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

Vol. XXVIII.—No. 310.] JUNE, 1932. [PRICE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 73 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 9th, 1932 - 62,913

Annual Meeting. THE Hundred and Eighth Annual Meet- countries. They were: Their Excel- ing of the Governors of the Institution lencies the French Ambassador, the was held at the Caxton Hall, West- Danish Minister and the Netherlands minster, on Friday, 22nd April, at Minister, representatives of the German 3 p.m. and Belgian Ambassadors, the Swedish Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of Naval Attache, and a representative of the Committee of Management, pre- the Latvian Minister. sided, supported by the Mayor of West- The Mayors and Mayoresses of the minster, Vice-Presidents of the Institu- following London Boroughs accepted tion and members of the Committee of the invitation : Westminster, Fulham, Management. Finsbury, Camberwell, Hammersmith, The principal speaker was the Eight Battersea, Acton, Marylebone, Lambeth, Hon. Walter Eunciman, M.P., Presi- Paddington, Ilford, Holborn, Bromley, dent of the Board of Trade and a Vice- Poplar, Woolwich, West Ham, Wands- President of the Institution, who pre- worth and Walthamstow. sented two Medals awarded for gallantry Among others who accepted the to the Coxswains of Longhope, in the invitation were Sir Eobert Hamilton, Orkneys, and Portpatrick, Wigtown- M.P., for Orkney and Shetland, and shire, and awards made during 1931 to Lady Hamilton; Mr. J. H. McKie, a number of honorary workers. M.P. for Galloway; the Lady Diana The other speakers were Mr. A. Duff Cooper; representatives of the Board Cooper, D.S.O., M.P., Financial Secre- of Trade, King George's Fund for tary to the War Office, Sir John Collie, Sailors, the Navy League, the Mercantile C.M.G., M.D., Mr. Charles G. Ammon, Marine Service Association, the Im- Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., perial Merchant Service Guild, the Eoyal Mr. Ernest Armstrong, and the Hon. Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Insti- George Colville, Deputy Chairman of tution and the Marine Engineers' Asso- the Committee of Management. ciation, an officer and a party of Among those who accepted the invi- twenty-five boys from the training- tation of the Committee of Management ship Stork, and a party of Sea Eangers were representatives of seven foreign from the Girl Guides Association. 470 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. There were also present Honorary fore I have to report three diminutions: Life Governors of the Institution; first, in the number of lives saved ; secondly, in the cost of the Service, and, thirdly, in our holders of the Institution's Gold Badge ; revenue. ^ But there is one thing which has members of the Central London Women's not diminished, and that is the skill, courage Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat and splendid devotion of our Life-boatmen. Guild, and representatives of Branches Those, during the 108 glorious years of the Life-boat Institution's history, have never and Guilds. shown any diminution, and I believe firmly The following is a report of the that they never will. (Applause.) meeting:— I should like to tell you two cheering inci- dents which have occurred during the last Sir Godfrey Baring. few months. First, we received about three months ago a letter from a gentleman, and we The CHAIRMAN : Your Excellencies, my never had a more welcome letter. He said Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,—May I com- he had been in the habit of subscribing five mence these proceedings by performing a very shillings a year, but he was afraid that these pleasant duty, and that is to offer a most were very bad times, and that the finances of cordial welcome to the distinguished repre- the Institution would suffer. He was very sentatives of foreign countries who year by unwilling to see them suffer, and so, instead year are kind enough to come and honour our of sending tne customary five shillings, he proceedings by their presence. I should like was very glad on this occasion to send us also to welcome all our splendid workers in the £25. (Applause.) That is something like a Life-boat cause who fill this hall year by year subscriber, and I hope there are many ladies to hear what we have done during the past and gentlemen here who are going to do like- year. (Applause.) wise. (Laughter and applause.) It is now my duty to present the Report of The other cheering incident was that through the work of the Life-boat Institution during the Foreign Office we received a cheque for the year 1931. It is the Hundred and Eighth £25, the proceeds of a Life-boat Bazaar held Report, and if you look at it you will find that at Caracas. I am sure you all know where during the past year our Life-boats and our Caracas is; I do, because I have taken the Life-boatmen saved 271 lives. That is a slight precaution of looking it up. It is the capital diminution in number from the previous of Venezuela. In that capital the English year, 1930. It is interesting to note that colony organized a Life-boat Bazaar, and with during every single month of the year 1931 the aid of gome generous American citizens, some lives were saved by our Life-boats. they made £25, and they have sent that as a There is one curious feature in connexion with contribution to the Life-boat funds. (Ap- the record of life-saving, and that is that during plause.) That shows that the propaganda of the four summer months—June, July, August the Life-boat Institution is really world-wide. and September—of the so-called summer of I have now, ladies and gentlemen, the honour 1931, actually more lives were saved than to submit this Report for your acceptance, during the first four months of the year. and I shall be very glad to answer any ques- During the year sixteen Motor Life-boats tions which may be put on the Report. were added to our Fleet. That is the largest As there are no questions and no remarks to number of Motor Life-boats which have ever be made, I now have to read out the names of been completed and placed upon the coast in those gentlemen who have been nominated any one year. I am glad to say, and I am as President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurers, and sure the Governors will be glad to know, that other members of the Committee of Manage- we are approaching the end of our Motor Life- ment from the 22nd April, 1932, until the date boat construction programme. It has cost of the Annual Meeting of the Governors of us a great deal of money, because we have, as the Institution in 1933. Also Messrs. Price, you know, been anxious to place on the coasts Waterhouse & Company as Auditors for the of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales same period. They have all been nominated Motor Life-boats wherever such boats can be by myself and no one else has been nominated. usefully employed. But, ladies and gentle- men, that will not be the end of our task. Our oldest Motor Life-boats are twenty years old, COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT. and that is almost their maximum of useful life. So that we shall soon have to start the President. rather onerous task of replacing our Motor H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G. Life-boats. I am glad to say that owing to the strict Vice-Presidents. economy of my colleagues on the Committee The Archbishop of Canterbury. of Management the cost of the Life-boat The Duke of Atholl. Service shows a diminution of £10,000. The Duke of Montrose. Unfortunately, there is another diminution, The Duke of Portland. and that is in our total revenue ; but we are The Marquis of Ailsa. not discouraged by it, and we are not surprised The Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair. at it, considering the terribly difficult times of The Earl of Derby. bad trade and overwhelming taxation. There- The Rev. the Earl of Devon. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 471

The Earl of Albemarle. Presentation of Medals for Gallantry. The Earl of Lonfdale. The CHAIRMAN : I now call upon the Secre- Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa. tary to read the accounts of the services for The Viscount Grey of Fallodon. which Medals and other awards have been The Viscount Burnham. given, and I will then ask the Right Hon. Commodore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Walter Runciman, M.P., President of the Bulkeley, Bt., B.N.R. Board of Trade, to present them. The Lord Southborough. The Secretary then read the accounts of Major-General the Right Hon. John E. B. the services, and the Medals and other awards Seely. were presented by Mr. Runciman, as follows :— The Hon. George Colville. To COXSWAIN JOHN SWANSON, of Xong- Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt. hope, a Second-service Clasp, to the Silver Sir John G. Gumming. Medal which he already holds, for the rescue Mr. Leonard Gow. on 9th January, 1932, of eight men of the Miss Alice Marshall. trawler Dorbie of Hull. Mr. Noel E. Peck. To MR. WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, Honorary Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P. Secretary of the Longhope Station, an in- Treasurer. scribed Barometer, for his energy and initia- The Earl of Harrowby. tive in directing operations in the service to the Dorbie, from the land. Other Members of the Committee of Management. To COXSWAIN JOHN CAMPBELL, of Port- Mr. James Bryce Allan. patrick, Wigtownshire, the Bronze Medal for Mr. Charles G. Ammon. the rescue on 13th January, 1932, of the crew Mr. Ernest Armstrong. of eight men of the s.s. Camlough, of Belfast. Mr. H. Arthur Baker. (A full account of the service of the Port- Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish. patrick Motor Life-boat appeared in the last Lieut.-Colonel J. Benskin. issue of The Lifeboat, and a full account of Mr. Frederick Cavendish Bentinck. the service by the Longhope Motor Life-boat The Earl of Brecknock. appears on page 478 of this issue.) Professor John Cameron. The CHAIRMAN : Before I call on Mr. Runci- Major Sir Maurice Cameron. man to move the first resolution, may I say Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, M.P. a word of reassurance to him, that although we Captain Charles J. P. Cave. have had a most careful search made through Colonel Lord William Cecil. Acts of Parliament, we cannot find a single Sir John Collie. Act of Parliament prohibiting him from Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert B. Dixon. standing on this platform and speaking to Admiral Sir A. A. M. Duff. the Meeting.* (Laughter.) Commander Herbert G. Evans, R.N.R. Captain Guy Fanshawe, R.N. Mr. Runciman. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Mr. George G. Fortescue. The Right Hon. WALTER RUNCIMAN, M.P. : Mr. K. Lee Guinness. Mr. Chairman, your Excellencies, my Lords, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey. Ladies and Gentlemen,—I need hardly say Commodore Sir Bertram F. Hayes, R.N.R. that after hearing the record which has been (ret.) read by the Secretary of the rescues made Sir Frederick Thomas Hopkinson. during the past year, and that representing Captain the Earl Howe, R.N.V.R. merely a fraction of the services rendered, it is Mr. John F. Lamb. almost unnecessary for anyone else to mate a Colonel Sir A. Henry McMahon. speech. Far and away the most eloquent Commander Sir Harry Mainwaririg, Bt., advocacy of the Life-boat Cause is to be found R.N.V.R. in the plain, simple annals of the regular Mr. Algernon Maudslay. yearly service. The men whom you have had Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver. before you this afternoon are samples of the Sir Gervais S. C. Rentoul, K.C., M.P. Crews which are to be found on all our 5,000 The Rt. Hon. F. 0. Roberts. miles of coast, and I am sure that those who are Colonel the Master of Sempill. here, as well as those who are absent, will Colonel R. F. A. Sloane-Stanley. Commander Henry Strong, R.N.R. (ret.) * On the morning of the meeting it had Commander F. F. Tower, late R.N.V.R. been announced that, owing to an oversight . General Sir Reginald Wingate, Bt., and ex in an Act of Parliament, Mr. Runciman was officio. not entitled to sit in the House of Commons, The Lord Mayor of London. as President of the Board of Trade, without The Admiral Commanding Reserves. seeking re-election, and that not having done The Deputy Master of the Trinity House. this, he was not legally a Member of Parlia- The Hydrographer of the Navy. ment, and had made himself liable to fines The Chairman of Lloyd's. amounting to many thousands of pounds. The Deputy Master, Hon. Company of Master On the afternoon of the meeting, Mr. Runci- Mariners. man, pending the passing of a special Law to I declare all those gentlemen duly elected put right the mistake, was not able to take to their several offices. his seat in the House of Commons. 472 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. realise that the quality of the Coxswains and far excels the vigilance of the common in- Crews of onr Life-boats is just as important former.) (Laughter.) It is a very remarkable as the quality of the boats themselves. fact that in this past year, probably the very (Cheers.) worst that British trade, commerce and finance Your Committee of Management have have ever known, we have been able out of devoted to the construction of the new Fleet the voluntary contributions of our people to all the finest scientific knowledge and technical meet the needs of this Institution. This says skill which naval architects and Life-boat a great deal for the work of the local Secretaries builders can command. Their work has been and the local Committees, to whom we wish to done at very great cost, which, thanks to you express our profound gratitude. (Applause.) and the Local Committees, has been defrayed, Out of that expenditure, I would remind you while still leaving the Institution in a sound that no less than £45,000 was spent last year financial position. But that work must in rewards, gratuities and pensions to those continue year by year. There have been who actually do the work of rescue. But, Mr. enormous improvements made in Life-boat Chairman, that money, so distributed, is not engines during the period of the transforma- the full reward of what the Life-boatmen tion from oars and sails to engines; but, as receive. They are quite entitled to their pay, Sir Godfrey has already said, Motor Life- to their gratuities and to their pensions ; but boats will not last for ever, and we must their greatest satisfaction is that they stand so re-build this Fleet bit by bit as time goes on high in the esteem of their fellow-countrymen. and provide every portion of our coasts with (Applause.) the best, fastest and safest boats that we can We do the best we can for them, and they construct. That is the duty of the Committee. do the best they can not only for us but, let The Crews have placed their confidence in me add, for the ships of all nations. It is a these boats to a most remarkable degree. great satisfaction to us to see in this hall this My memory goes back to the time when the afternoon the representatives of so many first of the Motor Life-boats was put into peoples who do not fly the British Flag. service, and there were some members who (Applause.) I am glad to think that they thought that the Crews might not have as participate in the Life-boat Service with much confidence in these new-fangled things benefit to their crews. Last year was nothing as they had in the old boats; but I am glad remarkable in the number of foreign vessels to say, from all we can learn, that throughout which were aided, but yet not less than our coasts there is now complete confidence seventeen received the services of Life-boats, in our Motor Life-boats, and that risks are and by those services forty-nine foreign lives undertaken in them which the men would were rescued. This is not a remarkable never have dared to undertake in the old number, but it is typical, and I am glad to pulling and sailing boats. That is very much think that we have throughout always regarded to the good. this Service as a great international service, We in the Board of Trade are also co-operat- setting the example of internationalism before ing in the fullest possible degree with the Geneva was ever thought of. (Applause.) Institution. We are, indeed, partners in the There is one satisfaction that we can draw guardianship of the coasts. The Coastguard from the whole of this work, and that is that and the coast-watchers are under the Board of the mettle of our people still remains sound. Trade ; the Life-boats are under the absolute It is a great comfort to us to feel that it is so and complete control of the Institution ; and fully appreciated by the people of the inland I need hardly say that we work together with towns and villages, who have no direct know- the greatest amity and that there never has ledge of the services rendered on our coasts. been a decimal point of friction in the rela- Their imagination is touched by what they tionship between the Institution and the read in the press and in our prints. They State Department, as I can certify as head of realize the terrible risks which are run by that Department. (Applause). those who carry on this rescue work, and they Now we have another good record to note. one and all appreciate the fact that in these It is that this past year, with all its disadvan- islands we seafaring people are absolutely tages, was, fortunately, not a year of disasters. dependent upon the safety of the seas. That The Secretary tells me that there was nothing safety is rendered all the more sure by the remarkable about 1931 ; and yet this year Life-boat Service, and from every district and which had nothing remarkable about it, except from every town almost there come contribu- its lack of sunshine, was a year in which no tions to the Life-boat Institution's funds. less than 271 lives were saved. Surely there 'Applause.) can be no better testimony to the absolute We are fortunate in receiving the very necessity of maintaining this Institution at its enthusiastic support of the Prince of Wales full strength. (Applause.) and other members of the Royal Family, of I would like to say a word or two about the ;he foreign Governments, and of the Navy, finances of the Institution. The total cost ihe Army and the Air Force ; and I need of the Service last year ran to the very large hardly say that the Mercantile Marine also amount of £272,000. (Our minds centre very co-operate, as indeed they should, for it is largely on money nowadays, and I hare not n their interests above all that this service been altogether free from anxiety during the s maintained. I would also like to add, with last twenty-four hours, but I am glad to think reference to our connexion with foreign that the vigilance of our Life-boat Stations countries, that we received last year contribu- By courtesy of] {Sport and General. SCOTTISH MEDALLISTS. Left to right: Coxswain John Campbell, of Portpatrick, Mr. William Sutherland, Hon. Secretary, of Longhope, and Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope.

By courtesy of] [Central News. THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1932. The Right Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P., shaking hands with Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope. Behind are Coxswain John Campbell, of Portpatrick, and Mr, William Sutherland, of Lon«hope. 474 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. tions from nearly a hundred foreign ship- refreshment and rest, and a change of wet owners. (Applause.) clothes. But no; another message had ar- All of this work, both in the country and in rived, this time from the Everline, that she the central offices of the Institution, is con- was drifting towards the rocks. Within an ducted without State intervention. Par be it hour the boat was off again. from me to belittle the services rendered by Between the North and South Shetland those who man our Government Depart- Islands there is a narrow sound called the Yell. ments, but I have no hesitation in saying When the Life-boat reached the Yell the tide thjpt, having seen their work from within over was flowing very strongly, the wind was a very long period, and having observed the blowing a gale, the night was dark, and the Life-boat work and the Life-boat administra- snow was blinding. Her Crew found it tion from without, I give the palm to the Life- impossible, with all their stout hearts, to boat Institution. Once this Institution loses navigate the sound. They were forced to put that element of voluntaryism, it will lose one into Symbister. Then at last you would have of the -qualities which now make it dear to thought that they would have got a little rest. the heart of the British people. (Applause.) But no. Again they stood by all night, I am sure that in moving this resolution of fending the boat oft from being broken against thanks to the Coxswains and the Crews and to the pier. Next morning they found their way the Local Committees and the Local Secre- through the Yell, and at last they came upon taries, I do so with your enthusiastic support the Everline. She had twenty-six souls on and in the full belief that the reputation of board, twenty-five men and one woman. this Institution is being maintained at its The little Life-boat made its way to the highest level, and that we can rely on the leeward and gradually came alongside. But services of all those classes of its members in the Everline was pitching and tossing so much the coming year, as we have in the past. that at one moment she was high above the (Applause.) Life-boat, and .the next moment the Life- The CHAIRMAN : The resolution will be boat was high above her gunwale. By careful, seconded by Sir John Collie, a member of the steady seamanship a rope ladder was made Committee of Management of the Institution. fast between the two, and one by one those twenty-six souls, headed by the woman, came Sir John Collie. safely into the Life-boat. She then made for Sro JOHN COLLIE : Mr. Chairman, your Lerwick. When she reached it, she had been Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,—I feel battling with the waves for twenty-two hours. it a great honour to be asked to second the Think of the endurance, think of the bravery, resolution proposed so ably by one of the and, above all, think of the success. (Ap- most distinguished members of His Majesty's plause.) Government. I think possibly one of the The sea divides all countries and many reasons why I have been asked to address you continents. The Life-boat Service unites in this afternoon is that I happen to come from one common brotherhood all classes, ,all Scotland. We have had within the last two creeds, all nations. The Life-boat Service years five medals presented, and four of the stands for that lofty spirit of Christianity recipients have come from my native country. which dictates the saving of life at personal But those who have done these heroic deeds peril when it is necessary. It is like, that are a small number of those to whom the mercy which is twice blessed, which blesses Institution is indebted. It is only those who him who gives and him who takes. We reach the V.C. standard who receive medals. want you to take upon yourselves the re- There are innumerable other instances of sponsibility of the maintenance of this great courage in the records of life-saving. Service. It is not for you, perhaps, to do My mind carries me back to a service, which these heroic acts of physical endurance; but happened on the 20th February, 1931, at our you can all emulate that spiritual effort which, most northerly Station, at Lerwick, in the if it does not save life, saves character. Shetland Islands. There the Coxswain re- Would'st thou be here—wait not then ceived a wireless message that a ship, the supinely Everline, was a hundred miles off the coast of For fields of fine romance which no day the most northerly of the Shetland Islands, brings; and that she was drifting with her propeller The finest lives lie oft in doing finely gone. A hundred gallons of petrol were taken A multitude of unromantic things. on board the Life-boat, and the Crew stood by. The heroism of thy true endeavour In the morning another message came—but Shall gild the commonplace of common not from the Everline. It was that a small days, ketch had lost its way and was in distress. And God Himself shall guard thy work for The Life-boat put out to sea in a blinding ever snowstorm with a wild south-westerly gale And crown it with eternity of praise. blowing. She found the ketch with six men (Applause.) on board. The captain had lost his compass ; he had lost his way; and I think he had lost The Chairman then put the resolution: his head. His boat was taken in tow, and at That this Meeting, fully recognizing the impor- six o'clock in the evening these six men were tant services of the Royal National Life-boat safely landed. Institution in its national work of life-saving, The Crew would expect now to have a little desires to record its hearty appreciation of the JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 475

gallantry of the Coxswains and Crews of the BERWICK-ON-TWEED. Institution's Life-boats, and gratefully to Lady FRANCIS GODOLPHTN OSBORNB, in acknowledge the valuable help rendered to recognition of her long and valuable co-opera- the cause by the Local Committees, Honorary tion as President of the Branch, and President Secretaries and Honorary Treasurers. and Honorary Treasurer of the Ladies' Life- (The resolution was carried.) boat Guild. BRIGHTON AND HOVE. Presentations to Honorary Life-governors. Mrs. R. CARPENTER, in recognition of her Mr. Runciman then made presentations to valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary honorary workers for long and distinguished and Treasurer of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. service, the Secretary giving particulars in each case of the work for which the award was CABLISLE. made, as follows :— The SECRETARY : An Honorary Life- Mrs. MARY M. TALBOT CADDOW, in recogni- Governorship is the highest honour which the tion of her valuable co-operation as Presi- Institution can confer on its honorary workers, dent of the Branch. and is given only for very special and dis- KBIGHLEY. tinguished services. A copy of the Vote, inscribed on vellum and signed by His Royal Mrs. R. H. EDMONDSON, in recognition of Highness the Prince of Wales, as President of her long and valuable co-operation as Honorary of the Institution, is presented to each Secretary of the Branch. Honorary Life-Governor. MARGATE. Four new Honorary Life-Governors have been appointed since the last Annual Meeting : Mr. T. W. GOMM, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Secretary EDINBURGH of the Branch. HAKRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., appointed PORT ERIN (!SLE OF MAN). an Honorary Life-Governor in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Mr. SAMUEL GORHY, in recognition of his Life-Boat Guild of the Edinburgh, Leith and valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary, Granton Branch, and as Honorary Secretary and previously Honorary Treasurer, of the of the Scottish Life-boat Council. Branch. PRESTON. BRADFORD. Miss I. E. CROSS, in recognition of her Mr. FRANCIS LAIDLER, appointed an valuable co-operation for many years, the Honorary Life-Governor in recognition of his last five as Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' valuable services, extending over thirty-one Life-boat Guild. years, in organizing an Annual Matinee at Bradford on behalf of the Institution. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. F. P. MORGAN, in recognition of his NEWHAVEN (SUSSEX). long and valuable co-operation as Honorary Mr. J. J. LINES, appointed an Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Life-Governor in recognition of his valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the New- WALTON-ON-THAMES (SURREY). haven Station Branch for upwards of thirty Miss HELEN B. MACGRBGOR, in recognition years. of her valuable co-operation as Honorary Lady Findlay, Mr. Laidler and Mr. Lines Secretary of the Branch. are unfortunately unable to be present. The CHAIRMAN : The next resolution will LONDON. be moved by Mr. A. Duff Cooper, D.S.O., The Lady ADELAIDE TAYLOUK, appointed M.P., Financial Secretary to the War Office. an Honorary Life-Governor in recognition of her valued services to the Life-boat Cause for Mr. Duff Cooper. many years. Mr. DUFF COOPER : Sir Godfrey Baring, your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Presentation of Gold Badges. Gentlemen,—It is with some diffidence, after The SECRETARY: The Gold Badge also is the speeches that have been made and the awarded only to honorary workers who have stories we have listened to, that I rise to given distinguished service. Since the last address this audience. You have heard such Annual Meeting seventeen have been awarded, tales of heroism, and we have seen this after- and the following are present this afternoon noon such real heroes on the platform, that to to receive their awards :— make a speech on a subject which must command the respect and the enthusiasm of BERMONDSEY (LONDON). all is a great responsibility for anybody who Mr. OSCAR C. GRIDLEY, in recognition of feels himself ill-equipped for it. his valuable co-operation as Honorary Secre- I have a heavy responsibility placed upon tary for the last twenty-one years, and pre- me, because I have to propose the health of viously in connexion with the Life-boat the ladies, or, in other words, to move the Saturday Fund. resolution which you will find on the Agenda. 476 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

The ladies play a continually increasing and devotion of which they are capable, and part in every form of national activity. I do which those women show, would be useless if not think there is any sphere from which they the boats were not there for them to launch, are now excluded, and all of us, even some if the money was not there behind the boats who in the old days were inclined to look with to build them and keep them in repair. That possible disfavour or with apprehension upon certainly is a form of ship money to which the increased activities of women in national even John Hampden would not have objected. life, are now compelled to admit that wherever (Applause.) they have played a part during these last two We in the inland towns who live in calm, generations, they have performed great comfort and peace, so far as these dangers at services to the State and have shown them- any rate are concerned, should feel ourselves selves well worthy of the obligations that the under an obligation to contribute something State has placed upon them. (Applause.) to the help of those who have so much sterner I have recently read that in the Soviet duties to perform and so many greater risks Republic, where they have what I think would to face upon the coasts, who are maintaining be called, in modern parlance, an abolition the great traditions of our country as a sea- complex, they have gone so far in the abolition faring people and as a humane people, and of sex as well as of class distinctions that they who are ever ready to take all risks to save have now established a great many battalions the lives of those in danger on the sea, whether of women in the Bed Army. I have even seen British subjects or foreign. It is therefore photographs of some of those battalions, and with a great feeling of the honour done me I must say I never saw more attractive troops that I propose to the Meeting to-day the reso- in my life ; but even while looking and while lution which stands in my name. (Applause.) admiring, I could not help feeling that the The CHAIRMAN : The resolution will be strength of her right arm and the accuracy of seconded by Mr. Charles Aminon, a member her eye in the command of a rifle would never of the Committee of Management of the be the greatest asset or the most formidable Institution. weapon at a woman's command. • (Laughter.) But in this matter of Life-boats there has Mr. C. G. Anunon. been, I understand, no demand amongst the Mr. C. G. AMMON : Mr. Chairman, your women, who enthusiastically support the cause, Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentle- actually to man the boats, and I think they men, after Mr. Duff Cooper's moving of the have been wise in limiting their activities to resolution, which he has done with his usual another sphere. I think they have realized grace and skill, there is very little left for me how much they can do in the other sphere. to say. I want to join with him in paying my Nobly according to the men the whole honour respectful compliments to the ladies for all of so great a cause, they have shouldered a the work they have done. As Scotland is so tremendous part of the burden; and it is much in the picture to-day, and as she has remarkable that the Ladies' Life-boat Guild exercised her usual privilege by taking every- provides something like two-thirds of the thing that is to be taken—and has earned it whole funds of the Institution. (Applause.) as well—may I point out that she has also Even while I was using those words and excelled on a side where we do not always saying that women were right to realize their give her credit ? It is worthy of note that the limitations, there occurred to me the name of Edinburgh Ladies' Guild, led by Lady Findlay, one who, I suppose, is often quoted at meet- has set a very remarkable example. In 1930 ings of this nature and wherever the cause of the members of the Edinburgh Guild raised the Life-boats is concerned, that charming on Life-boat Day no less than £933. Last and immortal name of Grace Darling. (Ap- year, however, they evidently felt that this plause.) I am unaware how far romance and was not good enough, and so they put forward literature have added to the fame of her renewed efforts and raised no less than performance, but she did really perform not £1,800. (Applause.) only the task of aiding and assisting, but of The records of work that come in to us manning the boat that went to the help of the show that the women workers—apart from distressed. But, as I say, the women have such well-worn methods of raising money as taken their share, and they are taking it, in bazaars, tea-meetings, sales of work and this extremely practical and useful form of jumble sales—use some quite novel methods, organization, of collection and of contribu- about which we mere men have been puzzling tion ; and in these days of hard times, high to know exactly what they mean. For taxation and small returns, even charity can instance, I see that there was an A.B.C. Sale assume heroic proportions. (Applause.) and there was a Chain Tea. I think that we I should like to say to the ladies who con- men might get up something like that. But tribute to this Guild and control it, who lend the thing that really puzzled me was a voluntarily their services to the great work " kitchen shower." I can only suppose it was which it is performing, that they are doing no a burst water-pipe. How you can raise money less towards saving life from shipwreck than by a burst water-pipe I don't know, but that are those other heroic women who lend a hand " kitchen shower" has certainly been the to their husbands, their fathers, their sons, means of adding to the revenues of the and their lovers when the time comes actually Institution. (Laughter and applause.) to push the boat into the sea in nights of storm I am sure I am echoing the thoughts of and tempest. (Applause.) All the heroism everybody who is in any way associated with JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 477 the Institution when I say how grateful we I should like to add that such is Mr. Runci- are not only to the Edinburgh Ladies' Life- man's keenness for the Life-boat Cause that boat Guild, but to the Guild everywhere, he has actually arranged that, while he is throughout the length and breadth of these President of the Board of Trade, any foreign islands, for the work of the women. sailors who are landed from a shipwreck will I am one of those who do not view with alarm be entirely exempt from the ten per cent, the placing of a good many things under the flat rate while they are in this country. aegis of the State ; but I look with a good deal (Laughter.) of misgiving on anything that would tend to Then I should like to make another dry up those avenues of personal endeavour announcement, and it is this. At their last and activity in the cause of charity which call meeting the Committee of Management forth the best instincts of our people and, in unanimously and most enthusiastically elected the case of the Life-boat Service, enable us to Mr. Walter Runciman a Vice-President of perform on generous lines a Service which the Institution. That is the highest honour brings us into much closer personal contact that we can confer upon any of the members than we could otherwise have with the of the Committee of Management. (Applause.) people who go down to the sea in ships in I am sure you would wish me to offer your rough and stormy weather and with those who most cordial and enthusiastic thanks to Mr. hold the lines on shore. In the name of the Duff Cooper for having found time to come Committee of Management I have much here and for having delivered that wholly pleasure in seconding the resolution moved by admirable speech. Mr. Duff Cooper, if he Mr. Duff Cooper. (Applause.) will permit me to say so, is not only a rising, The Chairman then put the resolution: but a risen hope of one of the three great That this Meeting desires to record its sense political parties. It is extremely kind of Mr. of the deep obligation of the Institution to the Duff Cooper to come here and help us by his Ladies' Life-boat Guild and its many hundreds inspiring words. I should also like to thank of voluntary workers for the Life-boat Cause, my colleagues on the Committee of Manage- and its conviction of the increasing importance ment, Sir John Collie and Mr. Amman, for the of the part which the Guild is destined to services they have rendered by their excellent play in educating public opinion with regard speeches. I will now ask the Deputy-Chairman, to the value of the Life-boat Service, and in Mr. Colville, to address you. raising funds therefor. The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE : Mr. Chair- (The resolution was carried.) man, your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G. and Gentlemen,—This is not a pro forma moved and Mr. Ernest Armstrong seconded motion. We really mean it. We really wish the following resolution : That this Meeting to thank the speakers for the speeches they do approve and ratify the sale of the old Life- have delivered. They have interested us boat Houses at Aberdovey, Skerries, Lowestoft enormously. I have very much pleasure in and Robin Hood's Bay, which are no longer seconding the resolution. (Applause.) required for the purposes of the Institution. The CHAIRMAN : Let us carry that resolu- (The resolution was carried.) tion by enthusiastic applause. (Loud Sir Godfrey Baring. The Right Hon. WALTER RTTNOIMAN : I The CHAIRMAN : Your Excellencies, my am authorized by my colleagues on the Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,—There is speakers' list to thank you for the resolution another pleasant duty which I have to per- which you have just passed. I know that form, and that is to move that the hearty they would also wish me to say at this moment thanks of this Meeting be given to the Speakers how glad we have been to find Sir Godfrey at this, the Hundred and Eighth Annual Baring in the chair. (Hear, hear.) He is General Meeting of the Royal National Life- known all over the United Kingdom as the boat Institution. personification of the Life-boat Service ; and We are deeply indebted to my friend Mr. it is a matter not only for institutional, but Walter Runciman for having come here. We for national thanks that he is able to devote are glad to have found him on a day of com- so much of his time to its activities. Will you parative leisure (in circumstances beyond his please carry by acclamation your thanks to control), and we are deeply indebted to him for him. (Loud applause.) the speech which he has delivered to us. It The CHAIRMAN : That concludes the busi- would be impertinent of me to praise Mr. ness, ladies and gentlemen. I think this is Runciman's speech; but I should like to tell by two minutes a Meeting which has been you, in case you do not know, that Mr. conducted in record time. Runciman has been for many years a most active member of the Committee of Manage- Entertainment of Medallists. ment. He has rendered us most valuable After the meeting the two Medallists and service; he has often spoken at Life-boat Mr. Sutherland were entertained to tea at the Meetings; he has given us the benefit of his House of Commons by Commander the Hon. counsel and advice on many occasions, and A. D. Cochrane, D.S.O., M.P., Deputy- we owe a deep debt of gratitude to him, not Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council. only for his presence here to-day, but for many Sir Robert Hamilton, M.P. for Shetland and years' active support and most valuable Orkney, and Mr. J. H. McKie, M.P. for work. (Applause.) Galloway were also present to receive them. 478 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

In the evening they were the guests of Messrs. day they were the guests of members of the Moss Empires at the Victoria Palace. Shetland and Orkney Society in London, and Coxswain Campbell returned to Port- on the Sunday Mr. Sutherland was enter- patrick the following morning, but Mr. tained by Sir Robert and Lady Hamilton. Sutherland and Coxswain Swanaon remained Coxswain Swanson was also invited, but was in London until the Monday. On the Satur- prevented by illness from going.

A Silver Medal Service at Longhope. ON the night on 9th January signals of graphed the news of the wreck. They a vessel in distress were seen off Tor could see nothing of the wreck, but by Ness at the south-west end of the island the light of torches which they carried of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found they saw a man, who had been washed later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull. off the Dorbie, lifted by a sea on to the It was then ten minutes past seven. rocks.- They seized him and dragged The news was telegraphed to Longhope, him to safety. Two other men jumped and at 7.30 the Motor Life-boat put overboard. They, too, were washed out. A wind which had been blowing ashore and were dragged up alive, but a gale from the South-West had backed both injured and in a state of collapse. to South-South-East and increased. The night was exceptionally dark, with Anxiety for the Life-boat. rain and squalls of sleet. It was bitterly As time passed and there was no cold, and a very heavy and confused sign of the Life-boat, those on shore sea was running. grew very anxious for her safety, and The Life-boat searched along the Mr. Sutherland hurried to Melsetter shore by Tor Ness, looking for the and from there telephoned to the Coast- wreck with her searchlight, and from guard at Kirkwall, asking for the Life- time to time burning white flares. But saving Apparatus. The Coastguard nothing could be seen of the Dorbie. called out the L.S.A. at Stromness, Not only did the rain and the sleet arranging for the Apparatus and its squalls make visibility very poor, but Crew to be sent by the Stromness the Life-boat was continuously en- Motor Life-boat to Longhope Pier, and veloped in spray, and the Crew were Mr. Sutherland arranged for a motor to blinded by the white glare of their be in readiness for it there. In this way lights on the mist of water round them. the L.S,A. was sent, but its services Nor could the Dorbie do anything to were, as it turned out, not required. show her position. All her lights had The Longhope Motor Life-boat, in been extinguished when she struck, the meantime, finding no sign of the and she had already burnt up all her wreck afloat, had approached Dunnet flares. Head Shore Signal Station, on the Failing to find any sign of the wreck, other side of the Pentland Firth, and Coxswain Swanson thought that pos- had morsed her position. This was sibly the vessel had struck the rocks, telephoned to Mr. Sutherland at Mel- fired her distress signals, and then got setter, by way of Kirkwall and Long- off again, and that she was at that hope, and he at once sent back a message moment drifting about in the Pentland to Du'nnet Head asking that the Life- Firth. This had happened more than boat be signalled to return, if possible, once recently. He therefore decided to to Tor Ness. search the Firth. Mr. Sutherland, who had hurried Meanwhile Mr. William Sutherland, several miles over heather and peat the Honorary Secretary of the Station, bogs, was already dead beat, but he and Mr. W. Marwick, the Chairman, collected some of Mr. Cutt's men at had arrived at Tor Ness, where they Melsetter, and with bundles of straw found Mr. R. Cutt, a member of the they hurried back to Tor Ness. With Branch Committee, who lived two miles the straw, and with casks washed up away at Melsetter, and who had tele- from the Dorbie, they made a bonfire to JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 479 light up the wreck and guide the Life- service skilfully and gallantly carried boat. By this time the weather had out, and the Institution nas made the cleared, the wind had eased to a moderate following awards :— gale and the strong flood tide had also begun to ease. To Coxswain JOHN SWANSON, a Second- Service Clasp to his Silver Medal, in recog- Guided by a Bonfire. nition of his gallantry and his most skilful At 10.45 the Life-boat arrived, and handling of the Life-boat. Coxswain Swansou won his Silver Medal for the by the light of the bonfire approached rescue in January, 1930, of the crew of the the wreck. She found her about Aberdeen steam trawler Braconmoor. 150 feet from the cliff, lying over on a To the Motor Mechanic, ROBERT JOHNSTONB, rock on her port side, at an angle of inscribed Binoculars in recognition of the way in which, under circumstances of 70 degrees. The seas were sweeping great difficulty he morsed the message to over her. Coxswain Swanson anchored the Dunnet Head Signal Station and took to windward, and attempted to veer the reply. down on her port side. It was impos- To the Coxswain, Motor Mechanic and each of the other seven members of the Crew, the sible to do it. The rocks, and the masts Thanks of the Institution inscribed on sticking out, prevented the Life-boat Vellum. from getting close to the wreck. He To the Coxswain and each member of the weighed anchor ; anchored again ; and Crew an additional £3 to the usual money rewards, making a reward of £4 17*. 6

Services of the Life-boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management. PORTRUSH, Co. DOWN.-—About 10.40 23rd December, 1931, in a strong S.S.W. A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing breeze, with a rough sea, as the Coast- boat was reported to be in difficulties guard had reported that a schooner was in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor in distress in the bay. She was found Life-boat, T.B.B.H., was launched in to be the auxiliary schooner Volant of a strong S.W. wind to her help. Kilkeel, coal-laden from Birkenhead The boat was found to be disabled. to Kilkeel, with a crew of four. She Her propeller had been fouled by a had stranded well up the beach and her rope. She could not have reached crew were taken ashore by means of harbour without help, as the wind the Life-saving Apparatus. The Life- was blowing off the land, and the boat was beached north of the wreck Life-boat brought her in.—Rewards, at 1 A.M., and was taken back to her £5 8s. U. Station by the launching tractor.— NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—The Pulling Rewards, £30 3s. and Sailing Life-boat, John Cleland, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—On was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the the night of the 27th December, 1931, 480 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. information was received from tke N.W. breeze with a rough sea, and found Coastguard at Southend that distress a small boat with two men on board, signals had been seen by the Lighthouse but they did not require help. The Keeper at Mull of Kintyre, about missing youths were then found in eight miles S.W. of the Lighthouse. their small boat sheltering behind the After further inquiry it was decided to South Pier. They also did not need send out the Motor Life-boat City of help, so the Life-boat returned to her Glasgow, and she was launched at Station at 2.30 P.M. The wind had 12.39 A.M. on the 28th. A very strong changed suddenly and had it not been N.W. gale was blowing, with a very for this neither of the boats would have heavy sea, and sleet. The Life-boat been able to make the harbour without reached the position given and cruised aid.—Eewards, £9 6s. Qd. round for a considerable time, but ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—At could find no sign of any vessel in distress. She arrived back at her 6 P.M. on the 4th January a message was received from the Postmaster of Station at 6.55 A.M.—Eewards, £20 2s. Marloes, through the Coastguard, that SuNDEELAND, DURHAM.-—At about a small boat was drifting in St. Bride's 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, Bay. The occupants of the boat were information was received from a fisher- the owner of Skomer Island and another man that a small boat, with two men, man, who had been to the mainland had been seen drifting helplessly out to and were returning during a moderate sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was but squally westerly breeze with a blowing with a rough sea. The Motor rough swell, when their engine failed. Life-boat Henry Vernon put out and The Motor Life-boat General Fanell found the boat to be the Bee with two was launched at 8.45 P.M. and went brothers on board. As they were in along the coast where the Coastguard an exhausted condition and the boat were patrolling. Nothing was found, was waterlogged, the men were taken and the Life-boat, after crossing the into the Life-boat and the boat was bay, and still finding nothing, returned east adrift.—Rewards, £17 6s. &d. ashore at 5.50 A.M. Later it was learned FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—On the that the men had reached Littlehaven evening of the 31st December, 1931, safely. Mr. J. Soar, the Honorary prolonged blasts on a steamer's whistle Secretary, went out in the Life-boat.— were heard. There was fog and it was Eewards, £19 14s. assumed that a vessel had run aground, TORBAY, DEVON.—On returning to either on the Smethwick Sands or port at about 9 P.M. on the 4th January under the South Cliffs. The No. 2 a drifter reported that another drifter, Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Sunbeam, belonging to Torquay, but Middlewood was launched at 11.15 P.M. fishing from Brixham, had asked her A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, to stand by, as her engine had failed. with a heavy sea. The Life-boat The Sunbeam was then off the Orestone, searched the cliffs and sands for four with three men on board. The other hours, but without result. She returned drifter could not remain owing to the to her Station at 3 A.M. next day.— heavy sea running, and the strong Eewards, £36 8s. Qd. S.S.W. breeze. About 9.35 P.M. the TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.— Motor Life-boat George Shee put out to Information was received at mid-day look for the Sunbeam, but the wind on the 4th January that a small boat, veered and moderated and this enabled in which two youths had gone fishing the Sunbeam to make Brixham under at 4 A.M., was overdue, and the Coast- sail and one engine. The Life-boat was guard at Marsden reported that a small re-called and returned to her Station boat about three miles to the E.S.E. at 10.35 P.M. While on this service appeared to . be in difficulties. The Coxswain Sanders's hand was struck by Motor Life-boat Henry Frederick Swan the steering wheel and the bone of his put out shortly after 1 P.M., in a strong right thumb split.—Eewards, £14 9s. Qd. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 481 TBOON AND GIEVAN, AYRSHIRE.— £4 7s. Gd. for the launch to the Trevaylor Information was received through the on the same date. Portpatrick Coastguard at about 7.30 TORBAY, PLYMOUTH, AND SALCOMBE, P.M. on the 5th January, that flares DEVON.—The s.s. Trevaylor, of St. Ives, had been seen ofl Pladda Point. The lost her propeller when off the Eddy- Troon Motor Life-boat Sir David Rich- stone on 6th January, in a whole S.S.W. mond and the Girvan Motor Life'-boat gale, with a very heavy sea. She sent Lily Glen, Glasgow were both launched. out an urgent call for help. It was A moderate W. breeze was blowing passed by the Coastguard to the Life-boat with a moderately rough sea. Although Station, and the Motor Life-boat George the Life-boats searched a large area Shee left Brixham at 10 P.M. to go to her thoroughly for several hours, no trace help. H.M.S. Exeter and tugs from Fal- of any vessel in need of help could be mouth also went out. Although she found. The Life-boats returned to searched through the night, the Life- their Stations about 1 A.M.—Rewards : boat could not find the drifting steamer. Troon, £13 11s. Qd.; Girvan, £13 Then at dawn she discovered her off the lls. Qd. Prawle and stood by until, with the arrival of the tugs, she was no longer in TORBAY, SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, danger. The tugs took her in tow and DEVON.-—At 11.25 A.M., on the 6th brought her into Falmouth. The Life- January, the Motor Life-boat George boat made for home again at 11 A.M., Shee left Brixham in a whole S.S.W. reaching her moorings at 1 P.M., after gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, being on service for fifteen hours. The as the s.s. Ingola, of Glasgow, had sent Coxswain, who had hurt his thumb on out an S.O.S. message that she was service two days previously, was in bearing down on the rocks off Start charge. The Plymouth Motor Life-boat Point. The message had been inter- Robert and Marcella Beck was also called cepted and passed through the Coast- out, but was recalled, and the Salcombe guard to the Life-boat Authorities. Life-boat Station was informed.-—Re- The S.O.S. was also conveyed to Sal- wards : Torbay, £22 5s.; Plymouth, combe and in response the Motor Life- £4 7s. Gd. boat Alfred and Clara Heath also launched. At 11.42 A.M. the Ingola ST. MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY.—A cancelled her distress call, having mis- telephone message was received from taken seas washing over a steamer off the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th the Start for seas breaking over the January that the s.s. Jersey City, of rocks. The Torbay Motor Life-boat Bideford, had broken down and was in was re-called when off Berry Head and distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock. arrived back at her Station at 12.30 P.M. Preparations to launch the Motor Life- Coxswain Sanders was in command, boat Cunard were at once made, but although suffering from the injury to were cancelled on receipt of a further his thumb received while out on service message that the vessel was off the two days before. South Bishops, 115 miles to the north- Salcombe Life-boat was also re- ward. The initiative of the Postmaster called from Prawle Signal Station, but in enlisting the aid of a passing motorist the weather was very bad indeed, so the to deliver the second message saved the Life-boat ran for Dartmouth, and expense of a launch.—Rewards, £1 16s. returned to Salcombe the following THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— day. Information of the vessel's posi- The Coastguard telephoned to the tion was also given to Plymouth, where Honorary Secretary at 1.15 A.M. on the the Crew of the Motor Life-boat Robert 8th January that a steamer, which was and Marcella Beck assembled, but it found later to be the Afon Dulais, of was not considered necessary for the Llanelly, bound for Port Talbot with boat to go out.—Rewards : Torbay, pig iron, was aground on the Mixon £7 6s. Gd.; Salcombe, £12 12s. ; Ply- Sands. A light N.N.W. wind was blow- mouth, rewards included in the ing with a ground sea when the Motor 482 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Life-boat Edward, Prince of Wales pul phoned from the Coastguard at Re- out. She found the vessel hard anc culvers that a vessel was burning flares fast, but the crew declined to leave about three-quarters of a mile N.W. The Life-boat stood by until, on the from Reculvers. The vessel proved to flood tide at 2.30 A.M., the steamer be the barge Vicunia, of London, bound, refloated and went on her way. The laden, from Portland to London, with a Life-boat returned to her Station a1 crew of three on board. As the Life- 4.30 A.M.—Rewards, £14 17s. boat Coxswain was at sea, the Motor WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—At about 1.10 Life-boat Lord Sonthborough (Civil P.M. on the 8th January the Coxswain Service No. 1) was launched in charge was informed by a fisherman that a of Robert Ladd, one of the survivors of fishing boat had broken down and was the surf-boat disaster in 1897. The blowing towards the shore south oi Life-boat found that the vessel was in Whitby. The Coastguard confirmed a sinking condition. Her crew and their this and added that another fishing dog were already in the ship's boat, boat was going towards her. A strong which they were keeping afloat by N.N.W. breeze was blowing, and there bailing. The men and their dog were was a strong sea breaking along the taken into the Life-boat and landed at coast as well as a very strong tide and Margate at 12.15 A.M.—Rewards, £16 sea across the harbour entrance. The 10s. Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker-Smith was launched at 1.45 P.M. and found the SELSEY, SUSSEX, and BEAIBRIDOE, Whitby fishing boat Remembrance about ISLE OF WIGHT.—The Selsey Motor a mile to the southward in tow of the Life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched fishing boat Fortunas, which had with in a S.S.W. gale with a rough sea at difficulty got a second tow rope aboard 3 A.M. on the 10th January in response after the first had parted. Escorted by to red flares from a position about six the Life-boat the Remembrance was miles S.S.W. of Selsey Bill. It was safely towed into harbour by the found that the signals came from the Fortunas.-—Rewards, £8 5*. Qd. s.s. Mango, of Newry. Her cargo of stone had shifted while she was on a NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBER- voyage from Crookhaven to Ipswich, LAND.-—In the early morning of the 9th and she was on her beam ends. The January part of the local fishing fleet crew of nine men were rescued by the put out to the fishing grounds, but after Life-boat, and the Mango eventually going a few miles five of the boats went ashore in West Bay, Selsey. After decided to return on account of the very taking the crew on board, the Life-boat strong S. wind and short sea. Nine made for Portsmouth, where the ship- others went on, but later two cut away wrecked men were landed. The Life- their gear and ran for port. Conditions boat, after her Crew had breakfasted, were very bad indeed, but they suc- left for her Station, and arrived at her ceeded in making land near Craster. moorings about 10.30 A.M. She waited At 1.30 P.M. the Pulling and Sailing for the weather to abate. This did not Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched to happen, and as she could not be got up go to the aid of the seven boats still to the Slipway, the Coxswain, about come. She went south and stood by 4 P.M., decided to return to Portsmouth. six of the boats through the roughest There she was berthed in the Dockyard, water. The last coble would not take and the Crew, after a meal, were taken the risk of coming through the tide home in motor cars, two of which were race and made jor Craster. When it kindly lent. On the following day the was learned that this boat had reached Life-boat was brought back to her safety, the Life-boat was signalled to Station. When the Life-boat reached return and arrived back at her Station Portsmouth the second time, her Crew at 3.15 P.M.—Rewards, £18 7s. bad been out in her for fifteen hours in MARGATE, KENT.—At 9.35 P.M. on bad weather. One of the Crew had the 9th January information was tele- received slight injuries, and the Life- JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 483

boat had been slightly damaged. A owing to the rough sea and a moderate Letter of Appreciation was sent by the S. gale he failed. The Life-boat was Institution to the Branch, and additional again launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 13th, monetary rewards were made to the and took off the five men. The vessel Coxswain and Crew. was re-floated and went on hei way the After the Selsey Motor Life-boat following morning.—Rewards : First had been launched, information of a launch, £30 16s. ; second launch, £32 4s. vessel in distress reached Bembridge, GREAT YARMOUTH and GORLESTON, and the Motor Life-boat Langham was NORFOLK.—During a fresh S. gale on launched. She found that the vessel 13th January, with a very rough sea, was the Mango, and that the Selsey the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., Life-boat had already taken off the that a ketch, which was found to be the crew.—Rewards : Selsey, £44 2s. 9d. ; Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a Bembridge, £23 10s. crew of four and bound with maize ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY.— from London to Great Yarmouth, was During a moderate S.W. to W. gale, in distress about three miles to the with a heavy sea, a message was re- southward. The Motor Life-boat John ceived at 7.15 P.M. on the 10th January and Mary MeiJdam of Gladswood was that at 3.15 P.M. the fishing boat launched. She went alongside the L'Arguenon, of St. Malo, was in diffi- vessel at 8.30 A.M., and put five men on culties. The crew of the Motor Life- board to help in getting up anchor and boat Queen Victoria were assembled, in making fast to a tug, the George but in view of the fact that the message Jewson, which, by this time had also must have come from a vessel in a posi- arrived. The Life-boat stood by the tion to give help, that the message had ketch while the crew hove up the anchor, been sent four hours earlier, and that which took about an hour, and then the position was thirty-five miles from accompanied the ketch and tug to Les Hanois Lighthouse (nearly forty- harbour, which was reached shortly five miles from St. Peter Port), the before 11 A.M. While engaged on this Life-boat did not put out. A passing service the Life-boat was signalled by steamer saved one of the crew of the steamer Grace, of London, which L'Arguenon, but the remaining two was sheltering in the roadstead, and, were lost.—Rewards, £1 11s. 6d. on going alongside was asked to land a man. With some difficulty he was taken FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—The steam into the Life-boat. The steamer was trawler James Lay, of London, with a bound for Blyth from Ostend, and just crew of fourteen on board, bound for before leaving Ostend the man had Hull, laden with fish, grounded on learnt that his wife had died. He was Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th very grateful for the help given which January in a thick fog. The sea was nabled him to reach home much sooner smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat than he would otherwise have done.— the vessel at high water, but were Property Salvage Case. unsuccessful and returned ashore, leav- ing the crew on board. About 9.15 P.M., LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—During a by which time a strong S. gale was whole S. by E. gale, with a very heavy blowing with a rough sea, the trawler sea and rain, on the 13th January, the made distress signals, and the Pulling 'oxswain was at the Coastguard Look- and Sailing Life-boat, Hollon the Third out, when, at 10.25 A.M., a message was put off after consultation with the received from Gorleston that a vessel Coastguard. She reached the trawler, off Gorton was firing a signal for help. only to find that the men had got ashore. The Motor Life-boat Agnes Cross was Next night a fisherman, returning >romptly launched and found the ashore in his coble, saw the James Lay vessel to be the barge Servic, of London, moving, and made an effort to take off carrying a crew of three. Her anchors two members of the crew and three lad been dragging and she had been youths who had gone on board, but wept by heavy seas, but when the 484 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. Life-boat arrived the anchors were the police informed the Coastguard that holding. The Life-boat stood by until the motor yawl Falcon, of Broughty a tug took the barge in tow, and then Ferry, was adrift somewhere in the Tay returned to her Station, arriving at with fifteen men on board. She had 12.30 P.M.—Rewards, £20 18s. 6rf. left Tayport at 10 P.M. the previous CEOMEE, NORFOLK.—In response to night for Broughty Ferry, and there information received from the Coast- was no sign of her. A strong S.W. gale guard, the Motor Life-boat H. F. Bailey was blowing with a heavy sea. The was launched at 11.15 A.M. on the 13th Motor Life-boat John Ryburn was January in a strong W.S.W. breeze, called out, but just as she was about to with a moderate sea, and went out to leave, the missing vessel's lights were the Haisborough Sands. Finding noth- seen approaching, and the Life-boat ing, the Life-boat returned to her Crew were dismissed.—Rewards, 18s. Station; she then went off again and PETEBHEAD, ABEEDEENSHIEE. — spoke to the s.s. Aina of Ventspils, During-a whole S.S.W. gale with a heavy which was about two miles to the sea on the 14th January, the Coxswain N.N.E. The master stated that his was at the Life-boat Station, when, at vessel had been aground on the Hais- 12.30 P.M., he received information from borough Sands, but had re-floated, and the Coastguard that the small fishing that he did not require any help. The boat Thistle, of Peterhead, with two Life-boat returned to her Station at men on board, was in distress at Kirton 4.40 P.M.—Rewards, £12 7s. Qd. Head, about five miles to tie north of BLYTH, NOETHUMBEBLAND.—Shortly Peterhead. The Motor Life-boat Duke after noon on the 13th January infor- of Connaught promptly went out and mation was received from Cresswell, found the boat with her engine broken through the Blyth Coastguard, that a down, her tiller lost, and her halyards small steamer was lying about one mile fouled, so that the crew could not work east of Cresswell broadside on to the the sail. Taking the fishing boat in tow, sea and drifting. She was not showing the Life-boat returned to Peterhead signals of distress, but she appeared to Harbour, which was reached at 2 P.M.— be in need of help. A strong W.S.W. Rewards, £8 5s. &d. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.—On 14th The Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam put January a man from Dinmor Quarry out, but when she reached the position saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive given, she found that the steamer had either on to Puffin Island or into the gone. She had been seen to get under sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, way by the Coastguard at Cresswell, who notified the Life-boat Station. who signalled the Life-boat to return This was at 3.30 P.M. The Motor Life- home.—Rewards, £8 5s. &d. boat Frederick Kitchen was promptly POETPATEICK, WlGTOWNSHIEE and launched. A whole S.W. gale was DONAGHADEB, Co. DOWN.—The Port- blowing, with a steep breaking sea. patrick Motor Life-boat J. and W., and The Life-boat cruised round the island, the Donaghadee Motor Life-boat Wil- but could find no sign of the aeroplane. liam and Laura were both launched on In the meantime the Coastguard learned the 13th January to the s.s. Camlough, that the machine had landed safely of Belfast, the Portpatrick Life-boat near Chester, and re-called the Life- rescuing her crew of eight.—Rewards : boat. The pilot of the aeroplane, the Portpatrick, £27 16s.; Donaghadee, Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, wrote and £28 Is. (A full account of this service, expressed her thanks for the action for which Coxswain Campbell, of Port- taken.-—Rewards, £12 Is. 6d. patrick, was awarded the Bronze Medal, TEIGNMOUTH, DEVONSHIEE. — At appeared on page 424 of The Life-boat 10.15 P.M. on the 14th January the for February.) Coastguard informed the Honorary BEOUGHTY FEEEY, ANGUS/—At 1.30 Secretary that a small drifter appeared A.M. on the morning of the 14th January, to be in difficulties about five miles JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 485

S.E. of Dawlish, so the Life-boat merged wreckage, had broken a pipe Coxswain remained in readiness for and carried away a seacock, and, as some time at the Station in case the water was coming in rapidly, had had Life-boat should be needed.—Rewards, to beach his vessel. As he did not 5s. require any help the Life-boat returned SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. — At to her Station, arriving at 12.40 P.M.— 3.10 A.M. on the 15th January informa- Rewards, £21 8s. tion was telephoned from the Pier APPLEDORE, DEVON.—Just after the Head that flares had been seen about Motor Life-boat V.C.S. had returned one and a half miles from the pier in from exercise on the 18th January, a the direction of the Lowway Buoy. vessel was seen to be drifting into the Putting off in a moderate S.W. gale, broken water on the North Tail with with a very heavy sea and rain, the another vessel trying to help her. As Motor Life-boat Greater London found it was clear that the other vessel could the barge Conqueror, of Rochester, do nothing, the Life-boat put out again laden with sand and carrying a crew of at 1.30 P.M. She found the vessel in two. She was nearly under water and distress to be the ketch Bessie Gould, of leaking very badly. Her crew were at Barnstaple, in ballast, bound from once taken off and the Life-boat Braunton to Bridgwater, with a crew returned to her Station, arriving at of three. She was in difficulties with 4.20 A.M.—Rewards, £17 17s. her engine disabled. A moderate LYTHAM-ST. ANNE'S, LANCASHIRE— S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January sea. It was difficult to get alongside, the Coxswain was informed by fisher- so a line was got on board. The ketch men, who had just returned, that the was then got clear of the broken water, local shrimping boat Jenny, with only and, with the help of her sails, taken to one man on board, was flying a distress Appledore. But for the help of the signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, Life-boat, the ketch, which was broad- with a rough sea and rain, the Motor side on to the shore when the Life-boat Life-boat J.H.W. was launched. This reached her, would probably have been was her first service. She found the wrecked.—Property Salvage Case. boat at anchor in a dangerous position CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The near Salters Buoy, at the mouth of the Honorary Secretary received a tele- River Ribble, with a shrimp bag flying phone message from the Kildonan as a signal of distress. After towing Coastguard at 3.55 A.M. on the 21st her to smoother water, the Life-boat January to the effect that a ship was put one of her Crew on board to help ashore on West Bennen Head, Isle of the man in the boat, and then towed Arran, and the Motor Life-boat City of her to her moorings. The Life-boat Glasgow was launched. A strong S.W. returned at 2 P.M.—Rewards, £6 17s. Qd. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. GKEAT YABMOUTH and GORLESTON, The Life-boat found that the vessel NORFOLK.—At 5 A.M. on the 16th was the s.s. Glenaan, of Belfast, bound January the Coastguard reported to light from Belfast to Glasgow, and that the Honorary Secretary that a vessel she had run ashore in the fog. As the was ashore about a quarter of a mile crew were already safe on shore, the north of Britannia Pier. The Motor Life-boat returned home, reaching Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of her Station at 8.30 A.M.—Rewards, Gladswood was launched in a fresh £17 11s. 6d. S.S.W. breeze, with a rough sea, and THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.—At found that the vessel was the auxiliary 9 A.M. on 27th January the Life-boat motor vessel Hawarden Castle, of Motor Mechanic and Bowman put out Chester, which had gone ashore on the in the boarding dinghy to run the Life- main while bound, laden, from Boston boat's engines, and hang out riding to Ostend. Her captain told the Cox- lights. As they were rowing out to the swain that he had struck some sub- moorings a dense fog settled. They 486 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. missed the Life-boat and drifted out to with a cargo of paper pulp. There was sea. After a time anxiety was felt fog at the time, but the sea was smooth, for their safety, and the remainder of with a light increasing S.S.W. breeze. the Life-boat Crew, thinking that they At 10.7 A.M. the Motor Life-boat Abdy might have landed, searched the beach, BeauclerTc went out. The Coxswain and but without result. The Motor Life- some of the Life-boat Crew boarded the boat City of Bradford I. was then steamer. They helped to get a tow rope launched and went in the direction of on board from a tug which had arrived, the Binks, searched the coast for about and then took a hand in jettisoning seven miles to the north and returned cargo. Later the Life-boat took sound- on a zig-zag course, still without avail. ings round the ship, which eventually Inquiry was made at the Koyal Naval floated at the top of the flood tide at Signal Station by semaphore, where it 11.20 A.M. After accompanying the was learned that the men had not Polaris for some distance the Life-boat returned, and that there had been a returned to her Station at 1.10 P.M.— collision twenty-one miles N. by E. of Property Salvage Case. Spurn. It was now 2.30 P.M., and the LONGHOPE and STROMNESS, ORKNEY. fog was lifting. The Life-boat made for —On 9th January the Hull trawler the Spurn Lightvessel, and just as it Dorbie was wrecked, and eight men of arrived a steam trawler was seen making the crew were rescued by the Longhope for the Humber with the Life-boat's Life-boat. The Stromness Life-boat was dinghy in tow. She had picked the also launched.—Rewards : Longhope, men up eight miles north of the Light- £44 5s. 6d ; Stromness, £14 Os. 6d. (A vessel. After taking the two men on full account of this service appears on board, the Coxswain made for the p. 478 of this issue.) scene of the collision, but nothing was seen, and after cruising round for some TORBAY, DEVON.—On January 14th time, the Life-boat returned to her the Coastguard reported what appeared Station, arriving back at 8.30 P.M. It to them to be the sudden disappearance was afterwards learned that the s.s. of a small yacht off the Skerries Bell Larchwood and s.s. Burma had been in Buoy. The time was then 5.35 P.M., and collision without loss of life.—Per- the Motor Life-boat George Shee put out. manent Crew. A S.W. breeze was blowing which in- creased to a whole gale with a very FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—During heavy sea. She searched until about the morning of the 2nd February a 2 A.M., and then returned to harbour, moderate N. breeze was blowing with a but was held in readiness to put out again very heavy sea running. Several return- at daylight. Before she put out further ing fishing boats only succeeded in enquiries were made, and information landing at great risk, and two were was then received from the Coastguard nearly capsized. The No. 1 Pulling that the vessel was at anchor in Torquay and Sailing Life-boat Forester was Harbour. The yacht was the Ahto, of therefore launched at 1 P.M. to stand by Esthonia, manned by two brothers, who the remaining boats as they came in. were on a world cruise. She had made This she did, the last boat arriving Torquay Harbour unnoticed and unre- safely at 5 P.M.—Rewards, £18 15s. &d. ported at about 7.30 P.M., while the March Meeting. Life-boat was searching for her in the ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—Shortly be- gale. Coxswain W. G. Sanders, who had fore 10 A.M. on 9th January information injured his thumb badly while on service was received through the Coastguard on 4th January, was in charge of the that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Life-boat.—Rewards, £14 9s. Qd. Bank, about half a mile N.W. of the RAMSGATE, KENT.—At 8.20 A.M. on Sizewell Bank Buoy. She was found 30th January a message was received later to be the s.s. Polaris, of Stockholm, from the Coastguard Station that the carrying a crew of twenty-three, and East Goodwin Light Vessel had reported bound from Stockholm to Rochester a steamer ashore to the N.W. of the JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 487 Light Vessel. The Motor Life-boat crew, twenty-one local men who had Prudential put out and found the vessel gone out in their cobles but were unable to be the s.s. Sojoumer, of Newcastle, to get off again. The men declined to carrying a crew of eleven, and bound leave so the Life-boat stood by, and sent from Holland to Portsmouth with a a message asking for the Scarborough cargo of potatoes and onions. The Motor Life-boat Herbert Joy II. to come weather was very thick and the sea was out, as conditions were very bad and th,e smooth. Several boats from Deal went trawler was in a dangerous position. to the steamer, but their help was About 3 P.M. the men decided to leave declined by the Captain, who, however, the trawler and twenty-eight were, with accepted the services of some of the very great difficulty and danger, owing to Life-boat Crew to help in jettisoning the rolling of the vessel, taken into the part of the cargo. The Life-boat stood Filey Life-boat. When the Scarborough by until the steamer got off at 4 A.M. the Motor Life-boat arrived the two men following morning and went on her way. remaining on board were also taken off. After being on service for about twenty- Shortly afterwards the Johannesburg was four hours the Life-boat reached her washed off the Brigg. The two members Station again at 8 A.M.—Property Sal- of the crew in the Scarborough Life- vage Case. boat, together with two Life-boatmen, returned to the trawler. Her engineers THUESO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very were also put on board her from the Filey Life-boat, and the trawler, which was in thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, danger of sinking at any moment, waa escorted to the Filey Sands by the Scar- and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was borough Life-boat and there beached. launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was This was a smart service by the Filey Life-boat and a Letter of Appreciation found on the rocky shore of Murkle Bay, was sent to the Branch.—Rewards : having stranded while homeward bound Filey, £31 15s. ; Scarborough, Property from the Faroes laden with fish. At her master's request the Life-boat ran out Salvage Case. an anchor for her, and as the tide rose TORBAY, DEVON.—At daybreak on the trawler was able to haul herself off. 10th February the s.s. E. Rose, of Great A Life-boatman was then put on board Yarmouth, bound, in ballast, from Ply- to pilot her clear of the surrounding mouth to Boston, Lines., with a crew of shoals. But for the help given by the six on board, was seen by the Coxswain Life-boat Crew it is probable that the to be in difficulties dangerously near a vessel would have been washed further lee shore between Goodrington and in shore by the flood tide and swell and Broadsands. A strong E.N.E. gale was would have become a wreck.—Property blowing with a heavy sea, and the Salvage Case. weather was very cold, with snow showers. By 8 A.M. the vessel's posi- FILEY, and SCARBOROUGH, YORK- tion was so perilous that the Motor SHIRE.—At 6.30 A.M. on 8th February, Life-boat George Shee was launched. the steam trawler Johannesburg, of She went to Goodrington, where the Scarborough, ran ashore on the north steamer had, by this time, been skilfully side of Filey Brigg. She had a crew of beached in order to avoid being driven nine on board. Information was given on the rocks. After standing by for by the Coastguard and the Filey Pulling nearly two hours the Life-boat returned and Sailing Life-boat Hollon the Third to her Station as the crew did not wish was launched. When she reached the to leave the steamer and the Life-saving trawler the crew declined to leave her Apparatus Company had fired a line and the Life-boat returned at 9.15 A.M. over her from the shore.—Rewards, By 1 P.M. a strong northerly gale was £7 6s. 6d. blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the Life-boat went again. There were now CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—The Crew on board the trawler, in addition to her of the Motor Life-boat Edward Z, 488 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. Dresden were assembled at 2.28 A.M. on She carried a crew of fourteen. She 10th February, as the Coastguard had was seen by the Coastguard at Kettle- reported that the s.s. Urla, of London, ness Point. The Life-boat Station was was aground on the Gunfleet Sands. At informed, and the Pulling and Sailing 2.50, however, news was received from Life-boat Hester Rothschild was launched North Foreland Radio, through the to her help. A moderate N. wind was Coastguard, that the Urla had refloated, blowing, with a very heavy sea, and and the Crew were dismissed.—Rewards, there was a thick fog. The Life-boat £1 13s. &d. was manoeuvred with great difficulty PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—At alongside the Jeanne only to find that about 4: P.M. on 10th February informa- the crew had already abandoned her. tion was received from fishermen that By the light of flares men could be seen the motor fishing boat Morning Star, on the beach under the cliffs but it was with a crew of three on board, including impossible to get to them with the Life- John Campbell, the Life-boat Coxswain, boat. All haste was made back to the was two hours overdue. A strong S.E. Station, and the Coxswain sent a search breeze was blowing with a moderate sea, party by the cliffs to the scene of the and the weather was very cold. As no wreck. After a four and a half mile trace of the boat could be seen it was scramble over rocks and cliffs the party evident that some mishap had befallen found the Jeanne's crew. They were her, and the Motor Life-boat J. and W. in desperate plight, for they were very was despatched to search. She found scantily clad and were suffering from the boat, disabled by engine trouble, exposure. Of the crew of fourteen eight miles north of Portpatrick, drift- three men had been drowned or had died ing about helplessly with night coming from subsequent exposure, for the small on. The Life-boat took the Morning ship's boat, to which they had taken Star in tow, and brought her safely to only a few minutes before the arrival of harbour. The Second Coxswain had the Life-boat, had capsized and thrown charge of the Life-boat, and the Branch all of them into the sea. The eleven Chairman was on board.—Rewards, survivors were helped up the cliffs by the £9 19s. Qd. Life-boat party and the crew of the Kettleness L.S.A. Company which had SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—During arrived a little later. But for the the morning of 12th February, while prompt action of the Coxswain in four boats were at sea line fishing and sending the search party the eleven men crab catching, a heavy sea got up at the would undoubtedly have died, for they back of the pier, which made it dangerous could never have found their way up for the boats to enter the harbour. The the strange cliffs in the dark. The weather was very cold with snow Institution sent a Letter of Congratula- showers and a moderate easterly wind tion to the Coxswain. He was also blowing. At 11.20 A.M. the Motor Life- presented with an inscribed gold chrono- boat Herbert Joy II. was launched, meter by the owners of the Jeanne.— found the coble Our Maggie and the Rewards, £45 19s. 6d. keel-boat Albatross at the back of the pier and escorted them into the harbour. BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. — The Life-boat again put to sea at about Shortly after 9.30 A.M. on 17th February, 2 P.M., met the boats Gloria of Bridling- the Coastguard telephoned that a sea- ton and Fife's Own one and a half miles plane had made a forced descent at sea, east of Scarborough and escorted them about a mile east of Foreland Lookout. to safety.-—Rewards, £20 3s. Signals for help were also seen. The RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—At about Motor Life-boat Langham was launched midnight on 15-16th February the in a fresh easterly wind with a moderate steam trawler Jeanne, of Ostend, struck sea. She found that the seaplane was a the Keldar Steel, an outlying reef near Government machine, S.1502, carrying Kettleness, while bound home, with a out experiments, and that she had been cargo of fish, from the fishing grounds. damaged and disabled when she alighted. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 489

THE WRECK OF THE TRAWLER JEANNE.

The trawler and the remains of her boat.

By courtesy of] [Northern Echo, Darlington. Coming up the cliffs. (For an account of this service, see opposite page.) 490 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Three men were on board her, and the which would .have been very dangerous pilot asked the Life-boat to tow her out if the wind had shifted, the Life-boat of broken water. With the machine in stood by until after high water, when tow the Life-boat made for Lee-on- the danger was past, and then returned Solent. Air Force launches met her, but to her Station, arriving at 8.45 P.M.— the pilot declined to change his tow as Permanent Crew, Rewards, £2 6s. &d. he feared it would be dangerous owing BLAKENEY AND WELLS, NORFOLK.— to the damaged state of the seaplane.— At 9.5 P.M. on 22nd February, the The Commanding Officer at Lee-on- Blakeney Coxswain was informed by Solent thanked the Life-boat Crew. He the Coastguard that a flare had been also sent a letter of thanks.—Rewards, seen between Blakeney and Wells. £8 10s. The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat APPLEDORE, DEVON.—At 8.35 P.M. Caroline was launched at 9.45 P.M. in a on the 18th February, information was moderate N.W. breeze, with a moderate received from the Coastguard that rocket sea, but on reaching the bar she found signals had been seen between Pepper- that owing to the ebb tide there was combe and Clovelly, but that nothing not enough water to get over, nor could further was known. The motor Life- the boat return to her moorings. She boat V.C.S. was launched at 9.15 P.M., waited until 5 A.M. next morning, when in a moderate E. breeze, to investigate the tide had risen sufficiently. Mean- the signals. After Cruising in a large while the Wells Pulling and Sailing area without seeing any vessel in Life-boat Baltic had been launched at distress she returned to her Station, 10 P.M. She searched along the coast having been out for about five hours.— for about eight miles, and then went Rewards, £19 5s. out to sea, but was unable to find any ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY.-—At vessel in need of help. She returned to about 6.35 P.M. on 19th February, a her Station at 5 A.M.-—Rewards, telephone message was received from Blakeney, £15 Is. ; Wells, £41 5s. Gd. the Rockmount Hotel taat signals of DOVER, KENT.—The French steamer distress had been seen in a position Capitaine Bonelli, reported to the approximately four miles N.W. of Ramsgate Coastguard at about 9.10 P.M., Hanois Lighthouse. This was con- on 23rd February, that an explosion firmed from another source, and the had been heard five miles E. of the Motor Life-boat Queen Victoria, put off South Goodwin Lightvessel. This in- at 7.5. P.M. A strong N.E. breeze was formation was passed to the Life-boat blowing, with a moderate sea. It was Coxswain at Dover, and the Motor Life- found that the signals came from French boat Sir William Hillary was sent out. naval vessels exercising, and the Life- She left her moorings at 9.40 P.M. in a boat returned to her Station at 11.45 P.M. light N.W. breeze, with a slight sea, but —Rewards, £15 10s. Qd. she could find no sign of a vessel in ROSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD. distress. She then spoke the Light- —On 22nd February the Happy Harry, vessel which informed the Coxswain a schooner belonging to Whitehaven, that a trawler had been ashore on the bound, laden, from Glasgow to Wexford South Goodwin Sands but had refloated. with a crew of four on board, ran The Life-boat returned to her Station, ashore on the North Dogger Bank. She arriving back at 11.45 P.M.—Rewards, was seen by the Harbour Master, who £3 15s. telephoned to the Life-boat Station at GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, 5.25 P.M. The Motor Life-boat NORFOLK.—The Motor Life-boat John K.E.C.F., was launched in a rough sea, and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was with a freshening N.E. breeze. She launched at 4.40 A.M. on 28th February, found that the vessel was in no in a fresh easterly gale with a very immediate danger and that the crew did heavy sea, on receipt of information not wish to leave her. As, however, the from the Coastguard that the St. schooner was in an exposed position, Nicholas Lightvessel was firing signal JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 491 rockets. The Life-saving Apparatus TOEBAY, DEVON.—The Crew of the was also called out. The Life-boat went Motor Life-boat George Shee were assem- to the St. Nicholas Lightvessel, and then bled at 11 P.M. on 28th February as the to the Cockle Lightvessel. There the Coastguard had reported to the Cox- Coxswain learned that a steamer was swain that a vessel—which was found burning flares somewhere S.W. of the later to be the motor trawler May, of Cockle. Eventually the Life-boat found Ostend, bound for the fishing grounds— the vessel aground on the outer bank at was anchored in a dangerous position, off Hemsby. She was the s.s. Castle Livermead. A fresh easterly gale was Galleon, of Newcastle, bound, light, from blowing, with a heavy sea. The trawler Ipswich to Blyth. The Life-boat let had first been seen and her danger go her anchor and veered down to the reported by Mr. Ben Stedham, whose steamer, but while she was doing this a house overlooks the place where the heavy sea lifted the steamer over the May was anchored. The Life-boat outer bank, and she went ashore on the Station got into touch with him by main. The Life-Saving Apparatus then telephone, and he gave valuable help by fired a line over her from the shore and keeping the trawler under observation the Life-boat stood by while the crew of all night and keeping in touch with the thirteen were taken ashore.—Rewards, Coxswain. At daybreak the trawler £35 7s. 6<2. sought shelter in Brixham Harbour and HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—At about 11 the Life-boat Crew were dismissed. A A.M. on 28th February the Hoylake Letter of Thanks was sent to Mr. Sted- Coastguard reported that a small motor ham and his son.—Rewards, £4 8s. boat was at anchor or aground near WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—Information Spencers Spit, and that they were keep- was given to the Life-boat Coxswain ing her under observation. Later they shortly before 1 o'clock on the afternoon reported that the boat had disappeared, of 29th February that the motor fishing and at 1.56 P.M. the Motor Life-boat boat Pilot Me had broken down about Oldham put ofl to search for her. A three miles N.N.W. of Whitby. A strong strong breeze was blowing, with a N.E. to E. breeze was blowing, and choppy sea. After searching without although another boat could be seen result the Life-boat put into Hilbre taking the Pilot Me in tow, it was where she found the boat—the Jupiter, decided to send out the Motor Life-boat of Liverpool—safely anchored. The Margaret Harker'-Smith, as there was a Coxswain was informed that she had rough and broken sea at the harbour anchored at Spencers Spit, while on entrance. She was launched at 1.30 P.M., passage from Liverpool to Hilbre, but came up with the disabled boat about had not been in danger or in need two miles off, in tow of the Fortunatus, of help. The Life-boat returned to and escorted the boats through the her Station at 4.30 P.M. — Rewards, broken sea into the harbour.—Rewards, £12 9s. £8 5s. Qd.

Shoreboat Services. For which Rewards were given at the February, March, and April Meetings of the Committee of Management. TALMINE, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.—• At gale, which had continued and increased, 4 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1931, the until 11 o'clock on the morning of the motor vessel Dora, of Wick, while 28th. Then one cable parted and the anchored in Loch Eriboll, was forced by remaining anchor dragged. She a south-westerly gale and heavy seas to obtained more ground tackle from men cut her cable and run before the gale to on shore and was again anchored. At Talmine, where she arrived at 8 A.M. 6 A.M. on the 29th the gale increased to With two anchors down she rode the hurricane force, all cables parted and 492 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. the vessel drove ashore and rapidly from the shore and the motor boat broke up. Peter Mackay, who had Olive Branch, manned by five men, been watching her from the shore, immediately put off and towed her into secured a line thrown from the vessel, safety.—Rewards, £1 17s. Qd. and with great difficulty he and five SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—About other men rescued the crew of three. mid-day on the llth March the motor They were often breast high in the sea fishing coble, Hilda, of Scarborough, and ran the risk of being washed away while making for harbour, in a moderate and drowned.—Rewards, £7 10s. E.S.E. gale with a rough sea, got into EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.— The difficulties and was in danger of being small fishing boat Sea Nymph, when off swamped. As the Motor Life-boat was the Hurkur Rock on the 18th January, out in another direction, helping another got into difficulties. Her engine had coble, a Bridlington motor keel boat broken down. A very strong off-shore put out with six men aboard and helped wind was blowing with a choppy sea; the Hilda into safety.—Rewards, £2 5s.: and as she had no sails, she was in also granted 30s. to cover the cost of a danger of being swamped or blown out long line which was lost, and 3s. &d. for to sea. Her signals for help were seen fuel used.

Life-boat Days in 1931. IN 1931 no fewer than 686 Branches Permission to hold Days was refused held Life-boat Days, as compared with in only 34 places, but that is an increase 672 in 1930 and 616 in 1929. The of eight on 1930. actual number of Days was still larger, The above figures justify, if any for many Branches cover a wide area justification is necessary, the continua- and include several districts, each of tion of a form of appeal which is the which holds its own Day. most economical, and which reaches Though the number of days was larger, thousands of people who would have no the sum obtained by this form of appeal other opportunity of contributing. was smaller. That is not surprising in They show also that there is a good view of the increasing industrial depres- deal of exaggeration in the suggestions sion and unemployment during the which are freely made that the public is year. The amount raised last year was tired and impatient of Flag Days. It is £41,363, as compared with £45,590 in clear that it willingly and generously 1930 and £43,520 in 1929. That is a responds when the appeal is made on decrease of £4,227 on 1930 and £2,157 behalf of a great national charity like on 1929. the Life-boats. •The number of emblems disposed of was 5,005,473. That is to say, over five A Mayor's Appeal. million people contributed to the Life- Those members of the public who feel boat Service in response to these appeals any impatience at being appealed to in alone. The number was, however, this way, and those Life-fcoat workers smaller by 353,227 than in 1930. who are afraid of finding the public There has also been a decline in the impatient, we recommend to read the average amount received for each Day. very kind and sensible letter which the It was £71 in 1929, £68 in 1930, and £60 Mayor of Bath sent to the local Press, in 1931. announcing that it had been decided to In 1929, on an average, it took 117 give permission for fifteen Flag Days. people to contribute each pound; in He wrote :— 1930 it took 118 people, and in 1931 it " There is, on the part of some of the took 121 people. That is to say, the public, a resentment of Flag Days, average contribution last year was just generally, but may I emphasise that, if under twopence a head. these Flag Days were not held, the , 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 493 poorer folk who are willing to give their are often very hard, especially when the pence to the good work would not have weather is bad, and a penny subscribed the opportunity of doing so, and amounts in this way and an emblem worn means ranging say from Id. to Is. would never that they will not be accosted again that be collected. day to contribute, but will have the smile " May I point out further, that if there of the other collectors as they pass them i was a Flag Day every Saturday (fifty- by. two) for the whole year and people only " So when the days come along, do not gave one penny, their total subscription say ' Bother, another Flag Day,' but, if would be 4s. 4

Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition, 1932. THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- school competition). The Midlands is boat Essay Competition was held this fifth with 285, as compared with 301 year for the twelfth time. The number (163 entering for the inter-school com- of schools taking part in the competition petition). Scotland is sixth with 264 was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in schools, as compared with 237 (110 1931. The number of schools which entering for the inter-school competi- took part in the inter-school competition tion). Ireland and Wales (including was 1,252, as compared with 1,471 in Shropshire, Hereford and Monmouth) 1931. The number of schools which are seventh with 238, as compared with wrote essays without entering for the 265 (124 entering for the inter-school inter-school competition was 997, as competition). The South-West of compared with 883 in 1931. England is again eighth, with 142 The Institution, as in previous years, schools, as compared with 165 (91 offered for competition a Challenge entering for the inter-school com- Shield and thirty-five individual prizes petition). in each of the eight districts into which Thus in the North-West of England Great Britain and Ireland are divided and Scotland there is again an for the purposes of the competition. increase in the number of schools. In Those schools which did not enter the all the other districts there is a small competition for the inter-school com- decline on last year, but, except in petition, and those which were not London and the South-West, the number successful in it, each receive a certificate is larger than in 1930. In every district for presentation to the writer of the best the number entering for the inter-school essay in the school. competition is smaller, except in the Of the eight districts, the North-West North-West, where there is a slight comes first with 367 schools, as compared increase. with 308 in 1931 (212 entering for the The Essays. inter-school competition). The North- The subject was: " What are the East comes second with 332, as com- qualities which make a good Life-boat- pared with 334 (166 entering for the man ? " The judges all speak in praise inter-school competition). London, of the high general standard of the which was first last year, is third with essays, and we cannot do better than 321 schools, as compared with 386 (201 quote the following description of them entering for the inter-school competi- by one of the judges: "They give tion). The South-East of England is ample proof that the youthful essayists fourth with 300 schools, as compared appreciate to the full the qualities that with 358 (185 entering for the inter- go to the making of the good Life- 494 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. boatman. Courage, devotion to duty, own struggles to be brave ? "A man self-sacrifice, the sense of responsibility, who is afraid to go upstairs in the dark sympathy, perseverance, activity, vigil- would not do for a Life-boatman." ance, experience, strength (moral and In this, as in previous competitions, physical), promptness, readiness, initia- the courage needed in getting up in the tive, coolness, resource—all these middle of the night has impressed the qualities and others, to the sum total essayists. " Most people have a certain of well over a score, are dealt with in amount of courage, but hardly anyone the various essays. And some of the would appreciate the job of rising in the writers are very strict. Let there be small hours of the morning to man the awanting but one of the qualities they Life-boat." But this year another form enumerate and the Life-boatman stands of courageous asceticism has roused the condemned. He may be a good Life- admiration of one writer. " They have boatman, but he is not the perfect, the to be men who are not afraid of leaving ideal Life-boatman. Youth can be any kind of meals." stern in its summing-up. The Learned Life-boatman. " The age of chivalry is not gone. Many The scholar is notorious for being of the boys contrive—let the irrelevance absent-minded, careless and slow, but be pardoned—to introduce a word of one essayist has quite another idea of praise for the heroines as well as the the effect of learning on character. heroes of the Life-boat—the women " Life-boatmen should be learned be- who, ' when a Life-boat is about to cause they should hurry when going to depart, help to push the heavy boat into a rescue." the water, often standing deep in the Yet another sees humour as one of boiling surge.' " the chief qualities of a good Life-boat- "Tight Lips and a Granite Face." man. " The Life-boatman has to be a joker or else he will fail to keep wrecked Many of the essayists found very people from crying. If he starts to tell quaint and charming phrases to describe jokes the people will forget about their those high qualities of body, heart and misery and enjoy themselves." mind which they expect the Life- He must also know how to sing. boatman to have. " Life-boatmen go out to a storm sing- " A Life-boatman must be a tight- ing. They are busy men. If they were lipped and granite-faced man to wrest lazy they would be kicked out." victims from the stormy seas." As has already been pointed out, the " He must have the body of a Spartan wives of the Life-boatmen are not for- and the endurance of a horse." gotten, though certainly it is stretching " He must have a strong heart and he the meaning of " quality " rather far to must not be insane. If he had a weak describe a wife as one. " One of the heart he will often be sick, and maybe he qualities to make a good Life-boatman would die in a bad storm, and if he was is to have a good and helpful wife." insane he would not know what to do " He must have a good wife or someone and when to do it." similar to get off his wet things." The need for courage is very originally expressed. "Incomplete without a Halo." " Would the Life-boatman scream Several writers can hardly find words and probably swoon ? No ! Assuredly strong enough to describe their admira- not. He would be like a goat in a tion, and one essayist ingeniously com- stable which is on fire ; he would try to bines a tribute to the Life-boatman's seek some way of escape." courage with a reminder of the perils of What could be more telling than this his calling. homely simile ! "A weak and scared " Who knows, when they come home man would shrink from that sort of job a wreath of flowers might have taken like flannel does from washing." the place of the wreath of laurels which And what more charming than thia in imagination adorns the brow of every tribute in terms evidently of the writer's man in the service." JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 495

" He is a great example to man- divided equally between girls and boys, kind," says another, " one could almost but of the total of 276 prizewinners imagine him incomplete without a halo." 154 are girls and 122 boys. But all these fine qualities are best summed up by the essayist who describes The Awards. him simply as " the good Samaritan of Barbara Bull, as the writer of the best the sea." essay, will be presented with a copy of The Best Essay in Great Britain and the five-guinea edition of " Britain's Ireland. Life-boats," by Major A. J. Dawson, signed by the Prince of Wales, and a Among the eight essays which won the Challenge Shields the judges had no certificate. Each of the other seven hesitation in awarding the prize for the winners of the Challenge Shields will receive a copy of the two-guinea edition best essay of all to Barbara Bull, of of " Britain's Life-boats," and a Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants. certificate. The schools will hold the Bessie Beedie, of St. Augustine's School, Shields for a year (except Spon Street Langloan, Coatbridge, Lanark, the Boys' School, Coventry, which has won youngest of the shield winners, was, its Shield outright), and each school will with the handicap for age, a very good also receive, as a permanent record of its second. success, a copy of the certificate awarded A Shield Won Outright. to the pupil. The other prizewinners In past years several schools have will each receive a certificate. succeeded in winning a Challenge Shield two years running. This year, for the Our Thanks to the Teachers. first time, a school has won a shield for The Institution wishes very gratefully the third year in succession, and the to acknowledge the help of the Educa- shield now becomes its property. The tion Authorities, not only by giving school which has this honour is the permission for the competition to be Spon Street Boys' School, Coventry. held, but in many cases by circulating Successful Towns. the particulars and drawing attention to it in other ways. To the teachers Portsmouth has beaten every other also the Institution offers it warmest town in the number of prizewinners. It thanks, for without their cordial co- has won seven certificates. Liverpool operation the competition would be and Stoke-on-Trent have again been successful, though less successful than impossible. Below will be found the names of the last year. Each has five winners. So eight Challenge Shield winners, and the have Birkenhead and Belfast. In Scotland the Orkneys and Shetlands are best essay. The full list of winners is printed as a separate leaflet and will be again prominent with five winne'rs. In sent, with a copy of this Journal, to the South-West, Gosport holds the each of the schools which entered for Challenge Shield for the second year in the inter-school competition. succession (last year it was won by a boys' School), and in the Midlands Coventry has not only won the Challenge Winners of the Challenge Shields. Shield outright, but has three other LONDON.—George Richards, St. Mary's schools among the winners. Boys' School, Arragon Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. Girls and Boys. NORTH-WEST OP ENGLAND.—Helena It has been a girls' year. For the Rotherham, Manor Road Senior second year running the best essay of Girls' School, Wallasey, Cheshire. all comes from a girl; and girls have NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND.—Edna E. now won this special prize seven times Harbottle, North Council Girls' to five times by boys. In the North- School, Whitley Bay. West of England girls hold the first five MIDLANDS.—Sidney C. Attridge, Spon places. The eight Challenge Shields are Street Boys' School, Coventry. 496 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND.—Douglas E. SCOTLAND.—Bessie Beedie, St. Augus- Back, Central School, Melton Con- tine's School, Langloan, Coat- stable, Norfolk. bridge. SOUTH-WEST OF ENGLAND.—Barbara IRELAND AND WALES.—Eric Channell, Bull, Leesland Girls' School, Gos- Wood Memorial Boys' School, port, Hants. Saltney, Flintshire. The Best Essay. By BARBARA BULL (14J), Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants. The Qualities that make a Good Life-boatman. THE Vikings of old were children of the sea, handling the injured, or soothing children loving the waves they fought and conquered, stricken with the fear of death. Calm in the but as cruel as the surging waters they sailed. most dangerous ordeal, on their alertness Their swords ran red with blood, and their depends the safety of their precious cargo, so very name rang with the fear of death. hardly won from the ravening grey-green jaws The Vikings of to-day—our Life-boatmen— of the leaping billows. The willing hands and they, too, are sons of the deep, but in place quick wits of the Life-boatmen have cheated of pillage and sorrow, they bring life and the black teeth of the rocks of many a ship- hope. wrecked crew. These saviours of the shipwrecked stand tall To sally out into the black midnight when and strong, stalwart as the rugged oaks of the screaming wind is whipping the water into England, but physical prowess alone is not a white seething turmoil, to leave a home and enough. They must love the sea, and know children behind, and, watched by the strain- its thousand moods—the call of the ocean, ing eyes of anxious women, to go to the help perhaps handed down from those valiant of some stranded vessel, needs great strength Nordic pirates of long ago, must be in their of purpose, without which strength of body veins. Brave they must be, and fearless, to would avail nothing. They must have a cheery venture out through the raging of the storm, word for the frightened, some comfort for the through the flying spray and great foam- bereaved, and a smile for each panic-stricken crested breakers to the succour of their child. fellow men at the mercy of the warring They must have no thought of self, but elements. stake all on the safety of the mariners who The man that risks his life to lessen the need their help on the waste of storm-tossed dreadful toll taken year by year by the ocean, and show the chivalry of those knights merciless sea, must not only be courageous of old renown that ride in endless fame down but unselfish and self-sacrificing, ready to the pages of history. offer the greatest sacrifice of all, that of his Setting out with a smile into the exhilara- own life for another. tion of a fight against the merciless forces of Those gnarled, rough hands, horny and Nature, these splendid heroes show the eternal seasoned by hard work and weather, must be spirit of England, the spirit which makes her capable of the gentleness of a woman, tenderly the greatest little country in the world.

A New Life-boat Book. A NEW book on the Life-boat Service Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Institu- is to appear in the autumn. It will be tion, General Seely is soldier, life- by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E. boatman and author. His book called Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., " Adventure " was published two years a Vice-President of the Institution, and ago. It was followed last yearly " Fear will have a foreword by H.R.H. The and be Slain." Prince of Wales, K.G., the President. The book will be published by No man is better fitted to write such a Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, in two book than General Seely. He brings to editions—one, with a paper cover, at it a unique experience. He has been a Is., and another, with a cloth cover, member of the Committee of Manage- at 2s. f>d. Honorary Secretaries of ment for thirty years. He has been Branches will be able to obtain copies a member of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, from the Institution at the wholesale Life-boat Crew for nearly forty years. rate, for sale at Life-boat Houses and This will be a book on Life-boatmen by at Bazaars and other Life-boat func- one of themselves. tions. Further particulars of the book Like Lieut.-Colonel Sir William will be given in the September issue. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 497

The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance. How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1931. £ s. d. 32 18 0 ^«•—• Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and Tractors. 16 15 0 ™™™^"^™^^— Payments to Life-boat Crews; Rewards for Wreck Services; Retaining Fees; Wages; Payments for Exercises; Grants to Injured Men and Pensions. 14 15 0 ^™"^^^^^™ Propaganda and Publicity, in connexion with Head quarters and over 1,000 Branches. 12 12 0 ^^^^^— Provision, Custody and Inspection of Life-boat Stores. 7 15 0 «^—^™« Construction and Repair of Life-boat Houses and Slipways. 4 10 0 -^— Amount spent locally at Life-boat Stations. 3 15 0 -^— Technical Supervision and Inspection of Life-boat Stations. 4 10 0 i— Administration. 2 10 . 0 ••• Expenses of move to new Headquarters. £100 0, 0

(For full Statement of Expenditure, see paget 512—514.)

The Institution's Income at a Glance. How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1931. £ s. d. 43 14 0 »««^•—•••———•••—••«« Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days. 33 15 0 i Legacies. 3 14 0 — Special Gifts. 16 14 0 «™i^-^^—™ Income from Investments. 100- Life-boat Funds. 130 Sales. £100 0 0

(For full Statement of Income, see pages 512—514.) 498 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P. By the death on 4th March of Mr. of the Committee in London. Thus, his Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of service to the Institution, begun as a Worthing, a Vice-President of the subscriber in 1865, continued for sixty- Institution, the Life-boat Service has six years. In the whole history of the lost its oldest and one of its most loyal Institution there can be no other and distinguished friends. Mr. Hargood example of such long and active devo- died within a few days of his ninetieth tion to its work. birthday. Through that long life, a life Mr. Hargood was born in Worthing. to the end full of energy and activity— He lived all his life there. He gave his great interest was the Life-boat himself without stint to the service of Service. the town—to its administration, its He came of a seafaring family and he public life, its charities, its sport. But was fond of ever those who telling how the knew best his sight of a wreck services to when he was a Worthing, real- small boy was ized that the the beginning of Worthing Life- that interest boat Station, which was des- and the Life- tined to c o n - boat Service as tinue for some a whole, had eighty years. his chief devo- He was a boy tion. What the of ten when a spirit of that Life-boat was devotion was placed at Worth- one story will ing, largely as show. In the a result of the days when efforts and gene- Worthing still rosity of his had 'a fishing father, Captain fleet,' Mr. Har- (later Admiral) good never went Hargood. When to bed until the the Station was news reached taken over by him that all the Institution the boats were in 1865, and safely in. a Worthing MR. HARRY HARGOOD, O.B.E., D.L., J.P. A fortnight Branch was A Vice-President of the Institution. after Mr. Har- formed, Mr. Hargood's name appears, good's death, Mrs. Hargood died. They with his father's, in the first list of sub- had been married sixty-four years. scribers. He was elected Chairman of In his will Mr. Hargood left to the the Branch in 1872, and remained its town of Worthing many interesting relics Chairman until 1919. He then became of his own association with the Life- President of the Branch, a post which he boat Service and his family's association held until 1923. In 1908 he became a with the Navy. Among them are relics member of the Committee of Manage- of his uncle, Admiral Sir William ment of the Institution, and in 1923 he Hargood, G.C.B., K.H., who com- was appointed a Vice-President. Until manded the Bdlisle at the battle of September, 1931, just six months before Trafalgar, and of his own brother, who his death, he travelled regularly from served in the Indian Mutiny. To the Worthing to attend the monthly meetings Institution he left the sum of £750 to be JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 499 invested, the income from it to take Report in 1865, will still appear each the place of his annual subscription. year in memory of his life-long and Thus the name of Harry Hargood, generous devotion to the Life-boat which first appeared in the Institution's Service.

Obituary. IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose recognition of his notable services to death is recorded on the opposite page, the Life-boat Cause. the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a R.N.R. Vice-President of the Institution and Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., December, 1931, was appointed a R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Member of the Committee of Manage- Management. ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- Sir William Priestley. perience in the Mercantile Marine, Sir William Priestley, J.P., who died having been in the service of the on March 25, a few days before his Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga- seventy-third birthday, was one of the tion Company for fourteen years. He Institution's most generous and in- was a very active member of the Com- fluential friends in the north of England. mittee. In addition to that, he took a The head of a big business of dress great interest in the work of the Folke- fabric manufacturers, he devoted a stone Branch, and during the winter of great part of his life to public affairs. 1930-31 he visited the principal Sea He was Mayor of Bradford, an Alder- Training Ships, and gave lectures to man of the City Council, the first chair- them on the Life-boat Service. man of its Education Committee, and * * * * one of the city's Members of Parlia- The Institution has also lost recently ment for twelve years. In the midst of a distinguished Coxswain and several of these many activities he was still able its oldest and most valued honorary to give much time and interest to the workers. work of the Bradford Branch of the Institution. He was elected a Vice- Coxswain Andrew Cunningham, of Crail. President of the Branch in 1905, and he Coxswain Andrew Cunningham, of became its Chairman in 1916, a position Crail, Fifeshire, who died on 15th De- which he still held at the time of his cember, 1931, had been an officer of the death. It was largely due to his influence Life-boat for twenty-seven years. In and personal efforts, for more than a 1892, at the age of twenty-nine, he was quarter of a century, that Bradford appointed Bowman. Three years later has been conspicuous for its generous he became second Coxswain, and in support. Besides its large annual con- 1906 he was appointed Coxswain. He tribution to the funds of the Institution, served as Coxswain for thirteen years, it has in recent years raised two special retiring in 1919, with a pension. The Life-boat funds, and two boats bearing Station was established in 1884, and the name of Bradford are on the coast. closed in 1923, and the eighty-four lives For her help in raising the second of rescued by the Station were all rescued these funds Lady PriestJey was pre- during Andrew Cunningham's Coxwain- sented with the Gold Brooch of the ship. His outstanding service, in which Institution in 1926. Sir William he showed great courage and for which Priestley himself was appointed a Vice- he was awarded the Silver Medal, was President of the Institution in 1926, in the rescue during the war of fifty-four 500 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. lives from the torpedo-boat destroyer on account of ill-health, shortly before Success. The destroyer was driven his death—and was awarded the In- ashore in a gale on the night of 27th De- scribed Binoculars and the Gold Pen- cember, 1914. The Life-boat herself was dant. When the Ladies' Life-boat badly holed on the rocks which sur- Guild was formed in 1921, Mrs. Ray- rounded the wreck, and Coxswain Cun- mond became the Honorary Secretary ningham himself, and one of the Crew, at Llandudno, and held that position were washed out of the Life-boat, but until her death. During the ten years were hauled back again. In spite of this from 1922 to 1931, the Llandudno Guild he succeeded, with his damaged boat, in collected over £5,000. Mrs. Raymond taking twenty men off the destroyer. was awarded in 1927 the Gold Brooch, When these had been landed, he twice which is given for long and distinguished put out again and rescued another honorary service for the Institution. thirty-four. The St. Andrews Life-boat Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, then arrived and rescued the remaining Anglesey. thirteen men. At the Scottish Life-boat Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, Assembly held in Edinburgh in Novem- who died last February, had been ber, 1929, Coxswain Cunningham was Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay one of the Silver Medallists presented to District since 1921. Before that he the Prince of Wales. had been the Honorary Treasurer for Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham. many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several special efforts Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham, who died every year, with the result that he had on 19th September, 1931, after a short collected in this small place about £500 illness, was one of the oldest of the in the last ten years. In 1931 he was Institution's honorary workers. She awarded the Gold Badge, which is given was Honorary Treasurer of the Lewi- only for conspicuous honorary work. sham, Lee and Eltham Ladies' Auxiliary of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and Major-Genera] J. Boughey, of Brancaster. when the organization of that Fund was Major-General J. Boughey, of Bran- taken over by the Institution in 1911, caster, Norfolk, who died on 20th she became Honorary Secretary and February, in his eighty-eighth year, was Treasurer of its Lewisham Branch. She Honorary Secretary of the Station from held that post until her death. During 1907 until his death. In recognition of those twenty years she collected for the his services, he was awarded Binoculars Life-boat Service £2,445 15s. U. That in 1920. was the gross sum raised by the Branch, Mrs. Walter, of Southampton. for Mrs. Hodgetts would deduct nothing Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died for postage and other expenses, paying in April, only a month after she had these herself. In 1924 she was awarded resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Framed Life-boat Picture, as a the Southampton Branch, on account small mark of the Institution's gratitude of ill-health and advancing years. She for her help. was in her eighty-seventh year. Mrs. Mrs. E. S. Raymond, of Llandudno. Walter had been the Honorary Secre- tary since 1924, but she had worked for Mrs. Eleanor Stephens Raymond, of the Institution for thirty-eight years, Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, who died during part of which time she had been at the end of September, 1931, was a the Honorary Secretary of the South- member of the Branch Committee at ampton Life-boat Saturday Fund. In Llandudno, and Honorary Secretary of 1930 she was awarded the Gold Brooch, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. She had which is given only for conspicuous been associated with the work of the honorary services. Life-boat Service for nearly forty years. Her husband, the Rev. John Raymond, Mr. I. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven. was Honorary Secretary of the Station Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven, from 1890 until 1922, when he resigned, Cumberland, who died in May, was the JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 501 Honorary Secretary of the Whitehaven Branch. In recognition of his services, Station from 1890 to 1925, when it was he was awarded Binoculars in 1900, closed. Since then he has been the and the Thanks of the Institution Honorary Treasurer of the Financial inscribed on Vellum in 1925.

Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, February llth, 1932. Decided that on the retirement of Mr. H. G. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. Solomon, F.C.I.S., Organizing Secretary for the Ireland and Wales District, this area be Reported the receipt of the following special divided into two districts; and appointed contributions :— Captain V.' M. Lewis, M.C., Organizing Mrs. Helen Davis, 100 £1 Preference shares in Secretary for Wales, and Mr. T. L. M. Fuge, the Lady Workers' Homes Organizing Secretary for Ireland. Ltd. Reported the receipt of the following special £ t. d. contributions :—• Miss Overend . . . . 100 0 0 £ s. d. Great Western Railway . . 70 0 0 Messrs. Wallace Bros. & Co. Ltd. £100 0 0 Miss Whittaker . . . . 50 0 0 Mrs. M. S. Hopwood, Executrix Mr. C. E. W. Lambert. . . 25 0 0 of the late Mrs. C. E. Maurice 100 0 0 Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. . 21 0 0 Mrs. C. C. Courtauld . . 20 0 0 Sir George Clerk . . . 20 0 0 H.M.S. Curacoa . . . 15 0 0 Mr. W. H. A. Wharton . . 20 0 0 To be thanked. To be thanked. Paid £13,550 2s. 5d. for sundry charges in Paid £18,041 15s. 5d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boathouses and Slipways, and the main- Life-boathouses and Slipways, and the main- tenance of the Life-boat Stations. tenance of the Life-boat Stations. Voted £205 3s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Voted £257 11s. 3d. to pay the rewards for Life-boat services, accounts of which appear the Life-boat services, accounts of which on pp. 486-491. appear on pp. 479-486. Voted £178 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for Voted £240 7s. to pay the rewards for the the Life-boat launches, assemblies of Crews, Life-boat launches, assemblies of Crews, etc., etc., accounts of which appear on pp. 486— accounts of which appear on pp. 479-486. 491 ; also voted 5s. in connexion with a Voted a further £14 10s. on account of launch already reported. pensions already granted to the dependent Voted a further £337 10s. 3d. on account of relatives of men who lost their lives in the Life- pensions already granted to the dependent boat Service at Brighstone Grange and relatives of men who lost their lives in the Caister. Life-boat Service at Aldeburgh, Caister, Granted £2 6s. to a man for injury in the Eastbourne, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Life-boat Service at Selsey. Holy head, Johnshaven, Mumbles, New Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the Brighton, Newhaven, Padstow, Port St. Mary, two daughters of the late ANDREW CUNNING- Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, St. David's, Troon, HAM, ex-Coxswain of the Grail Life-boat, who and Whitby. were left in straitened circumstances. Granted £73 2s. 6d. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven, Thursday, March 10th, 1932. and Walmer. Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Miss Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair. Ellen Fawcus, a sister of the late Signalman at Reported the death of Mr. Harry Hargood, North Sunderland, who is in straitened a member of the Committee of Management circumstances. since 1908, and a Vice-President since 1923, Decided that the special weekly allowance and resolved that an expression of sympathy now being paid to James Bultitude, an ex- be conveyed to Mrs. Hargood. member of the Crew of the Caister Life-boat Accepted with regret the resignation of the who was injured at a launch in November, Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward from the 1929, be continued until March, 1933. Committee of Management. Decided that the special weekly allowance Co-opted Commander Henry Strong, R.N.R., now being paid to Henry Marchant, who has a member of the Committee of Management. been incapacitated by illness since going out Confirmed the appointment of Lieut.- on service in the Newhaven Life-boat in Commander G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., as a November, 1929, be continued until March, District Inspector of Life-boats. 1933. 502 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. To THOMAS BENN, on his retirement, after To WILLIAM R. MITCHLEY, who served as serving for 26£ years as Coxswain, 2£ years Second Coxswain for 6J years, and pre- as Second Coxswain, and previously 3J years viously as a member of the Crew for 22J as Bowman of the Maryport Life-boat, a years, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Ser- Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a vice, and a Pension. Pension. To FREDERICK MATSELL, who served as Shore To RICHARD CHADWICK, Jr., on his retire- Signalman for 24} years, a Pension. ment, after serving for 20 years as Coxswain, Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service were and previously 11 years as Second Cox- granted to the following members of the swain of the Flamborough No. 1 Life- Hunstanton Crew, the figures after the boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, names denoting years of service :— and a Pension. GEORGE GILDING (22). To ADAM GALLOWAY, on his retirement, after BEN SEXTON (22). serving for 11J years as Coxswain, and pre- RICHARD APPLEYARD (20). viously 29J years as Second Coxswain of the ALFR.ED HAMES (20). Port Logan Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certi- To JOHN GALLAGHER, on his retirement, after ficate of Service, and a Pension. serving for 23J years as Second Coxswain, On the closing of the Brighton Life-boat 2 years as Bowman, and previously 15 Station, the following awards were granted— years as a member of the Crew of the Aranmore Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certi- To JOHN TAYLOR, who had retired earlier, ficate of Service, and a Pension. after serving for 9J years as Coxswain, 7 years as Second Coxswain, and previously To MAF/RICE LEE, on his retirement, after llf years as a member of the Crew, a Life- serving for 33 years as Bowman, and pre- boatman's Certificate of Service. viously 4 years as a member of the Crew of the Youghal Life-boat, a Life-boatman's To WILLIAM HAZELOROVE, who had retired Certificate of Service, and a Pension. earlier, after serving for 7 years as Cox- swain, and previously 33 years as a member To ALEXANDER McWiLLiAM, on his retire- of the Crew, a Life-boatman's Certificate of ment, on the closing of the Balcary Life- Service. boat Station, after serving for llf years as Shore Signalman, 13f years as Bowman, To FHANK COLYER, who served for 3£ years and previously 15£ years as a member of the as Coxswain, and previously 16J years as a Crew, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Ser- member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's vice, and a Pension. Certificate of Service. To WILLIAM THOMAS, on his retirement, after To ALFRED REDMAN, who served for 3J years serving for 10 years as Bowman, and pre- as Second Coxswain, and previously 21 £ viously 29 years as a member of the Crew years as a member of the Crew, a Life- of the Tenby Life-boat, a Life-boatman's boatman's Certificate of Service. Certificate of Service, and a Pension. To CHARLES GABBTJTT, who had retired earlier, after serving for 25 years as Bowman, and To the widow of WILLIAM WOOD, who served previously 5 years as a member of the Crew, for 34 years as a member of the Crew of the a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. Boulmer Life-boat, the Life-boatman's Certificate of Service, which would have Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service were been awarded to him on retirement had he granted to the following members of the not been drowned. Brighton Crew, the figures after the names denoting years of service :— To JOHN R. JONES, on his retirement, after serving for 18f years as Shore Signalman, HARRY HAZELGROVE (40). and previously 27 years as a member of the TOM GUNN (40). Crew of the Criccieth Life-boat, a Life- TOM YATES (40). boatman's Certificate of Service. WILLIAM COLYER (40). HARRY YATES (35). Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service have EDWARD PIERCE (33). been awarded to the following men, who GEORGE HARMAN (30). have retired, the figures after the names WILLIAM TAYLOR (30). being their years of service :— WALTER SINDEN (25). GEORGE DYKE (46), Swanage. WILLIAM BROOKS (25). FRANCIS CLARKSON (46), Whitby. OWEN JONES (45), Abersoch. On the closing of the Hunstanton Life-boat WILLIAM JONES (19), Abersoch. Station, the following awards were granted— TOM WHITE (18), Poole and Bournemouth. To JOHN RICHES, who served as Coxswain for GEORGE LIVERMORE (10), Cadgwith. 28| years, as Second Coxswain for 4J years, Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service have and previously as a member of the Crew for been awarded to the following Life-boat- 12 years, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Ser- men at Walmer, the figures after the names vice, and a Pension. being their years of service :— JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 503

RICHARD J. CLARINQBOLD (53). To EDWARD COTOKOVB, on his retirement, FRANK A. COLEMAN (47). after serving for 16J years as Shore Signal- WILLIAM R. CROSS (49). man of the Southend-on-Sea Life-boat, a RICHARD MERCER, Senr. (39). Pension. HENRY J. NORRIS (35). To RICHARD J. TREBILCOCK, on his retirement, To EDWARD POWELL, on his retirement, after after serving for 15J years as Shore Signal- serving 29J years as Shore Signalman of the man of the Newquay (Cornwall) Life-boat, a Llanddulas Life-boat, a Pension. Pension.

Awards to Honorary Workers. Mr. J. J. LINES has been appointed an Honorary THE THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, Life-Governor of the Institution in recog- INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, to the nition of the distinguished services he has following:—- rendered as Honorary Secretary of the New- Mr. JOHN HENDERSON, Honorary Secretary, haven Station Branch for upwards of 30 Troon Branch, on his retirement, after 10 years, and has been presented with a copy years' service. of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum, and signed by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., Mr. R. 0. HILL, Honorary Secretary, Drogheda President of the Institution. and Clogher Head Branch, on his retire- ment, after 14 years' Service. Mr. H. KINO has been appointed an Honorary Mr. C. A. MYERS, Honorary Secretary, Lytham Life-Governor of the Institution in recog- Branch, on his retirement, after 40 years' nition of the distinguished services he has service. rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Brighton Station Branch for upwards of 26 Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, Honorary Secretary, years, and has bsen presented with a copy Appledore Branch, and an Honorary Life- of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum, and signed Governor of the Institution, on his retire- by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., ment, after 30 years' service. President of the Institution. The Rev. Father W. YOUNG, Honorary Secretary, Baltimore, on his retirement, after In recognition of very valuable co-operation, 12J years' service. the following awards have been made to The widow of the late Mr. REES JONES, Honorary Officials of Branches and other Honorary Secretary, Barmouth, for 13 years. Honorary workers:— The Vellum would have been presented to THE GOLD BROOCH OR PENDANT, with her late husband on his resignation. the Record of Thanks, to the following :— THE ANEROID BAROMETER, with Mrs. BRIOOS, Vice-President, Ladies' Life-boat inscription, to:— Guild, Eastbourne Branch. Mr. JOHN JAMES EMMOTT, Chief Signalman, Mrs. HENRY BRONNERT, President, Ladies' Lloyd's Signal Station, The Lizard, for 47 Life-boat Guild, Didsbury District of the years' co-operation. Manchester Branch. Miss CORHIN, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' THE FRAMED LIFE-BOAT PICTURE to Life-boat Guild, Castletown. the following:— Mr. T. W. GOMM, Honorary Secretary, Margate. Messrs. T. M. DAITERN & Co., Honorary Mr. SAMUEL GOKRY, Honorary Secretary, Auditors, Coventry. Port Erin, on his retirement. Mrs. H. A. DEAKTN, Life-boat Worker, Black- Miss MARY KNIGHTS, Honorary Secretary) St. pool. Ives, Hunts. Mr. G. B. DIXON, Honorary Secretary, *Mrs. WILLIAM LONGAIR, President, Ladies' Walthamstow. Life-boat Guild, Dundee. Mrs. GEORGE DOVE, President, Ladies' Life- Mr. F. P. MORGAN, Honorary Secretary, Scar- boat Guild, Sunderland. borough. Mr. F. MILLS, Life-boat Worker, Coventry. Mrs. E. G. PARKINSON, President, Ladies' Life- Mr. GEORGE MOSLEY, Life-boat Worker, boat Guild, Wallasey District of the Liver- Robin Hood's Bay. pool Branch. Mrs. S. A. ORR, Life-boat Worker, St. Andrews. Mr. ALBANY WARD, who, in 1923, started Miss ROSSITEE, Life-boat Worker, Coventry. appeals in the cinemas controlled by Albany Miss ST. JOHN SCOTT, Honorary Secretary, Ward Theatres Ltd., to raise funds to pro- Henley and District. vide the Boathouse for the Motor Life-boat The Rev. T. L. V. SIMKIN, Honorary Treasurer, at Weymouth, which appeals have raised to Clovelly. date £4,850. Miss WOOD, Collector, Handsworth, Birming- Capt. J. WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., ham. Honorary Secretary, Aberdovey. THE RECORD OF THANKS to the following:— * Mrs. Longair died before receiving the Mr. GEORGE F. EDGELLEB, Life-boat Worker, Brooch, which was presented to her husband. Hartlepool. 504 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Mr. and Mrs. F. DEVIS, for Theatre Collections, Miss N. F. SHEPHERD, the Teachers Leamington. and Scholars of the British School of Messrs. J. W. HIKKS & Co., Honorary Auditors, Commerce, Life-boat Workers, Birming- , Birmingham. ham. Mrs. L. I. JESSOP, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' Mr. JOHN R. WILLIAMS, Honorary Treasurer, Life-boat Guild, Cleethorpes. Barmouth.

Life-boat Conference. South-western District. A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers had again given so readily during the in Hampshire, Berkshire, East Dorset past year. and Wiltshire was held at Winchester Lieut.-Colonel Satterthwaite ex- on the 15th March. Representatives plained the objects of the Conference, from nineteen Branches and Guilds and gave a survey of the work of the were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Institution. A general discussion fol- Bt., Chairman of the Committee of lowed on the various items of the Management, presided, supported by Agenda, which covered the organiza- Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, tion of a Branch and the methods by O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution, which a successful collection can not and the District Organizing Secretary. only be started, but also maintained. The Mayor of Winchester welcomed During the proceedings the Chairman the delegates, and the Chairman, after presented a Record of Thanks to Mrs. thanking him, expressed the Com- Bradley of Wareham in recognition of mittee's great appreciation of the help her active and valuable work for which Honorary Secretaries and workers nineteen years in raising funds.

News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March. Greater London District. Lantern Lecture to Tollington School by ACTON.—Address to Chiswick Brotherhood the District Organizing Secretary. Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary and Sisterhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., to the Y.M.C.A. Children's Lantern Lecture Chairman of the Committee of Management. by the District Organizing Secretary, the CARSHALTON.—Drawing-room Meeting Mayoress in the Chair. Rotary Club Concert. at Wallington, given by Miss Roberts. Whist Drive. CHELSEA.—Address to East Molesey Toe ISLINGTON.—Special Meeting arranged H by the District Organizing Secretary. by the Mayor to organize Branch. Speaker : CHINGFORD.—Bridge Drive. Colonel the Master of Sempill, a member of CITY.—Address to British Sea Anglers by the Committee of Management. the District Organizing Secretary. Lantern Lecture to the Presbyterian Church by the Rev. A. M. Peckham, Chairman of the CLAPHAM.—Bring and Buy Sale. Harrow Branch. DENMARK HILL.—Address to Toe H by Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Secretary to Girls' Guild. DEPTFORD.—Address to Golden Ray KENSINGTON.—Dance. Address to South Women's Club by the District Organizing Kensington Toe H by the District Organizing Secretary. Secretary. EAST MOLESEY.—Address to Toe H fcy MILL HILL.—Address to Toe H by the the District Organizing Secretary. District Organizing Secretary. HAYES.—Poultry Whist Drive. MITCHAM.—Whist Drive. Dramatic HORNSEY.—Annual Meeting on 18th Entertainment. January. Speaker: Sir John Collie, C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management. NEW BARNET.—Address to Toe H by the Amount raised last year, £222. District Organizing Secretary. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 505

PADDINGTON.—Address to the Chichester Amount collected last year, £235, as compared Road Women's Club by the District Organizing with £327 in the previous year. Secretary. Whist Drive and Dance arranged by the TOOTING.—Dramatic Entertainment. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Dance arranged by the Misses Tassell at the Plaza, kindly lent for TOTTENHAM.—Address to the Rotary the occasion by Mrs. Stockdale. Club luncheon by Mr. Walter Riggs, Honorary A legacy of £300 for the Branch from the Secretary of the Aldeburgh Station. Address executors of the late Mrs. Telford has been to the Primitive Methodist Church Young received by Mrs. Talbot Caddow, the President. People's Guild by the District Organizing Secretary. CARNFORTH.—Annual Meeting on 16th February. Amount collected last year, £78, WALTHAMSTOW.—St. Mary's Concert. as compared with £101 in the previous year. Talk by the District Organizing Secretary. St. Andrew's Concert. Talk by the District DALTON-IN-FURNESS.—Annual Meeting Organizing Secertary. on 14th January. Amount collected last year, £35, as compared with £31 in the previous year. WANDSWORTH. — Special Meeting arranged by the Mayor. Speaker : Mr. H. A. DUKINFIELD.—Annual Whist Drive and Baker, a member of the Committee of Manage- Dance. ment of the Institution. Central Wandsworth HEYWOOD.—Annual Whist Drive. Branch formed. HINDLEY.—Annual Meeting on 3rd February. Amount collected last year, £62, North-West of England. as compared with £73 in the previous year. ACCRINGTON.—Special Meeting of the Whist Drive. Ladies Life-boat Guild convened by the HOLLINGWORTH AND TINTWISTLE. Mayoress, the Mayor presiding. Miss F. M. —Whist Drive and Dance. Greenwood and Miss Z. D. M. Beaton elected HORWICH.—House-to-House Collection. Joint Hon. Secretaries in the place of Mrs. G. D. Morrison Beaton. INCE-IN-MAKERFIELD—Whist Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. ASHTON UNDER LYNE.—American Tea. IRLAM AND CADISHEAD.— Dance, BLACKPOOL.—Annual Meeting on 23rd arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. February, the Mayor, President of the Branch, KENDAL—Whist and Bridge Drive, in the Chair. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Manage- ment. Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring LANCASTER.—Annual Meeting on 24th of the Life-boat Pictures awarded by the February, the Mayor of Lancaster in the chair. Institution to Mrs. H. A. Deakin and Mr. L. H. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman Franceys, the Honorary Treasurer, and of a of the Committee of Management. Amount Brass Plate to the Mayor to be placed on the old collected last year, £165, as compared with Blackpool Life-boat. Efforts of the past year : £167 in the previous year. Life-boat Day; Whist Drive. Amount col- Bridge and Whist Drive, organized by the lected last year £446, as compared with £530 Ladies' Guild. in the previous year. Collections in the local Cinemas and on the Football Ground. BOLTON— Annual Meeting on 25th Febru- LEIGH.—Bridge and "Whist Drive, ary, the Mayor of Bolton, President of the organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Branch, in the chair. Speaker: Brigadier- General W. S. Swabey, C.B., District Organizing LIVERPOOL.—Annual Meeting on 22nd Secretary in the unavoidable absence of Sir February. The Lord Mayor, President of the Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey mittee of Management. Efforts of the past Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of year: Life-boat Day, Dance, and two Whist Management. Amount collected last year Drives. Amount collected last year £311, as £2,616, as compared with £3,472 in the pre- compared with £308 in the previous year. vious year. Annual Whist Drive and Dance, arranged by NEW BRIGHTON.— Life-boatmen's the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. supper. BURY.—Annual Meeting on 7th March, the LYTHAM-ST. ANNES.—Annnal Meeting Rev. H. L. Hornby presiding, in the unavoid- on 4th February. Sir Thomas Smetmirst, able absence of the Mayor. Amount collected K.B.E., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. last year £123, as compared with £178 in the Amount collected last year, £284, as compared previous year. with £190 in the previous year. CARLISLE.—Annual Meeting on 24th MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- February, the Mayor of Carlisle, President TRICT.—Annual Meeting on 19th January, the of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker: Sir Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- chair. Speakers : The Mayor of Salford, Mr. mittee of Management. Sir Godfrey Baring W.H.Flanagan,M.P.,Chairman of the Branch; presented to Mrs. Talbot Caddow the Gold the Very Rev1. Archdeacon Aspinall; Mr. P.M. Brooch awarded to her by the Institution. Oliver, Honorary Secretary of the Branch; 506 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932. and Captain C. E. Froggatt, O.B.E., R.D., NORTHWICH.—Annual Meeting on 15th R.N.R. Presentation by the Lord Mayor of February, Mr. J. Moore, Chairman of the the Gold Brooch awarded by the Institution to Branch, presiding. Amount collected last Mrs. Henry Bronnert, President of the Dids- year, £80, as compared with £105 in the bury District, the Life-boat Picture to Mrs. C. previous year. Harper, of the Salford Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and the Life-boat Picture to Mr. Alfred Weiser OLDHAM.—Annual Whist Drive and of the Fallowfield District. Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Amount collected last year, £3,108, as com- Guild. pared with £3,739 in the previous year. PADIHAM.—Whist Drive, arranged by the Cinema collections. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY.— Concert, PIEL (BARROW).—Entertainment to the arranged by Miss F. Anstee, a member of members of the Life-boat Crew by the Ladies' the District Ladies' Guild Committee. Life-boat Guild. GORTON.—Dance arranged by the Dis- PORT ERIN.—Concert, at which Mr. trict Committee. Among those present were Samuel Gorry, the late Honorary Secretary, Mr. W. H. Flanagan, M.P., Chairman of the was presented with the Gold Badge, awarded Branch, Mr. Shackleton-Bailey, M.P., and a to him,by the Institution. The presentation number of actors and actresses appearing was made by Colonel H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., in Manchester. Miss Mona Vivian presented M.V.O. (Honorary Secretary of the Douglas the prizes. Branch), in the absence of the Lieut.-Governor, Dance and Cabaret, arranged by the Sir Claude Hill. District Committee. Several members of PRESTON.—Annual Meeting on 23rd the theatrical profession attended. February, the Mayor, President of the Branch, HULME.—Address by the Branch in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Secretary to a meeting of the Mulberry Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Street Mothers' Union. ment. Sir Godfrey Baring presented to LOWER CRUMPSALL.—Annual Meeting Miss I. E. Cross, the Honorary Secretary of on 8th March, Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., in the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Gold Brooch the chair. awarded to her by the Institution. Amount MOSS SIDE.—Whist Drive, arranged by collected last year £338, as compared with Mrs. Pritchard. £315 in the previous year. MOSTON.—Smoking Concert arranged by RAMSEY.—The members of the Life-boat the District Ladies' Life-boat Guild Com- Crew, workers and helpers, were entertained to mittee. Dance organised by the District supper by Mrs. A. E. Groves, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Ladies' Committee. NEW MOSTON.—Whist Drive, organized RAMSBOTTOM.—Bridge Drive, arranged by the District Ladies' Life-boat Guild by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Committee. RISHTON.—Annual Ball. OLD TRAFFORD.—Annual Dance ROCHDALE.—Annual Meeting on 27th arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. January, the Mayor presiding. Amount SALE.—Bridge Drive, arranged by the collected last year £161, as compared with Ladies' Life-boat Guild. £226 in the previous year. STRETFORD.—Life-boat Sunday Ser- SOUTHPORT.—Annual Meeting on 22nd vice on 20th March in the Town Hall. The February, the Mayor, President of the Branch, Chairman of the Urban District Council, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Councillor J. Child, J.P., presided, and the Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Manage- service was conducted by the Rector of ment. Amount collected last year £331, as Stretford, the Rev. E. W. Horrocks, M.A. compared with £384 in the previous year. The lesson was read by the Rev. H. W. STANDISH.—Annual Whist Drive and Weeks, B.A., B.D., and the prayers by the Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Rev. H. W. Baumann, M.A., and the Rev. Guild. W. Dockeray. The singing was led by the Blackpool Life-boat Prize Silver Band, con- TOTTINGTON.—Bridge and Whist Drive. ducted by Mr. J. Briar. A Resolution of Annual Dance, organized by the Ladies' Thanks was proposed by Sir Thomas Life-boat Guild. Robinson, O.B.E., J.P., and seconded by TYLDESLEY.—American Tea and Cotton Mr. A. Llewellyn Jones. Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Dance, arranged by the District Com- Guild, at which the Lancashire Cotton Queen mittee. (Miss Lois Heath) and Lady Holden were MARYPORT.—Social Evening and Supper present. given by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to the WARRINGTON.—Two performances of Life-boat Crew, their wives and families. " Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure " by the MIDDLETON.—Annual Meeting on 3rd Crosfield's Operatic and Dramatic Society on March. Amount collected last "year £45, as behalf of the Branch. House-to-House Collec- compared with £49 in the previous year. tion, arranged by Miss Broadbent. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 507

WIGAN.—Bridge Tea. RUNSWICK AND STAITHES.—Social and WORKINGTON.—Annual Adult Ball and Dance. Children's Ball. SCARBOROUGH.—Drawing-roomMeeting. SEAHAM HARBOUR.—Whist Drive. North-East of England. Annual Dance. BEDLINGTON.—Annual Whist Drive. SEDBERGH.—Lantern Lecture. BERWICK.—Whist Drive and Dance- SELBY.—Dance. Leap Year Dance at Norham-on-Tweed. SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSETT.— BEVERLEY.—Whist Drive. Whist Drive and Dance. STAINLAND.—Dance. Bridge and Whist BRADFORD.—Annual Meeting on 21st Drive. January. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Matinee. Amount collected last year TYNEMOUTH.—Annual Supper given to £1,678, as compared with £1,760 in the the Crew by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. previous year. Whist Drive. BRIDLINGTON.—Memorial Service for WAKEFIELD.—Military Whist Drive. the six Life-boatmen who lost their lives in the Sunday Evening Concert. great gales of February, 1871. Concert. WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Bridge and Whist CAWTHORNE.—Lantern Lecture. Drive. DARLINGTON.—Whist Drive. Bridge and WITHERNSEA.—American Tea. Whist Drive. Midlands. DONCASTER.—Annual Meeting on 21st ASHBOURNE.—Life-boat Day. " Heroes March, the Mayor presiding. Efforts of the of the Sea " film shown, and collection. past year : Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £88, as compared with £83 in the BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on previous year. 25th January, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker: Sir GATESHEAD.—Bridge Drive. Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- GOLCAR.—Annual Meeting. Efforts of the mittee of Management. Amount collected last past year : Life-boat Day. Amount collected year £2,377, as compared with £2,503 in the last year £33, as compared with £26 in the previous year. previous year. Easter Bazaar in Queen's College, opened by HECKMONDWIKE.—Bridge and Whist Miss Dorothy Boyd, the film star. Sunday Drive. Cinema performance in the Scala Theatre. Lantern Lecture in the Schools, Marsh Hill, HOLMFERTH.—Whist Drive. by the District Organizing Secretary. Life- HORBURY.—Lantern Lecture. boat Story broadcast by the District Organiz- ing Secretary from Midland Regional. LEEDS.—Annual Meeting on 8th February, A week's Life-boat Collections at the Theatre Alderman P. Leigh presiding. Speaker: Royal. Annual Life-boat Ball. Lantern Lec- Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., ture by the District Organizing Secretary at Secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the Baptist Church Room, Bearwood. Whist past year: Life-boat Day, Matinee, and Drive, organized by Miss Smith. Special collec- Bridge and Whist Drives. Amount collected tion, organized at British Industries Fair, last year £1,068, as compared with £1,130 in Castle Bromwich. Ball and Cabaret, arranged the previous year. by British International Pictures in part aid Whist Drive and Dance. Whist Drive at of the Branch. House-to-House Collection in Headingley. Saltley District. MELTHAM.—Jumble Sale. BLACKHEATH.—" Heroes of the Sea " MEXBOROUGH.—Whist Drive. film shown, and collection. MIRFIELD.—Bridge and Whist Drive. BRISTOL.—Annual Meeting on 17th March, NEWCASTLE.—Concert by Jesmond Mr. F. O. Wills, J.P., in the chair. Speaker : Jesters. Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secre- tary of the Institution. Amount collected last NORMANTON.—Sunday Evening Concert. year £1,137, as compared with £1,063 in the PATRINGTON.—Annual Meeting. Efforts previous year. of the past year : Life-boat Day and Lantern Dramatic Entertainment. Lecture. Amount collected last year £8, as BROWNHILLS.—Whist Drive. Life-boat compared with £11 in the previous year. Dance. Lantern Lecture. CHELTENHAM.—Whist Drive and Dance REDCAR.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual organized by the staff of Cheltenham and Meeting. Efforts of the past year: Talent Gloucester Building Society. Fund, Life-boat Day. Amount collected last CHIPPING CAMPDEN.—Lantern Lecture year £209. to the Women's Institute by the District ROTHBURY.—Lantern Lecture. Organizing Secretary. 508 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

CLEETHORPES.—Annual Concert. Whist WEDNESFIELD—Life-boat Day. Dance. Drive and Supper Dance, arranged by the Whist Drive and Dance. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. WOLVERHAMPTON.—Annual Life-boat CLENT.—Lantern Lecture by the District Ball, organized by Mrs. Spencer. Whist Drive. Organizing Secretary. WORCESTER.—Miss Joyce Allen appointed COVENTRY.—Bridge Drive, organized by Honorary Secretary. Lantern Lecture to Toe the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. H by the District Organizing Secretary. DERBY.—" Heroes of the Sea" film shown, and collection. South-East of England. HOLBEACH.—" Heroes of the Sea " film ALDEBURGH.—Church Collection at shown, and collection. Fishermen's Thanksgiving Service. HORNCASTLE.—" Heroes of the Sea " AMPTHILL.—Life-boat Day. film shown, and collection. ASHFORD.—Address to the Brotherhood LEAMINGTON.—Life-boat Week. House- by Miss Ethel Hopkins, B.A., Honorary Secre- to-House Collections. Collections in Regal and tary of the Folkestone Women's Auxiliary. Bath Cinemas and the Theatre Royal. BEACONSFIELD.—Lantern Lecture to LICHFIELD—Whist Drive. Dance. Oakdene School by Major A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., Deputy Secretary of the In- LONG EATON.—Annual Meeting, Coun- stitution. cillor Martin, Chairman of the Council, presiding. Speaker : The District Organizing BRIGHTON.—Dance and Cabaret at the Secretary. Amount collected last year £58, Regent Dance Hall, with address by Lieut.-Col. as compared with £45 in the previous year. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution. " Heroes of the Sea " film, and MARKET HARBOROUGH.—Address by collection, at the Savoy Cinema. the District Organizing Secretary. BROADSTAIRS.—Lantern Lecture at NEWARK.—" Heroes of the Sea" film Abbotsford School by Mr. C. J. Greene, shown, and collection. Honorary Secretary of the Herne Bay Branch. NOTTINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on 20th BURY ST. EDMUNDS.—" Heroes of the January, the Lord Mayor, President of the Sea " film, and collection, at Central Cinema. Branch, in the chair. Speaker : the District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last CAMBERLEY.—Bridge Drive. year £810, as compared with £850 in the CANTERBURY.—Annual Meeting on 25th previous year. February, Sir Reginald Tower presiding. Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Amount collected last year £80, as compared Guild. Cinema Collection. with £178 in the previous year. Collection at NUNEATON.—" Heroes of the Sea " film Football Ground. shown, and collection. CHATTERIS.—" Heroes of the Sea " film, OLDBURY AND LANGLEY.—Annual and collection. Life-boat Dance. CHESHAM AND AMERSHAM.—Lecture at Hythe Heath Women's Institute by Captain PETERBOROUGH.—Annual Meeting on Basil Hall, R.N. 3rd March, Lady Winfrey in the chair. Speakers: Canon Tait and the District CHORLEY WOOD.—Concert, with address Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last by Major A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., Deputy year £164, as compared with £191 in the Secretary of the Institution. previous year. CLACTON-ON-SEA.—Annual Meeting on REDDITCH.—" Heroes of the Sea " film 15th March, Mr. H. J. Grant, President of the shown, and collections. Branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past RUGELEY.—Annual Meeting, Mr. H. W. year: Life-boat Day, Life-boat Sunday, Collection at Cinema. Amount collected last Bush, J.P., in the chair. Amount collected year £512, as compared with £814 in the last year £81, as compared with £77 in the previous year. Address to the Rotary Club by previous year. Annual Life-boat Dance. the District Organizing Secretary. SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR.—House-to-House Collection. COBHAM.—Lantern Lecture by the Dis- trict Organizing Secretary. SHIREBROOK, Mansfield.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, and collection. CRANBROOK AND HAWKHURST.— Theatrical Entertainment at Hawkhurst, in- STOURBRIDGE.—Lantern Lecture by the cluding the Life-boat Play, " Their Business in District Organizing Secretary at West Hagley. Great Waters," arranged by Mr. Lindley, Hon. STRATFORD-ON-AVON.—Life-boat Day. Secretary for Cranbrook. TOWCESTER.—" Heroes of the Sea " film DARTFORD—Whist Drive. shown, and collection. DISS.—Lantern Lecture at Roydon WARWICK.—Life-boat Day. " Heroes of Women's Institute by Mr. Walter Riggs, Hon. the Sea " film shown, and collection. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 509

DOVER.—Annual Meeting on 22nd Janu- Effort of the past year: Life-boat Day. ary, Dr. Richardson, the Hon. Secretary, pre- Amount collected last year £408, as compared siding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat with £479 in the previous year. Day, Appeal by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. STEVENAGE.—Collection at Entertain- Amount collected last year £181, as compared ment. with £82 in the previous year. Dance. STOWMARKET.—Branch formed, Miss EASTBOURNE.—Lantern Lecture by Mrs. Hildesley, Hon. Secretary. Astley Roberts, President of the Ladies' Life- TONBRIDGE.—Address by the District boat Guild. Concert and Lantern Lecture at Organizing Secretary to Toe H. Heathfield. Tea-party given by the Local UPMINSTER.—Branch formed, Miss Committee to the Life-boat Crew, their wives E. M. Eve, Hon. Secretary. Progressive and children. Bridge Drive. FAKENHAM.—Branch formed, Mr. W. A. Newman, Hon. Secretary. WALTON AND FRINTON.—Annual Meet- ing on llth January. In the unavoidable FARNHAM.—Bridge Tournament. absence of the President, Sir Charles Batho, FOLKESTONE. —Address to Young Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chairman, presided. People's League by Miss Ethel Hopkins, B.A., Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day and Hon. Secretary of the Women's Auxiliary. Gymkhana, Life-boat Sunday, and Collections at Cinemas. Amount collected last year £223, FOREST ROW.—Lantern Lecture at Ash- as compared with £258 in the previous year. down House School. Mr. F. W. Calvert appointed Financial Hon. GODALMING.—Dance. Secretary of the Branch. GRAYS.—Address by the District Assistant Annual Dinner to the Life-boat Crew. Secretary to " Inner Wheel " Club. WALTON-ON-THAMES AND DISTRICT. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.—Lantern Lecture —Life-boat Day. by Captain H. E. Holme, the Hon. Secretary WELWYN.—House-to-House Collection. to the Wesley Guild. WELWYN GARDEN CITY—Life-boat HUNSTANTON.—Presentation of Certifi- Day. cates of Service awarded to the Crew on the closing of the Station by Captain C. le Strange, WEYBRIDGE.—Life-boat Day. President of the Branch, at a farewell supper WORTHING.—Annual Meeting on 22nd attended by members of the Committee and March. Alderman C. B. Cook presiding. of the Crew. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £441, as compared HYTHE.—Concert Party, "Rags," orga- with £528 in the previous year. nized by Mr. Clayton Rickard, in joint aid of Address to the Women's Luncheon Club by the Life-boat Service and Toe H. Collection the District Organizing Secretary. at launch of the Life-boat. LITTLEHAMPTON.—Dance. South-West of England. MARGATE.—Lantern Lecture at Church ALDERSHOT.—The Branch has suffered a School by Mr. T. W. Gomm, the Hon. Secre- serious loss by the death of Mr. J. B. Constant, tary. in January. First as Assistant Hon. Secretary MISTLEY, MANNINGTREE AND DIS- for a year, then as Hon. Secretary, he helped TRICT.—Branch formed, Mrs. E. Montague the Branch from 1926 to 1931, and at the time Jackson, Hon. Secretary. of his death he was Vice-Chairman. NEWHAVEN.—Entertainment. BATH.—Annual Meeting, General Moles- worth, Chairman, presiding, supported by the NEWMARKET.—Bridge Drive. Mayor and Mayoress. Speaker : the District NEWPORT PAGNELL.—House-to-House Organizing Secretary. Efforts of the past year: Collection. Life-boat Films shown. Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year NUTFIELD.—Whist Drive. £278, as compared with £414 in the previous year. RICKMANSWORTH.—Branch formed, Miss Kingsley, Hon. Secretary. Dance. BASINGSTOKE.—Annual Meeting, Mrs. Stratford, Chairman,presiding. Speaker: the ST. IVES (HUNTS.).—Special Matinee of District Organizing Secretary. Amount col- Life-boat Films at the Broadway Cinema. lected last year £62, as compared with £79 in SHOREHAM HARBOUR.—Annual Meet- the previous year. ing on 9th February, Mr. Harold Brown pre- BRIDPORT.—Annual Meeting, the Mayor, siding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Chairman of the Branch, presiding, supported Days and Dances at Shoreham and Southwick. by Rear-Admiral C. H. Fox, C.B., President. Amount collected last year £180, as compared Speaker: the District Organizing Secretary. with £192 in the previous year. Miss Wadham elected Hon. Secretary in place Dance at Southwick. of Miss Sadleir. Amount collected last year SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.—Annual Meeting £60, as compared with £59 in the previous on 6th February, Mr. F. Britain presiding. year. 510 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

COWES.—Annual Ball and Children's Party, £686, as compared with £1,014 in the previous arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. year. Mr. Cyril C. Sharp elected Hon. DORCHESTEE (Dorset).—Life-boat Day. Secretary of the Branch, and Mrs. Smith Hon. Secretary of the Guild. DORCHESTER (Oxon.).—Presentation of the Record of Thanks awarded by the Institu- SWANAGE.—Life-boat Crew entertained tion to Mr. G. Kennett-Barrington, the Hon. by Major E. J. Burt, T.D., President of the Secretary. Branch. TORQUAY.—Whist Drive and Dance, FOWEY.—Annual Whist Drive and Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. FROME.—Address by the District Organiz- WANTAGE.—Special meeting, arranged by Miss Douglas to form a Branch. Speaker: ing Secretary to Mells Women's Institute. the District Organizing Secretary. HENLEY-ON-THAMES.—Presentation of WAREHAM.—Presentation of the Record the Life-boat Picture awarded by the Institu- of Thanks awarded by the Institution to Mrs. tion to Miss St. John Scott, the Hon. Secretary. Bradley, the Honorary Secretary. THE LIZARD.—Presentation of the In- WELLS.—Presentation of the Record of scribed Barometer awarded by the Institution Thanks, awarded by the Institution to Mrs. to Mr. J. J. Emmott. Alcock, the Hon. Secretary of the Ladies' OXFORD.—Annual Meeting on 3rd Febru- Life-boat Guild. ary, the Provost of Worcester presiding, WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Whist Drive, supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Oxford, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Mr. H. A. WINCHESTER. — Life-boat Conference. Baker, a member of the Committee of Manage- (See special report on p. 504.) ment, the Rev. W. Mansell Merry (City WITNEY.—Whist Drive, arranged by Mrs. Rector) and Sir Richard Burn, Honorary Harry Marriott. Secretary. Speakers : Mr. H. A. Baker and YEOVIL.—Life-boat Day. Presentation the Mayor of Oxford. Amount collected last at the Institution by Lieut.-Col. C. R. year £673, as compared with £786 in the Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary, of the previous year. Record of Thanks awarded by the Institution PAIGNTON.—Whist Drive, arranged by to Mrs. Hebditch, for her work in raising funds the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. in the Martock district. PLYMOUTH.—Jumble Sale and Whist Drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Scotland. PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTHSEA.— ABERDEEN.—Annual Meeting on 22nd Annual Meeting of the Branch and Guild. The January, Lord Provost Rust, President of the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : The Earl of Chair. Speaker : Major Sir Maurice Cameron, Caithness and Capt. A. L. Fletcher, com- K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of manding the Coastguard Service in the North- Management. Efforts of the past year : Life- East District. Efforts of the past year: boat Day, Concert, Whist Drive and Tennis Grand Ball, Life-boat Day, and Ladies' Life- Tournament. Amount collected last year boat Guild Collections. Amount collected last £430, as compared with £392 in the previous year £987, as compared with £1,015 in the year. Lieut. Berry, R.N., elected Hon. previous year. Secretary of the Branch. Presentation by Annual Ball under the patronage of the Lady Pink of eleven certificates won by Marquis and Marchioness of Aberdeen and Portsmouth and Southsea Schools in the Life- Temair, and many other notable people. boat Essay Competition in 1931. ARBROATH.—Address to the Rotary Club Address to Union of Sailors' Wives by the by the Northern District Inspector of Life- District Organizing Secretary. Purbrook boats. Bridge Tea arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat BANFF.—Performances of " lolanthe " by Guild. the Banff Operatic Society, on the first night SALISBURY.—Special Meeting, with films, of which the Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., at Tisbury. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. V.D., LL.D., Chairman of the Scottish Council, Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the presided. Institution. Presentation of the Record of BATHGATE.—Life-boat Day. Thanks awarded by the Institution to Miss Giles, the late Honorary Secretary. Miss BURNTISLAND.—Whist Drive. Rogers appointed Honorary Secretary. CARRONBRIDGE.—Lantern Lecture to SHERBORNE.—Variety Entertainment. the Carronbridge Women's Rural Institute by Appeal by Vice-Admiral Norris, C.M.G. the District Assistant Secretary. SOUTHAMPTON.—Annual Meeting, the DUNDEE.—Performances of " A Hundred Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Years Old " and " Fair and Warmer," for a Speaker: Major Sir Maurice Cameron, week, by the Dundee Dramatic Society. K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of DUNFERMLINE. — Whist Drive and Management. Amount collected last year Dance. JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 511

EDINBURGH. — Orchestral Concert, Ireland. organized by Mrs. Alexander Maitland and BELFAST.—Annual Meeting, the Lord Professor D. F. Tovey. Bridge and Whist Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair, Drive organized by the Ladies' Life-boat supported by the Bishop of Down and Connor, Guild. Bonnyrigg Cinema Exhibition, Viscount and Viscountess Bangor, the Right arranged by Mrs. Core-Greenshields, a Vice- Hon. H. M. Pollock, M.P., Minister of Finance, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild Lord Dunleath, the High Sheriff, Sir Robert Lantern Lecture by the District Assistant and the Hon. Lady Kennedy, the Chairman of Secretary. the Harbour Board, and Lieut.-Colonel C. R. FALKIRK.—Annual Meeting on 5th Feb- Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Insti- ruary, Mrs. Nimmo, President of the Ladies' tution. Amount collected last year £790, as Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the compared with £1,210 in the previous year. past year : Appeal by the Committee, Life- CAHIR.—Life-boat Day. boat Day and Concert. Amount collected last CORK.—Annual Ball. year £113, as compared with £125 in the pre- vious year. COLERAINE.—Annual Meeting. Speaker: Life-boat Day. the District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last year £73, as compared with £62 GRANGEMOUTH.—Life-boat Service in in the previous year. the Parish Church, with an address by the Cinema Matinee. Speaker: The District Rev. Dr. Alexander McPherson. Organizing Secretary. GREENOCK.—Annual Meeting of the DO WNPATRICK.—Concert. Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 30th March, Mrs. DROGHEDA.—Special Meeting, the Mayor J. A. Morrison, President, presiding. Address presiding. Speaker: Lieut.-Colonel C. R. by the District Assistant Secretary. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the INVERNESS.—Concert, Provost D. Mac- Institution, who presented the Thanks of the donald presiding, with an address by the Duke Institution on Vellum awarded to Mr. R. 0. of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., Hill, the Hon. Secretary, on his retirement. Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, DUBLIN.—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' and a Lantern Lecture by the Scottish Orga- Life-boat Guild, Mrs. James McNeill, President nizing Secretary. Bridge and Whist Drive, in the chair, supported by the Countess van organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Cutsem, Senator Andrew Jameson, D.L., KIRKCUDBRIGHT—Annual Meeting of Chairman of the Branch, and Major Arthur the Stewartry Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Whewell, Chairman of the Special Effort Com- Walter Biggar presiding. Speaker : Mr. mittee. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- Alexander Allan, Hon. Secretary of the thwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution. Branch. The Countess of Galloway was PORTRUSH.—Cinema Evening Entertain- elected President in the place of Lady Hope- ment. Speaker: The District Organizing Duhbar. Secretary. NAIRN.—Performances of "The Ghost PORTSTEWART.—Whist Drive. Train " in aid of the Branch and the Nairn Hospital Maternity Ward, arranged by Mrs. TRALEE.—Life-boat Day. Fleming. Concert, Admiral Sir Heathcote TUAM.—Life-boat Day. Dance. Grant, K.C.M.G., C.B., presiding. Address by WATERFORD.—Life-boat Day. the Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat YOUGHAL.—Whist Drive. Council. Wales. NEWBRIDGE.—Lantern Lecture to the (Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Women's Rural Institute by the District Shropshire.) Assistant Secretary. CARDIFF AND PENARTH.—Annual NEWBURGH—Leap Year Fancy Dress Meeting, the Lady Mayoress presiding, in the Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat absence of the Lord Mayor, President of the Guild. Branch. Speakers : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., NEW TROWS—Lantern Lecture to the Chairman of the Committee of Management, New Trows Women's Rural Institute, by the and Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., District Assistant Secretary. Secretary of the Institution. Amount collected last year, £262, as compared with £284 in the PETERHEAD.—Annual Concert, Provost Dickie presiding. previous year. CONWAY.—Whist Drive and Dance. STONEHAVEN.—Lantern Lecture to the Dunnottar Young Men's Guild, by the Scottish MILFORD HAVEN.—Life-boat Day. Organizing Secretary. NEWPORT (Mon.).—Annual Meeting, the Vlayor presiding. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. TR'PON.—Whist Drive, at which Councillor Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institu- John Henderson, the late Hon. Secretary and rion. Amount collected last year, £144, as Treasurer of the Branch, was presented with compared with £165 in the previous year. the Vellum of Thanks awarded to him by the Institution. (Continuedjm page 516). 512 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

Income and Expenditure for 1931. Life-boats:— EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. .1. d- New Life-boats for the following stations:—On account—Aldeburgh, Arbroath, Ballycotton, Barra Island, Bridlington, Clogher Head, Cloughey, Donaghadee, Dunbar, Fishguard, Girvan, Hastings, Hoylake, Kirkcudbright, Lerwick, Lytham, New- haven, Padstow No. 1, Penlee, Ramsey, Redcar, Scarborough, Torbay, Weymouth, and Youghal . 56,703 - 3 Upkeep of Office and Store at Cowes . . . 103 19 6 Alterations and Repairs of Life-boats, etc. . . 12,112 3 3 Consulting Naval Architect . . . . . 539 6 10 Salaries of Superintendent Engineer, Surveyors, In- spectors, Assistant Surveyors, of Life-boats and Machinery, Draughtsmen, and Clerical Staff. . 10,203 9 2 Travelling Expenses ...... 3,351 - 7 Pensions under the Pension Scheme . '. . 325 15 - Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 200 19 - 83,539 13 7 Life-boat Carriages and Tractors, viz. :— New Tractors, etc...... 3,344 5 11 Repairs to Tractors .... 383 18 10 Alterations and Repairs of Life-boat Carriages 245 7 11 Salaries of Assistant Inspector and Assistant Sur veyor ...... 679 4 8 Travelling Expenses .... 438 17 - Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 38 4 11 5,129 19 3 Life-boat Houses, Slipways, etc. :— New Construction and Adaptation . . 15,171 10 - Repairs and Maintenance . 5,953 1 2 21,124 11 2 Life-boat Stores 16,993 3 1 Life-boat Storeyard at Poplar, including Taxes, Insur- ance and Repairs ...... 3,503 2 1 Salaries of Superintendent of Stores, Storekeeper and Clerical Staff and Wages of ManuaJ Workers . . 13,314 13 5 Pensions and Gratuity under the Pension Scheme 559 19 7 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 79 12 10 17,457 7 11 Payments in connexion with Life-boat Stations, such as Repainting and other Small Repairs to Life-boats, Life-boat Carriages, and Life-boat Houses, done locally; Conveyance of Boats, Carriages and Stores ; Postages, etc. . . . 11,998 19 - Station Centenary Expenses ..... 1 - 2 Salaries of Assistant Secretaries, etc., of Stations . 314 2 - 12,314 1 2 Wages, Rewards and other payments to Coxswains, Motor Mechanics, Crews, etc., viz. :— Cost of Wreck Services, including Rewards to Life-boat Crews and others, Special Rewards and Recogni- tions, Medals and Vellums .....4,642 - 1 Grants to men injured in the Life-boat service . 507 1 8 Fees of Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen, Wages of Motor Mechanics, etc...... 28,392 11 1 Payments to Life-boat Crews and Launchers for exercises, etc...... 6,432 18 7 Pensions and Retiring Allowances to Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen .....3,611 14 9 Pensions and Grants to Relatives of deceased Life- boatmen and others ...... 1,515 18 10 Pensions under the Pension Scheme to Ex-permanent Crews of old Steam Life-boats .... 641 7 10 - 45,743 12 10 Carried forward £202,302 9 - JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 513

INCOME. Subscriptions, Donations, etc.:— & s. d. & ,?. d. General Subscriptions to Headquarters . . . 6,082 - 9 „ „ through Station Branches. . 5,839 1 8 „ „ through Financial Branches . 17,963 1 5 „ Donations to Headquarters .... 7,807 19 2 „ „ through Station Branches . . 20,364 - 4 ,, ,, through Financial Branches . . 50,137 5 2 Contributions from Harbour Authorities towards upkeep of Life-boat Stations 1,836 14 8 Contribution Boxes (Headquarters) .... 244 16 4 „ „ (Station Branches) . . . 4,373 16 1 „ „ (Financial Branches) . . . 806 18 6 115,455 14 1

Life-boat Funds :— Civil Service Life-boat Fund, per H. A. Clark, Esq., I.S.O., in respect of the following Life-boat Establishments—Margate, Maryport, North Deal and Southend-on-Sea 2,381 13 11 North Deal—Bevan Reward Fund (per the Charity Commissioners) ...... 208 5 - 2,589 18 11

Income from Investments :— Dividends and Interest on Investments . . . 43,292 15 10 Less Income Tax deducted .... 5,903 2 11 37,389 12 11 Special Purposes Trust Fund Income £ s. d. Account 1,602 1 1 Less Transfer to Special Purposes Trust Fund . . . . 342 5 10 1,259 15 3 Less Transfers to General Subscrip- tions, Station Branch Contribu- tions, and Financial Branch Contributions . . . 87 6 9 1,172 8 6 Income Tax recovered ..... 5,607 8 - 44,169 9 5

Carried forward .... £162,215 2 5 514 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. £ s. d. Brought forward .... 202,302 9 - Life-boat Inspectors, etc. :— Salaries of Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspector, Inspectors of Life-boats and Clerical Staff . . 6,442 9 1 Travelling Expenses 2,366 7 5 Pensions under the Pension Scheme .... 1,225 17 - Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 151 19 5 10,186 12 11 Administration :— One-half of Salaries of Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Principal Clerk, Accountant, and Clerical Staff 4,874 4 5 £ s. d. Rent, Leasehold Depreciation, Rates, Taxes, Lighting, Heating, Insurance, etc. 2,629 9 8 Insurance under Workmen's Compensa- tion, National Insurance and Unem- ployment Insurance Acts . . . 889 5 5 Commissionaires and Watchman . . 564 11 8 Telephones, Postages and Parcels . . 826 16 2 4,910 2 11 Less estimated amount chargeable to Publicity 2,400 - - 2,510 2 11 Pensions and Gratuities under the Pension Scheme . 2,379 18 1 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 156 10 1 Stationery, Office Expenses, Printing, Books, Circulars, Forms, etc 3,371 17 1 Travelling Expenses to Headquarters—Committee of Management ...... 267 7 2 Auditors' Fee ...... 315 - - Law Expenses ...... 557 19 10 Expenses of Removal to New Premises . . . 258 18 10 Repairs and improvements to the House of the Institu- tion 4,935 2 9 19,627 1 2 Calls on Shares received from the Estate of the late Miss Sarah Berry 86 5 - Expenses re the Estate of the late Miss J. M. James . 49- Publicity at Headquarters and 1132 Branches :— One-half of Salaries of Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Accountant, Principal Clerk and Clerical Staff (as above), and Salary of Publicity Secretary 5,736 13 8 Salaries of District Organizing Secretaries and Clerical Staff 6,816 11 4 Travelling expenses of District Organizing Secretaries 2,031 5 7 Annual General Meeting . . . . . 89 12 10 Advertising and Appeals 6,596 - 5 Stationery, Printing, Books, Circulars, Forms, Badges Collecting Boxes, Postages, etc. 10,441 8 3 Printing and Binding the Annual Report and Th Lifeboat Journal , 1,952 2 5 Gratuity under the Pension Scheme 261 5 - Salaries and Commissions of Assistant Secretaries, etc. of Branches 3,919 1 6 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 193 6 9 Estimated proportion of Administration Expenses as above . 2,400 0 0 40,437 7 9 Total Expenditure £272,644 4 10 JUNE, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT. 515

INCOME. £ s. d. Brought forward .... 162,215 2 5 Sundry Receipts :— Sale of old Life-boats, Life-boat Carriages, Life-boat £ s. d. Houses, Condemned Stores, etc. . . . 2,759 2 10 Sale of The Lifeboat Journal, Advertisements, etc. . 234 11 6 2,993 14 4 Ordinary Income 105,208 ie 9 Legacies for General Purposes .... 05,443 is s

Gifts and Legacies for Special Purposes :— Income only available :— £ s. d. Legacies .... 1,175 10 11 Special Gifts . . . . 623 15 - 1,799 5 11 Capital available :— Legacies .... 22,467 8 9 Special Gifts . . . 9,120 5 7 31,587 14 4 33,387 - 3 Total Receipts 264,039 is s Less:— Transferred to Endowment Trust Fund . . 1,799 5 11 Do. Special Purposes Trust Fund . . 31,587 14 4 Less Calls on Shares, etc. . . 86 5 - 31,501 9 4 33,300 15 3 Total Receipts available for General Purposes • • • 230,739 - 5 Transferred from Special Purposes Trust Fund for Life-boats, etc., included in Expenditure, defrayed during the year by Special Legacies and Donations ...... 31,691 16 - 262,430 16 5

Deficit charged to General Purposes Fund .... 10,213 s s

£272,644 4 10 NOTE.—This account comprises the receipts and disbursements of the Headquarters of the Institution for the year to 31st December, 1931, and of the Branches for the year to 30th September, 1931. 516 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1932.

PONTYPOOL.—Life-boat Day. SWANSEA.—Annual Meeting, the Deputy Mayor presiding. Speakers: Sir Godfrey PONTYPRIDD.—Annual Meeting, Mrs. Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Edgar Jenkins, Chairman, presiding. Speaker: Management, and Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- the District Organizing Secretary. Amount thwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution. collected last year, £82, as compared with £61 Amount collected last year, £273, as compared in the previous year. with £283 in the previous year. Concert. RHAYADEB.—Life-boat Day. WREXHAM.—Life-boat Day.

Where Help is Wanted. In the North-West of England. either personally or by putting it in THE Institution is anxious to form or touch with those who might be able to develop Branches in the following places help :— in the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of ST". HELENS, COLNE and LITTLE The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, LEVER, all in Lancashire.

Football. THE annual match for the " Baring Storeyard, who thus retain the Cup Cup" was played between teams which they won in 1930-31. The representing the Head Office and the Storeyard scored two goals early in Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground the first half. On changing ends they kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co. added two more to their lead, but the Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The result Head Office scored twice before the was a win by 4 goals to 2 by the close.

Notice. All Honorary Secretaries of Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds and all subscribers of ten shillings and over are entitled to receive THE LIFEBOAT quarterly free. All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the Honorary Secretary of the local Branch or Gfuild or to the Secretary, Royal National Lvfe-boat Institution, Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W. 1. All inquiries about the work of the Institution or about the Journal should be addressed to the Secretary.

To Our Readers. This Journal is the current record of the work of the Institution, and the chief means by which it keeps its honorary workers, subscribers and the general public informed of its activities. You will therefore be helping the Institution if, when you have read this number, you will kindly pass it on to a friend ; unless, of course, you are keeping a complete set of the Journals.

The next number of " The Lifeboat " mil be published in September, 1932.