the day of Weymouth Life-boat House. the Regatta. ISLINGTON (LONDON). — A special WORSBOBOUGH BRIDGE (YORKSHIRE). meeting was held on 28th April, the •—At a meeting held on 16th June, it Mayoress, Mrs. Harrold, who is Chair- was decided to form a BTaneb. and man of the Branch, presiding, to Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Councillor A. hear an address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Rolling being elected President, Mr. Bt., Chairman of the Committee of G. H. Watiuns, "Vice-President, Mi. Management of the Institution. The John Taylor, Honorary Secretary, and Mayoress was supported by the Dowager Mr. Eonald Green, Honorary Treasurer. Lady Raglan and a number of Council- WORSTHORSE (LANCASHIRE) . — A lors. • After, Sir Godfrey's address an meeting was held on 8th March at appeal was made for workers to help which the Vicar, the Reverend H. on Life-boat Day. Stones, M.A., presided, and an address PRESTON (LANCASHIRE).—The annual was given by the District Organizing House-to-House and Street Collections Secretary. It was decided to foim a were held on 18th June, and during the Branch of the Institution, the Rev. day, at the suggestion of the Honorary H. Stones being elected President, Mr. Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, J. C. Holgate, Vice-President, and Mia. Miss Cross, the Mayor and Mayoress, J. G. Holgate, Honorary Secretary. A accompanied by members of the Branch strong Committee was also elected. Committee and Guild, with the St. Vincent's Boys' Band, and a detachment Special Meetings. of Sea Cadets forming a Guard of BERWICK (NORTHUMBERLAND).—Mrs. Honour, walked in procession from the Lillingston presided at a special meeting Town Hall to the War Memorial, v?h*re of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 23rd the Mayor laid a wreath in the shape of May in the unavoidable absence of the an anchor. The wreath bore the in- President, Lady Frances Osborne, who scription, " To the men ot the Royal was prevented by bereavement from National Life-boat Service and men of being present. Mr. George F. Shee, the British Navy who gave their lives M.A., Secretary of the Institution, gave in service to King and Country, 1914- an address on the work of the Service. 1918. From the Preston Ladies' Life- He described the Motor Life-boat which boat Guild." is to be built for Berwick out of the Westmorland Motor Life-boat Fund, Whist Drives, Concerts, Dances, Garden and referred to the splendid work being Parties and Sales. done by the Ladies' Life-boat Guilds. BEXLEY HEATH (KENT).—On 18th Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., April an exhibition game of Push Ball 514 THE LIFEBOAT. [AUGUST, 1927= was played in aid of this Branch on the held by the Exeter Ladies' Life-boat ground of the Bexley Heath Town Guild on 27th April. Football Club. The game was started by the Countess of Limerick, attended Entertainment of Crews. by Mr. F. 3. L. Fish, President of the WALTON-ON-NAZE (ESSEX). — The Branch. Annual Dinner given to the Crew by EDINBURGH. — A Grand Carnival the Life-boat Committee took place on Benefit Night was held on 28th April 1st April, Mr. R. H. Palmer, O.B.E., realizing £28, and this was followed presiding, supported by members of the later by two very successful Whist Committee, and by the Chairmen of the Drives realizing £23. Over 200 people Walton and Clacton Urban District were present at these two Drives, and Councils. an address on Life-boat work was given and Life-boat literature distributed at Religious Services. each of them. HASTINGS (KENT).—The annual cere- HUDDEESFIEID (YoKKSHIBE).—An mony of Blessing the Sea on Roga- American Tea and Sale was held in the tion Sunday was held on the shore Mayor's Reception Room on 26th on 25th. May before a congregation of March, the chair being taken by the over 1,000 people. The service was con- Mayor (Mr. Rowland Mitchell). There ducted from the Life-boat by the lay- was a musical programme, and the sale preacher of the Fishermen's Church of realized £25. St. Nicholas, Mr. J. W. E. Chubb, and The following Branches and Ladies' an address was given by the Rev. Life-boat Guilds have held dances and W. Charles Bown, of St. Andrew's whist drives, or dances, in aid of the Waterside Mission. A collection in aid Institution: Alnwiek (Northumber- of the Life-boat Service realized the land) ; Carmarthen (Carmarthenshire); record sum of nearly £18. Eastbourne (Sussex), the second Ball HAYLING ISLAND (HAMPSHIRE).— this year; Bdgware (Middlesex); Life-boat Sunday was celebrated by Goole (Yorkshire); Holy Island (North- the North Hayling Brotherhood on 27th umberland) ; Ledbury (Herefordshire) ; March. Mr. Henry West, J.P., Honor- Palmers Green (London); Ringwood ary Secretary of the Hayling Island (Hampshire); Teddington (Surrey); Bianch, presided and conducted the Wakefield (Yorkshire), and Wigan service. (Lancashire). The following Branches and Guilds Addresses to Rotary Clubs. have held concerts in aid of Branch Life-boat addresses have been given Funds: Leeds (Yorkshire) ; Ilkeston to the following Rotary Clubs : Brain- (Derbyshire), and Bowness (Westmor- tree (Essex) by Captain Basil Hall, R.N., land). on 13th April; Brentford and Chiswick Garden Parties were organized, in aid (Middlesex) by the District Organizing of the Institution, by the following Secretary for Greater London on 19th Branches and Guilds : Barrow (Lanca- April; Hastings (Sussex) by Sir Godfrey shire) ; Epping (Essex) ; Gourock Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee (Renfrewshire); Macclesfield and of Management, on 6th May; Great Holmes Chapel, Ck>ostrey and Chelford Yarmouth (Norfolk) by Captain Basil (Cheshire) ; Maryport (Cumberland) : HalJ, R.N., on 10th May ; andKnchley Newport (Monmouthshire), and Redcar (Middlesex) by the District Organizing (Yorkshire). Secretary for Greater London on 29th A very successful Jumble Sale was June. Notice. The next number of THE LIFEBOAT mil be publisJied in November. 1927.