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THE LIFE-BOAT the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution VOL. XXXIII SUMMER. 1953 No. 365 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1953 .... 78,333 The Thirty-first of January: A Day of Disaster AT a quarter to eight on the morning the Portpatrick radio station. It ran: of the 31st of January, 1953, the "Hove to off mouth Loch Ryan. British motor ship Princess Victoria, Vessel not under command. Urgent owned by the British Transport Com- assistance of tug required." mission, left Stranraer on her normal An hour later, at 10.45, an S O S voyage to Larne. She carried 127 message calling for immediate help was passengers, a crew of 49 and a mis- received by the Portpatrick life-boat cellaneous cargo. A number of motor station. vehicles were carried in the stern. At eleven o'clock the Portpatrick Severe north-westerly gales were met life-boat Jeanie Speirs was launched. with soon after the Princess Victoria The position of the Princess Victoria left harbour, and there was a heavy had been given in the SOS message sea. There were frequent squalls of as four miles north-west of Corsewall sleet and snow which caused visibility Point, and it was on this information to vary from nothing to some five to that the Portpatrick life-boat based six miles. After the Princess Victoria her course. A full gale was then blow- had left Loch Ryan a heavy sea burst ing from the north, increasing to open the stern doors. The starboard hurricane force, and the sea was very parts of the doors were slightly stove rough and confused. in, and the supporting stanchions After reaching the position indicated buckled. But this was enough to and finding nothing, the Portpatrick prevent the doors from being closed life-boat altered her course southward in the conditions of sea and weather at 12.51 and began what was to be a then prevailing. A succession of seas long and hard search. burst both sides of the doors almost completely open, and sea water poured " Preparing to Abandon Ship " into the space on the car deck. The ship listed to starboard some ten At 12.52 the Princess Victoria sent a degrees, and afterwards the list in- message both to the Portpatrick radio creased steadily. station and to the destroyer H.M.S. The first distress message from the Contest, which was by then also search- Princess Victoria was sent at 9.46 to ing, stating that her position was 534 THE LIFE-BOAT [SUMMER, 1953 critical and the starboard engine-room speed in a south-south-easterly direc- flooded. At 1.8 the Princess Victoria tion. reported that she had stopped and was on her beam ends, and at 1.15 came Thirty-one Survivors Picked Up the message: "We are preparing to The Donaghadee life-boatthenheard abandon ship." from the S.S. Orchy that she was near The Princess Victoria sank shortly survivors in a position four miles after two o'clock, but it was not until north-north-east of Mew Island. The half-past three that the Portpatrick coxswain altered course to the north- life-boat, misled as she had been by ward again, and at 3.15 the life-boat wrong positions, first saw wreckage reached the scene of the disaster. from the vessel. She found only two She rescued 29 people from a ship's survivors who were taken on board life-boat, one from a raft and one from the life-boat from rafts. another ship's life-boat. She con- At 1.22 the Bangor coastguard had tinued to search until five o'clock, but informed the life-boat station at found no other survivors and left for Donaghadee that the Portpatrick life- Donaghadee. boat had launched on service, and The Cloughey life-boat, Constance DONAGHADEEl *«o POgTPATglCK SERVICES 31? JANUARY I9S3. M.V 'PglNC£55 VICTORIA' THE SEARCH FOR THE PRINCESS VICTORIA that the Princess Victoria was believed Calrerley, was also launched at 2.32 to be between Belfast and Portpatrick. after receiving a message from the At 1.40 the Donaghadee life-boat Sir Tara coastguard. She too made for Samuel Kelly was launched in a very the position given in the teeth of a rough sea with a full gale blowing. At gale. She searched until six o'clock, 2.2 she heard from the coastguard but found nothing. She then guided that the Princess Victoria was six the Portpatrick life-boat to Donagha- miles north-east-by-north of Mew dee, which was reached at 7.20. The Island, but a later message gave the Donaghadee life-boat reached her position farther south as five miles station at 5.45, and the Cloughey east of Copelands. life-boat arrived back at Cloughey The Donaghadee life-boat reached at 9.30. the last position given but she could The Newcastle, Co. Down, life-boat find nothing, and the coxswain. Hugh William and Laura was also launched Nelson, decided to follow H.M.S. at 4.20 at the request of the Kilkeen Contest, which was then steaming at coastguard, but she found nothing SUMMER, 1953] THE LIFE-BOAT 535 and reached her station again at 10.30. causing an increasing list to the star- The rescue of 31 people from the board, culminating in the ship cap- Princess Victoria did not end the ser- sizing and foundering." vices of the Donaghadee life-boat that A report was published on llth of day. At 9.35 it was learnt from the June, 1953. Among its findings was Bangor coastguard that the trawler one expressing "appreciation of the Eastcotes had anchored near North valuable and sustained efforts of Hugh Briggs Buoy in Belfast Lough and Nelson, coxswain of the Donaghadee had one survivor and six dead bodies life-boat, and his crew." The Court on board. At 9.45 the Doiiaghadee also found that "an associated con- life-boat was launched again. There sideration is the difficulty of directing was a north-by-west gale. The cox- life-boats to the scene of a disaster. swain asked the skipper of the East- The Court fully realises the difficulties cotes to weigh anchor and to go to the and notes with satisfaction that the shelter of the Antrim coast between Royal National Life-boat Institution Whitehead and Carrickfergus. There has had the matter under urgent con- the life-boat took off the survivor and sideration for some time." the six bodies, as well as seven bags of mail which had been picked out of the Two Bronze Medals sea. She then returned to Donagha- The Institution awarded its bronze dee, which she reached at 1.30 early medal for gallantry to Coxswain Hugh on the morning of the 1st of February. Nelson, of Donaghadee, and Coxswain At seven o'clock that morning she put William McConnell, of Portpatrick, out again to search for survivors with for the courage, skill and initiative the help of aircraft in better weather they showed. and good visibility. She searched The thanks of the Institution in- until nightfall and picked up twelve scribed on vellum were awarded to the bodies and three mail bags, which motor mechanics of the two life-boats, were landed at Donaghadee at 7.30. James Armstrong, of Donaghadee, and The Portpatrick life-boat returned to James Mitchell, of Portpatrick. her station on the 1st of February An additional monetary award of from Donaghadee, arriving at 2.20 in £5 per man was made to each member the afternoon. of the Portpatrick, Donaghadee, and Cloughey crews. Scale rewards paid Worst Disaster for Quarter of a Century to the crews and helpers were: Port- The disaster to the Princess Victoria patrick, £37 11*. 6d.; Donaghadee, was the greatest suffered by any first service, £12 19s., second service, British merchant vessel in peace-time £11 3s., third service, £32 12s.; for a quarter of a century. To investi- Cloughey, £26 18s.; Newcastle, £31 13s. gate the disaster the Minister of Trans- Appreciation of the gallantry and port ordered an enquiry to be held devotion of the life-boat crews was under the Merchant Shipping Act. This expressed in many quarters. The investigation was held at the County Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Court House, Crumlin Road, Belfast, Lord Brookeborough, C.B.E., M.C., from 23rd March to 9th May, 1953. P.C., broadcasting on the disaster, before Mr. J. H. Campbell, Q.C., said: " One cannot speak too highly of Resident Magistrate, assisted by Cap- the assistance given by the Royal tain Charles V. Groves, Professor A. M. National Life-boat Institution. In Robb and Mr. J. Shand. the teeth of the gale the life-boat crews The Court reached the conclusion from Donaghadee, Cloughey and Port- that the loss of the Princess Victoria patrick searched the sea for survivors was " due to her unseaworthy condition, and brought to land as many as could arising from two circumstances: be found. The prompt and resource- "(1) The inadequacy of the stern ful help of the Royal Navy, Royal doors, which yielded to the stress of Air Force, and Merchant Navy in the the seas, thus permitting the influx of rescue operations was worthy of the water into the car space. finest traditions of the sea. The " (2) The inadequacy of clearing highest praise is due to everyone who arrangements for the water which helped." accumulated on the freeboard deck A number of gifts were made to the 536 THE LIFE-BOAT [SUMMER, 1953 Institution following the disaster, life-boat Lloyds had already gone out especially in Northern Ireland and in that morning in a full gale because of Scotland.
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