THE LIFEBOAT.

The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

VOL. XXVIIL—No. 306.] JUNE, 1931. [PRICE Qd.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 101 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 86 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 23rd, 1931 - 62,610

Sir George Shee. His Majesty the King has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of the Institution. The announcement of this honour was made public in the Birthday Honours list published on 3rd June, and Mr. Shee received the accolade from the King at Buckingham Palace on 26th June. Mr. Shee was appointed Secretary of the Institution in October, 1910. He is retiring at the end of September of this year, when he will have completed 21 years of service. Mr. Shee has already passed the retiring age, but was asked by the Committee of Management to continue. For reasons of health he was compelled to decline. It is hoped in a later number of The Lifeboat to publish an account of his services to the Institution.

Change of Address. FROM 1st June, 1931, the address of the Institution is— Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W. 1 (Close to Victoria Station). As already announced in the^last issue of The Lifeboat, the Headquarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Eoad, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the expansion of the Institution's activities, and the Committee of Management have for the past year been in search of more suitable premises. They have acquired, on favourable terms, the lease of 42 and 44, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W. 1, and the Institution has now left its Headquarters at 22, Charing Cross Road, where it has been established for the past twenty-eight years. It is hoped in a later issue of the Journal to give some particulars of the different homes of the Life-boat Service since it was founded in the City of London in 1824. 262 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

Annual Meeting. The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address. THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- the Secretary of the Consular Depart- ing of the Governors of the Institution ment of the German Embassy; the was held at the Central Hall, West- Consuls-General of China, Czecho- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at slovakia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, the 2.30 P.M. Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. His Royal Highness the Prince of The Ambassador of the Union of Wales, E.G., President of the Institu- Soviet Socialist Republics and the tion, was in the Chair. He delivered his Polish Consul-General, who were unable, Presidential Address and presented to accept, sent donations. Medals awarded for gallantry in rescuing The following representatives of Cities, life from shipwreck and awards made to Boroughs and Urban District Councils Honorary Workers for long and distin- accepted the invitation: The Lord guished services. Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London ; Her Royal Highness the Princess the Lord Provost and Lady Provost of Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Glasgow; the Lord Mayors and Lady Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was also present Mayoresses of Birmingham, Bristol and on the platform. Portsmouth; the Chairman of the Their Royal Highnesses were sup- London County Council; the Mayors ported on the platform by Ambassadors, and Mayoresses of Bethnal Green, Ministers and other representatives of Bermondsey and Camberwell ; the foreign countries ; Lord Mayors, Lord Mayor of Chelsea; the Mayors and Provosts, Mayors and Provosts ; Vice- Mayoresses of Deptford, Finsbury, Ful- Presidents of the Institution and mem- ham, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Lam- bers of the Committee of Management. beth and Lewisham ; the Mayoress of The speakers were the Right Hon. Marylebone ; the Mayors and Mayoresses Albert V. Alexander, M.P. (First Lord of Paddington, Poplar, Stepney, Stoke of the Admiralty), the Right Rev. the Newington and Westminster ; the De- Lord Bishop of Durham (Dr. Herbert puty Mayor and Mayoress of Acton and Hensley Henson), Captain Sir Malcolm the Chairman of the Tottenham Urban Campbell, Colonel the Master of Sempill, District Council; the Mayors and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of Mayoresses of Christchurch, Hartlepool, the Committee of Management of the Margate, Oxford, St. Albans, Southamp- Institution, and the Hon. George Col- ton, the Provost of St. Andrews, the ville, Deputy Chairman. Deputy Mayor of Eastbourne, and the Among those who accepted the Chairmen of the Urban District Councils invitation of the Committee of Manage- of Clacton-on-Sea and Cromer. ment were representatives of twenty There were also present the following foreign countries. They were: Their office-holders of the Ladies' Life-boat Excellencies the Ambassadors of France Guild : The Duchess of Norfolk, a Vice- and Belgium, the Ambassador of Ger- Patron ; the Duchess of Sutherland, many and Freifrau von Neurath; the President; and the Lady Magdalene Minister of Norway and Madame Vogt; Williams-Bulkeley, a Vice-President. the Minister of the Netherlands ; the Among others who accepted the Minister of Denmark and Countess invitation were representatives of the Ahlefedt-Laurvig; the Ministers of St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Estonia and Hungary; the Minister of National Safety First Association, the Latvia and Madame Vesmans; the National Union of Seamen, the British Minister of Mexico and Madame Ortiz ; Sailors' Society, the Marine Engineers' the Ministers of Egypt and of Hejaz and Association, the Mercantile Marine Ser- Nejd ; the Secretary of the Yugoslav vice Association, the Shaf tesbury Homes, Legation ; the Swedish Naval Attache ; the Royal Alfred Aged and Merchant the Consuls-General of France, the Seamen's Institution ; a party of fifty United States of America and Japan ; boys from St. Paul's School; an Officer By courtesy of] [Central News. THE PRINCE OF WALES SPEAKING. Front Row (left to right) : The Master of Sempill, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Bishop of Durham, H.R.H. Princess Louise, the Prince of Wales. Sir Godfrey Baring. Bt., the Right Hon. A. V. Alexander, M.P. and the Hon. George Colville. Behind the Prince is Mr. George F. Shee.

By_courtesy_of] [S.N.A. MEDALLISTS OF 1930-31. Front Row (left to right) : Coxswain Barnes, of Selsey and Bognor, Mrs. Polly Donkin, of Cullercoats, Coxswain Fenton, of St. Andrews, and Mr. John Cahill. of Tralee. Back Row : Coxswain Hood, of Hartlepool, Mr. J, J. Davies, Sen., Bowman of Cromer and Coxswain McPhail, of Thurso. 264 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. and twenty cadets from H.M.S. lies in the fact that we have on this Worcester: an Officer and fifty boys platform a number of men coming from from the training ship Arethusa: a every part of the coast who have won party of forty-five boys from the Boys' distinction and rewards for the courage, Brigade, and a party of thirty-five Sea endurance, seamanship and humanity Rangers from the Girl Guides Associa- which they have shown in the Service. tion. (Loud applause.) And it will be my There were also present Honorary pleasure later on to hand them the Life Governors of the Institution; awards which they have so truly earned. holders of the Institution's Gold But it has occurred to me that it Badge ; members of the Central London would be interesting to review the Women's Committee of the Ladies' Institution's work, and to look at what Life-boat Guild, and representatives of has been done from the 1st January, Branches and Guilds. 1928, when I last presided at an Annual Before the meeting began, Mr. Arthur Meeting, to the 1st January of this year. Meale, F.R.C.O., the organist of the I find that no less than 1,319 lives were Central Hall, played a selection of sea- rescued during those three years' (loud music. applause) of which 1,009 were rescued The following is a report of the by Life-boats, and 310 by shore-boats, meeting :— these rescues being in every case rewarded by the Institution. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. After the Annual Report for 1930 had INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE been formally presented to the meeting, SERVICE by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of While the character of the Service is the Committee of Management, and national in every sense of the word, the approved, His Royal Highness said: results of it are international. I find Your Royal Highness, Your Excel- that fourteen nations benefited by the lencies, My Lords, Ladies and Gentle- action of British Life-boat Crews within men, this is the third time I have the last three years, up to the end of presided at the Annual Meeting of this 1930, by the fact that some of their great Institution. On the last occasion citizens, mostly, no doubt, men doing when I did so, in 1928, I ventured to do the valuable work of merchant seamen, a little publicity work, which, I am glad owed their lives to the voluntary to say, has been fruitful. I did so, first, services of our Life-boat Crews. by giving a brief survey of the work of I find, too, that our survey gives the Institution as shown in the Annual fresh confirmation of the enormous Report, and then by appealing to the value of the Motor Life-boats as an great passenger-liner companies with instrument of life-saving. Not only the suggestion that they might link have the great majority of the 1,009 themselves with the Life-boat Service saved by Life-boats been rescued by by presenting some of the most modern Motor Life-boats, but it is safe to say Motor Life-boats, which would bear that many of the rescues could only their names. As you know, the response have been carried out by these motor has been most generous, and you now boats. It must be a satisfaction to have on the coast five fine Life-boats those who have given Motor Life-boats given by several of the great passenger- (such as the great shipping companies) liner companies, to whom I would like and to the relatives of those whose again to express my sincere thanks. bequests have enabled the Institution (Applause.) to place such boats on the coast, to know what a wonderful means of rescue these THE LIFE-BOATMEN. boats represent. I have thought a good deal about how I could best help the Institution to draw SCOTLAND'S FINANCIAL ACHIEVEMENT. advantage from this meeting. Of course, Now I turn to more recent events, the best publicity it can possibly have and I want to draw special attention to JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 265 two matters, one of which is dealt with Scottish Coxswains, who are here to-day, in the Annual Report, which pays a won the Bronze Medal. One is tribute to the magnificent achievement Coxswain McPhail, of Thurso, to whom of Scotland in increasing its generous I presented two Vellums only eighteen contributions in support of the Service months ago at the Scottish National by nearly 80 per cent. (Applause.) In Assembly at Edinburgh. The other 1930, a year of widespread industrial is Coxswain Fenton, of St. Andrews. depression and unexampled unemploy- These Coxswains rescued the crews of ment, Scotland increased its contribu- two vessels, the services in each case tion by £12,000 to over £28,000 (Ap- being carried out in the middle of the plause), and Glasgow has, at one bound, night to wrecks lying in shallow waters leapt into the position of the first city surrounded by rocks. (Applause.) in the United Kingdom in its support of the Life-boat Service by raising over IRISH GALLANTRY. £13,000. (Applause.) It has for the From Shetland in the far north let us first time displaced the City of London turn to the west coast of Ireland, to the Branch from its traditional leadership little port of Fenit, County Kerry, where in the financial support afforded to the the Institution has placed a Motor Life- Life-boat Service, while Liverpool and boat, one of fifteen which you will find Manchester have, for the moment, fallen on the coast of the Free State. At this to the third and fourth, places. I feel spot a very gallant service was carried sure, my Lord Mayor, that the City of out last November by three Irish London will not long allow the northern fishermen in a small open boat. What city to hold the place of honour which I want you to realise is that these three London has so long maintained, and men were facing a very great risk them- that when Lancashire emerges, as we all selves. Every time a Life-boat is most heartily hope it soon will, from the launched in bad weather the crew run a terrible distress which it is now facing, chance of disaster; and though the and facing with so much courage, Institution does its utmost to diminish Liverpool and Manchester will once these risks, it cannot guard completely again achieve the generous results against tragedies such as overwhelmed which for generations past they have the Salcombe Life-boat in 1916, and the attained in their efforts on behalf of the Eye Harbour Life-boat in 1928. But cause in which we are so interested. imagine the danger of putting out in a whole gale in a small rowing boat to SCOTLAND'S LIFE-SAVING ACHIEVE- attempt to rescue several men whose MENT. additional weight must in itself add to Meanwhile I know that you will join the dangers of the rescue. Only a with me in offering our thanks to the seaman, accustomed to handling small Scottish people, and our warm congratu- boats in bad weather, can fully appre- lations to the Duke of Montrose and the ciate the courage and the skill required Scottish Advisory Council for an achieve- to carry out such a task. But we shall ment of which we may truly say that it all agree in saluting these brave men, harmonises with the record of Scottish and congratulating them on a heroic Life-boatmen in the annals of the rescue, by which they have all earned Institution. For the Longhope boat the Bronze Medal. (Applause.) earned the only Silver Medal which was In the light of such shore-boat awarded last year; and in February last services on the Irish coast, you will be the Lerwick Life-boat, which was only glad to know that the Committee of sent to her Station last summer,, carried Management have given the fullest con- out a splendid service, which' embraced sideration to the needs of that coast. the succour of two vessels, covering a In view of the large preponderance of period of twenty-two hours under the Motor Life-boats on the Irish coast, it is worst conditions of wind and sea, and with particular pleasure that we learn resulted in the saving of thirty-two lives. that Mrs. Cosgrave, the wife of the Again, only a few weeks since, two President of the Free State, is to perform 266 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. the Naming Ceremonies of the Life- the Civil Service. They have decided to boats at Courtmacsherry, Ballycotton take a large part in the work of the and Youghal in July, thus giving proof Institution by providing a little fleet of of the warm sympathy which the Life-boats which bear the name of the citizens of the Irish Free State are Civil Service. Their contributions to according to the Life-boat Service. this Fund began in 1866, and have (Applause.) amounted to over £83,000. This fleet has now three Motor Life-boats and two RETIREMENT OP MB. GEOEGE F. SHEE Pulling and Sailing Life-boats, and the AND CAPTAIN HOWARD ROWLEY. Civil Service can point to 1,276 lives Now I have to refer to two losses, one rescued by this little fleet. Of that of which the Institution has already record it has every right to feel proud. sustained by the retirement of Captain (Loud applause.) Rowley from the office of Chief In- spector of Life-boats. As District In- AN APPEAL TO TRAWLER-OWNERS. spector, Deputy Chief Inspector and Now I am going to make another Chief Inspector, he served for twenty- appeal, as I did last time, but on a much eight years, during which time his more modest basis than the one which I great ability and high sense of duty made to the shipping companies. I were constantly placed at the service would make an appeal to the companies of the Institution. (Applause.) The of trawler-owners and the individual second loss is the impending retire- owners of trawlers, drifters and fishing ment of the Secretary of the Institu- vessels generally. I know full well that tion, Mr. George Shee. He will have for them, as for everybody else, these been Secretary for twenty-one years. are very bad times, and they will not be He came to the Institution at a able to give as generously as they would very difficult time, and during his possibly like to do ; but I would remind Secretaryship the Institution has seen a them that a very large proportion of the greater development than in any pre- effective Life-boat services are rendered vious period of its history. (Loud to boats and vessels of this class. In applause.) During that time half the fact, during the three years 1928, 1929 fleet has been converted to a motor and 1930, 317 lives were rescued from fleet. In 1910 there were nine motor trawlers and other fishing boats, or boats ; now there are ninety-five. The 31 per cent, of the whole number saved. financial side of the Institution's work I would suggest for their consideration has kept pace with this development, that these great trawler companies which is in a large measure the work of should give, not a Motor Life-boat, but Mr. Shee. (Applause.) I could say a a contribution of, say 5s. per annum great "deal more of what he has done, for every trawler or drifter. I am sure, but I know that I am voicing the opinion too, that the seamen who constitute the of all who are interested in this Institu- crews of these fishing vessels are in tion when I wish him health and happi- warm sympathy with the Life-boat ness in his retirement, and thank him Crews who have rescued so many of for his splendid services. (Loud their fellow seamen. applause.) THE LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD. HELP OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. There is one more appeal to-day which The Annual Report shows how much I feel will meet with a generous response, the Institution is indebted to a large or, at any rate, will be received with number of benefactors for gifts of boats sympathy. It is ten years since the and other generous forms of support; Ladies' Life-boat Guild was established, and I have already referred to the when I took the chair at the Annual response of the passenger-liner com- Meeting for the first time. I suggested panies to the appeal which I made in then that if women put their hearts into 1928. There is another body to whom a great cause, the great cause is won. we are very much indebted, and that is To-day we are delighted to have with us JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 267

By courtesy of} [Sport & General. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND MRS. POLLY DONKIN.

By courtesy of] [Photo Press. MRS. POLLY DONKIN—AND TWO ADMIRERS. Coxswain Barnes, of SeUey and Bognor, and Coxswain Fenton, of St. Andrews. 268 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. on the platform Her Royal Highness and I have had opportunities of watch- Princess Louise (Loud applause), who, ing the progress of the Institution and with her ready recognition of what the way in which it is supported. Our constitutes a national undertaking, gave nation has in the Life-boat Service a it her sympathy, and accepted the wonderful asset, in which a great ideal, position of Patron of the Guild. I am the service of humanity, is carried into very glad to tell your Royal Highness, action year by year, day by day, without on behalf of the Institution, that the any heroics on the part of the men who little group of women who gathered man the Life-boats, and who constantly round you ten years ago have increased exemplify all the qualities which make to many thousands, and the work they up a great character. have done, both by personal efforts and Let us bring to bear upon the grave by persuasion, has been wonderfully problems with which we are confronted, successful. (Loud applause.) the voluntary co-operation, the freely I know that I am expressing your accepted discipline and the common most earnest wish by appealing to the sacrifice which actuate every Life-boat women of London to come forward as Crew. It is because the Life'-boat workers on Tuesday the 19th May, Service offers you the finest example of which is Life-boat Day throughout national character and achievement in Greater London ; and to the people of the sphere of human enterprise, and a London, men, women and children, to type of united service in a great cause, see that they wear a Life-boat Badge that I commend it to the generous sup- upon that day. I am glad to see not port of the people of Great Britain and only the Lord Mayor of London with us Ireland, so that the Institution may this afternoon, but the Mayor of West- continue to provide the Life-boat Crews minster and the Mayors of the majority with the best weapons with which to of the London Boroughs ; and I would carry out their noble battle for the lives ask them and the Lady Mayoresses to of those who may be shipwrecked on the give their support, both civic and shores of these islands. (Loud and personal, to ensure that Life-boat Day prolonged applause.) will be the most successful one held in I will now call on Sir Godfrey Baring London. If every citizen gave but one to read a list of those nominated for penny, we should get £30,000, which election as President, Vice-Presidents, would provide three 45-ft Motor Life- Treasurer, and other members of the boats, or seven 35-feet Motor Life-boats. Committee of Management, and the That is quite an interesting statistic, Auditors for the ensuing year. and worth taking away in your minds this afternoon. There is one point Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt. SIR GODFREY BARING : In the name and on which I forgot to mention as regards behalf of the Committee of Management of Life-boat Day on Tuesday the 19th the Royal National Life-boat Institution I May, it is, that, at the suggestion of hereby nominate the following noblemen and Princess Louise, the Duchess of York gentlemen as suitable persons to fill the various posts and offices in connexion with the has consented to visit some of the Institution during the period dating on and depots on that day. (Loud applause.) from the 13th May, 1931, until the date of the Annual Meeting of the Governors of the THE NATIONAL EXAMPLE OF THE Institution in 1932. Also Messrs. Price, SERVICE. Waterhouse & Company as Auditors for the same period. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have kept you too long already, but in conclusion, Committee of Management. I would like to say that in the ten years President. since I first presided at an Annual H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G. Meeting I have kept in very close touch V'ice-Presidents. with the movement, and I have had The Archbishop of Canterbury. opportunities of actually seeing the Life- The Duke of Atholl. The Duke of Montrose. boats and the launching of the Life- The Duke of Portland. boats and getting to know their work, The Marquis of Ailsa. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 269 The Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair. The Hydrographer of the Navy. The Earl of Derby. The Chairman of Lloyd's. The Rev. the Earl of Devon. No one else has been nominated. I therefore The Earl of Albemarle. declare these gentlemen duly elected. The Earl of Lonsdale. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa. Presentation of Medals for Gallantry. The Viscount Grey of Fallodon. The Viscount Burnham. The PRESIDENT : I now call upon the Commodore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Secretary to read the accounts of the services Bulkeley, Bt., R.N.R. for which Medals and other awards have been The Lord Southborough. given. Major-General the Right Hon. John E. B. The Secretary then read the accounts of the Seely. services, and the Medals were presented by The Hon. George Colville. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, as follows :— Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt. To COXSWAIN ROBERT HOOD, of Hartlepool, Sir W. E. B. Priestley. Durham, the Bronze Medal for the rescue, Mr. Harry Hargood. on 26th September, 1930, of the crew of Miss Alice Marshall. nine men of the Danish auxiliary schooner Mr. Noel E. Peck. Doris. To COXSWAIN FREDERICK BARNES, of Selsey Treasurer. and Bognor, Sussex, the Bronze Medal for The Earl of Harrowby. the rescue on 2nd November, 1930, of the two men of the yacht Lucy B, of Rye. Other Members of the Committee of To Mr. J. DAVIES, Bowman, of Cromer, Management. Norfolk, a Bar to his Bronze Medal for going Mr. James Bryce Allan. overboard from the Life-boat to the rescue Mr. Charles G. Ammon, M.P. of a drowning man on 17th February, 1931. Mr. Ernest Armstrong. To COXSWAIN R. FENTON, of St. Andrews, Mr. H. Arthur Baker. Fifeshire, the Bronze Medal for the rescue Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, M.P. on 9th March, 1931, of the crew of ten of the Lieut.-Colonel J. Benskin. steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen. Mr. Frederick Cavendish Bentinck. The Earl of Brecknock. To COXSWAIN ANGUS McPHAiL, of Thurso, Major Sir Maurice Cameron. Caithness-shire, the Bronze Medal for the Captain Charles J. P. Cave. rescue, on 18th March, 1931, of the crew of Colonel Lord William Cecil. four of the schooner Pet, of Chester. Mr. Kenneth M. Clark. To Mr. JOHN CAHILL, of Tralee, County Kerry, Sir John Collie. the Bronze Medal for the rescue, on 7th Sir John G. Gumming. November, 1930, of the crew of three of the Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert B. Dixon. steamer Co-operator, of Tralee. Mr. Cahill Admiral Sir A. A. M. Duff. carried out the rescue in a small boat, Commander Herbert G. Evans, R.N.R. accompanied by his son, Mr. Joseph Cahill, Captain Guy Fanshawe, R.N. and another fisherman, Mr. John Nolan. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Each was awarded the Bronze Medal. Mr. K. Lee Guinness. (A full account of the services at Hartlepool, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey. Selsey and Bognor and Tralee appeared in the Commodore Sir Bertram F. Hayes, R.N.R. last issue of The Lifeboat. Full accounts of the (retired). other three services appear elsewhere in this Captain G. C. Holloway, R.N.R. issue.) Sir Frederick Thomas Hopkinson. Captain the Earl Howe, R.N.V.R. The PRESIDENT : I will now call upon Mr. Mr. John F. Lamb. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, to Colonel Sir A. Henry McMahon. move the first resolution. Commander Sir Harry Main waring. Bt., R.N.V.R. The Right Hon. A. V. Alexander, M.P. Mr. Algernon Maudslay. The Rt. Hon. A. V. ALEXANDER, M.P. (First Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver. Lord of the Admiralty): Your Royal High- Sir Gervais S. C. Rentoul, K.C., M.P. nesses, my Lord Mayor, my Lords, Ladies and The Rt. Hon. F. 0. Roberts, M.P. Gentlemen, I have to move :— The Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P. " That this Meeting, fully recognising the Colonel the Master of Sempill. important services of the Royal National Colonel R. F. A. Sloane-Stanley. Life-boat Institution in its national work of Commander F. F. Tower, late R.N.V.R. life-saving, desires to record its hearty The Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward. appreciation of the gallantry of the Cox- swains and Crews of the Institution's Life- And ex-officio. boats, and gratefully to acknowledge the The Lord Mayor of London. valuable help rendered to the cause by the The Admiral Commanding Reserves. Local Committees, Honorary Secretaries and The Deputy Master of the Trinity House. Honorary Treasurers."

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It is a great privilege to be allowed this whom we come to honour to-day are what I opportunity of paying in this public way a might call, and what you have seen for tribute to those who have given so much to the yourselves to be, fine examples of working- great success of the Institution under whose class gentlemen. (Loud applause.) They auspices we are met this afternoon. I have represent to us not merely those noble acts very early recollections of a little education in which have been detailed to us, and which the work of the Royal National Life-boat have happened in the last few months ; they Institution, as an elementary Board School represent to us a history of the Life-boat pupil—the only education I ever got; for Institution of this country which is beyond part of it was in the work of the Life-boat compare. (Applause.) Institution, and Life-boat Saturday was one of I do not need to say more about that this the great events in my annual year whilst at afternoon except this: While we are proud school. I remember, too, that one of the first that this Life-boat Institution was the pioneer songs that I was ever taught to sing the of Life-boat Services in any country ; we are chorus of was about Grace Darling, and it also glad that it has now pioneered the inter- seemed in those days in the West Country that national meetings, which we hope will lead to a one of the greatest things that we had to learn still further development of world service in was the traditional courage, chivalry and Life-boat work. The conference which was humanity of our countrymen, who were trained initiated in the centenary year of 1924, and to believe that the sea was our life, that the which was held in London, at which nine sea was our strength, and that on the sea we nationalities were represented, was succeeded obtained our livelihood. (Applause.) by the Conference of 1928, at which seventeen There has always been, of course, a great nationalities were represented, and we hope bond of sympathy between the various that at the Conference which will take place in sections of our maritime population—a great 1932 at Amsterdam no country in the world bond of sympathy between the Royal Navy with a coastline on which it is possible to (over which I have to try to preside for the prevent human life being lost will be un- time being), the Mercantile Marine, and great represented. (Applause.) Institutions like the National Life-boat We are greatly honoured by the presence of Institution; and it is perhaps because all His Royal Highness in the Chair to-day, and sections of this great maritime nation actually of Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise. engaged in moving upon the seas are filled (Loud applause.) Perhaps as a Minister of a with the same spirit of service to those who are Government which you do not all appreciate, in need. Even in the instructions to the I might be allowed to say that the thing which Royal Navy in the King's Regulations we do endears them to us all, m aU parties in the not forget them : " All officers of His Majesty's country, is that they are pre-eminently great ships are to afford every possible aid to vessels public servants. (Loud applause.) I know in danger, distress or in want of casual assist- that they will forgive me if I say that we are ance and in saving life " ; and you have no also honoured by the presence to-day of doubt seen in the last few months that the gallant Coxswains and members of Crews who members of the Royal Navy have been thus are also great public servants. (Loud ap- engaged. The example of the crew of H.M.S. plause.) I am therefore glad to have the Sitffolk in rescuing the crew of the Hedrik in opportunity of moving this resolution in very dangerous Eastern waters was one ; the appreciation of their service, and to include in great services of the commanding officer and that resolution, as I am sure you would desire crew of the ship Veronica during the New this meeting to do, those who help on the Zealand earthquake was another. (Loud shore, about whom we heard just now—who applause.) help to get the Life-boats off in most difficult And I mention this bond of sympathy, circumstances ; those who do the work of and instance those examples of services by the Secretary and Treasurer, and the local com- Royal Navy in rescuing life, for this reason; mittee work in every branch of the Institution that we are here to-day to honour Coxswains in the country; and I am perfectly certain and Crews who are not under regular obligatory that this meeting will carry the resolution service; they are giving voluntary service. which I now have the honour to move, with (Applause.) We in the Admiralty do not for acclamation. (Loud applause.) one moment detract from the great examples The PRESIDENT : I now call on the Bishop of courage and humanity given by the members of Durham to second the resolution. of the regular crews of the Navy and Mercantile Marine, but we take off our hats, if I may use The Bishop of Durham. the phrase, to those who, without compulsion, The BISHOP OF DURHAM (the Rt. Rev. by voluntary service, show all those qualities HERBERT HBNSLEY HENSON, D.D.): Your of courage and of chivalry in time of peace, Royal Highnesses, my Lord Mayor, my Lords, and purely for the sake of brotherhood and Ladies and Gentlemen, of all the many objects saving humanity, which sometimes we only of benevolence which from time to time claim look to see exposed to our view when actually the support of good citizens, I think it can engaged in belligerent warfare. (Applause.) hardly be disputed that the Royal National Perhaps in this non-political atmosphere, in Life-boat Institution holds a kind of primacy ; this very great national Institution, you will for not only is the direct object which it is permit me at least as a working-class repre- organised to serve one which needs no possible sentative a little pride in the fact that the men defence, but the necessity of this Institution JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 271 is quite undoubted. Moreover, there is no from my Diocese, from Hartlepool. I note object which needs so little the arts of the also that your Royal Highness will presently advocate and the orator to commend it to the give a Gold Badge for distinguished service in enthusiastic acceptance of English people. raising funds to a lady from my Diocese, Polly By a three-fold title it holds us. We are Donkin, a fishwife of Cullercoats, whose insular, and, if we are to hold communication achievements in " raising the wind " have with the rest of the world, it must be (saving been outstanding. (Applause.) But I must always your Royal Highness's correction) by not continue with my local claims, otherwise I the sea rather than by the air. (Laughter.) should keep you too long. We are mercantile, and we cannot get to This resolution expresses our hearty appreci- and fro on our legitimate business without ation of the gallantry of the Coxswains and traversing the high seas. We are Imperial, Crews of the Life-boats. Consider for a and we cannot hold the links of our far-flung moment what that service is. It is not merely Empire without the mastery of the seas. the direct work of life-saving, so many men (Applause.) rescued from imminent death in circumstances There are several special reasons why I, as the most appalling conceivable ; but behind Bishop of Durham, might claim a particular each of those rescues there is that great and personal interest in this Institution ; for margin of anxiety relieved and domestic if you go back to the beginnings of this great tragedy averted which the saving of the life work you will find that it was closely linked of a breadwinner in a humble home inevitably with the Diocese of Durham. It was in 1786 means. But these men did much more than that for the first time the experiment was do that positive and direct work. The actual made of a Life-boat Station at Bamburgh, saving of so many lives is much, but there is on the coast of Northumberland, which was more : they proved the potential heroism of provided, if you please, by funds from a peace, a lesson which it is highly important benefaction of a Bishop of Durham, Lord that the communities of the civilised world Crewe, and was set up at the instance of an should learn. I sometimes think that the excellent Durham clergyman, the Archdeacon difference between peace and war in this of that district; and in 1789—a memorable respect lies here : that while peace parades its year—the first permanent Life-boat Station seamy side, war parades its heroic side. And wag set up at Tynemouth, in my Diocese. here I would commend to all who advocate North-eastern England has the honour of con- peace and a juster measure of the false glitter tributing to the education of the First Lord of of war, the wonderful passage in Dr. Johnson's the Admiralty, for it was from that district writings published in the year 1771, when he that Grace Darling, the patron saint of life- drew just that particular contrast which I am saving at sea, came, and her great heroic suggesting to you now, between the external achievement in the year 1838 was transacted glitter of war and the sordid, squalid back- on sacred soil, the Fame Islands, where the ground which lies behind it. But when we first of all the long series of Bishops of whom I come to peace, what do we see ? We see all am the last, and the least, held their place, St. men, too often, alas, exhibiting the most Aidan and St. Cuthbert. Grace Darling had vulgar, the most greedy, the most contentious to learn that fame is not without its shadow, aspect of their character ; and it is sometimes for we are told that applications for locks of hard for an observer of this squalid continuing hair came in such numbers that Grace was conflict of men and classes and interests in menaced with baldness. (Laughter.) Nor, society to escape a very low view of human indeed, even at that early stage, was the com- nature, and even to escape sinking into the mercial value of feminine achievement wholly prison of unhappiness and cynicism. unperceived, for we are told that she was And then we come to see, and our sailors repeatedly appealed to by the proprietor of help us to see, that all this fabric of society, in Batty's Circus to join his troupe and be spite of its meanness, is shot through and exhibited to the admiration of the multitude ; through with heroism, which again and again but Grace had the good sense to decline all leaps up into prominence and commands these offers, and she died in the odour of attention. The voluntary service of these sanctity in her native island. men and women who launch and man the Life- Moreover, your Royal Highness, it is my boats restores our self-respect and rebuilds singular privilege as Bishop of Durham to again the fabric of our faith in human nature. preside over a Diocese which includes amongst (Applause.) its greater industries those two great employ- And will you allow me to say this : I think ments, seafaring and coal-mining, which I do this kind of achievement, this kind of work, think exhibit more conspicuously than any which the Life-boat Institution is carrying out, other the valorous spirit of man in conflict is more conspicuously than anything else an with the mighty and unmanageable forces of evidence of the genuine influence of Christianity nature. (Applause.) The achievements of on national life. Human need is wide as men, coal-miners and seafaring men—their humanity, and a man or a woman need not be achievements in shipwreck and in explosions a Christian in order to appreciate it and to in the mines—contribute to the spiritual respond to it, but it is incontrovertible that it assets of the human race ; and I observed with is only in those societies which have been great pride just now that the first of those trained and educated by the Christian religion admirable men who came to receive from the that these great efforts of benevolence and hands of your Royal Highness a Medal comes help have come to have the prominence which, 272 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. thank God, they have among us. I am some- Honorary Life-Governors, and two are present times disposed to think, when I review the this afternoon to receive their awards :— history of the Church of Christ, so chequered, so scandal-ridden in many ways, so enigmatic DERBY (DERBYSHIRE). and paradoxical, that all these things are out- LADY ANN,* J.P., appointed an Honorary weighed by the unfailing succession of kind Life-Governor in recognition of her distin- and generous efforts which have marked its guished services as President of the Ladies' course through history, and I can imagine the Life-boat Guild in Derby, and as a Life-boat Eternal Judge addressing to the Christian worker for nearly forty years. society in the great day of reckoning such words as He addressed to the undone and TEIGNMOUTH (DEVONSHIRE). outcast woman : " Her sins, which are many, Mr. W. J. BURDEN, appointed an Honorary are forgiven, for she loved much." Life-Governor in recognition of his distin- One word more. Our Life-boats are guished services as Honorary Secretary of monuments. As you go round the coast from the Teignmouth Station Branch for upwards place to place, in watering-places, where the of forty-five years. Mr. Burden already tired multitudes of our city dwellers flock in holds the Silver Medal of the Institution for order to recover some physical energy for the gallantry in rescuing life from shipwreck. work which they must carry on year in and year out, at every conspicuous point on the Presentation of Gold Brooches and coast there is the Life-boat, conspicuous by its Pendants. place, by its form, above all, by its suggestion. The SECRETARY : The Gold Brooch or It is a monument. We are an ancient people ; Pendant also is awarded only to Honorary we have lived through many centuries, and Workers who have given distinguished service. every century has contributed to our present Since the last Annual Meeting twenty-one position monuments of its distinctive life and have been awarded, and the following are achievement. Those monuments are the very present this afternoon to receive their awards : citadels and treasuries of the national spirit. Here is a monument of another kind. It ABERDOVEY (MERIONETHSHIRE). symbolises and expresses not the heroism and achievements of the past, but the needs and Captain J. WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., in efforts of the present. It cries its challenge to recognition of his long and valuable co- the generations as they pass : " Oh ! children operation as Honorary Secretary of the of men, so frail, so fleeting, whose lives are Branch. Fifty years ago Captain Williams shadowed by such dark potencies of ill, why was a member of the Crew of the Aberdovey waste your time in conflict and disputing, Life-boat. when the moral of your own woes is this : BUDE (CORNWALL). Help one another!" And the Life-boat Admiral STUABT NICHOLSON, C.B., M.V.O., calls that message most persuasively. D.L., in recognition of his long and valuable I must not dwell on the value of this great co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the work for holding the nations together. Think Branch. of it! What is it that holds the nations together in spite of the dividing forces—what CULLERCOATS (NORTHUMBERLAND). but the consciousness of common needs and the Mrs. POLLY DONKIN, in recognition of her memory of common help ? And this Institu- valuable help in personally collecting £272 tion does more than any other to do that. out of a total of £1,055 collected by the Without further prelude, your Royal Highness, Fishwives of Cullercoats during the past I beg to second the Resolution. (Loud nine years, at the summer exercise of the Life-boat. (The Resolution was carried.) DUNBAR AND SKATERAW ( HADDINOTONSHIRE) . Presentations to Honorary Life-Governors. Mr. WILLIAM BERTRAM, J.P., in recognition of The President then made presentations to his valuable co-operation as Honorary honorary workers for long and distinguished Secretary of the Dunbar and Skateraw service, the Secretary giving particulars in Station Branches for the past thirty-four each case of the work for which the award was years. made, as follows :— EASTBOURNE (SUSSEX). The SECRETARY : An Honorary Life- Mrs. H. G. BRIOGS, in recognition of her long Governorship is the highest honour which the and valuable co-operation with the Ladies' Institution can confer on its honorary workers, Life-boat Guild at Eastbourne, and particu- and is given only for long and distinguished larly in connexion with the organisation of service as a Station Honorary Secretary or in Life-boat Day. furthering its appeals for financial support. A copy of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum, and * Lady Ann was appointed a Life-Governor signed by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, as in 1924, but owing to ill-health no formal President of the Institution, is presented to presentation had previously been made. The each Honorary Life-Governor. four other Honorary Life-Governors have been Five honorary workers have been appointed appointed since the last Annual Meeting. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 273

ISLE Of WIGHT. the increasing importance of the part which The Hon. MABEL GOUGH-CALTHORPE, the Guild is destined to play in educating Honorary Secretary of the Isle of Wight public opinion with regard to the value of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in recognition of the Life-boat Service, and in raising funds her valuable co-operation as Honorary therefor." Organiser of the " All Island " Fete, 1930. It might, perhaps, seem somewhat strange LAKE DISTRICT (WESTMORLAND). to you that I should have been invited to move this Resolution asking you to express your Miss STELLA HAMILTON, in recognition of gratitude to the ladies who have helped so valuable co-operation in raising funds for magnificently in this great Service of saving over thirty-five years. life ; for my name, I know, is more commonly LEICESTER (LEICESTERSHIRE). associated with activities which are popularly supposed to endanger life rather than to save Mrs. MOREY, in recognition of her long and it. I do not know what was in the minds of valuable co-operation in raising funds. the Committee of Management of the Institu- tion when they invited me to move this LEWES (Sussex). Resolution ; perhaps they were working by Mr. A. J. R. URIDGE, in recognition of his long the law of contrast; but we who delight in and valuable co-operation as Honorary speed are extremely careful about human lives, Secretary of the Branch. both our own and those of other people. There is, therefore, really nothing inconsistent in my MANCHESTER (LANCASHIRE). speaking in support of such a Resolution as Mrs. BRONNERT, in recognition of her long this, any more than in the fact that I happen and valuable co-operation in raising funds to be a member of the Road Fellowship at Didsbury. League. That League is a section of the National NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE). Safety First Association, and I understand Mr. A. J. PHILLIPS, in recognition of his that this Institution is represented on the valuable co-operation first as Secretary, and Association's Council. It seems to me very then as Chairman of the Branch, for upwards appropriate that this Meeting should be held of forty years. I deeply regret to say that during " Safety First Week." Many of us are eighteen months ago Mr. Phillips lost his engaged on this problem of doing all that we sight. can to make transport, on which our civilisa- tion so greatly depends, safer than it is, and at OLDHAM (LANCASHIRE). the same time in speeding it up, no matter Mr. EDWARD DEAN, in recognition of his long whether it be by land, by sea or by air. As and valuable co-operation as Honorary speed increases, so does it become all the more Secretary of the Branch. necessary for us to do all that is possible to reduce the number of accidents which occur READING (BERKSHIRE). and to minimise the loss of life resulting there- Mr. G. BURTON FRASER, in recognition of his from. This Institution has been carrying on long and valuable co-operation as Honorary that fight, with splendid success, for over one Secretary of the Branch. hundred years. It has carried on that fight on the greatest road of our Ernpire, namely, ST. IVES (HUNTINGDON). the sea; and I would like to remind you of Miss M. KNIGHTS, in recognition of her long one thing which we ought never to forget: and valuable co-operation as Honorary When we all join together to rSake our roads Secretary of the Branch. safer, it is for our own safety as well as for the safety of others, but when these magnificent VENTNOR (!SLE OP WIGHT). fellows who man the boats of the Royal Mrs. SAUNDERS, in recognition of her long and National Life-boat Institution set out in all valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary weathers, undeterred by the appalling danger of the Branch. of their task of saving life at sea, they are unable to apply the " Safety First " principle The PRESIDENT : I now call upon Sir to themselves at all. (Applause.) This In- Malcolm Campbell to move the next Resolu- stitution has also carried out wonderful tion. research work in the direction of applying the Sir Malcolm Campbell. latest inventions of mechanical science to its own special duty. Captain SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL : Your I fear, however, that I am getting away Royal Highnesses, my Lord Mayor, Your from the main point of my Speech, which is Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, really to thank the ladies and to acknowledge I have the honour to move the following the great debt which the Life-boat Service Resolution :— owes to them. Feats of courage, endurance " That this Meeting desires to record its and daring in women are now taken almost as sense of the deep obligation of the Institu- much for granted as they have been in men tion to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and its during the past. What women undertake many hundreds of voluntary workers for now in the way of dangerous adventure would the Life-boat cause, and its conviction of have been thought impossible a few years ago ; 274 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

but though we recognise and applaud this new Highnesses, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, spirit of adventure in women, we do not allow I beg to move : it to make us forget all that women have long done and still do by their inspiration, en " That the hearty and respectful thanks thusiasm and self-sacrifice for such great of this Meeting be given to His Royal High- causes as the Royal National Life-boat Institu ness the Prince of Wales, K.G., for presiding tiou. Here, surely, is a cause which is truly over this, the Hundred and Seventh Annual national, since it asks for the best that both General Meeting of the Royal National Life- the women and the men of this nation can give boat Institution." us. We have already in another Resolution His Royal Highness said to me just now thanked the men, and I now ask you to thank that he would like this Resolution cut out all those women, living inland and on the altogether, but I have absolutely, though, I coast, who by their devotion to it have made hope, respectfully, disregarded those wishes; the Life-boat cause their own. (Loud ap- but he has expressed a wish that I should be plause.) exceedingly short. That is a very great The PRESIDENT : I call on the Master of disappointment to me, but, I expect, a great Sempill to second the Resolution. relief to the audience, because I had prepared a speech which would have occupied about Colonel the Master of Sempill. twenty minutes, tracing the history of the Institution from its earliest years and describ- Colonel the MASTER OF SEMPILL : Your ing the various Presidents who have presided Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, my Lord over our deliberations, and also it contained Mayor, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I four or five jokes which I had conned for some have been given an utterly impossible task— time, and which were really very good. that of following Sir Malcolm Campbell. As (Laughter.) you know, there is only one Blue Bird in the At any rate, Ladies and Gentlemen, we world capable of a speed of 250 miles an hour, cannot possibly separate without expressing and that belongs to Sir Malcolm Campbell, so our deep, our abiding, and our respectful how can one possibly follow him ? If one gratitude to our President for the inestimable wanted to follow Sir Malcolm Campbell, the services which he has rendered to us for eleven only thing to do would be to imitate the very years. (Applause.) There has never been practical example set by His Royal Highness anything which we have asked His Royal the President and take to the air ; that would Highness to do that he has not done, and what be the only way to catch him. he has done for the Life-boat Service really When His Royal Highness presided at the beggars description. Every one of us who is first meeting of the General Council of the interested in the Life-boat cause is deeply Ladies' Life-boat Guild some years ago, he grateful to His Royal Highness, and we shall said: " I place the Life-boat Cause in your never forget the wonderful services that he has hands, confident that it will be as safe with rendered. I am sure you will pass this vote you as the Life-boat itself is safe in the hands of thanks with the utmost enthusiasm and the of our gallant Crews." His Royal Highness's utmost unanimity. (Loud applause.) trust has been more than amply repaid by the magnificent work that has been done by the The Hon. GEOBGE COLVILLE (Deputy Chair- Ladies' Life-boat Guild. When we consider man) : Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excel- that on Flag Days and on other similar lencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, we occasions over two-thirds of the money have all read in the paper this morning of His collected is collected by the ladies, we can Royal Highness's visit to Liverpool yesterday, realise the force of that argument. and the speech which he made counselling The women who serve the Institution publicity. What greater publicity could we deserve our profound gratitude, and all the possibly have than his presence here in our assistance we can give them in this great work. chair to-day ? We welcome him, we thank Not only do they devote their time to this him for this publicity, and we thank him for service, but many of them, as you know, may, his presence. I have 'much pleasure in as Life-boat launchers, be called out in the seconding the resolution. (Loud »pplause.) middle of the night to help with the launch of Sir GODFREY BARING : Ladies and Gentle- the boat, which entails hours of hard labour men, let us carry that vote with three cheers and the certainty of a complete wetting. I for the Prince of Wales. therefore cordially second the Resolution so ably proposed by Sir Malcolm Campbell, and (The Resolution was carried with acclamation.) ask you to show your great appreciation of the work of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, so ably (The Meeting then terminated.) led by Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and of all those who have so gallantly followed Entertainment of Medallists. her. (Loud applause.) After the Meeting the Medallists visited the (The Resolution was carried.) House of Commons, where they were received by Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, C.B., M.P., a Sir Godfrey Baring. member of the Committee of Management, Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt. (Chairman of the and in the evening they were the guests of Sir Committee of Management): Your Eoyal Oswald Stoll at the Alhambra. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 275

The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance. How each £100 of die Institution's Expenditure was kid out in 1930. £ s. d. 36 8 0 ^H^••— Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and Tractors. 16 0 0 —^^^—^—** Payments to Life-boat Crews; Rewards for Wreck Services; Retaining Fees; Wages; Payments for Exercises ; Grants to Injured Men and Pensions. 14 14 0 ^^^^^^^^— Propaganda and Publicity, in connexion with Head- quarters and over 1,000 Branches. 14 0 0 ^—^^^™«— Provision, Custody and Inspection of Life-boat Stores. 7 4 0 ™«""^~ Construction and Repair of Life-boat Houses and Slipways. 460 ^— Amount spent locally at Life-boat Stations. 420 ™^— Technical Supervision and Inspection of Life-boat Stations. 360 ^™« Administration. £100 0 0

(For full Statement of Expenditure, see pages 320—322.)

The Institution's Income at a Glance. How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1930. £ ' s. d. 44 6 0 •-^^^——^——^^—-^—•—^^^— Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days. 37 6 0 •—^— Legacies. 380 ^— Special Gifts. 13 8 0 ™™^^^^™""™ Income from Investments. 18 0 - Life-boat Funds. 14 0 • Sales. £100 0 0

(For full Statement of Income, see pages 321—323.) 276 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire. Two gallant services were carried out the Life-boat. The remainder were by Life-boats in Scotland during March., unwilling to take this risk, and the one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- Coxswain succeeded in getting the Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and boat near enough for them to jump the other by the Motor Life-boat at aboard her. There she lay for half an Thurso, Caithness-shire. The circum- hour, until, one by one, the nine men stances were similar. In each case had jumped down. Then the Life-boat the wreck was lying among rocks, was hauled clear of the rocks, and and it was a difficult and hazardous reached her station safely just after task to get the Life-boat close enough 8 o'clock. The Broughty Ferry Motor to rescue the crew. In each case this Life-boat and the Anstruther Life-boat was successfully done, and the Cox- were also called out, but their help was swains of both Life-boats were awarded not needed. the Institution's Bronze Medal. For this fine service the Institution awarded its Bronze Medal to Coxswain St. Andrews. D. Fenton, and extra monetary awards In the middle of the night of March 8th to him and each member of the Crew. the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aber- It also sent a Letter of Appreciation to deen, went ashore in a heavy snow all who took part in the launch. squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; Thurso. the sea was rough ; and the night very Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March dark and bitterly cold. The Life-boat the news reached Thurso that a schooner, was got away at 2.30 on the morning the Pel, of Chester, had gone ashore on of the 9th. The tide was not high the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five enough to launch her in the harbour, miles away. The night was foggy and and she was launched off the open very dark, with a heavy ground swell, beach, with very great difficulty, owing which made the conditions on shore to the rough sea breaking. A party of very bad. Half an hour after launching, over 200 people, including women, the Life-boat picked up the flares of helped in the launch, many being above the wreck, anchored to windward, and their waists in the sea. veered down until about 60 yards away. The Life-boat reached the wreck Nearer than that the Coxswain felt it shortly after 5.30, just as day broke. unsafe to go, owing to submerged The trawler had gone right in over the rocks and the remains of an old wreck reef, and seas were breaking over her. which lay between the Life-boat and The Coxswain feared that, as the tide the schooner. By the light of the Life- fell, she would capsize, so he decided, in boat's searchlight, a line was fired over spite of the great risk, to attempt a the wreck from the line-throwing gun. rescue at once. He anchored to wind- For the first time on service a night tracer ward and veered the Life-boat down to was used, fitted on the projectile which the wreck. carries the line, in order to show by its The trawler lay with rocks all round sparks the flight of the line. This was her, and the Life-boat was taken between very successful. A breeches buoy was and over them, with the seas breaking then rigged and sent aboard the wreck, continually aboard her, and at times and one of the schooner's crew was completely filling her. At one point she hauled into the Life-boat. He told the actually touched the rocks. In spite of Coxswain that the other three on board these difficulties and dangers, she got were old men, the skipper being seventy- near enough for a line to be thrown on nine. They were already exhausted, and board the trawler ; a breeches buoy he feared that it would kill them to be was rigged, and one of the crew was hauled through the cold water. hauled through the broken water into On learning this the Coxswain decided JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 277 to veer the Life-boat in over the rocks and the Life-boat rising and falling on and the remains of the old wreck, and the swell all the time, it took half an to get under the lee of the schooner. hour to lift the three men off the wreck. There was the greatest danger that the The Life-boat then hove in on her cable, Life-boat herself would strike, but she drew clear of the rocks, and reached was very coolly and skilfully handled Thurso again at midnight. By next by the Coxswain. By the light of her morning the schooner had started to searchlight he took her safely alongside break up. Had the Life-boat waited for the schooner, which was rolling and daylight and a rising tide, she would grinding on the rocks. There the Life- probably have been too late. boat lay, rising and falling in the swell. For this fine service the Institution At times she had no more than a foot awarded its Bronze Medal to Coxswain of water under her, and the tide was Angus McPhail, its Thanks Inscribed on falling. The rescue had to be carried Vellum to Second-Coxswain Adam Mc- out as quickly as possible, or the Life- Leod, and extra monetary award? to boat herself might have been left on them and to each member of the the rocks; but with the wreck rolling, Crew.

The First Service of the Lerwick Life-boat. LAST year the Institution established a lost her propeller. She was a steamer Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the of over 3,000 tons, and was on a voyage Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Hull, in Station to be established on those ballast, with one woman and twenty- islands, and was made possible by the five men on board. system of coast communication which She was in no immediate danger, but had recently been organised in the there was a probability that she would Shetlands by the Board of Trade. Only drift on to the west coast of the Shet- a boat of the most powerful type would lands. The Life-boat Coxswain was be suitable to safeguard an area cover- ordered to stand by, and an additional ing a widely-scattered group of many 50 gallons of petrol was put ready on islands, and the Life-boat sent to the quay. At the same time, two Lerwick was of the Barnett (Stromness) trawlers left Lerwick to go to the type, 51 feet by 13 feet 6 inches, with Everline's help, and two other trawlers, twin screws, two 60 h.p. engines, a which were at sea, 90 miles W.S.W. of speed of over 8f knots, able to travel the steamer, also went to her help. 120 miles at full speed, without re- Conflicting reports about the Everline's fuelling, and able to take 100 people on position came through both on the board. She reached her station in Friday and the Saturday, but it appeared July, 1930, and her first service was that she was nearing land in tow. carried out seven months later. Then, on the Saturday afternoon, the This service is very interesting, not Coastguard received news from Bressay only because it is the first by a new Island, on the east of the Shetlands, that station, but because it shows very a ketch under close reefed canvas was graphically the peculiar problems of standing in towards a part thick with Life-boat work in the very dangerous reefs, between Bressay and Whalsey. waters round the Shetlands, and the The Life-boat Station was informed and organization needed to deal with them. the Life-boat at once called out. A On the morning of Friday, 20th south-westerly gale was blowing with February last, the Life-boat Station gusts of hurricane force and blinding was informed by the Coastguard that a snow-showers. The Life-boat found wireless message had been received the vessel four miles north-east by reporting that the Latvian steamer north of Score Point, Bressay. She was Everline, of Riga, was drifting about the ketch Nolsoy, of Thorshavn, in the 100 miles west of the Shetlands, having Faroe Islands, with a crew of six, bound

F 2 278 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. from Lysekil, in Sweden, with a cargo of Sound, the Coxswain felt that it would be bricks. She was standing in towards folly to attempt to go further that night. the reefs, and it was found later that He therefore put into Symbister, seeing her compass was defective, that she had nothing until he actually touched the pier. no chart of the Shetlands and that her The Honorary Secretary of Lerwick skipper was unaware of his position. was informed by telephone, and the Crew Under the direction of the Life-boat stood by all night fending the Life-boat Coxswain, he put her about and reached off the pier. down the east side of Bressay Island, In the early morning of the following with the Life-boat in attendance. day, Sunday, 22nd February, the When the Nolsoy was off the Noup of weather began to improve and the wind Noss, the Life-boat took her in tow and to veer. Just before six o'clock the brought her safely into Lerwick, just Life-boat set out again on her journey after six in the evening. northward. Shortly before she left, the While the Life-boat was out on this Honorary Secretary at Lerwick received service news reached Lerwick that the the correct position of the Everline. Everline had broken her tow-rope, The land lines had been broken by the twelve miles west of Eshaness on the west storm and he could get into com- coast of the Mainland and was drifting munication neither with Symbister, shoreward in a westerly gale. The where the Life-boat was, nor with Fishery Cruiser Vaila at once put out to North Roe, where she had instructions send the Life-boat back to Lerwick and to call, but with great difficulty he got to look after the Nolsoy. She found the the message through to Ulsta and asked Life-boat at the entrance to Bressay the signalman to signal the Life-boat Sound, but as the Life-boat was making as she passed to close for instructions. full speed in spite of the tow, she con- She passed Ulsta about eight o'clock tinued to tow the Nolsoy into harbour. on the Sunday morning, saw the signal, closed and received the Honorary A Night Journey in a Snow Storm. Secretary's instructions to proceed to The Life-boat then refuelled at once. leeward of a position three miles to the Besides filling her tanks she took on north of the Ramna Stacks. With board an additional 114 gallons of these instructions she continued up Yell petrol in tins. As her next service Sound. The weather was rapidly was likely to be long, she also took moderating, and the wind had fallen to a on board provisions for the Crew. At strong breeze. 7.15, just an hour after she had returned, she set out again. The reports as to The "Everline" Sighted. the position of the Everline were con- At 9.30 the Life-boat sighted the flicting, and the Life-boat was in- Everline. She was just about the structed to call at North Eoe for orders. position where the Honorary Secretary The weather was Arctic in its severity— had estimated she would be when he a pitch-dark night with blinding snow, sent the message to Ulsta for the Life- and a wind of almost hurricane force boat, two miles west of the cliffs of from the south-west. Gloup Holm. She was riding to one The Life-boat went through the north anchor, and it was dragging, but the entrance of Bressay Sound, and then weather was now fairly good, except for through the worst reef-infested waters a heavy westerly swell. The Master of in the Shetlands. There was a slight the Everline was expecting a tug, and lull in the gale once, when the loom of he asked the Life-boat to stand by, the land was seen. Except for that the which she did. At 12-30 P.M. a very visibility was only a few feet, and heavy snow squall struck the steamer ; nothing more was seen until Symbister the wind increased to gale force; a Light, on Whalsey, appeared close at rough sea got up on the already hand. With the weather what it was, heavy swell, and the Master, fearing and the fact that the Life-boat would that he would drift on to the high have a six-knot tide against her in Yell cliffs, which were by now little more JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 279 than a mile astern, signalled to the culties, and finally directing it to the Life-boat that he wished to abandon position where the Everline was ulti- ship. The Everline was lying to her mately found. He remained at the anchor, head on to the heavy sea. She telephone for 27 hours. A Letter of was sheering at times, and, being in Appreciation was sent to him. ballast, was rolling heavily. This made Mr. Kay was greatly helped by Mr. the Life-boat's work of taking off the John Masterson, the District Officer of Everline's crew very difficult. At times H.M. Coastguard, and his staff; Mr. she was higher than the steamer's gun- John Williamson, of Ulsta, Yell, who wale, and at times far below her. She signalled the Life-boat, and gave her succeeded, however, in getting along- the final message about the position of side, and the crew jumped singly or in the Everline; and Mr. Alexander R. pairs off a rope ladder into the Life-boat. Mann, the Postmaster at Lerwick, and It took an hour for the whole crew of his staff, who gave Mr. Kay every help twenty-six to get into the Life-boat. in receiving and sending messages, and She then made for Lerwick. She had kept open whatever Post Office was a fine weather passage home and arrived required. Altogether eight Post Offices at 5.15 P.M. the same evening. She had were kept open at Mr. Kay's request travelled about 80 miles and had been during the night of the Saturday and out on service twenty-two hours. until the Sunday afternoon. The rescue Shortly after the crew had been of the Everline's crew was only made rescued the weather improved, and the possible by the way in which Mr. Kay, Everline was salvaged and brought into the Coastguard and the Post Office the Tyne by the trawler Monimia, which worked in close co-operation during put a crew on board, and the tug Seaman. 27 hours, and Letters of Appreciation Great credit is due to the Coxswain were sent to Mr. Masterson, Mr. for his sound judgment in both these Williamson and Mr. Mann. services, and in particular for the very It is a curious and happy coincidence great skill which he showed in navigating that the very first service of the Lerwick the Life-boat, to Symbister. Besides Station should have been to a Danish the usual monetary awards, a Letter of vessel from the Faroe Islands. By Appreciation was sent to the Coxswain rescuing six lives from the Nolsoy, the and Crew. Life-boatmen of Lerwick, most of whom Scarcely less credit is due to Mr. must be of Norse descent, found them- G. T. Kay, the Honorary Secretary, selves rescuing men not only of the same for the way in which he organized the stock, but belonging to the ancient service, keeping in touch with the kingdom of which Shetland and Orkney Life-boat in spite of very great diffi- formed part till 1468.

Cromer Bowman's Gallantry. Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man. ON the morning of 17th February last a and had taken the boat in tow. Another number of fishing boats from Shering- fishing boat, Welcome Home, was making ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out for the shore. When about 200 yards after whelks. Before they returned a away from it, she was overwhelmed by heavy sea had got up, and the boats were a heavy breaking sea, capsized and sank. in danger. A message was sent for the The Sheringham Life-boat, which was a Motor Life-boat at Cromer, and she was quarter of a mile away, and the Cromer launched at 3.20 in the afternoon. Motor Life-boat, which was 600 yards When she arrived she found that the away, at once went to her help. Another Sheringham private Life-boat had also motor fishing-boat, The Liberty, which put out, had rescued the crew of two had just got safely in, was at once men of the fishing boat White Heather II. launched again by her crew of three men. 280 THE -LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. They made a gallant attempt, but their neither the efforts of the Life-boatmen engine stopped, a heavy sea filled the nor of the Ambulance Brigade could boat, and she was driven ashore. restore him to consciousness. He was The Sheringham and Cromer Life- the son and brother of two of the three boats were quickly on the spot. The men who had made such a gallant Sheringham boat picked up one man, attempt in The Liberty to rescue him and the Cromer boat made for the other before the Life-boats could reach him two. One of them, H. Little, was wear- and his companions. ing a life-belt, the other, John Craske, In recognition of his gallantry, the had an arm thrown over a spar and Institution has awarded to the Bowman, seemed absolutely helpless. It was Mr. J. Davies, a Second Service Clasp found afterwards that he had a wound to the Bronze Medal which he already on the head. The Coxswain threw a holds. He won it for his share in the belt with a line attached to Little, and he service to the Dutch oil-tanker, Georgia, was hauled on board. At the same time which broke in half off the Norfolk the Cromer Bowman, J. J. Davies, Sen., coast in November, 1927, the survivors jumped overboard to the help of Craske, of her crew being rescued by the Cromer and held him up until a line was thrown Motor Life-boat which was out for to them and they were hauled on board. twenty-eight hours. The Life-boat then made full speed for The Institution has also made an Cromer, where the two men were with extra monetary award to Mr. Davies, difficulty landed, and the Life-boat the usual monetary awards to the herself made for Yarmouth, as it was Coxswain and Crew of the Cromer Motor impossible to rehouse her owing to the Life-boat, and monetary awards also sea on the slipway. The St. John to the crew and launchers of the Ambulance Brigade had been warned Sheringham Life-boat, and to the three by telephone from Sheringham and was men—Mr. W. C. Craske, Mr. W. C. waiting when the two rescued men were Craske, jun., and Mr. A. C. Bishop, landed. Artificial respiration had al- who went out in the fishing-boat The ready been used on John Craske, but Liberty.

German Presentation to Margate. THE President of the German Republic Hermine was leaking; her captain has awarded to the Coxswain and Crew decided to abandon her ; and he, his of the Margate Motor Life-boat certifi- crew, and his wife and child were taken cates in recognition of their services to on board a pilot boat, which had also the German motor-ship Hermine, of gone out to the rescue. Wilhelmshaven, in the early morning of The certificates were presented by the 29th December, 1929. Mayor of Margate at a dinner on 17th A strong wind was blowing, with a December of last year, given to the past heavy sea and heavy rain squalls, when and present members of the Life-boat the Life-boat was called out to the help Crew, by Mrs. T. W. Gomm, wife of the of the Hermine, which had gone ashore Honorary Secretary and a holder of the on the Margate Sands, and was burning Institution's Gold Brooch. The Presi- flares. When the Life-boat reached her dent of the German Republic was it was found that there was not enough represented at the dinner by Herr G. A. water to get alongside. She stood by von Halem, a Secretary of the German for an hour, and then, as the captain Embassy, and among those present were would not leave his vessel, she put three the Mayoress, Col. E. 0. Skey, J.P., the men on board and stood by for another Chairman of the Branch, and Mr. and two hours. It was then found that the Mrs. Gomm. [JUNE, 1931. THE LIFEBOAT. 281

A Little-known Work by Sir William Hillary. Plan for a Steam Life-boat. By Lieut.-Col. C R. Satterthwalte, O.B.E., Daputy-Secretary of the Institution. No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat In 1794 he obtained from the Royal possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Humane Society a complete apparatus Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in for rescue from the shore, and became Appendix A in that book a list of the Treasurer of the Sunderland Humane works of Sir William Hillary, whose Society which was formed in that year. Appeal to the British Nation, published He was certainly also instrumental in in 1823, led directly to the founding of building Life-boats, and the first annual the Royal National Life-boat Institu- report issued by the Isle of Man District tion in the following year. Association in 1826 records that a large A work not included in that list has Life-boat, built by Mr. Ogden of recently come to light. This is a Sunderland, was then on service, at pamphlet, published in London, and Douglas, while an entry in the accounts dated 29th September, 1824, and en- reads : " To Bernard Ogden, Esq. : titled A Plan for the Construction of a Remitted him a bill for £112 Os. Od.— Steam Life Boat, also for the extinguish- Life-boat." It was through the efforts ment of Fire at Sea, etc. In a later of Sir William Hillary, who had been publication Sir William mentions that living in the Isle of Man since 1808, that "an extensive edition " of this pamphlet the Life-boat Association for the Isle of was published, and that he distributed Man, with its first Station at Douglas, it to " all departments connected with had been established, so that it is not the shipping interests, and amongst surprising that he should have presented numerous individuals at home and his pamphlet of 1824 to Mr. Ogden. abroad." It is -such an interesting document, and throws so much light Amazing Foresight. on the character and foresight of its The pamphlet makes it clear that Sir author, that no apology seems needed William foresaw the coming of the for the following notes and extracts. power Life-boat, with all her evident The copy before me is one- of two advantages. Space will not permit of which were in the possession of Mr. my quoting, the pamphlet at length, but W. J. Oliver, who was Honorary Secre- the main interest of it lies in the amazing tary of the Sunderland Life-boat Station foresight of the author, and the number from 1900 to 1926. His son, Captainof essential attributes of the power Life- W. J. Oliver, now Organizing Secretary boat, many of them only fully achieved for the North-Eastern District, who within the last few years, which, a followed his father as Hon. Secretary at century ago, he realised. Sunderland from 1926 to 1928, has I propose to take these points in the kindly lent the pamphlet to the Secre- order in which they occur in the pam- tary of the Institution, and has supplied phlet. much of the information which follows. 1. Size and Weight of Boat.—Sir William writes : " The important point Bernard Ogden, of Sunderland. will consist in ascertaining the smallest- The pamphlet is inscribed in Sir sized vessel calculated to receive an William Hillary's hand : "To Bernard engine that, in proportion to her bulk, Ogden, Esq., from the Author." From would have a commanding power over the following facts, the result of much her." He realised the difficulty in research in old documents by Captain designing a steam engine sufficiently Oliver, it may be inferred that Mr. small and light to be suitable for a Life- Ogden was one of the pioneers of Life- boat of reasonable size—the same saving work at sea at Sunderland, and difficulty which modern designers en- that his activities extended far beyond counter in adapting the heavy oil that port. engine of the Diesel type for Life-boat 282 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. work. He adds, "Perhaps the boat steaming capacity. With this system might be about forty feet long "—not the boat was propelled by means of a so bad an estimate of the length of a powerful pump which drew in water modem Motor Life-boat, though smaller through an opening at the bottom, and than any Steam Life-boat ever built by discharged it at the sides. At full speed the Institution. this pump, which was driven by hori- 2. Believing Valves.—" She should zontal engines, would take in a ton of have valves, or small ports, opening water per second, and it gave a speed of outwards only, that any sea she might over 9 knots. Three Steam Life-boats ship would readily discharge itself; and, were built with this method of propul- being so constructed, water could not sion, but the screw-propeller was then force its way in." I know no better adopted, the screw, as with the modern general description of the relieving Motor Life-boats, being housed in a valves or ports fitted in modern Life- tunnel. boats. That, very briefly, is the Steam Life- 3. Power Capstans.—" She might have boat, as finally designed and built. I a windlass ... so framed that the should like to add to it the record of power of the steam engine might with what Steam Life-boats have done in the ease be applied to it instead of manual Institution's Fleet. Altogether six were labour." The larger modern Motor built. The first was completed in 1890. Life-boats are fitted with power capstans The last was withdrawn from service in on the principle outlined above. 1928. Thus, for thirty-eight years, there 4. Protection for Propellers.—In the were Steam Life-boats in the Fleet. modern Motor Life-boat, the propeller They went out on service 468 times. is housed in a tunnel for protection. Sir They rescued 673 lives. William did not foresee the screw 5. Means of Propulsion other than propeller, and to him the paddle wheel Steam.—Perhaps the most interesting was the natural means of propulsion. of all Sir William's suggestions is the He foresaw the necessity for protection, recommendation that " every discovery and writes : " Strong curved timbers which, through the use of gas or other should come round from the bows to the means, may prove a substitute for quarters, in which the outward axle of steam "'should be taken advantage of. the water wheels should be fixed ; they The first practical gas engine had been would defend the paddles when running built at Cambridge in 1820, by W. Cecil, alongside a vessel in distress, or near to who used a mixture of hydrogen and rocks, which protection would be of the air. In 1823 Samuel Brown had pro- utmost consequence to save them from duced a more advanced type (one of injury at the time when everything which was actually installed in a 36-foot depended upon them." boat in 1827) ; and it is evident that It is interesting to compare these Sir William was fully abreast of the particulars with the actual description latest developments of invention in of the first Steam Life-boat, built by the internal combustion engines. The first Institution sixty-four years later, in practical petrol engine was Daimler's 1888. She was 50 feet by 15 feet, and engine of 1886, and it was not until 1904 built of steel. Her most interesting that a petrol engine was fitted in a Life- feature was the method of propulsion. boat. Not only was the paddle-wheel rejected, I have only been able to touch on a but also the screw-propeller. The latter Eew of the points made by Sir William was felt to be unsuitable, both because in his pamphlet. Much of it, dealing of the danger of racing the engines and with the extinction of fire at sea, is of the difficulty of protecting the screw rather outside the scope of the normal itself against injury from sand-banks work of the Institution he founded. and wreckage. The hydraulic system But I hope I have been able to show was therefore adopted, although it iow this pamphlet throws a fresh light entailed larger engines, greater consump- on the genius and vision of a very great tion of coal, and, consequently, a shorter man. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 283

LIEUT-COL. SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, BT. Founder of the Institution.

THE FIRST STEAM LIFE-BOAT. Built in 1890. Served until 1923. Stationed at Harwich, Holyhead and New Brighton, and again at Holyhead. Launched on service 175 times. Rescued 295 lives. 284 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

The Prince and the Fishwife. The Whole Secret of Getting People to Give. AT the Annual Meeting the Prince of done notable service in helping the Wales was able to announce that, as a Institution. In the past nine years she result of his appeal to the big passenger has collected by her own endeavours liner companies three years ago, no £272 out of the total of £1,055 collected fewer than five new Motor Life-boats by the Cullercoats fishwives at the were now on the coast, the gifts of six summer exercise of the Cullercoats Life- of these companies. boat. After his Presidential Address, the In presenting the Brooch the Prince Prince presented, among the other of Wales said : " How do you get the awards, the Gold Brooch awarded to money, Mrs. Donkin ? " Mrs. Polly Donkin, the fishwife of Mrs. Donkin replied: "I like to get Cullercoats who, in her way, has also the money, and I get the money."

Life-boat Days in 1930. 1,000 per cent Profit. FOE many years the Life-boat Day has In 1929 the number of emblems dis- been one of the Institution's most posed of was 5,111,500. In 1930 the successful forms of appeal. It still number was 5,358,700. That is to say, remains so, in spite of the criticisms last year nearly a quarter of a million made in the Press of this form of appeal more people contributed on Life-boat on account of the very large number of Days than in the previous year. charities which hold flag days. These That is a remarkable proof of the criticisms are directed almost entirely increasing popularity of the Life-boat against the number of such appeals, and Service. On the other hand, unemploy- it is almost universally recognised that ment and trade depression are reflected whatever restrictions may be put on in a slight decline in the average receipts them—and many local authorities are for each Day, and a very slight decline now limiting the number—great national in the average individual contributions. charities, like the Life-boat Service, The average receipts for each Day were should continue to hold flag days. Last £73 in 1928, £71 in 1929, and £68 in year permission to hold Life-boat Days 1930. was refused in only twenty-six places. In 1928, on an average, 115 people The Institution continues to hold contributed to make up each pound. them for three reasons. They are the In 1929, it took 117 people to contribute most economical form of appeal. They a pound, and, in 1930, it took 118 people. reach thousands of people who would The figures of the cost bear out have no other opportunity of contri- remarkably the Institution's contention buting. So far from the public showing that there is no more economical way that they would like Life-boat Days of collecting money. to be discontinued, the amount raised In collecting £45,590 in 1930 the by this form of appeal is steadily amount spent on emblems was £1,243, increasing. and the amount spent on posters and In 1928 the amount so raised was other stationery and stores was approxi- £42,748. In 1929 it was £43,520, an mately £650, a total of £1,893. This increase of £772. In 1930 it was gives a profit of about 2,400 per cent. £45,590, a further increase of £2,070. If all possible charges for personnel and In 1928 the number of Branches travelling are included, the rate of which held Days was 580; in 1929 it profit would scarcely be less than was 616 : in 1930 it was 672. 1,000 per cent. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 285 These few figures, it is hoped, will not what the Prince of Wales said to the only be of interest to all Life-boat Day Secretary of the Institution when he was

By courtesy of] [Keystone View Co. THE DUCHESS OF YORK ON LONDON LIFE-BOAT DAY. H.R.H. The Duchess of York visited a number of depots on Lifeboat Day in Greater London, on May 19th. She is seen with the Mayor and Mayoress at Paddinglon Town Hall. Behind the Mayoress is Mr. George F. Shee, Secretary of the Institution. workers, but a real encouragement to visiting a number of the depots on Life- them to continue so valuable and boat Day in London in 1928: "Every economical a form of appeal. town ought to have a flag day for the We should like also to remind them of Life-boat Service."

F 3 286 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

A Coxswain's Memories of his First Service By Coxswain Edward Wickham, of Wexford. Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, east (which meant a dead beat to wind- Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain ward to the stranded vessel), accom- from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from panied with heavy snow squalls and a 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver heavy sea. The passage was made to Medal of the Institution for gallantry, within a short distance of the vessel, has written the following account of his but at a point on the south side where first Life-boat service in 1885. the sand-bank jutted further into the channel than the surrounding banks, Eeading about the meritorious ser- the Life-boat missed stays and as there vices of the Kosslare Harbour Motor was not room to wear round, the anchor Life-boat in the winter of 1929-30, and was let go, but it failed to bring her up. the ceremony last year of naming Despite the efforts of the Crew she and blessing the splendidly equipped grounded and remained fast on a falling Cabin Motor Life-boat, has recalled to my tide, with the sea breaking over ier, mind services rendered over forty-six pounding her on the sands and drench- years ago, at the rescue of the passengers ing the Crew, who were in danger of being and crew from the s.s. Slaney, wrecked washed overboard. The intense cold on Wexford Bar on January 14th, 1885. and darkness added to their plight. It was my first experience of life-saving. This continued for about four hours, until the ebbing tide left the boat firmly The Two Life-boats at Rosslare Point. on the sands. About 4 a.m. on the At that time two Life-boats were 15th, the rising tide lifted her suffi- maintained at Rosslare Point (better ciently to enable her to float off the known as the Fort*), a large Life-boat, bank into the channel. Ethel Eveleen, kept afloat moored in the coal channel near the Point, and a The Second Life-boat Called Out. smaller one, Civil Service, kept in a By this time the wind and sea had house. Both were of the self-righting abated a little and it was thought type. The Ethel Eveleen was built of advisable to return to the Station and oak throughout, copper sheathed, and take out the Civil Service. The Ethel iron ballast on keel, and had two bilge Eveleen had been badly damaged, the keels. The sail plan was two lugs, the bolts of her bilge keels being broken and fore being a dipping one, which meant her hold full of water, but her air- when tacking that the sail had to be cases had kept her afloat. lowered and shifted round the mast At daybreak the Civil Service was and reset on the other side, a difficult, launched—after the Crew had had a awkward job on a dark night in a change of clothes and some food, which rough sea. they needed. She proceeded to the It was just after sunset on January Slaney and took off the passengers, a 14th that the Ethel Eveleen was got number of them being women and under way in response to signals of children ; then she took off the crew, and distress shown from the s.s. Slaney. put them all—thirty-three in number— It was blowing a strong gale from the on board a waiting tug, which landed them at Wexford. * The Fort was at the end of a promontory The service occupied from the evening or spit, several miles long, which formed a of the 14th until the evening of the 15th. natural breakwater to Wexford Harbour. The Slaney became a total wreck, and This was so badly breached by the sea in her remains are yet to be seen south of December, 1924, and January, 1925, that the Wexford Station had to be abandoned and the present bar. Of the men who the present Station at Rosslare Harbour was formed the Life-boat's Crew, only three established in place of it.—Ed. The Lifeboat. are now alive. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 287

The Value of a Life. No one can calculate the full value of boat. The launch cost the Institution a life saved, but in The Lifeboat for £25 in awards to the Coxswain and March, 1929, we published a calculation Crew. made by an Assurance Company which A few days later the Honorary showed the minimum value, that is to Secretary of the Station saw the father say, the cost of providing the dependents —a member of the local Sailing Club— of a man whose life had been lost. On who intimated that he would become an this calculation the value, solely from annual subscriber to the Institution for this point of view, varied, according to a substantial sum, as a lump sum pay- the man's age, from £923 to £1,648. ment would be inconvenient. He gave Some time ago we were presented with nothing to the Honorary Secretary, but quite another problem in the value of said he would call at the Head Office of lives, namely the difference in the value the Institution. He was neither seen of a life while in danger and a life when nor heard from, and after six weeks had it has been saved. The case happened passed, he was reminded of his promise in the South Coast. by letter. No reply was received, and Shortly after ten o'clock one night it nothing more has been heard of or from was reported that a small boat, with two one who, when his boy was in danger, boys on board was missing. They had was ready to pay all the expenses ! been out for over seven hours. The The Institution, of course, never news was brought by a friend of the makes any claim for lives rescued, boys, who said that the mother of one whether the rescued be millionaires or of them would pay all expenses. The fishermen. But, when offers of this Life-boat was launched, as it would kind are made voluntarily, it is, shall we have been in any case, but the boys say, disappointing, to find that, once the succeeded in getting ashore in their danger is past . . . !

Some Special Gifts. In Gratitude. From a Naval Theatrical Party. ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Through its Weymouth Branch, the Institu- Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the tion has received a gift of £53 from the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and theatrical company of H.M.S. Osprey, of the was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, anti-submarine flotilla at Portland. This with a rough sea, when the Peterhead Motor gift is the proceeds of the company's perform- Life-boat was launched early in the morning. ances of the play Berkeley Square. She stood by the steamer until five in the afternoon. She then took off eight men, and returned to the wreck, where the captain was From " Soldier and Sailor." still making efforts to keep the water in check. In answer to the House-to-House Appeal As the tide rose, these efforts had to be asking for a shilling, an anonymous donor, abandoned, and the remaining twenty-four- signing himself " Soldier and Sailor," writes : men on board were taken into the Life-boat. " You ask ' Will you give one.' I enclose The rest of the crew had been rescued by the twenty. I was once under the dear old ' Red Board of Trade's rocket apparatus. The Duster ' when it was upside down. [A signal Hall Line, which is a regular subscriber to of distress]. That was long before the day of the Institution, sent £20 to be divided among wireless." the Crew, who also received extra monetary awards from the Institution. From an Invalid. " Once more I send this contribution (one Chocolates and Biscuits. pound). I am only a propped-up affair now. Gifts of chocolate have again been received Yours respectfully, Mrs. ." from Messrs. Fry, Cadbury and Bowntree, and gifts of biscuits from Messrs. Huntley & In Memory. Palmer, Peek-Frean & Jacob. These firms, as their gift to the Institution, generously " I enclose a cheque for £2 2s. as a remem- keep it supplied with these emergency rations, brance to a very dear brother who was devoted which all Life-boats carry. to the sea and all belonging to it." 288 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. From a Woolwich School. " Readers of the Fishing News will remem- A boy of ten at Church Manorway L.C.C. ber a bet offered and taken last year between School, Woolwich, has sent five shillings from THE CHIPPER and OLD TIMER regarding the his class, which decided to make this gift probable price of a certain class of fish over the after listening to a talk on the Life-boats. latter half of the year. OLD TIMER, though still convinced his argument was right, has From Nyasaland. lost, and the stake, £1, has been forwarded to Through the Edinburgh Branch, the Institu- THE CHIPPER who, in turn, has asked the tion has received the following letter :— editor to hand it over to the funds of the " 6th January, 1931. On Sunday, we, the E.N.L.I. This has been done." Europeans of Zomba Church, had a collection for the Life-boat Institution. I am very glad "One Year's Halfpennies." to say that the five guineas of last year becomes A man came into the Institution's office just seven guineas now, for we added the Christmas before Christmas, left a wooden box, saying, collection to last Sunday's. It may be of " This may be of use," and went out without interest to know that we have now taken up a giving a name. The box was labelled " One Life-boat Collection five times, and the total Year's Halfpennies," and when opened was amount received has been £26 17s. 9rf., which iound to contain 392. is very good when you remember that the number of Europeans who come to a service is somewhere between 20 and 30." More Coins. As a result of a paragraph in the papers From a Pegity Club. about the " One Year's Halfpennies," a gift of An English lady in Portugal has sent ten a collection of Dominion coins came from shillings, saying, " Five shillings is my yearly Worcester. subscription and 5s. is a contribution from our ' Pegity Club.' A few of us meet weekly and Yet More Coins. play the game. As an incentive to good play Finally, a lady who had seen the paragraph the losers must contribute pennies to be in the Daily Mail, sent through that paper a funded for the Life-boat Service. Hope to be bag of holed coins, collected during the past able to contribute more at a later date from thirty years. The Institution's bank refused Pegity." to accept them since, being defaced, they were From a Fish Trade Bet. not legal tender, but, ultimately, they were The following paragraph appeared in the accepted by the Bank of England and the Fishing News in February :— Institution received £4 10«. 9d.

Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition, 1931. THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- was held, the number of schools which boat Essay Competition, was held this took part was 1,737. Thus, although the year for the eleventh time. As in the number taking part in the inter-school previous year, the Institution has pre- competition is 266 fewer than last year, sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 the fact that 617 more schools wrote individual awards, that is to say, a Life-boat essays has well justified the Challenge Shield and thirty-five indi- Institution's decision to award a Certifi- vidual awards for each of the eight cate to every school. districts into which Great Britain and London again comes first with 386 Ireland are divided for the purposes of schools, as compared with 363 (251 the Competition. entering for the inter-school competi- In addition to this, the Institution tion) . The South-East of England again has, for the first time, presented a comes second, with 358 schools, as Certificate to every school which took part, compared with 246 (250 entering for the to be awarded by the Headmaster or inter-school competition). The North - Headmistress to the writer of the best East of England is again third with 334 essay in the school. schools, as compared with 231 (192 The number of schools taking part in entering for the inter-school competi- the Competition was 2,354. Of these tion). The North-West of England is schools, 1,471 entered their essays for again fourth with 308, as compared with the inter-school competition. Last year, 215 (208 schools entering for the inter- when only the inter-school competition school competition); and the Midlands JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 289 are again fifth with 301, as compared evident, with any very clear idea of with 201 (200 entering for the inter- what they meant. On the other hand, school competition). Ireland and Wales one essayist, in describing a Life-boat (including Shropshire and Herefordshire) at sea, went straight to his own know- which were eighth last year, are sixth ledge for a simile : "It needs men of with 265 schools, as compared with 165 courage to go out in a small, fragile (153 entering for the inter-school com- craft to be tossed about like a cork in petition). Scotland is again seventh a bath." with 237, as compared with 184 (165 The main criticism made was that schools entering for the inter-school many excellent essays were written competition) ; and the South-West of which did not really deal with the England has fallen from sixth to eighth subject. There was no doubt about with 165, as compared with 184 (110 the essayists' admiration for the Life- schools entering for the inter-school boatman. This was well expressed in competition). a great variety of ways. But many Thus in every district except the essayists were content to express this South-West there has been a substantial admiration, without advancing any increase in the number of schools taking reasons for considering the Life-boatman part in the competition, although in only a hero among heroes. The essayists as one district, the South-East, is the a whole, however, drew up a very number entering for the inter-school comprehensive list of other heroes with competition larger than last year's whom to compare him. It included, of number. course, the inevitable comparison with The Essays. soldiers, but it was noticeable that the The subject set was : " There are essayists looked to the achievements of thousands of brave men. Why do you peace rather than of war to find examples look upon the Life-boatman as a hero of heroism. These heroes of peace among them ? " included airmen, explorers, miners, doc- As a general description of the essays, tors, big-game hunters, ambulance men, we cannot do better than quote from firemen and motorists. the judge in two of the districts : " The essays were very well done on The Pedestrian as Hero. the whole, and it was difficult to choose Even the pedestrian figures in this only 35 from among many of almost list. In one of the most original and equal merit. The best essays were closely-reasoned of the essays, the writer varied—some quite original. All showed took as the basis of his comparison the that the children had been carefully heroism of " the pedestrian, the ordinary taught. Even in the poorer essays the man in the street." " Swift motor-cars," facts given were usually correct, al- he pointed out, "have to be eluded, though the matter might be irrelevant and he who escapes being hurt by these to the question set. In some cases a land monsters is a brave man and a story was used to illustrate the heroism hero." But, as he justly points out, of the Life-boatmen. One girl used the " the land does not move." " Imagine form of dialogue. One boy described what it would be like if a comparatively himself as a descendant of a Coxswain small car braved its way through a who died in an attempt to rescue a storm, which heaved the paving-blocks shipwrecked crew; another was the up all around. . . . On land a cart grandson of a Life-boatman who was cannot sink under the roadway, but a lost. . . . The dramatic instinct was vessel can easily sink under the sea." very strong in some of the writers. Another essayist made a clear and Quotations used were also very varied, just contrast between the firemen and being drawn from the Bible, Conrad, the Life-boatmen. " A fireman is also Kipling, Longfellow, Masefield, Shake- a hero, and has work similar to that of speare and Tennyson." a Life-boatman, but there is one Another judge commented on the use difference, he fights against the elements of florid expressions, not always, as was on firm soil, and is urged to heroic acts 290 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. by the cheers of the crowd that usually by the neck and thrown into the sea gathers when there is a fire, but the once or twice to see what life in the Life-boatman has land only fathoms deep is like." A little severe, perhaps; below him." but showing the right spirit. Poets and Prime Ministers. The "Lion of the Storm." The fact that the Life-boatmen, As a final tribute of the admiration though rewarded for every service, is a of the children of Great Britain and volunteer, drawing no pay, impressed Ireland for the Life-boatman, we will several essayists, one of whom compared quote from four essays. him to his advantage with a finely- " The Life-boatman stands among the assorted list of salary-earners. " Other world's heroes an awe-inspiring figure— men, such as soldiers, poets, kings and the symbol of courage, determination Prime Ministers are mostly educated and physical fitness, not a figure of and paid for their work. The Life- self-love and greediness." boatman is merely a simple fisherman " Just as the lion is the King of who devotes his life (without being paid Beasts, so the Life-boatman ought to wages) to the rescue of the needy." We be called the King of Heroes." like the idea of a school full of budding " The Life-boatman is the Lion of Prime Ministers. the Storm." The heroism of getting up in the " So let us say ' Hats off' to this middle of the night has again impressed brave and golden-hearted person—the a number of essayists. " I consider him Life-boatman." a hero because he considers it part of his daily work to go out at night." (No: The Best Essay in Great Britain and Ireland. This does not hail from Erin). " The Among the eight essays which won the Life-boatman is often called out in the Challenge Shields, there was none of night, which would annoy most people." outstanding merit, but the judges had And again, " Would we get up on a wet no hesitation in awarding the prize for or cold night and take to open boat the best essay in Great Britain and cruising ? Not likely ! " There is no Ireland to Theresa Keaney of Our doubt, too, that the essayist who wrote, Lady's Girls' School, Cavendish Street, " He gets up and dresses in no end of Birkenhead. time " was intending a well-deserved The Winning Schools. tribute to the way in which the Crews turn out in answer to the call. Theresa Keaney has at the same time won the Challenge Shield for her school, "Nice Ruddy Cheeks." which has now won it for the second Several essayists attempted sketches year running. In the Midlands the of the Life-boatman. " He is a strong, Spon Street Boys' School, Coventry, bold, fearless, hefty, broad-shouldered has performed the same feat. If these man with a rough skin." " The Life- schools succeed in winning the Shields boatman is a humble fisherman who, next year they will retain possession of though he has a rough exterior has a them. In the North-West the Demesne heart of gold." " Tough-looking fellows Eoad Boys' School, of Douglas, Isle of with strong hearts and sinewy hands." Man, has again been very successful. " His appearance is always a healthy In 1929 it won the Shield, and last year one, nice ruddy cheeks and hard and this year it has been second. muscles." Liverpool schools have also been very successful. Of the thirty-five prize- A Short Way with the Ungrateful. winners in the North-West no fewer Another essayist boiled with indigna- than twelve come from Liverpool. tion towards those who forget the Life- &toke-on-Trent has been only less boatman and his heroism. " Men who successful in the Midlands, where it has would tremble at the sight of a wave seven winners. In London the Shield touching1 their feet. Cowards they are, has been won for the first time by a some of them. They want to be taken Willesden school, in the North-East of JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 291

By courtesy of I ; [The Weekly Telegraph. THE STORY OF THE LIFE-BOAT. 292 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

England for the first time by a Shields ordinary edition of " Britain's Life- school, and in the South-West of England boats " and a Certificate. The remain- for the first time by a Gosport school. In ing 271 boys and girls in the lists will Scotland a Kilmarnock school has won each be presented with a Certificate. it for the first time, and the Orkney The name of the winner in each district schools have again been very successful, will be inscribed on the District Challenge no fewer than five being among the Shield, and the School will hold the prize-winners. In Ireland and Wales Shield for a year. Each of these eight the Shield has been won by the schools will also receive, as a permanent Abersychan Council School. This is the record of its success, a copy of the first time that it has been won by a Certificate awarded to the pupil. school in Monmouthshire, and for the Each prize-winner will also receive a third year running the Irish and Welsh second Certificate, awarded to the writer Shield goes to Wales. of the best essay in his or her school, and the same Certificate will be awarded to Honours Divided between Boys and all the others who entered for the inter- Girls. school Competition. The honours are again fairly evenly divided between boys and girls. Of Our Thanks to the Teachers. the eight Challenge Shields six have The Institution wishes very gratefully been won by boys, and only two by to acknowledge the help of the Educa- girls, but the best essay of all comes tion Authorities, not only in giving from a girl; and of the 280 prize- permission for the Competition to be winners, 152 are girls and 128 are boys. held, but in many cases circulating the particulars and drawing attention The Awards. to it in other ways. To the teachers Theresa Keaney, as the writer of the also the Institution offers its warmest best essay, will be presented with a copy thanks, for without their cordial co- of the five-guinea edition of " Britain's operation the Competition would be Life-boats," by Major A. J. Dawson, impossible. signed by the Prince of Wales. Each of Below will be found the complete list the other seven who head the lists for of prize-winners, followed by the best the Districts will receive a copy of the essay.

List of Successes in the Essay Competition. London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).

Name. Age. School.

William Bennett 10t Keble Memorial School, Crownhill Road, Willesden, N.W. 10. Freda Shine 13 The Craven Park Senior Mixed School, Castlewood Road, Stamford Hill, N. 16. Thomas Gover . 12 Warple Way L.G.C. Boys' School, Wandsworth, S.W. 18. Maureen Conway 11 Franciscan Road Girls' School, Tooting, S.W. 17. John Battley . 10J Allfarthing Lane School, Wandsworth, S.W. 18. James Henry . 9J St. Joseph's Boys' School, Highgate Hill, N. 19. John Gladding . 14 Lordship Lane Boys' School, Wood Green, N. 22. Margaret Figg • 14J Southwark Central School, West Square, St. George's Road, S.E. 11. Edgar Busby . 14 Alexandra Orphanage, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, N.W. 3. Diana Abbott . 12* Trinity School, Harrow Road, Paddingtoii, W. 2. Edward Holloway 13 St. Peter's Boys' School, New Road, Woolwich, S.E. 8. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 293 LIST OF SUCCESSES— LONDON DISTRICT— continued.

Name. Age. School.

S. J. Austin .... 10* Brownhill Road, Junior Mixed School, Catford, S.E. 6. Nelly Crookes .... 12 Alexandra Orphanage, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, N.W. 3. Beatrice Whiffen . 10J Randall Place School, Roan Street, Greenwich, S.E. 10. Richard Anderson 14 SS. Mary and Joseph's School, Wade's Place, Poplar, E. 14. Rosina Malton .... 14f St. Barnabas School, Plough Road, S.E. 16. 14} North Harringay Girls' School, Falkland Road, N. 8. Nellie Harper .... 14 Silwood Street Girls' School, Rotherhithe, S.E. 16. Joan McLay .... 13 St. Luke's Girls' School, Markham Street, Chelsea, S.W. 3. Edith Atkins .... 13} St. Stephen's Church of England School, Jerrard Street, Lewisham, S.E. 13. Joan F. Lewer .... 13J The Stockwell Church of England Mixed School, Lingham Street, Stockwell, S.W. 9. Eileen Weston .... 14 Caledonian Road Girls' School, Holloway, W. 7. Alfred Fildes .... 13f St. Paul's School, Broke Road, Dalston, E. 8. Edna Neale .... 13t Emmanuel Girls' and Infants' School, Mill Lane, N.W. 6. Kenneth Wilson iot St. John's Boys' School, Upper Holloway, N. 10. B. Abrahams .... 13J Deal Street School, Whitechapel, E. 1. Bertha Friedman . 13 Glyn Road Girls' School, Clapton, E. 5. W. F. R. Archer . . . 13} The Beckford Boys' School,MillLane,Hampstead,N.W. 6. C Daniell 13* Franciscan Road L.C.C. Boys' School, S.W. 17. Violet Goodey .... 13 Holy Trinity Central School, Russell Place, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. 1. Bessie Gutteridge . 14 The Lavender Hill School, Amies Street, Battersea, S.W. 1 1 . Leonard C. Delahunty 14 Battersea Boys' Central School, Surrey Lane, S.W. 11. Anthony S. Kearey 10} The Ravenstone School, Ravenstone Street, S.W. 12. Renee Goodman 13} Myrdle Street School, Mile End, E.I. A Mann ... 14* Thomas Street Central Boys' School, Limehouse, E. 14.

NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Ernest Gibson .... 124 Western Council School, Penman Street, North Shields. Eileen Fitzgerald . 14 Maltby Hall Girls' School, Maltby, Rotherham. George Hayward . Hi Richmond Wesleyan School, Richmond. John Dyson .... 13* Ashton Road Council School, Senior Boys' Dept., Castle- ford. Tom'Hunter .... 14 Hemsworth South Road Council School, Hemsworth, Nr. Pontefract. Charles Hutchinson 14 Belle Vue Road Boys' School, Leeds. Jack Smith 14 Old Silksworth Village School, Old Silksworth Village, Sunderland. Marguarite Fitchett 13* Bowers Allerton Council School, Woodlesford, Nr. Leeds. Robert V. Robinson . 1*4 Galley's Field Boys' School, Hartlepool. Margaret Overton . 14 Grenoside Council School, Nr. Sheffield. Constance Davison 11 Tankersley Girls' School, Nr. Barnsley. Beatrice Roberts . 12* Oswin Avenue Senior Girls' School, Doncaster. Robert Smith .... 14 Tynemouth Christ Church Church of England Boys' School, Albion Road, North Shields. R Hunter 13 Denmark Street Boys' School, Middlesbrough. Frances Armstrong 13* Low Prudhoe Council School, Prudhoe Station, Northum- berland. Lillian Newham 13i Girls' Council School, Goldthorpe, Nr. Rotherham. Betty Williams . . . . . 13* Ryhope Street Mixed Senior School, Ryhope, Durham. Rhoda Tait .... 11 Bedlington Station Council School, Bedlington, North- umberland. Hugh Green .... 12* Blue Coat School, Sheffield. John Lidster .... 14 St. Thomas' Senior School, Longwestgate, Scarborough. Ralph Kusling .... 13* Braithwell Council School, Kotherham. 294 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. LIST OF SUCCESSES— NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND— continued.

Name. Age. School.

Cyril Wallis lit2 Eston Senior School, Eston, Yorks. Archibald Cruickshank 14* The Mixed School, Cawthorne, Nr. Barnsley. Arthur Highaeld . . . 13 St. Bede's Roman Catholic School, Bedlington, North- umberland. Margaret Latto 12 Great Ouseburn Council School, Great Ouseburn, near York. Florence Walker . 13 Garforth Parochial School, Garforth, Leeds. George H. Beveridge . 13 Council School, High Felling, Felling-on-Tyne. Hannah Cowen. 13 Church of England Girls' School, Brotton. Walter Smithwhite . . 14* Mortimer Road Boys' School, Mortimer Road, South Shields. Florence Christen . . 14 Denmark Street Girls' School, Middlesbrough. Eric Etheridge .... 12 Wombwell Jump Council School, near Barnsley. Irene Hodgson .... 14 Cawood Church of England School, Cawood, near Selby. Marion Knight 13 Church of England School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield. Thomas Oughton . 13 Greenside Council School, Ryton-on-Tyne. Mildred Bower .... 14 Holmfirth Council School, Holmfirth.

NORTH-WEST OF ENGLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Theresa Keaney 13} Our Lady's Girls' School, Birkenhead. Albert Stanley Kelly . . 14* Demesne Road School, Douglas, Isle of Man. Cyril Stollard . ... 14} St. Margaret's Central School, Anfield, Liverpool. Margaret Jump , 14 Linacre Central School, Southport. Mary Isabel Pugh . 13| Central Girls' School, Egremont, Cumberland. Margaret Moughtin 13} The Cloth workers' School, Peel, Isle of Man. James Lindley .... .13} Sussex Street Council School, Salford. S. Baybut .... 13 Walton Lane Council School, Liverpool. George Parker .... 13* St. Augustine's Council School, Everton, Liverpool. Will Kelly 144J Rushden School, Four Roads, Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. John Murray .... 13 Roscommon Street Council School, Liverpool. Mabel Stuart .... 14* Central Girls' School, Workington, Cumberland. Kenneth Jones 13} Rock Ferry Council School, Birkenhead. Annie Brundrett . 14* Chancel Lane Church of England School, Wilmslow, Cheshire. May Farrington 13} Mulberry Street Girls' School, Hulme, Manchester. Ruth Litchfield . . . 14} Macclesfield Girls' Central School. Olive Lumsdeu .... 14 St. Paul's School, Hyde, Cheshire. Thomas Glen .... 14 Thwaites School, Murton, Appleby, Westmorland. Leonard Heapy 12 St. George's School, Macclesfield. Louis Walters .... iii Pleasant Street Council School, Liverpool. Thomas O. Rigby . . . 13} St. Anne's Church of England School, Stanley, Liverpool. Bernard Danks .... 14 Aspen Grove School, Liverpool. Robert Stockdale . 13 St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic School, Walton, Liverpool. Edith R. I. Cowell . . 13 St. Thomas' Church of England School, Douglas, Isle of Man. Doris May Ray. 13 Christ Church Girls' School, Waterloo, near Liverpool. Joseph Swift .... 13* Crank Hill Church of England School, Rainf ord, St. Helens. Alan Clarke . . . 13 Alder Grange Council School, Rawtenstall. Frank Phillips .... 14 Park Hill Church of England School, Dingle, Liverpool, South. Christopher J. Murphy 14} Clint Road Council School, Liverpool. Gwendoline Newton . 13| St. Thomas' Girls' School, Seaforth, near Liverpool. Irene Blomeley. 13 Rhodes Council School, Rhodes, near Manchester. Dudley, Galliard . . . 14} Central School, Crewe, Cheshire. Clive Benson .... 11* Rainford Church of England School, St. Helens. Harold Beardsworth . 13 School Lane Church of England School, Bamber Bridge. Harry Welding .... 14 Council School, Skelmersdale, Lanes. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 295 LIST OF SUCCESSES— continued. MIDLANDS.

Name. Age. School.

Thomas Chattaway 13J Spon Street Boys' School, Coventry. Sydney Maehin 13J High Street Senior Boys' School, Tunstall,Stoke-on-Trent. Marguerite L. Hann . 13J St. Mary Redcliffe Girls' School, Bristol. William Thompson 12J Eckington Camm's Endowed School, Eckington. Stanley Douglas 13J St. John's Boys' Church of England School, Grimsby. Eric Buckley .... 12f Beauvale Boys' School, Newthorpe, Notts. Herbert Gray .... 12J Hotwells Boys' Council School, Bristol. Maisie Capper .... 134 Wolstanton Girls' Church of England School, Stoke-on- Trent. Tilly Parkes .... 114 Whitehall Junior Mixed School, Walsall. Jack Pugh 13 Market Street Boys' School, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Eva Goble . 13J Blue Coat School, Birmingham. E'na Raby 144 Blue Coat Girls' School, Walsall. Irene Kennell .... 13i St. John's School, Ripley, Derbyshire. Matilda Endsor 134 Burlington Street Senior Girls' School, Aston, Birmingham. Ida Wass 14 South Normanton Girls' School, Derbyshire. John Madeley 13J Chell Boys' Council School, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. Hazel Wallace .... 11 Hillary Street Junior School, Pleck, Walsall. Albert Softley .... 13 St. Nicholas with St. Leonards School, Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol. Barbara Cobb .... 14 Hotwells Girls' Council School, Bristol . William Garland . 13 Parson Street Senior Mixed School, Bedminster, Bristol. Jvv Kave 13J Stoke Council School, Coventry. Maisie Holmes .... 14 Ashover Council School, near Chesterfield. 13J Dronfield Council School, Derbyshire. Zebedee Atkin .... 13f Willoughby Church of England School, Alford, Lines. Phineas Emery .... 12J Chilvers Coton Council School, Nuneaton. 13f Cheylesmore Senior Girls' School, Coventry. Harry Goodall .... 13 Brampton Boys' School, Chesterfield. Florence Shenton . 13 St. James' Girls' School, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. 13J Sladefield Road Council School, Ward End, Birmingham. Betty Bowles .... 13 Wick Road Girls' School, Brislington, Bristol. Phoebe Beech .... 13 St. Paul's School, Mount Pleasant, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Violet Eardley .... 13J Hanford Church of England School, Stoke-on-Trent. Eva Latham .... 13| Alfreton Church of England Senior School, Alfreton,- Derbyshire. Joan Barker .... 9| Chuckery Junior School, Walsall, Staffs. George Spencer .... 13J Middleton-by-Wirksworth Church of England School, Middleton, near Derby.

SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Frederick Tombs . 14 Winns Avenue Boys' School, Walthamstow. Vera Louise Scott . 14J Childerley Gate Girls' School, Cambridge. Jf>an Gilbert .... 14J Barnet County Council School, Byng Road, Barnet. Robert Wallace . . . 12J Lexden Council School, Colchester. Cyrus Copus 13i Rectory Manor Boys' School, Mitcham Road, W. Croydon. Ifeonard Chas. Emerson . 14 Thomas Gray Council School, Slough, Bucks. Olive Joan Pointer 13i Castle Rising School, King's Lynn, Norfolk. W. Wisbey 13J St. PauL's School, Maryland Road, Stratford, E. 15. F-rank S. Watson . 14 The Essex Senior School, Manor Park, East Ham. Aubrey Walker 12 Chilton Church of England School, near Thame, Oxon. Dorothy Chapman . 14J Sheerness Church of England Girls' School, Sheerness. Elsie Bing 134 Council School, Broadstairs, Kent. Doris Helmke .... 13J The Beulah Girls' School, Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. John Holloway .... 10i Marian Vine School, Elmers End, Beckenham. 13* Central Girls' School, Ipswich. Daisy Watling .... 144 Brame and Oakley School, Eye, Suffolk. "*"• Victor Bryant .... 14J Central School, Melton Constable, Norfolk. 296 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. LIST OF SUCCESSES—SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND— continued.

Name. Age. School.

Doris Butcher .... 144 Leiston Council School, E. Suffolk. George Turf rey. 14 New City Road Council School, Plaistow, E. 15. Marjory Judd .... 13 Christchurch Road Girls' School, Ilford, Essex. Jeanne Barrett .... 144 The Davidson Girls' School, Davidson Road, Croydou. Joan Rowat .... 14 St. Luke's Senior Girls' School, Elm Road, Kingston-on- Thames. Olive Mary Rudd . 13 Church Road Girls' Council School, Lowestoft. Hazel Thorpe .... 104 Christ Church Junior School, Redoubt Road, Eastbourne. Marjorie Skilton 13J The Elmwood Girls' School, Lodge Road, W. Croydon. 144 Holmesdale British School, Reigate. Grace Watson .... 13J Lydd Council School, Lydd, Kent. Annie M. Smith 14 Nacton Voluntary School, near Ipswich, Suffolk. 13J4 Kirby Bedon and Bramerton School, Norfolk. Olive L. Montgomery . 13 The Ingram Girls' School, Springfield Road, Thornton Heath. Frances Knight 14 St. Joachim's School, Throckmorten Road, Custom House, E.16. Winnie Bates .... 14| Manor Park Senior School, Nuneaton . William Clark .... 104 Winns Avenue Junior Mixed School, Walthamstow, E. 17. Edward Plummer . 13 Cringleford School, Norwich. Norman Torrington 134 St. Saviour's Boys' School, Walthamstow.

SOUTH-WEST OF ENGLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Jack Smith .... 134 Clarence Square Senior School, Gosport, Hants. Josephine Barker . . 124 The Council School, Chieveley, near Newbury, Berks. Ruby Evelyn. Eggleton. 13f St. John. Baptist Church, of England Girls' School, Frome, Somerset. Phyllis Saunders . 14J East End Girls' School, Redan Hill, Aldershot. Ralph Bagley .... 14 Drayton Road Boys' Council School, Portsmouth. Warren Cocking 13 St. Ives Boys' School, St. Ives, Cornwall. John Victor Miles . . 10 Dauntsey's Mixed School, West Lavington, Devizes. Nellie Pearce .... 134 The Circus Girls' Church School, Portsmouth. Cecil Douglas Bosley . 134 Council School, Thatcham, Berks. Winifred Pratt . . . 134 Lyndhurst Road Girl's School, North End, Portsmouth. Dennis Tebby .... 10J Church of England School, Tattendon, near Newbury, Berks. Eileen Marshall .... 14 Foundry Lane Girls' School, Southampton. Reginald Harvey . 13 St. Luke's Boys' School, Portsmouth. Charles E. Easton. . 14 New Road Boys' School, Portsmouth. Margaret Allen 134 Walcot Senior Girls' School, Walcot Street, Bath. Ernest Arthur Toms . 134 Oldfield Senior Boys' School, Bath. Cyril Albert Trout . . 10 Mount Street Junior School, Plymouth. Douglas Bedding . . 14 Allington Church of England School, Bridport, Dorset. Arthur Benoke .... 12J Blue Coat Senior Boys' School, Barnstaple. John H. Parkman . 144 Ashleigh Road Senior School, Barnstaple. Joseph Pink .... 13 Alverstoke School, Gosport. Ruby Mansbridge . 14 St. Denys Girls' School, Southampton. William Gale .... 11 Milton Council School, Portsmouth. Elsie Goady .... 13i Looe Girls' and Infants' School, Looe, Cornwall . Constance Gilkes . 134 St. Leonard's Church of England School, Banbury, Oxon. Kathleen Annie Ross . 13f Holy Trinity School, Taunton, Somerset. 13 Francis Avenue Senior School, Southsea, Hampshire. Nora Glasson .... 13J Queen's Council Mixed School, Fraddon, Cornwall. Jessie Crandon 1*4 Church of England School, Lympsham, Weston-supsr- Mare. 13 Copnor Road Girls' School, Portsmouth. Arthur Goodman . 144 Highland Road Senior School, Southsea. S. J. Hill-Bailey . . . 114 Hayle Penpol Council School, Cornwall. Ivy Fisher 14| Church of England Senior Girls' School, Clevedon, Somerset. Ronald John Toogood 14 St. Agatha Boys' School, Landport, Portsmouth. 11 Copnor Road Boys' School, Portsmouth. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 297 LIST OF SUCCESSES— continued. SCOTLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Teresa Brennan 13 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School, Kilmarnock. lot Bellsquarry Public School, West Calder, Midlothian. John Waters .... 13 Catholic School, Buccleuch Street, Hawick. Douglas A. Scott . 14J West End School, Elgin. Janet Kirkpatrick . 13i Brims Public School, Longhope, Orkney. Hannah P. Harrison . 14} Lamington Public School, Lanarkshire. Robert Smith .... 13 St. Cuthbert's Roman Catholic School, Burn bank, Lanark- shire. Tom Cunningham . 14 Dundyvan Public School, Coat bridge. Alexander MacDonald 14 Farr Public School, Bettyhill, Thurso. 14 Wamphray Public School, Dumfriesshire. Catriona M. Lowe . 14f Tobermory Higher Grade School, Isle of Mull. Morag MacEachern 10} Earraid School, Fionphort, Isle of Mull. Jessie Ann Groat . 13 Papa Westray Public School, Orkney. Marjory V. Morrison . 14 Crudie Public School, by Turriff, Aberdeenshire. Margaret West 13 Crimond Public School, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire. Annie Archibald 13} Catrine Public School, Ayrshire. Annie M. B. Littlejohn 14} Tarland Public School, Aberdeenshire. Ethel Home .... 14} Dunkeld-Birnam Royal School, Dunkeld. Catherine Jack .... 13 St. Cuthbert's Catholic School, Kirkcudbright. Samuel Fairgrieve . 11 Dunnikier School, Kirkcaldy. Georgina M. Eunson . 13i Stronsay Central Public School, Orkney. Mary A. Alexander 14* West Public School, Holm, Orkney. Elsie S. McKay . . . 13} Towie Public School, Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire. 13J St. Cyrus Public School, Montrose. Flora S. Mackenzie Hi Knockrome Public School, Isle of Jura. Ruby MacRae .... Hi Foyers Public School, Inverness. William G. Gardiner . 13J Doune School, Perthshire. Martha Lyle .... 12 Longniddry Public School, East Lothian. Janet Boyle .... 12 St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Public School, Langloan, Coat bridge. Margaret McGregor 13t Glen Shira School, Inveraray, Argyllshire. John C. Fraser 13} Rendall Public School, Orkney. Adamina M. Manson . 12i Quarff Public School, Lerwick, Shetland. John MeNair .... 14 Strachur Public School, Strachur, Argyllshire. Mary McKeeman . 13J Torryburn Public School, Torryburn, Dunfermline. James Mclntosh 12 St. Clement Street School, Aberdeen.

11RELAND AND WALES (iicluding Shropshire and Herefordshire).

Name. Age. School.

Raymond Hill .... 14 Abersychan Council School, Abersychan, Mon. Margaret Tiley 11 Lakefield Girls' School, Llanelly. Michael Joseph Healy . 14i The Courtenay School, Newcastle West. Lilian Rachael Barton 13 Corporation Road Girls' School, Newport, Mon. Doris Wilson .... 12 Mjltown National School, Belturbet, Cavan. Teddy Power .... 12i Butlerstown National School, Waterford. Patrick Dennedy . 13 Knockminna National School, Bally mote, Co. Sligo. Nesta Phillips .... 10} Brynmill Girls' School, Swansea. 144 Sketty Council School, Swansea. Mollie Mercer .... 13} Skeogh Public Elementary School, Dromara, Co. Down. William McAvoy . l*i Christian Brothers School, Oxford Street, Belfast. Wesley Patterson . 14 Killynure Public Elementary School, Carryduff, Belfast. Peter Lloyd 11 Barn Street Council School, Haverfordwest. Edith Tanahill .... 12i The Model School, Coleraine, Co. Derry. Stanley Towell . . . 14 Thomas Public Elementary School, Portadown, Co, Armagh. Wilma Laverty 14 Strand Road Public Elementary School, Londonderry. Amy Chambers 13J Rockvale Public Elementary School, Newry, Co. Down. Donald Livingstone . 14 Mooncoin Boys' National School, Waterford. 298 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. LIST OF SUCCESSES—IRELAND AND WALES—continued.

Name. Age. School.

Margaret Ellen Reynolds . 12 Jenner Park Girls' School, Barry, Glamorgan. Joan Eileen Bate . 14 Victoria Girls' School, Penarth, Glamorgan. Violet Hutchinson . 14 Wood Street Girls' School, Cardiff. Margretta Jones Oystermouth Church of England School, Mumbles, Glamorgan. Ivy Lewis 14 Senior Girls' School, Treherbert, South Wales. Willie Tudor . . . . 10J Pantglas Boys' School, Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. Lorna Yearling. 12 Ninian Park Girls' School, Cardiff. Dennis Albert Jordan 11 Corporation Road Boys' School, Newport, Mon. Walter Sharp . . . . 14 Newton Council School, Pontrilas, Hereford. Nancy Griffiths. . . . 13 Gendros School, Fforestfach, Swansea. Edgar Jones . 12f Boys' School, Trealaw, Rhondda. Percy Rees 14 Brynhyfryd Council School, Briton Ferry. Maisie George . . . . 14 Girls' Church of England School, Whitchurch, Salop. Vera Harris 14 Severn Road Girls' School, Cardiff. Brenda Goodfellow 13f High Ercall Council School, Wellington. Susan Murtagh. . . . 13J Clough Public Elementary School, Co. Down. Elsie Mercer . . . . 14 Minterburn Public Elementary School, Caledon, Co. Tyrone.

The Best Essay. By THERESA KEANEY (aged 13f), of Our Lady's Girls' School, Cavendish Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire. THERE are thousands of brave men. Why do humanity and lookers-on, who recognise and you look upon the Life-boatman as a hero appraise true courage for : among them ? Hero ! what does this word suggest ? A " Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, man of distinguished courage, moral and Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, physical. History furnishes many examples Our hearts in glad surprise, in every walk of life—soldier, sailor, miner, To higher levels rise." explorer, scientist, fireman, etc., but elevated Other heroes are usually drilled in their above all, I place the Life-boatman, because of skill, while the Life-boatman is usually a poor, his eminent bravery. hardworking fisherman accustomed to calm Heroes on land have some chance of escaping and stormy seas, and using his knowledge to danger for there is usually some aid nigh, but do extra work to benefit others. on the sea, no help is near for the Life-boatman The Life-boatman shows bravery on wild —he is " all in " for it. and stormy nights, by leaving comfort, helping A Life-boatman's courage is of both a moral to launch the Life-boat, and sailing on a and a physical nature. He has no thought of billowy sea to the wreck to save lives, ship's personal danger, but is all intent on rendering and cargo. Not many brave men even would service to others even though it mean super- risk their lives voluntarily on the sea. human effort and self-sacrifice. He may No feeling of pride, or thought of future well be described as a demi-god coming closer honour or glory prompts such heroic work, but in his loving work for humanity to the example a humane idea of the misery and panic of of Him Who stilled the storm on the Sea of people on board the doomed ship. A grim, Galilee, and so aided those in peril on it, than fierce battle ensues between the Life-boatman any other type of hero. Few there are who and the sea, which would claim and bury possess both kinds of courage in the same many beneath its rough surface but for the degree as a Life-boatman. Nature tells him, promptitude with which the Life-boatman " Look after yourself ! think of your loved acts. ones—their anguish of mind and you the Among brave men, the Life-boatman is a cause—their future when you, their bread- hero, because all his brave actions are prompted winner, shall be, perhaps, taken from them by the sole thought of being humane and self- through being too eager to help others, and sacrificing. When most men have retired from moral courage has to do battle with these their life's work—he is still animated with the temptations, and wins. He is not compelled desire to devote his time to the service of to take such risks, is not paid for it—it is not others. Such a one must have much goodness even his living, but, being a genuine hero, he in his nature. Love of pleasure, luxury, easy puts self in the background—another noble living, are banned by this reliant character, deed is recorded in the Book of Life, the who would make our land a country for Recording Angel rejoices—so do suffering " heroes " to live in. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 299

A School Lecture on the Life-boats. THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat " To-day they wrote the essay and Service will, we think, be interested in also copied in pencil a coloured diagram the following account from a school- sketch showing the interior of the master at Willesden of a lecture which Barnett Twin-screw Motor Life-boat, he gave after distributing the illustrated which I drew large size on the black- leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat board. As I inserted a number Stations and pictures of wrecks, Life- of match-stick men, the drawing boats and Life-boatmen and women :— was much appreciated—various arrows " My boys were delighted with their were inserted and the various parts leaflets. I watched their faces as they named. read silently and intensively. " The boys offered halfpence to help " Then I grouped them around the defray your postage, etc. I enclose blackboard, on which was pinned the stamps to value of Is. 6of. I should like chart of Life-boat Stations of the British a receipt to show them. We all thank Isles. Here the ' History ' was shown you for giving us something out of the to them. ordinary."

Obituary. Sir Charles H. Wilson, LL.D, F.S.A.A., one of its oldest Station Honorary of Leeds. Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, great lover of the sea. He had been a at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles keen yachtsman, had served on the Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee, and its Leeds Branch, the Institution has for forty-five years was a Station lost one of the most distinguished of its Honorary Secretary, first of Penzance honorary workers. In spite of his and Sennen Cove, then, from 1908 to many other interests and activities, as 1913, of Penzance, Newlyn and Sennen a business man and politician, Sir Cove, and, since 1913, of Sennen Cove Charles Wilson took a close and personal only. In spite of his many municipal interest in the work of the Leeds Branch, and public duties both as Town Clerk and his help, experience and great and in the other offices he held, Colonel influence were always at its service. He Cornish found time to take a very was a devoted friend of the Life-boat active part in the work of the Life- cause for over thirty years. For a boat Stations, and during his years of number of years he was the Honorary office they rescued 285 lives. Colonel Secrefary of the Leeds Life-boat Cornish was a man of great influence Saturday Fund. When that Fund was and wide popularity, and the Institu- taken over by the Institution in 1911 he tion was very fortunate in having him became a member of the committee of as its Honorary Secretary at these the Leeds Branch, and in 1929 he was important Stations. He received three elected Chairman. During his Chair- awards from the Institution as marks manship Leeds contributed over £8,250 of its gratitude and appreciation—in to the Institution. Last October Sir 1896 Inscribed Binoculars, in 1907 the Charles Wilson was appointed an Honor- Institution's Decoration, and in 1913 ary Life-Governor, the highest distinc- the Gold Cross. The last two awards tion which the Institution can confer on are now no longer made, having been an honorary worker. replaced by the Gold Badge and the Honorary Life-Governorship. Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance. By the death on 22nd December, Coxswain William Johnston, of 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel . Stromness. T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Coxswain William Johnston, of Penzance, the Institution has lost Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

February last, at the age of sixty-five. when he showed perfect judgment and He had retired only five months before seamanship in taking the Life-boat right on account of ill health. Appointed among the reefs and breakers. These Coxswain in 1915, he was twice awarded were only two of many fine services in the Bronze Medal of the Institution for which he was in command. Two of gallantry. He won it first in 1922 the last were in March and April, 1930, when, on 16th January of that year, the when the Stromness Life-boat travelled Stromness Motor Life-boat rescued from 260 miles out and home in a gallant a raft the two survivors of the Grimsby attempt to rescue the crew of the trawler, Freesia, only a few minutes trawler Ben Doran, wrecked on the west before they would have been carried to of the Shetlands; and then, only nine certain death. On that service the days later, travelled 240 miles out and Life-boat was out for nine hours, home to the help of the s.s. St. Sunniva, travelling 50 miles on a lee shore, con- wrecked on the east of the Shetlands. tinually swept by heavy seas; and That first journey, made in the worst con- during the nine hours Coxswain John- ditions of weather, is the longest journey ston did not leave the wheel. The ever made by a Motor Life-boat on second Service Clasp to his Medal was service. Altogether, during Coxswain awarded to him for the rescue of the Johnston's Coxswainship, the Stromness crew of another Grimsby trawler, Motor Life-boat was launched on service Carmania II, on 14th February, 1929, 56 times and rescued 131 lives.

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat To WILLIAM H. BAKER, who served for Station the following awards were made :— 11J years as Coxswain, and previously 24} years as a member of the Crew, a Cox- To FREDERICK J. KINO, who served for 5J swain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension. years as Coxswain, 4£ years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the To RICHARD CORNISH, who served 4 years as Crew, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, Second Coxswain, and previously 32 years and a Pension. as a member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. To GEORGE A. THOMAS, who served for 5 years To THOMAS WINTER, who served 10J years as as Bowman, and previously 7 years as a Shore Signalman, a Pension. member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service, and a Gratuity. On the closing of the Machrihanish Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To CHARLES T. HOLT, who served for 4 years To DUNCAN WILKINSON, who served 13J as Bowman, and previously 7 years as a years as Coxswain, and previously 5| years member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's as Second Coxswain, a Coxswain's Certifi- Certificate of Service. cate of Service, and a Pension. To ARTHUR J. K. BAKER, who served for 2 To ROBERT H. KELLY, who served as Shore years as Bowman, and previously 10 years Signalman, a Gratuity. as a member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's On the closing of the Palling (Norfolk) Life- Certificate of Service. boat Station the following awards were To ALBERT G. WOODWARD, who served for granted :— 5J years as Coxswain, and 8f years as a To DENIS POPAY, who served for 17 years as member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's Coxswain, 3J years as Second Coxswain, Certificate of Service. and previously 9J years as a member of the Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service were Crew, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, awarded to the following, the figures after and a Pension. the names being their years of service:— To THOMAS H. LARTER, who served for JOHN BAKER (20). 7 J years as Second Coxswain, and previously WALTER H. BUTT (20). 24J years as a member of the Crew, a Life- ALFRED HUNT (30). boatman's Certificate of Service, and a EDWARD K. KING (20). Gratuity. FREDERICK J. L. KING (11). To FRANK KERRISON, who served for 31J HERBERT A. THOMAS (11). years as Bowman, and previously 8J years On the closing of the Folkestone Life-boat as a member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's Station the following awards were made :— Certificate of Service, and a Pension. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 301 Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service were To ALFRED T. JONES, on his retirement, on awarded to the following, the figures after account of ill health, after serving 4J years the names being their years of service :—• as Coxswain, 4J years as Second Coxswain, WILLIAM BARGE WELL (31). and previously 24 years as a Member of the ROBERT BARGEWELL (26). Crew of the Margate Life-boats, a Life- THOMAS BROWNE (47). boatman's Certificate of Service, and a HERBERT EMPSON (35). Gratuity. BERTIE FEATHER (12). To SAMUEL T. WILLS, on his retirement, after PERCY FEATHER (12). serving for 4J years as Coxswain, 4J years ROBERT FEATHER (32). as Second Coxswain, and previously 8^'years PERCY FEEK (19). as Bowman of the Poole and Bournemouth JAMES Goss (52). Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of RICHARD JONES (30). Service, and a Pension. ROBEBT KERRISON (30). To JOHN EVANS, on his retirement, after serv- HARRY LARTER (26). ing for 3J years as Coxswain, and previously JOHN LARTER (37). 12f years as Second Coxswain of the Porth- THOMAS NICHOLLS (17). dinllaen Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate JOHN NUDD (35). of Service, and a Pension. FRANK PESTELL (33). JAMES PESTLE (32). Mrs. THAIN has been presented with the Cox- WILLIAM POSTLE (51). swain's Certificate of Service which would have been awarded to her late husband, On the closing of the Worthing (Sussex) Life- James Thain, Coxswain at Ackergill for boat Station the following awards were 17 years, on his retirement. made :—• To EDWARD OLDHAM, who retired some To WILLIAM BLANN, who served 11 years as years ago with a pension, after serving 20 Coxswain, and previously 22 years as years as Coxswain of the Padstow No. 2 Second Coxswain, a Coxswain's Certificate Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of of Service, and a Pension. Service. To GEORGE NEWMAN, who served 11 years as To WILLIAM MOWAT, on his retirement, after Second Coxswain, and previously 19 years serving for 28 years as Second Coxswain and as a Member of the Crew, a Life-boatman's previously 25 years as a member of the Certificate of Service, and a Pension. Crew of the Longhope Life-boat, a Life- To JOHN SULLIVAN, who served for 1 year as boatman's Certificate of Service, and a Bowman, and previously 14 years as a Pension. member of the Crew, a. Life-boatman's To ROBERT HOOPER, on his retirement after Certificate of Service. serving for 25J years as Second Coxswain, Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service were and previously 19f years as a member of awarded to the following, the figures after the Crew of the Tenby Life-boat, a Life- the names being their years of service:— boatman's Certificate of Service, and a Pension. ALBERT BASHFORD (19). To THOMAS BILSBOROUGH, on his retirement, GEORGE BASHFORD (12). after serving for 10J years as Second Cox- JAMES BASHFORD (18). swain, and previously 39J years as a member WILLIAM BASHFORD (11). of the Crew of the Blackpool Life-boat, a GEORGE BENN (50). Life-boatman's Certificate of Service, and EDWIN BEST (11). a Pension. FREDERICK DEAN (10). JAMES W. GROVES (40). To HENRY EUSTICE, on his retirement, after WDLLIAM J. KEILEY (12). serving for 10 years as Second Coxswain, WILLIAM F. MARSHALL (10). and previously 20 years as a member of WILLIAM H. SEARLE (23). the Crew of the Coverack Life-boat, a Life- JOSEPH STREET (18). boatman's Certificate of Service, and a Pension. To RICHARD PAYNE, on his retirement, after To HENRY S. REDMOND, on his retirement, serving for 17£ years as Coxswain, J year as after serving for 4J years as Second Cox- Second Coxswain, and previously 1 year as swain, and previously 37 J years as a member Bowman of the Newhaven Life-boat, a of the Crew of the Poole and Bournemouth Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Pension. Service. To JOHN WHELAN, on his retirement, after To FREDERICK PAYNE, on his retirement, after serving for 11 years as Coxswain of the serving 12J years as Bowman, and pre- Poolbeg Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate viously 23J years as a member of the Crew of Service, and a Gratuity. of the Newhaveu Life-boat, a Life-boat- To DONALD McLEOD, on his retirement, after man's Certificate of Service, and a Pension. serving nearly 10 years as Coxswain, and To EDWARD VAUGHAN, on his retirement, after previously 7 years as Second Coxswain of serving for 5 years as Bowman, and 40 years the Stornoway Life-boat, a Coxswain's as a member of the Crew of the Rhyl Life- Certificate of Service, and a Pension. boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. 302 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. To WILLIAM T. OXLEY, on his retirement, after North Deal, the figures after the names being serving 1 year as Bowman, and previously their years of service :— 16 years as a member of the Crew of the THOMAS ADAMS (58). Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat, a Life-boat- WILLIAM T. BAKER (49). man's Certificate of Service. RICHARD G. BETTS (46). To GEOKGE STANTON, on his retirement, after ROBERT T. BETTS (52). serving 50 years as a member of the Crew WILLIAM R. BETTS (38). of the Boulmer Life-boat, a Life-boatman's THOMAS G. BROWN (49). Certificate of Service. GEORGE T. FOSTER (36). HENRY MARSH (60). To FKEDEBICK HUTCHISON, on his retirement, WILLIAM H. MARSH (35). after serving for 38 years as a member of HENRY J. MAY (47). the Crew of the Fraserburgh Life-boat, a JOHN MAY (55). Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. HENRY A. ROBERTS (33). Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service have been JOHN K. WEBB (47). awarded to the following Life-boatmen at HENRY J. WELLS (35).

Twenty Best Branches: A Correction. In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in as having fallen out of the first twenty. the article on the twenty Branches with Clacton should, however, have remained the highest collections in the year 1929- on the list of the first twenty. The 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having Branch raised £814, which gives it the been sixteenth in the previous year, but nineteenth place.

A Boy's Legacy. LAST December the Institution received in anything to do with the sea. His from the Honorary Secretary of its death was very sudden and tragic, and Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a his mother brought the money to me cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late to-day with the request that it should Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : go in in his name. He did not make a " He was a young man just going to will, but his parents are dividing up his Oxford, who always took a great interest money as they knew he would wish."

A Gift from the Film Industry. THE Federation of British Industries ceeds were presented to the Cinemato- has sent to the Institution a cheque for graph Trade Benevolent Fund. The £817 2s. 10d., being half the net proceeds Federation of British Industries in- of the Gala Presentation of British films formed the Institution that it had been on 5th November of last year, which was chosen to share in this performance as arranged for the benefit of the Dominion being " a great Institution, whose ser- Premiers by the film-makers' group of the vices benefit all sea-going people regard- Federation. The other half of the pro- less of nationality."

Forthcoming Articles. A NUMBER of articles and reports which at Hythe," and reports of Inaugural it had been hoped to publish in this Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats number have been held over owing to at Redcar, Girvan and Lytham-St.- lack of space, among them being Anne's, of presentations of Centen- " Honorary Workers of the Institution : ary Vellums at Dundee and New- Mr. Ernest Woolfield, Honorary Secre- burgh, and of Conferences of Life- tary of the Kessingland Branch," boat workers at Nottingham, Hast- " Charterhouse and the Life-boat Ser- ings, Lytham-St.-Anne's and Clacton- vice," " Life-boatmen's Entertainment on-Sea, JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 303

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 20th November, 1930. Directed that a Letter of Thanks be SIR GODFREY BAKING, BT., in the Chair. addressed to Mr. V. G. NORTH, Honorary Secretary at Shoreham Harbour, for going out Passed Votes of Thanks to T.M. the KING in the Life-boat on the 27th October, when and QUEEN, H.R.H. the PRINCE OP WALKS, she rendered her first Life-saving service at K.G., and H.R.H. the PRINCESS LOUISE, this Station. DUCHESS OF ARGYLL, for favouring with their presence a Matinee held at the London Hippo- Voted £234 16*. W, to pay the expenses of drome on 7th November, in aid of the Institu- the following Life-boat Services :— tion. Sept. 18th.-—The PORT ERIN Motor Life- Passed a Vote of Thanks to Mr. R. H. boat was launched at 8 A.M. in a strong N.W. GILLESPIE, Chairman of the Moss Empires, for gale with a very heavy sea, in response to a kindly lending the London Hippodrome for the message received from the Peel Coastguard Matinee on 7th November. that the fishing boat Bonny Jane,, of Peel, was Passed a Vote of Thanks to LORD BRAYE missing. The Life-boat proceeded in a north- for his donation to the Institution, representing westerly direction, and got in touch with the the proceeds of the sale of his Sea Paintings. Peel Life-boat, from which additional informa- tion was received. The fishing boat was The Chairman presented to Captain H. F. J. found and the Life-boat stood by her for a ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., late Chief Inspector of time, but, as the gale was now moderating, the Life-boats, a personal gift from the Committee crew remained on board the Bonny Jane. The of Management, and paid a warm tribute to Life-boat returned to her Station about noon, Captain Rowley's long and distinguished and the fishing boat made Peel in safety at services to the Institution. 3.30 P.M.—Expenses, £7 4s. 6d. The Chairman presented to Mr. W. J. BURDEN, the Honorary Secretary of the Sept. 19th.—The BRIDLINGTON Life- Teignmouth Branch, the Vellum recording his boat was launched at 2 P.M. in a strong S.E. appointment as an Honorary Life Governor of gale, with a heavy sea, and Winding rain, and the Institution, after forty-five years, and paid stood by the fishing boats Fortunatus, of a warm tribute to his services to the Institu- Whitby, and Sceptre, of Scarborough, which tion. had been caught in the sudden gale while out fishing. On account of the congestion caused Reported the receipt of the following special by numbers of boats taking refuge and the contributions :—• fact that the gale was blowing straight up the £ s. d. harbour, it was impossible at first to row the Anonymous (donation) . . 1,000 0 0 Life-boat, and she was towed clear by the Do. (donation) . . . 500 0 0 motor fishing coble Kate and Violet. The Life- Do. (additional donation) . 30 0 0 boat remained at the harbour entrance until Do. (W. A. F., additional both boats had made harbour safely, and then donation) . . 20 0 0 returned to her Station, arriving there at Miss I. Miller (donation) . 20 0 0 3.30 P.M.—Expenses, £10 4s. 6d. To be thanked. Paid £17,902 10s. 5d. for sundry charges in Sept. 26th.—The service of the HARTLE- connexion with the construction of Life-boats, POOL Motor Life-boat to the schooner Doris Life-boathouses and Slipways, and the main- (described above).—Expenses, £4 4s. tenance . of the various Life-boat establish- Oct. 18th.—The SUNDERLAND Motor ments. Life-boat was launched at 1.15 A.M. in a Awarded the Bronze Medal of the Institu- strong S.S.E. gafe, with a strong sea and rain, tion, together with a copy of the Vote inscribed saved the fishing coble Lily, of Seaham, and on Vellum, to ROBERT HOOD, Coxswain of the rescued her crew of three. About midnight Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of on the 17th the Coxswain was informed by the his meritorious conduct and fine seamanship Seaham Harbour Coastguard that a coble and when the Life-boat under his command rescued three men were missing. They had last been after several attempts, the crew, nine in seen off Hendon, near Sunderland. After number, of the Danish schooner Doris, of cruising about, the Life-boat put into Seaham Thuro, which was in distress near the Longscar at 3.30 A.M. to make further inquiries, but, as Rocks in a strong N.N.E. gale with a very no news had been heard, she at once put to sea heavy sea, on the 26th September, 1930 ; an again, and continued her search until 6.45 A.M., additional reward of £1 was also granted to when she returned to her Station. A message him and each member of the Crew. was then received from the Seaham Coast- (A full account of this service appeared in guard that the coble had been sighted about the last issue of The Lifeboat.) two and a half miles off shore and apparently Granted an additional reward to the was making no headway. The Life-boat put Coxswain and Crew of the Eastbourne Motor out once more, located the Lily, and towed her Life-boat, including the Permanent Motor and her crew, who were in an exhausted Mechanic and a Travelling Motor Mechanic, condition, back to Seaham. The Life-boat for a long and arduous service launch on the arrived back at her Station at 9.0 A.M.—Ex- 3rd November. penses, £25 15*. 304 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. Oct. 19th.—The BALLYCOTTON Motor exhausted. Stimulants were given to the Life-boat was launched at 9.50 A.M.—-the men, and the Life-boat, with the small boat Coxswain being called from Divine Service— in tow, reached Hastings again at 3.40 P.M.— during a whole S.S.E. gale with a heavy sea, Expenses, £23 4s. 3d. as the steam trawler Phineas Beard, of London, Oct. 27th.—The SHOREHAM Motor Life- was ashore on the Black Rocks, in Ballycottou boat rescued the two occupants of the small Bay. The trawler, which was owned in boat Robin, of Shoreham, which was adrift in Milford Haven, was bound from that port for a moderate N.N.W. breeze with a moderate the fishing grounds at the time, and carried a sea. The Coastguard had reported that the crew of ten. When the Life-boat reached the boat had been attempting to make the harbour trawler her crew refused to leave. A kedge for some time, but owing to the strength of anchor was run out, but the hawser broke, and the wind was drifting fast to the eastward. a line was taken to another trawler which had The Life-boat put out at 11.12 A.M., and on come into the Bay for shelter, but this also coming up with the boat found her two broke. About 2.15 P.M. the wind changed to occupants, who had been fishing, exhausted, N.W., and this enabled the Phineas Beard to and their boat making water. The men were get off. The Captain expressed his thanks to taken into the Life-boat and their boat taken the Life-boat crew for the assistance given.— in tow. This was the first Life-saving service Expenses, £7 18s. 6HOYLAKE Life-boat was of the Station. Mr. V. G. North, the Honprary launched at 6 P.M. in a S.W. wind with a Secretary accompanied the Crew, and was moderate sea, and proceeded to Spencers Spit, thanked by the Committee of Management.— where the fishing boat Fair Eleanor, with a Expenses, £7 2s. crew of three, had run aground. The fishing Nov. 2nd.—The BEMBRIDGE Motor Life- boat, which had been observed by the Coast- boat saved the motor trawler Maisonette, of guard, was not in immediate danger when the Wootton Creek, and rescued her crew, five in Life-boat put out, but her position would have number, during a heavy westerly gale with a been very dangerous in the event of the wind very rough sea. At 6.30 A.M. the Coastguard and sea rising. The Life-boat stood by and had reported a vessel in distress off Stokes rendered some help in refloating the boat. Bay and the Life-boat immediately went out. The Fair Eleanor was able to proceed to the She found the s.s. Shanklin holding the Mersey.—Expenses, £35 12s. 6d. trawler with a line until the arrival of the Oct. 25th. — The WALTON-ON-THE- Life-boat. The endangered crew were taken NAZE Motor Life-boat rescued the two off by the Life-boat, which then took the occupants—father and son—of the small boat trawler to Portsmouth. While returning to Tim, of Clacton, which was in difficulties her Station the Life-boat called at Ryde and between Walton and Clacton. Information landed the rescued men. Mr. A. E. Wadham, had been received from the Coastguard, and and the other members of the vessel's crew, the Life-boat was launched at 3.15 P.M. The expressed their appreciation and gave a dona- boat was found to be half full of water, un- tion of £6 6s. to the Institution.—Expenses, manageable and in danger of sinking, as the £13 15s. sea was rough with squalls from the north- Nov. 2nd.—The BEMBRIDGE Motor Life- west. The rescued men were landed at boat was launched for a second time the same Clacton, and the Life-boat returned to her day, when at 2.45 P.M. she put out to go to the Station at 6 P.M. The rescued men wrote help of the steamer Menelaos, of Piraeus, expressing their gratitude for the services which was reported by the Ventnor Coast- rendered by the Life-boat. —• Expenses, guard to be in distress off St. Catherine Point £16 Is. 9d. in a heavy westerly gale with a very rough sea. Oct. 25th.—The MOELFRE Motor Life- The steamer was found about six miles south boat landed the crew, four in number, of the of Dunnose at 5 o'clock. She was in a helpless schooner Volant, of Kilkeel, which was in condition with other vessels standing by, but distress during a strong N.N.W. gale with a the crew declined to leave. The Coxswain heavy sea while bound from Annalong to was asked, however, to send out a tug—• Liverpool with a cargo of stones. The Life- the Menelaos had no wireless—and this boat was launched at 2.35 P.M. in response to he did on arriving home at about 7 P.M. signals from the vessel, which had lost her The Life-boat was called out again to the mainsail and was being swept by the heavy vessel the same night, but was signalled to seas.—Expenses, £8. return. In the meantime the crew had been Oct. 26th.—The HASTINGS Life-boat was taken off by another steamer and the Selsey launched, in charge of the Second Coxswain, and Boguor Motor Life-boat. The vessel was at 8.45 A.M. during a strong N.W. breeze with abandoned and eventually stranded on the a rough sea, saved the motor fishing boat Outer Owers Bank.—Expenses, £13 15s. Plover, of Hastings, and rescued her two Nov. 6th.—The ST. IVES Life-boat was occupants. The Plover had put to sea the launched at 7.15 A.M. in a strong N.E. gale previous day and should have returned the with a rough sea, and landed the crew, three same night, but did not, and the Life-boat was in number, of the ketch Dido C, of Barnstaple, sent out. About 2 P.M. the missing boat was which was showing signals of distress about found six miles off Rye with the engine broken three-quarters of a mile E.S.E. of St. Ives Pier down, her sails badly torn, and her crew Head. She had been overtaken by heavy JUNE, 1931] THE LIFEBOAT. 305 weather while bound from Llanelly to the to be quite unaware of his position. The Life- Scilly Isles with coal. The Coastguard had boat remained with the steamer for some time, reported the vessel's signals, and on reaching but, as she was not in immediate danger, her the Life-boat found that she was in a very returned to her Station at 2 A.M.—Expenses, dangerous position. The crew were taken off £12 13s. and the ketch was left, with two anchors down, Nov. 1st.—The HUMBER Motor Life-boat to ride out the storm.—Expenses, £24 9*. 6d. was launched at 6.50 P.M. in a fresh S.W. Nov. 8th.—The TENBY Motor Life-boat breeze with a moderate sea and rain, as the landed a sick man from the St. Goven's Light- steam trawler Kingston Olivine, of Hull, was vessel in a moderate W.N.W. breeze with a ashore on the extreme end of Spurn Point. heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at She was loaded with coal and ice, and was 4.10 A.M. in response to a request from the bound for the fishing grounds. The Life-boat Trinity House, Swansea, as their own boat was stood by for a time and then returned ashore unable to get alongside to take the man off. and a telephone message was sent to the After circling round several times, the Life- owners. On returning to the vessel, the boat succeeded in taking the man on board. Coxswain interviewed the Skipper, and then He was conveyed to hospital, where he died again returned ashore to get into communica- the following day.—Expenses, £23 11s.; tion with the owners. They stated that a defrayed by the Trinity House. tug was being sent. The Life-boat again Nov. 16th.—The NEW BRIGHTON No. 2 went back to the vessel and the tug arrived Motor Life-boat left her moorings at 1 P.M., and towed the trawler clear at about mid- information having been received from the night.—Permanent Crew; Property Salvage Coastguard that two vessels were ashore on Case. the revetment. A moderate N.N.E. breeze Also voted £287 7s. 6d. to pay the expenses was blowing, and the sea was smooth. On of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies reaching the scene the Life-boat found two of Crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons schooners aground. As the tide was falling on vessels in distress :—Angle (Motor), Apple- the Master of the Carmenta, of Plymouth, dore (Motor), Bembridge (Motor), Court- which was leaking, asked the Coxswain to macsherry Harbour (Motor), Cromarty (Motor), remain by him. This the Life-boat did until Dover (Motor), Eastbourne (Motor), Fenit a salvage vessel came and took charge of the (Motor), Flamborough No. 1, Great Yarmouth schooner. The second vessel, which was in and Gorleston (Motor), Hastings, New Brighton difficulty, was the schooner Happy Harry, but No. 2 (Motor), Peel, St. Mary's (Motor), Selsey she refloated without assistance. The Life- and Bognor (Motor), Stromness (Motor), boat returned to her moorings at 4.45 P.M.— Torbay (Motor), Thurso (Motor), Weymouth Expenses, £6 19s. (Motor), and Yarmouth, I. of W. (Motor). The following services were also reported :— The Caister and Holy Island (Motor) Life- boats were also launched. Oct. 21st.—The CROMER Motor Life-boat assisted to save the steam drifter Girl Evelyn, Passed a further £4 on account of a pension of Fraserburgh, which had stranded on the already granted to the dependent relative of a Haisborough Sands, while bound from the man who lost his life in the Life-boat Service fishing ground to Yarmouth. Information of at Caister. the casualty had been received from the Granted £20 12s. to men for injury in the Haisborough Lightvessel through the Coast- Life-boat Service at Blackpool and Caister. guard, and the Life-boat put out at 12.15 P.M. Voted an ex gratia payment of £5 to GEORGE in a moderate southerly breeze with a moderate STANTON, of Boulmer, who after being a sea on the Sands. On reaching the scene, the member of the Life-boat Crew for nearly fifty Life-boat found that the crew, ten in number, years was compelled to resign on account of had left their vessel and were on board the ill-health. drifter Blithesome, of Buckie, which was standing by. They returned to their vessel, Voted £2 10s. to five men for rescuing the together with four of the Life-boat Crew, and two occupants of a Pilot's motor boat, which after steam had been raised, the Girl Evelyn experienced engine trouble and drifted to was refloated with the help of the Life-boat, within 100 yards of a rocky lee shore at which returned to her Station at 8 P.M.— Mevagissey, on the 20th October; also Property Salvage Case. allowed 5s. to the owner of the boat used. Oct. 26th.—The ST. PETER PORT Motor Voted £1 10s. to three men for rescuing two Life-boat was launched at 7.15 P.M. during a fishermen, at Selsey, on the 21st October; moderate northerly breeze with a heavy also granted 2s. 6d. for fuel used. At about ground swell in response to information 10 A.M. the fishing boat Viking had put to sea received from a resident that the S.S. Ravens- in a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea, but dale, of Newcastle, was ashore at Grande had got into difficulties and almost capsized Havre Bay, and burning flares for help. The when about half a mile south of Selsey Bill. Life-boat put out with Mr. H. H. Randell, The maroons were fired to call out the Life- President of the Branch, on board, and pro- boat, and the sound attracted the attention of ceeded to the vessel, which was reached at the salvors who were already out. They 8.15 P.M. She was bound for St. Holier with a immediately went to the aid of the Viking and cargo of basic slag, and the Captain appeared rescued her crew of two. 306 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. Voted 15*. to three men who rescued the and an additional monetary reward, were crew, three in number, of a salmon yawl, granted to each of the other, members of which got into difficulties at Youghal, on the the Crew: GEORGE ARNELL, Second Cox- 18th August, in a strong N.W. breeze with a swain ; ARTHUR L. FULLICK, Bowman; rough sea; also granted 5s. to the owner of CHARLES PHILLIPS, Motor Mechanic ; ALBERT the boat used. PENNYCORD, Assistant Motor Mechanic; LESLIE PENNYCORD, DOUGLAS GRANT, SYDNEY BARNES and WILLIAM MILLINGTON. Thursday, 18th December, 1930. A Letter of Thanks was addressed to Mr. COLONEL SIR A. HENRY MCMAHON, followed J. E. FRANCIS, Assistant Honorary Secre- by the HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair. tary, for his zeal on this occasion; and a Co-opted the Rt. Hon. the EARL OP BRECK- Letter was addressed to the Board of Trade NOCK a member of the Committee of Manage- commending Mr. E. HAYNES, the Station ment. Officer of Coastguard at Selsey. Reported that LADY BERTIE OF THAME had (A full account of this Service appeared in resigned the Chairmanship of the Central the last issue of The Lifeboat.) London Women's Committee, Ladies' Life- Voted the Thanks of the Institution, boat Guild, that LADY DOROTHY D'OYLY inscribed on vellum and framed, together with CARTE (Deputy Chairman) had been appointed an additional monetary reward, to JOHN C. Chairman, and that LADY BEARSTED had been BYFORD, Coxswain of the WALTOJT-ON- appointed Deputy-Chairman. THE-NAZE Motor Life-boat, in recognition Decided that on the retirement of Captain of his meritorious conduct, promptitude, and G. H. SEVAN, O.B.E., R.N., Deputy Chief skilful seamanship when the Life-boat under Inspector for Stores, in March, 1931, Captain his command rescued the nine occupants— E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Western District seven men and two women—of the motor Inspector, be promoted to that position, and yacht Auriga, of London, which was totally that after Captain SEVAN'S retirement the wrecked on the Shipwash Sands, on the night officer in charge of the Storeyard be desig- of the 22nd-23rd November, 1930, during a nated Superintendent of Stores ; also that the whole W.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea. title of Assistant to Chief Inspector for Additional monetary rewards were also granted Machinery be changed to that of Superin- to the Crew. tendent Engineer. (A full account of this service appeared in Reported the receipt of the following special the last issue of The Lifeboat.) contributions :— Granted an additional reward to the Cox- £ s. d. swain and Crew of the BRIDLINGTON Life- Mrs. E. W. Burton. In memory of boat for an arduous service launch on the her husband, Mr. P. C. Burton 24th November. (to the Lowestoft Branch) (Donation) . . . . 250 0 0 Reported that Trinity House had defrayed The Fishery Board for Scotland, the expenses incurred when the TENBY balance of the Scottish Fishing Motor Life-boat was launched on the 8th Fleet Disaster Fund (Donation) 135 9 5 November, and landed a sick man from the St. Captain Sir Charles Cust, R.N. Goven Light Vessel. (Additional donation) . 25 0 0 Voted £263 Is. Qd. to pay the expenses of the Captain the Rt. Hon. the Earl following Life-boat Services :— Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.D., A.D.C..R.N.V.R. (Donation) . 20 0 0 November 2nd.—The service of the SELSEY The late Mr. Hugo Harbord Trich- AND BOGNOR Motor-Life-boat to the man (Donation from estate) . 16 0 0 Lucy B. (described above). — Expenses, To be thanked. £20 1*. 6d. Paid £20,660 0*. Qd. for sundry charges in The service of the same Life-boat to the connexion with the construction of Life-boats, s.s. Menelaos (described in the last issue of The Life-boathouses, and Slipways, and the main- Lifeboat).—Expenses, £20 19s. tenance of the various Life-boat establish- Nov. 16th.—The RAMSGATE Motor Life- ments. boat rescued the crew, six in number, of the Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution, s.s. Hursley, of Hull, which stranded on the together with a copy of the Vote, inscribed on north part of the Goodwin Sands, while bound vellum and framed, and an additional mone- from Goole to Alderney with a cargo of coal. tary reward, to FREDERICK BARNES, Coxswain Her flares for assistance were seen by the East of the SELSEY and BOGNOR Motor Life- Goodwin Light Vessel, and reported through boat, in recognition of his courage, good judg- the Coastguard to the Life-boat authorities. ment, and skilful seamanship, when the Life- A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing with boat under his command rescued, with great a heavy sea when at 5 A.M., the Life-boat left difficulty, the two occupants of the yacht Ramsgate. She reached the casualty an hour Lucy B., of Rye, which was totally wrecked at later. The Hursley became a total wreck.— Selsey Bill, in a whole W.S.W. gale, with a Expenses, £11 15s. 9o!. heavy sea, on the 2nd November, 1930. The Nov. 20th.—The BRIDLINGTON Life- Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, boat was launched during the morning as JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 307 twelve of the local motor fishing boats had Vlaardingen. This vessel, which was inward been overtaken by a moderate S. by E. gale bound from the fishing grounds with herrings, with a rough sea. As the tide was ebbing and carried a crew of seventeen, had been kept and there was a nasty ground swell the boats under observation for some time, and when at would incur great risk in making harbour, so 4.20 P.M. she showed flares for assistance, the the Life-boat was taken to the North Beach Life-boat promptly put out. She found that by tractor, and after being launched, accom- the drifter had had her canvas carried away, panied the vessels over the bar into harbour. and had also developed engine trouble. The One by one the boats were escorted in, and at Captain said he wanted help, so the Life-boat 3.30 P.M., all having reached safety, the Life- remained by her. After a while a tug took boat returned ashore.—Expenses, £15 Is. the drifter in tow, but the Life-boat still kept Nov. 22nd.—The services of the WALTON- in attendance, as the ebb tide carried the vessel ON-THE-NAZE Motor Life-boat to the near to the Ness Point, where she was con- Auriga, of London (described on p. 306).— tinually swept by the heavy seas. The tug Expenses, £31 3s. and the drifter reached harbour at 6 P.M.— Expenses, £27 11s. 6d. Nov. 23rd.—The SOUTHEND - ON - SEA Motor Life-boat rescued the crew of two, a man Nov. 24th.—The BRIDLINGTON Life-boat and his wife, on the barge Charles and Esther, stood by the motor fishing boats Clara, of Wakering, and landed the crews of two Gloaming, Forward and Irene. During the other barges, Marion, of London, and the early morning most of the fishing fleet returned Emily, of Ipswich, two men in each case. while there was sufficient water in the harbour, Information had been received about mid- as the weather was growing bad from the S.E. night from the Pier Head that flares had been At 10.30 A.M. the Life-boat was launched as it seen near the Jenkin Buoy, and in a whole was then blowing a strong S.E. gale with a W.N.W. gale with a very heavy sea, the Life- very rough sea and rain. Two of the boats boat went out. She landed the three crews at were escorted in after having come safely Southend at 3.30 A.M., and then went to the through the heavy seas which were breaking Nore Light vessel in response to signals, but all over the bay. The Life-boat remained in found that she was signalling for help for the readiness for the other two boats, and at about vessels from which the Life-boat had just three o'clock they were seen approaching, one rescued the crews. At 10 A.M., the Life-boat from the south and one from the north, at again put out and visited the abandoned times almost buried by the seas. They made vessels. It was found that the Charles and the harbour safely with the Life-boat standing Esther had sunk, but the crews of the other by. This was a hard service, the Life-boat two boarded them again.—Expenses, £17 8*. being out in severe weather for about five hours, and the Committee granted an addi- Nov. 24th.—The ARBEOATH Life-boat tional monetary reward to each of the Crew.— was launched in a strong S.E. gale with a very Expenses £18 19s. heavy sea, at 12.30 P.M., as two fishing boats which had put to sea the previous night had Nov. 30th.—The MARGATE Motor Life- not returned. The boats were the Floreat boat stood by the s.s. Craigolive, of Belfast, and Queen of the Fleet. They reached port and which stranded on the Long Sand. A moderate the Life-boat returned ashore at 1.30 P.M., N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate after the boats had got into safety.—Expenses, swell, and the weather was thick. The Life- £18 4s. boat put out at 1.22 P.M., and on reaching the casualty was informed by the Captain that he Nov. 24th.—The FILEY Life-boat was intended to try to refloat his vessel at high launched at 10.30 A.M. in a strong S. gale with water. The Life-boat stood by. About two a very heavy sea and rain, as the fishing fleet hours later the vessel began to move, but was ont and had been overtaken by the bad later grounded again. Directions were given weather. In the absence of the Coxswain, the by the Life-boat and the ship eventually got Second Coxswain took charge, and the Life- off.—Expenses, £12 17s. 6d. boat stood by until all the boats reached safety. —Expenses, £23 18s. Deo. 2nd.—The HOLYHEAD Motor Life- boat rescued eighteen of the crew of the s.s. Nov. 24th.—The MONTROSE No. 1 Motor Asmund, of Christiansand, which stranded at Life-boat stood by the motor fishing vessel Porth-y-Post, while bound from the Black Rosa during a strong S.E. gale with a very Sea to Manchester with a cargo of grain. A heavy sea and rain. The conditions at the strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy bar were very bad, and as grave doubts were swell, and the weather was foggy when the entertained whether the Rosa could make the Life-boat put out at 6.40 P.M. in response to crossing the Life-boat was launched at a message which had been received from the 10.15 A.M. At 1.30 P.M. the fishing boat Cliff Hotel, Trearddur Bay, through the approached, and the Life-boat escorted her Police and the Coastguard. When the Life- into safety. So heavy were the seas that it boat reached the casualty the majority of was not possible to rehouse the Life-boat the crew of thirty-five jumped into her, but until the following day.—Expenses, £10 11s. at the order of the Captain some returned to Nov. 24th.—The LOWESTOFT Motor the ship, leaving sixteen still in the Life-boat. Life-boat was launched at 4.30 P.M. in a whole The Captain asked the Coxswain to land S. by E. gale with a very heavy sea and stood these men and return. This was done, and by the Dutch motor drifter Adrianal, of the Asmund was reached again just after 308 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. midnight. During the absence of the Life-boat received in the Life-boat on Service on the four of the Asmund's crew had gone ashore in 7th December, 1929. the ship's boat, and of those remaining only Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution, two boarded the Life-boat, the others deciding together with a copy of the Vote inscribed on to remain with the steamer. The Life-boat vellum and framed, and the sum of £3 each to returned to her Station at 2 A.M. The Asmund JOHN NOLAN, JOHN CAHTU, and JOSEPH was refloated later, but sank after being taken CAHILI, in recognition of their prompt and to Holyhead.—Expenses, £13 4s. 6d. gallant conduct in putting off from the Spa, Dec. llth.—The GREAT YAEMOUTH Tralee Bay, Co. Kerry, on the night of the AND GORLESTON Motor Life-boat was 7th November, 1930, in a 13-foot boat, and at launched at 5.43 A.M. in a southerly gale with great personal risk rescuing the crew of three a very heavy sea and stood by the barge of the s.s. Co-operator, of Tralee. Hibernia, of London, bound from Yarmouth (A full acccount of this rescue appeared in to London, laden with sugar. The Coast- the last issue of The Lifeboat.) guard had had several vessels under observa- Voted £1 2s. 6d. to ex-Coxswain F. KINO, of tion for some time, and as two of them were Buruham-on-Sea, and two other men for put- dragging their anchors and in danger of going ting off in a 20-foot pulling boat on the morning ashore, the Life-boat put out. She went to of the 29th November, in a strong E.N.E. breeze, the one in the more dangerous position, the with a moderate sea and thick rain, and landing barge Hibernia, and remained with her until the crew of three of the ketch Severn, of Bridg- she was able to anchor safely. Later the barge water, which had run aground at Steart Island, signalled for a tug, which went to her and near Burnham-on-Sea, while on passage from towed her in.—Expenses, £21 8s. Newport to Bridgwater, laden with coal. The Severn went ashore at midnight on the 28th The following service was also reported :— and her crew had managed to scramble on Nov. 23rd.—The launch of the WALTON- to the island, where they remained until their ON-THE-NAZE Life-boat to the yacht plight wag observed from shore. Also granted Holiday of Yarmouth (described in the last 5s. to two men for helping to launch the salvors' issue of The Lifeboat).—Property Salvage Case. boat. Also voted £219 18s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies Wednesday, 31st December, 1930. of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons Paid £10,721 11s. 8d. for sundry charges in on vessels in distress ::—Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Cullercoats, Eastbourne (Motor), Great Life-boathouses and Slipways, and the main- Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor), Hilbre tenance of the various Life-boat establish- Island, Lowestoft (Motor), Margate (Motor), ments. New Brighton No. 2 (Motor), Plymouth (Motor), Port Isaac, Portrush (Motor), Rams- Thursday, 15th January, 1931. gate, Shoreham Harbour (Motor), Stromness SIB GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair. (Motor), Torbay (Motor), Wells, and Wey- Reported the receipt of the following special mouth (Motor). contributions :— £, s d Passed a further £347 7s. Qd. on account of King George's Fund for Sailors . 1,000 0 0 pensions already granted to dependent relatives Film Makers' Group of Federa- of men who lost their lives in the Life- tion of British Industries, half boat Service at Aldeburgh, Caister, East- of net proceeds of Gala Presen- bourne, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Holy- tation of British Films, Nov- head, Johnshaven, Moelfre, The Mumbles, ember, 1930 . . . . 817 2 10 New Brighton, Port Eynon, Padstow, Port St. Mr. Herbert Jones (to the St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, St. David's, Marylebone Branch), (sub- and Whitby. scription) . . . . 100 0 0 Granted £63 8s. 6d. to men for injury in the White Star Line Steamers' Charity Life-boat Service at Blackpool, Broughty Fund, (additional donation) . 100 0 0 Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven, A.W., (additional donation) . 100 0 0 Tenby and Walmer. Anonymous, (additional donation) 50 0 0 Sir George Clerk, (additional Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to ex- donation) . . . 30 0 0 Coxswain JOHJT GAERETT, of Ramsey, who Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, retired on pension in September, and was very (subscription) . . 26 5 0 ill and in indigent circumstances. Mr. Alfred Barrett, J.P., (addi- Decided that the special weekly allowance tional donation) . . . 26 5 0 now being paid to JAMES BTJLTITUDE, an ex- " A Derbian," (additional dona- member of the Crew of the Caister Life-boat tion) 20 0 0 who was injured at a launch in November, Anonymous, (donation) . 20 0 0 1929, be continued. To be thanked. Decided to make a special allowance of Voted £196 5s. Id. to pay the expenses of 2s. 6d. per week to F. PAYNE, of Newhaven the following Life-boat Services :— who resigned his position of Bowman in Dee. 15th—The MONTROSE No. 1 September owing to an injury to his right arm, Motor Life-boat was launched at 2 P.M., as JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 309

fishing boats returning from sea reported that Dec. 25th.—The WHITBY Motor Life-boat a heavy sea was making, especially on the rescued the crew, eighteen in number, of the bar, with the strong ebb tide, and the motor steamer Lucy, of Helsingborg, which had run fishing boat Comfort was still out. A moderate on the rocks at Calder Steel, about four miles N.E. breeze was blowing, but the weather was north of Whitby, while bound with a cargo fine. The Life-boat picked up the fishing from Grangemouth to Bordeaux. A strong boat about a mile out and escorted her over S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate the bar into safety after a very severe buffet- sea, when at 6.15 P.M. the Life-boat put out, ing.—Expenses, £9 8s. as the weather was getting worse, and the Dec. 17th.—The BOULMER Life-boat was steamer was in a very exposed position. launched at 11.53 A.M. in thick weather with The Life-boat returned ashore at 8.45 P.M. a light S. breeze but a heavy swell, as one of and landed the rescued men, who were placed the fishing boats had not returned with the in the care of the Seaman's Institute.— others. The missing boat was the motor Expenses, £18 6s. 6d. coble Isaac Edward, of Boulmer, with a crew Dec. 26th.—The BRIDLINGTON Life-boat of three. About a mile off Mermouth the was launched at 1.50 P.M. and stood by the Life-boat came up with the boat, and after fishing vessel Melba, of Grimsby. During giving advice as to the best course to take to the morning information had been received make safety, escorted the boat home. The through the Coastguard that the vessel had motor tractor was used for launching and left Grimsby for Bridlington. The entrance hauling up the Life-boat, and the Life-boat's to the harbour was dangerous owing to the fog horn was used to attract the attention of strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, and when the fishing boat.—Expenses, £15 19s. 4d. the Melba arrived at 12.30 P.M. she dared not Dec. 17th.—The HAUXLEY Life-boat went enter on the falling tide. The Life-boat out to assist two of the local fishing boats— proceeded to her and placed a man on board. Mary Isabella and Faith, as they were two Just before dark the seas temporarily moder- hours overdue. The weather was foggy, and ated and the vessel made a dash for the the sea heavy with a moderate southerly harbour and succeeded in getting in, but only wind, when at 12.30 P.M. the Life-boat was after she had touched the ground.—Expenses, launched. The boats were found about a £15 Is. 6d. mile from the shore, and were safely escorted Dec. 27th.—The FILEY Life-boat was home, arriving at 2 P.M.—Expenses, £20 5s. 6d. launched at 10.5 A.M. in a strong S.E. gale, Dec. 17th.—The STORNOWAY Motor with a heavy sea and rain, and escorted home Life-boat was launched at 5.45 P.M., in a the fishing boat Pilot Me, of Filey. The moderate southerly gale, with a rough sea boat, which was manned by the Coxswain of and rain squalls, and landed a sick man from the Life-boat and two other men, had gone the S.S. Svaneholm, of Gothenburg, Sweden, out at 7 A.M. and been overtaken by bad which was bound from Finland to Philadelphia, weather. When the Life-boat came up with laden with paper pulp. A wireless message the Pilot Me, belts were handed to her crew had been received by the Harbour Master, and she reached safety accompanied by the who is Honorary Secretary of the local Life-boat, which was in charge of the Second Branch, to the effect that the Svaneholm Coxswain.—Expenses, £22 15s. intended to call at Stornoway to land a seaman Dec. 30th.—The ILFRACOMBE Life-boat who was suffering from appendicitis. On rescued the two occupants of the open fishing her arrival, however, the weather was so bad boat Ivy, of Ilfracombe, which was swamped that none of the motor boats available was and sunk in a S.S.E. gale, with a rough sea. able to go out and pilot her in. As darkness About 9.45 A.M. signals had been observed was now approaching it was considered from the boat, which was about a mile from advisable to despatch the Life-boat to pilot the shore and drifting before the flood tide the steamer to the anchorage, but when the and wind. The Life-boat took off the two Life-boat got alongside the captain of the men, uncle and nephew, from the sinking Svaneholm considered that it was too dangerous boat and landed them at Ilfracombe.— to enter the harbour, so the seaman was Expenses, £28 14s. taken ashore to hospital by the Life-boat, and the steamer continued on her voyage.— Jan. 6th.—The DUNGENESS No. 1 Life- Expenses, £7 10s. boat stood by the S.S. Nurtureton, of New- Dec. 25th.—The TORBAY Motor Life-boat castle, which stranded one mile and a half saved the small open fishing boat Pollywake, N.N.E. of Dungeness Lighthouse while bound, of Brixham, and rescued her only occupant. laden, from Newcastle to Italy. The weather Information that the boat was in difficulties at the time was foggy and very cold. In- had been received by telephone from the formation that a steamer was continually Torquay Coastguard, and the Life-boat put sounding her syren had been received from out at 11 A.M. in a strong S.E. breeze with a the Coastguard, and the Life-boat was rough sea. The small boat was found in a launched at 7.45 A.M. The Nurtureton was precarious position, having only one sound found to be making water, so the Life-boat oar. When the Life-boat arrived the man remained with her until after high water, had been holding on to his nets for two hours when, finding that the steamer was in no and was about to attempt a landing on a lee immediate danger, she returned to her Station shore in the rough sea.—Expenses, £7 2s. at 12.45 P.M.—Expenses, £23 11s. 9d. 310 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. Bee. 27th.—The TROON Motor Life-boat on vessels in distress:—Aberdeen No. 1 was launched at 3.45 P.M. in a S.W. gale, (Motor), Ballycotton (Motor), Blackrock, with a rough sea, to the aid of the Ayr Life- Boulmer, Cromarty (Motor), Cromer (Motor), boat which had carried away her mast while The Humber No. 1 (Motor), Margate (Motor), at exercise between Ayr and Prestwick. The Mumbles (Motor), New Brighton No. 2 When the Motor Life-boat arrived, she found (Motor), Porthdinllaen (Motor), St. Mary's that a temporary mast had been rigged up. (Motor), Torbay (Motor), and Whitby (Motor). She took the Ayr Life-boat in tow and brought Passed a further £11 10s. on account of her into Troon Harbour.—Expenses, £6 13s. pensions already granted to the dependent Dec. llth.—The CULLERCOATS Life- relatives of men who lost their lives in the boat was launched at 9 A.M. in a strong S.E. Life-boat Service at Brighstone Grange and gale, with a heavy sea and rain, when informa- Caister. tion was received that a small fishing boat Granted £33 19s. to men for injury in the was in distress off Sharpness Point, between Life-boat Service at Newhaven, Rhyl, and Tynemouth and Cullercoats. The boat proved Winterton. to be the Tip, of Tynemouth, with two men Decided to continue the weekly allowance in her. The Life-boat went outside the now being paid to the last survivor of the Harbour and stood by the fishing boat as she Crew of the Ramsgate Life-boat who took part entered. The fishing boat was practically in the rescue of the Indian Chief in 1881. full of -water as she leached the beaeh, and she was fortunate in making safety without Decided that the special weekly allowance mishap.—Expenses, £20 13*. now being paid to W. E. Haylett, ex-Second Coxswain of the Caister Life-boat, who was The following service was also reported :— compelled to retire owing to serious illness due Dec. llth.—The CLACTON-ON-SEA Motor to exposure in the Life-boat Service, be Life-boat helped to save the barge Squeak, of continued. London, and her crew of two, when her steer- Decided that a weekly allowance be made to ing gear broke down. The Life-boat was Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, who launched at 6.45 A.M. in response to flares about has retired, following an injury while on three miles East by South of Clacton Pier. A service in the Life-boat in December, 1929. strong S.E. by E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The barge, which was laden Voted a gratuity of £5, in recognition of his with wheat, was found anchored on a lee shore. good services, to Robert Kelly, who retired She was helped into deeper water, and, after from the post of Signalman and Caretaker at temporary repairs had been effected, proceeded Macrihanish on the closing of the Station. in the direction of Harwich. Eventually the Voted a further gratuity of £5 to Richard Life-boat left the barge and engaged a tug Williams, ex-Second Coxswain of the Holy- from Ipswich, which towed the barge to Pin head No. 1 Steam Life-boat, who was com- Mill, with the Life-boat in attendance. The pelled to retire, several years ago, owing to Life-boat did not reach her Station again until ill-health, and is in poor circumstances. 1.15 A.M. on the 12th.—Property Salvage Case. Voted a further compassionate grant of £2 Also voted £201 3s. 5d. to pay the expenses to the widow of Lewis Roberts, who had been of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies a member of the Life-boat Crew at Holy head of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons for many years.

News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March. Greater London. CHISLEHUBST.—Whist Drive, with BATTERSEA.—Concert by the Junior address by Colonel F. J. Edlmann, Imperial League, with address by Mr. D.S.O. Rham, Honorary Secretary of the CLAPHAM.—Drawing-room meeting, Branch. Address to the Rotary Club given by Mrs. 0. Picton Davies, Major by the District Organizing Secretary. V. B. Rogers, D.S.O., M.C., D.L., Life-boat Day. presiding. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Bar- BEEMONDSEY.—Concert, with address ing, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of by the Rev. A. M. Peckham, Chairman Management. of the Harrow Branch. ERITH.—Address to the Rotary Club BRIXTON.—Address to the Brother- by the District Organizing Secretary. hood by Captain Basil Hall, R.N. HACKNEY.—Collection at Clapton CHINGFOBD.—Bridge and Whist Orient Football Ground. Drive, with address by the District HAMMERSMITH.—Special Meeting at Organizing Secretary. the Town Hall, the Mayor presiding. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 311 Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., President of the Branch. Address to the Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Rotary Club by the District Organizing ment. Branch formed. Secretary. HAMPSTEAD.—-Special Meeting at the WOOLWICH.—Special Meeting at the Town Hall, the Mayor presiding. Town Hall, called by the Mayor. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Speaker : The District Organizing Secre- Chairman of the Committee of Manage- tary. Branch formed, Hon. Secretary, ment. Mr. E. Stubbs. HAREFIELD.—Concert, with address Thirteen lectures and addresses were by the District Organizing Secretary. given by the District Organizing Secre- tary, in addition to those mentioned. HAYES.—Concert, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. North-West of England. HOBNSEY.—Special Meeting, called by ACCBINGTON (LANCS.). — Annual the Mayor. Speaker : Mr. H. A. Baker, Whist and Bridge Drive, organized by a member of the Committee of Manage- the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. ment. ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (LANCS.). — Entertainment by the North Harrin- American Tea, organized by the Ladies' gay Musical and Dramatic Society, with Life-boat Guild. address by the District Organizing BLACKPOOL (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- Secretary. Lantern Lecture at the ing on 3rd March. Amount collected Library by the District Organizing last year £530, as compared with Secretary, with the Mayor presiding. £594 in the previous year. Presentation Lantern Lecture at the Ferme Park to the Branch Honorary Secretary, Baptist Chapel by the District Organiz- Councillor C. E. Tatham, of inscribed ing Secretary ; and Lantern Lecture to binoculars, and to six retired members the Junior Fellowship by Mrs. Ford, of the Blackpool Life-boat Crew of Life- wife of the Honorary Secretary of the boatmen's Certificates, awarded by the Branch. Institution. Annual Whist Drive and KENSINGTON.—Dance. Dance in aid of the funds of the Black- MITCHAM.—Two Concerts, with ad" pool Life-boat Band. dresses by the District Organizing BLACKROD (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- Secretary. ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. SOUTHGATE.—Address to the Rotary Amount collected last year £12, as Club by the District Organizing Secre- compared with £15 in the previous year. tary. BOLTON (LANCS.).—Whist Drive and Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life- TOOTING.—St. Peter's Presbyterian boat Guild. Library Society—Lantern Lecture by the Rev. A. M. Peckham. Whist Drive, BURY (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on with address by the District Organizing 9th March, the Mayor, President of the Secretary. Address to the Rotary Club Branch, in the chair. Amount collected by the District Organizing Secretary. last year £178, as compared with £186 in the previous year. WALTHAMSTOW.—St. John's Concert, CARLISLE (CUMBERLAND). — Annual with address by the District Organizing Meeting on 13th February, the Mayor of Secretary. St. Mary's Concert. Carlisle, President of the Branch, in the WHEATHAMPSTEAD.—Address to the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life- Women's Institute by Miss Silvester, boat Day, Dance and two Whist Drives. Hon. Secretary of the St. Albans Amount collected last year £327, as Branch. compared with £328 in the previous WOODFORD & EPPING.—Bridge Drive, year. Miss Binning appointed Honorary with address by the District Organizing Secretary in the place of Mrs. Shepheard- Secretary. Children's Play at the house Walwyn. of Mr. E. W. B. Dennant, Hon. Treasurer. CARNFORTH (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- Talk on the Service by Mrs. Wall, the ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 312 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. 13th January. Amount collected last the Branch, in the chair. Amount year £101, as compared with £93 in the collected last year £3,472, as compared previous year. with £3,347 in the previous year. CKEWE (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting Presentation to Mr. B. J. Kirkham, on 24th March, the Mayor, President of Honorary Secretary of the New Brighton the Branch, in the chair. Amount Branch, of the inscribed binoculars collected last year £73, as compared awarded to him by the Institution. with £68 in the previous year. Performance given by Miss Edina Thraves. DAEWEN (LANCS.).—Concert by the LYMM (CHESHIRE).—Life-boat Day. scholars of St. James's Day School, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat LYTHAM (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting Guild. on 5th February, the late Sir William Macara, Bt., in the chair. Amount DOUGLAS (!SLE OF MAN). — Annual collected last year £381, as compared Meeting on 18th March, His Excellency with £175 in the previous year. Mr. the Lieut.-Governor of the Isle of Man, William Gregson elected Honorary Patron of the Branch, presiding. Amount Secretary of the Branch in the place of collected last year £654, as compared Mr. Charles A. Myers. with £720 in the previous year. Bridge Party, organized by the Ladies' DUKINFIELD (CHESHIRE). — Annual Life-boat Guild. Whist Drive and Dance, organized by LYTHAM ST. ANNE'S (LANCS.).—Meet- the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. ing of the Committees of the Lytham FLEETWOOD (LANGS.).—Special Meet- and St. Anne's Branches, when a resolu- ing. Presentation to the late Mr. Roger tion was passed that the two Branches Fogg, Honorary Treasurer of the be amalgamated, and, in future, be Branch for twenty-eight years, of the named " Lytham St. Anne's Branch." Framed Photograph of a Life-boat going The following officers were elected: out to a Vessel in Distress, awarded to Chairman, Sir Thomas Smethurst, him by the Institution. K.B.E. ; Joint. Hon. Treasurers, Mr. J. GRANGE-OVER-SANDS (LANCS.). — Pearson, J.P., and Mr. S. E. Towill; Entertainment, arranged by Miss R. Joint Hon. Secretaries, Mr. W. Gregson Stephens. and Mr. R. V. Pye. Presentation to Mr. C. A. Myers, retiring Honorary HINDLEY (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting Secretary of the Lytham Branch, after on 25th March. Amount collected last forty years' service. year £73, as compared with £79 in the previous year. MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE).—Life- boat Day. Annual Whist Drive and Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT. Guild. Second Whist Drive, organized —Meeting of the Executive Committee, by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. at which Mr. P. M. Oliver, M.P., was elected Honorary Secretary, in succes- HOLLINGWORTH (CHESHIRE).—Whist sion to Sir Edwin Stockton, J.P. Drive and Dance, organized by the Annual Meeting on llth February, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Lady Mayoress, President of the Ladies' HOKWICH (LANCS.).—House-to-House Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Speakers : Collection. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of KENDAL (WESTMORLAND). — Bridge the Committee of Management of the and Whist Drive, organized by the Institution, the Mayor of Salford, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Archdeacon of Manchester (the Ven. Noel Lake Aspinall), Mr. M. H. Harris, LANCASTER.—Football and Cinema Secretary of the Great Synagogue, Collections and Concert, all organized by Brigadier J. James, Divisional Com- the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. mander of the Salvation Army, Mr. F. R. LIVERPOOL.—Annual Meeting on llth Stansfield, Hon. Secretary, Benevolent March, the Lord Mayor, President of Fund of the Co-operative Wholesale JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 313 Society, Captain C. E. Froggatt, R.D., Life-boat Film, " Heroes of the Sea," R.N.R., Mr. C. E. Fielding, and Mrs. carried out by the Ladies' Life-boat Henry Bronnert. Mr. W. H. Flanagan, Guild. J.P., was appointed Chairman, in succes- OLDHAM (LANGS.).—Annual Meeting sion to the late Captain W. C. Bacon. of the Branch and Ladies' Life-boat Amount collected last year £3,739, as Guild on 16th February, the Deputy compared with £3,973 in the previous Mayoress in the chair. Amount col- year. lected last year £319, as compared with AEDWICK.—Address by the £295 in the previous year. Branch Secretary to the Downing Annual Whist Drive and Dance, Street Co-operative Guild. organized by the Ladies' Life-boat CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY. — Grand Guild. Concert, arranged by Miss F. Anstee, PIEL (BARROW).—Bridge and Whist a member of the Ladies' Life-boat Drive, arranged by Mrs. Chislett. Committee. Whist Drive, arranged PRESTON (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting by the District Committee. Dancing on 12th March, the Mayor, President of Displays by the pupils of the Stock- the Branch, in the chair. Amount bridge School of Dancing. collected last year £317, as compared CORNBROOK.—Address by the with £402 in the previous year. Branch Secretary to the Cornbrook CLAYTON GREEN. — Jumble Sale, Women's Guild (Co-operative). arranged by Miss A. Gardiner. BLACKLEY.—Annual Meeting of the RISHTON (LANCS.).—Fourth Annual Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Collections Ball. at the Palladium Cinema and Palais de Danse. ROCHDALE (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on the DROYLSDEN.—Address by the 14th January, the Mayor of Rochdale, Branch Secretary to the Co-operative President of the Guild, in the chair. Women's Guild. Amount collected last year £226, as GORTON.—Special Meeting. Ladies' compared with £138 in the previous Life-boat Guild formed. year. LOWER CRUMPSALL.—Meeting held ROMILEY (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meet- on 29th January, convened by the ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on Eev. H. A. Wahltuch, Rector of 20th March. Amount collected last Lower Crumpsall. District Committee year £40, as compared with £36 in the formed. Mr. P. M. Oliver, O.B.E., previous year. M.P., was elected President; Mr. J. STANDISH (LANCS.). — Bridge and Lees-Jones, J.P., and Mr. W. A. Whist Drive, organized by the Ladies' Burke, Vice-Presidents; Miss Hankey, Life-boat Guild. Honorary Treasurer; and Mr. R. Bray, Honorary Secretary. TOTTINGTON (LANCS.).—Whist and Bridge Drive, organized by the Ladies' OLD TRAFFORD.—Annual Dance. Life-boat Guild. House-to-House Col- PRESTWICH. — Address by the lection. Branch Secretary to the Women's TYLDESLEY (LANCS.) — Annual Co-operative Guild. American Tea, followed by a Fancy CLAYTON.—Annual Meeting on Dress Ball, organized by the Ladies' 31st March. Life-boat Guild. HALE.—Bridge Drive, organized by WHALEY BRIDGE (CHESHIRE). — the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Dramatic Performance by the Whaley NEW MOSTON.—Special Meeting. Bridge Play Club. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. WIGAN (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day. NELSON (LANCS.).—Collections at the WORKINGTON (CUMBERLAND). — Queen's Cinema, in connexion with the Annual Children's and Adults' Fancy 314 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. Dress Balls, organized by the Ladies' HECKMONDWIKE (YORKS.) — Annual Life-boat Guild. Meeting and Supper. Efforts of the WORSTHORNE (LANGS.).—Lantern past year: Life-boat Day, Bridge Lecture by Captain W. Halstead. Per- Drives, Concert. Amount collected last formance by the Worsthorne Dramatic year £63, as compared with £67 in the Society. previous year. North-East of England. HOLMFIRTH (YoRKS.).—Whist Drive ALTOFTS (YoRKS.).—Lantern Lecture. and Supper. Whist Drive. BARNSLEY (¥ORKS.).—Children's Ball. LEEDS (YORKS.).—-Two Bridge and BRADFORD (YORKS.).—Annual Meet- Whist Drives. Bridge Drive. ing on 21st January, the Lord Mayor, MELTHAM (YORKS.).—Whist Drive. President of the Branch, in the chair. REDCAR (YORKS.).—Special Meeting. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Dance Matinee. Amount collected last year and Jumble Sale. £1,760, as compared with £1,855 in the previous year. RYTON (DURHAM).—Annual Me_eting, Mrs. Hanson, President of the Guild, in BRIDLINGTON (YORKS.). — Annual the chair. Efforts of the past year : Meeting on 3rd March, Major Strickland, Life-boat Day. Amount collected last President of the Branch, in the chair. year £30, as compared with £27 in the Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, previous year. Organ Day, Concert. Amount collected last year £286, as compared with £247 in SCARBOROUGH (YoRKS.). — Bridge the previous year. and Whist Drives. Annual procession and service in SELBY (YORKS.).—Dance. memory of the lives lost in the great SHEFFIELD (YoRKS.).—Lantern Lec- gale of February 10th, 1871. Perform- ture. ance of the Life-boat Play " Their SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSETT Business in Great Waters." Sunday (YoBKS.).—Whist Drive and Dance. Concert. STOCKTON (DURHAM). — Carnival CAWTHORNE (YORKS.). — Whist Dance. Drive and Dance. TYNEMOUTH (NORTHUMBERLAND). — CULLERCOATS (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Annual Supper given by Ladies' Life- Bridge and Whist Drive. boat Guild to the Crew, the Mayor of DARLINGTON (DURHAM). —Annual Tynemouth presiding. Bridge and Meeting on 20th March, the Mayor, Whist Drive. President of the Branch, in the chair. WAKEFIELD (YoRKS.).—Bridge and Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Whist Drive. Garden Party, Bridge and Whist Drives. Amount collected last year £174, as WEST HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM). — compared with £157 in the previous Bridge and Whist Drive. year. WITHERNSEA (YoRKS.).—Public Meet- Whist Drive. ing and Tea. DONCASTER (YoEKs.).—Annual Meet- Midland*. ing, the Mayor presiding. Amount BADSEY (WORCESTER). — Life-boat collected last year £83, as compared Day. with £98 in the previous year. Life-boat Day. BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on 18th March, the Lord Mayor, President DRIFFIELD (YoRKs.).—Whist Drive of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : and Concert. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of GATESHEAD (DURHAM). — Bridge the Committee of Management. Pre- Drive. sentation of the Gold Brooch awarded HALIFAX (YoRKS.). — Whist and by the Institution to Mrs. Spencer, Bridge Drive. Honorary Secretary of the Wolver- JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 315 hampton Branch. Amount collected ment. Efforts of the past year : Life- last year £2,503, as compared with boat Day, Sunday Concert, and various £2,427 in the previous year. special efforts organized by the Ladies' Presentation by Mrs. Geoffrey Bird, Life-boat Guild. Amount collected last Chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, year £202, as compared with £162 in the of the framed photograph of a Life-boat previous year. going out to a vessel in distress, awarded Meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, by the Institution to Miss G. Brockbank. held by the kindness of Mrs. Lewis at Concert by the City Police Band, with Mevell House. an address by the District Organizing OAKHAM AND UPPINGHAM (RUTLAND). Secretary. Collections during a week —Life-boat Day. at the Royal Theatre and the Hippo- drome. Collection at Balsall Heath OLDBURY AND LANGLEY (WORCESTER). Picturedrome, when the Life-boat Film, —Dance. " Heroes of the Sea," was shown. RUGBY (WARWICK).—Annual Dance. House-to-House Collection. Three RUGELEY (STAFFS.).—Annual Ball. lectures and a wireless talk given by SOTNTHORPE (Lines.).—Performance the District Organizing Secretary. by the Santon Dramatic Society of the BRISTOL (GLOS.).—Annual Meeting, Life-boat Play, " Their Business in Commander Harvey presiding. Speaker: Great Waters." The District Organizing Secretary. SMETHWICK (STAFFS.).—Bridge Drive. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day, Annual Ball, Pantomime. Amount STROUD (GLOS.).—The Dansant. collected last year £1,063, as compared WALSALL (STAFFS.). — Collection at with £1,195 in the previous year. Cinema, when the Life-boat Film, Pantomime arranged by the Branch. " Heroes of the Sea," was shown. Addresses given to eight schools in Bristol and Avonmouth, and to the WOLVEHHAMPTON (STAFFS.). Life- Thornbury Women's Institute, by the boat Day, with Life-boat taken through District Organizing Secretary. the streets. Collections at Cinemas, when the Life-boat Film, " Heroes of COSELEY AND SEDGLEY (STAFFS.).— the Sea," was shown. Life-boat Dance. Life-boat Day. Eight lectures and addresses were COVENTRY (WARWICK). — Collections given by the District Organising Secre- in " Empire " Picture Theatre, " Broad- tary, in addition to those mentioned. way " and " Grand," when the Life-boat Film, " Heroes of the Sea," was shown. South-East of England. GRIMSBY (LiNCS.). — Bridge Drive, AYLESBURY (BUCKS.).—Theatricals. organized by the Ladies' Life-boat BIGGLESWADE (BEDS.). — Lecture to Guild' Brotherhood Meeting by Admiral Sir LEAMINGTON (WARWICK). — House- Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., to-House Collection. Theatre and K.C.I.E., C.B., a member of the Com- Cinema Collections, and Collection in mittee of Management. the " Bath Cinema," when the Life-boat BIRCHINGTON (KENT).—Theatricals. Film, " Heroes of the Sea," was shown. BRIGHTON (SUSSEX).—Presentation LICHFIELD (STAFFS.).—Annual Dance. by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman NEW MILLS (DERBY).—Life-boat Day. of the Committee of Management, to Collections in Cinema, when the Life- Mr. H. King, the Honorary Secretary, boat Film, " Heroes of the Sea," was of the Vellum recording his appointment shown. as a Life-Governor of the Institution, at NOTTINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on a luncheon given in Mr. King's honour 26th January, the Lord Mayor, Presi- by Mr. B. J. Saunders, President of the dent of the Branch, in the chair. Branch. Among those present were Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Captain the Right Hon. the Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Manage- P.C., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., a member of 316 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. the Committee of Management, and the MARGATE (KENT).—Party to Life- Mayors of Brighton and Hove. boatmen's children. CAMBRIDGE.—Films shown. House- PALLING (Norfolk).—Presentation by to-House Collection. Captain GuyFanshawe, R.N., a member CANTERBURY (KENT).—Annual Meet- of the Committee of Management, of the ing, the Mayor in the chair. Amount Certificates of Service awarded to Cox- collected last year £178, as compared swain and Crew on the closing of the with £146 in the previous year. Station. CATERHAM (SURREY). — Branch RAMSGATE (KENT).—Triennial Life- formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. James boat Dinner to the Life-boatmen, pro- Blair. vided by the legacies of the late Admiral Sir George Back and the late Mrs. CHELMSFORD (ESSEX).—Whist Drive Susannah Stephens. Mr. George F. and Bridge Drive. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, CHICHESTER (SUSSEX). — Lantern presided, supported by the Mayor of Lecture by the Honorary Secretary. Kamsgate, Mr. E. J. W. Bgrrajo, CHORLEY WOOD (HERTS.). — Branch Assistant Manager of the Prudential formed. Honorary Secretary, Miss Assurance Company, Ltd., donors of the Edmonds. present Ramsgate Motor Life-boat, and Mr. E. G. Crocker, the Honorary Secre- DARTFORD (KENT).—Whist Drive. tary of the Branch. Whist Drive and Three lantern lectures by Mr. P. Kemp. Dance. EASTBOURNE (SUSSEX).—Address at RAMSEY (HUNTS.).—Branch formed. a Brotherhood Meeting by Sir Godfrey Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Warde. Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management. Theatricals. Concert. SAFFRON WALDEN (ESSEX).—Lantern Lecture. EAST DEREHAM (NORFOLK).—Branch ST. IVES (HUNTS.). — Theatricals. formed. Mrs. Wormald, Honorary Presentation by the Mayor of the Gold Secretary. Brooch awarded by the Institution to FOLKESTONE (Kent).—Supper given Miss Mary Knights, the Honorary by the Branch to the Crew. Presen- Secretary of the Branch. tations of the Certificates of Service SELSEY (SUSSEX).—Presentation to awarded on the closing of the Station. the Coxswain of the Bronze Medal, and GOODWIN SANDS AND DOWNS (KENT). to each member of the Crew of the —Films shown. Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, awarded to them for the service GRAYS (ESSEX).—Life-boat Day. to the yacht Lucy B., of Rye, on GUILDFORD (SURREY).—Concert with 2nd November last. The presentations address by Sir Maurice Cameron, were followed by an entertainment. K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee SLOUGH (BUCKS.).—Concert at Iver. of Management. SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—Annual Meet- HASTINGS (SUSSEX).—Lantern Lec- ing, Alderman Sir John Francis, J.P., ture by the Honorary Secretary. Chairman, presiding. Amount collected HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HERTS.).—Lan- last year £479, as compared with £526 tern Lecture to Baptists' Young People's in the previous year. League by the Honorary Secretary. SOUTHWICK (SUSSEX).—Dance. Lantern Lecture at Locker's Park School by the Honorary Secretary. UCKFIELD (SUSSEX).—Concert. HYTHE (KENT).—Concert. WALTON AND FRINTON (ESSEX). — Annual Dinner to the Life-boat Crew. LEATHERHEAD (SURREY).—Carnival Presentation by Brigadier-General R. B. Dance. Colvin, C.B., T.D., Lord Lieutenant of LITTLEHAMPTON (SUSSEX).—Lantern the County, of the Institution's Thanks Lecture by the Honorary Secretary. on Vellum, awarded to Coxswain J. C. JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 317 Byford for the service to the yacht FALMOUTH (CORNWALL). — Dance, Auriga on the 22nd November last. arranged by " The Double Six Club." WALTON-ON-THAMES (SURREY). — Bridge Drive, arranged by Mrs. Chellew, Life-boat Day. President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. WEYBRIDGE (SURREY). — Life-boat FOWEY (CORNWALL).—Whist Drive Day. and Dance, arranged by the Ladies' WORTHING (SUSSEX).—Annual Meet- Life-boat Guild. ing on 20th March, the Mayor presiding. OXFORD (OxoN.).—Annual Meeting Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., of the Branch at Queen's College. Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Speaker : Mr. H. A. Baker, a member ment. Amount collected last year £528, of the Committee of Management. as compared with £686 in the previous Amount collected last year £766, as year. compared with £680 in the previous Dinner given by the Committee to year. the Crew on the closing of the Station. PAIGNTON (DEVON).—Whist Drive, Two lectures and addresses were organized by the Ladies' Life-boat given by the District Organizing Secre- Guild. tary, and two by Captain Basil Hall, R.N., in addition to those mentioned. PETERSFIELD (HANTS.).—Whist Drive, arranged by Miss Cave, the Honorary South-West of England. Secretary. APPLEDORE (Devon). — Presentation PLYMOUTH (DEVON).—Whist Drive, to Mr. H. C. Whitehead, the Hon. Secre- arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. tary, by Mr. George F. Shee, M.A. Secretary of the Institution, of the PORTSMOUTH (HANTS.) — Annual Vellum recording his appointment as an Meeting on 14th January, the Lord Honorary Life-Governor. Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair, supported by the Lady Mayoress, BOURNEMOUTH (HANTS.). — Whist President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Drive, arranged by Mrs. Ball, the Alderman Sir Harold Pink, J.P., Chair- Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life- man, of the Branch, and Mrs. Pollard, boat Guild. Chairman of the Guild. Speaker : Sir BRIDGWATER (SOMERSET).—Presenta- Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the tion to Mrs. Ferguson, the Honorary Committee of Management. Admiral Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Sir Roger Keyes, Bt., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., of the Framed Photograph of a Life-boat C.M.G., D.S.O., Commander-in-Chief at Going out to a Vessel in Distress, Portsmouth, presented the Challenge awarded to her by the Institution. Shield for the South-Western District in BRIDPORT (DORSET).—Annual Meet- the Life-boat Essay Competition for ing, Rear-Admiral C. H. Fox, C.B., Elementary Schools, won by Denis President of the Branch, in the chair, Butler, Stamshaw Boys' School, Ports- supported by the Mayor. Speaker : the mouth. Efforts of the past year : Life- District Organizing Secretary. Amount boat Day, Whist Drive at Purbrook, collected last year £59, as compared with Meeting and Tea by the Lady Mayoress, £84 in the previous year. Tea Party by Mrs. Pollard. Amount COWES (I.W.). — Annual Life-boat collected last year £392, as compared Dance and Children's Party, arranged with £383 in the previous year. by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Major- Special Meeting, at the Guildhall, of General the Right Ho'n. J. E. Bernard the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Pol- Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a member lard, Chairman, presiding, supported by of the Committee of Management, the Lady Mayoress. Speaker: The present. District Organizing Secretary. EXETER (DEVON).—Special Effort, ar- READING (BERKS.). — Presentation ranged by Mrs. Pitts and the Ladies' to Mr. G. Burton Fraser, the Honorary Life-boat Guild. Dance, organized by Secretary, of the Gold Pendant awarded the Junior Ladies' Life-boat Guild. to him by the Institution. 318 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. SALISBURY (WILTS.).—Special Meet- the County Hall, attended by the Duke ing at the New Theatre and display of and Duchess of Montrose, the Earl and Films, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : Countess of Caithness and the Lord and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of Lady Provost. the Institution. Special Orchestra. BATHGATE (LINLITHGOW).—Life-boat Lantern Lecture at Fonthill by Major Day. Rawlence, D.S.O., Honorary Secretary of the Branch. BURNTISLAND (FIFE).—Concert and Dramatic Entertainment, arranged by SOUTHAMPTON (HANTS.). —• Annual the Committee and the Ladies' Life-boat Meeting on 26th February, the Mayor, Guild, Mr. James Piper, Chairman of President of the Branch, in the chair. the Branch, presiding. Speaker: Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. Efforts of DUNDEE.—Presentation of the Cen- the past year: Whist Drive and tenary Vellum by the Duke of Montrose, Theatricals. Amount collected last C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the year £1,014, as compared with £760 in Scottish Life-boat Council, and a Vice- the previous year. President of the Institution. (A special " The Cuckoo in the Nest," played by report will appear in the next issue). the Blenheim Players. DUNFERMLINE (FIFE).—Whist Drive SWINDON (WILTS.).—Annual Meeting and Dance. at the Town Hall, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : the District Organizing Secre- EDINBURGH.—Whist and Bridge tary. Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Bonnyrigg Cinema Exhibition, TAUNTON (SOMERSET).—Whist Drive arranged by Mrs. Core-Greenshields. and Dance at West Monkton. Lantern Lecture to the Women's Guild THAME (OxoN.).—Annual Meeting, of St. Matthew's Parish Church by Major Ashton presiding. Speaker: Captain A. S. Balfour, O.B.E. Juniper Colonel The Master of Sempill, a Green Whist Drive, arranged by Mrs. member of the Committee of Manage- Sellar, of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. ment. Display of Life-boat Films. Concert and Exhibition of Life-boat TORQUAY (DEVON).—Whist Drive at Films, arranged by Mrs. Core-Green- Roslin Hall, arranged by Mrs. Thackrah, shields, a Vice-President of the Ladies' Joint Hon. Secretary, and members of Life-boat Guild. Musical programme by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. the Elizabethan Choir, conducted by Mr. Percy Snowden. Exhibitions of TRUBO (CORNWALL).—Whist Drive, Life-boat Films at Dalkeith Cinema, arranged by Mrs. Gibson, Honorary with collections, arranged by Mrs. Core- Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Greenshields. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (SOMERSET).—• FALKIRK (STIRLINGSHIRE).—Life-boat Whist Drive, arranged by the Honorary Day. Secretary of the Guild, at Worle. GOURDON (KlNCARDINESHIRE). — Lantern Lecture by Mr. J. H. John- Scotland. stone, the Honorary Secretary. ABERDEEN.—Annual Meeting on 6th February, the Lord Provost, President KILMARNOCK (AYRSHIRE). — Special of the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : Meeting, Bailie David Orr presiding. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., Speakers : The Duke of Montrose, C.B., V.D., Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Scottish Council, and a Vice-President of the Life-boat Council, and a Vice-President Institution, and the Earl of Caithness. of the Institution, the Hon. Godfrey Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day Corbett, and the Scottish Organizing and Ladies' Life-boat Guild Collections. Secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild Amount collected last year £1,015, as formed. compared with £757 in the previous year. NEWBURGH (ABERDEEN).—Presenta- Grand Ball on the 6th February in tion of Centenary Vellum by the Duke JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 319 of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chair- Wales. man of the Scottish Council, and a Vice- (Including Herefordshire and Shropshire.) President of the Institution, followed by ABERTILLERY (MoN.).—Annual Meet- a Fancy Dress Ball. (A special report ing, Mrs. A. H. Dolman, President, in will appear in the next issue.) the chair. Speaker : The District Or- PETERHEAD (ABERDEEN). — Concert, ganizing Secretary. Amount collected Provost Dickie presiding. Presentation last year £13, as compared with £23 in of monetary awards from a fund pro- the previous year. vided by the late Miss Cruickshank, to CARDIFF.—Annual Meeting on 23rd the members of the Life-boat Crew in March, the Lord Mayor, President of recognition of their services in rescuing the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : the crew of the Aberdeen trawler Sir W. R. Smith, Bt., and the District Cransdale on the 2nd January, 1931. Organizing Secretary. Amount col- lected last year £284, as compared with STORNOWAY (ISLAND OF LEWIS).— £292 in the previous year. Special Meeting of Committee, Sheriff Burns, Chairman of the Branch, pre- CONWAY (CAERNARVON). — Whist siding. Presentation of the Thanks of Drive. the Institution on Vellum awarded to HAY (BRECKNOCK).—Life-boat Day. Mr. Norman Maclver, the Honorary Secretary, on his retirement, and the LUDLOW (SALOP).—Annual Meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: The Certificate of Service awarded to Cox- District Organizing Secretary. Amount swain Donald MacLeod, on his retire- ment. collected last year £46, as compared with £35 in the previous year. Mrs. Whist Drive and Dance. Windsor Clive, President of the Branch, Inland. presented Mrs. Tyrrell, the Honorary Secretary, with the Framed Photograph BANDON (Co. CORK).—Annual Dance. of a Life-boat Going out to a Vessel in BELFAST.—Popular Ball, the guests Distress, awarded to her by the Institu- received by Lady Dixon, D.B.E., first tion. Vice-President, and Lady Coates. Chil- NEWPORT (MoN.).—Annual Meeting dren's Party, guests received by Lady on 24th March. Speaker : The District Coates and Mrs. George Clarke. Organizing Secretary. Amount collected CARLOW (Co. CARLO w).—Life-boat last year £165, as compared with £219 Day. in the previous year. Ball. DUBLIN.—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 5th March, PONTYPRIDD (GLAM.).—Annual Meet- Her Excellency Mrs. James McNeill, ing, Mr. B. Jenkins presiding. Speaker : President, in the chair. Speaker: The The District Organizing Secretary. District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last year £61, as compared with £49 in the previous year. LONDONDERRY.—Whist Drive. Mrs. Edwards and Miss G. Lewis LURGAN (Co. ARMAGH). — Annual appointed Joint Honorary Secretaries. Meeting on 26th February. Speaker: SWANSEA. — Annual Meeting, the the District Organizing Secretary. Mayor, President of the Branch, in the Amount collected last year £65, as chair. Speakers: Mr. C. C. Vivian, compared with £70 in the previous year. J.P., Honorary Treasurer, Miss Dillwyn, Presentation to Commander C. H. and the District Organizing Secretary. Fforde, R.N., the Honorary Secretary, of Amount collected last year £283, as the Framed Photograph of a Life-boat compared with £277 in the previous year. going out to a Vessel in Distress, awarded Whist Drive and Dance at the to him by the Institution. Mumbles. TUAM (GALWAY).—Life-boat Day. WREXHAM (DENBIGH).—Ball. 320 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931. Income and Expenditure for 1930. Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ ,. d. s ». d. New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account — Ballycotton, Berwiek-on-Tweed, BridJington, Campbeltown, Clacton, Clogher Head, Cloughey, Dover, Fishguard, Girvan, Hastings, Howth, Hythe, Kirkcudbright, Lerwick, Lytham, Moelfre, New- haven, Padstow, Penlee, Port Patrick, Ramsey, Redcar, St. Mary's (Scilly), St. Peter Port (Guernsey), Scarborough, Tenby, Torbay, Troon, Weymouth, Youghal, etc 75,001 4 11 Upkeep of Office and Store at Cowes . . 223 1 5 Alterations and Repairs of Life-boats, etc. . . 11,197 15 1 Consulting Naval Architect 419 16 11 Salaries and allowances of Inspectors and Surveyors of Machinery, Surveyors of Life-boats, Assistant Surveyors, Draughtsmen, and Clerks (31 persons) . 9,508 6 6 Travelling Expenses 2,879 19 11 Pensions and gratuity ...... 529 8 10 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 178 13 1 99,038 6 8 Life-boat Carriages and Tractors, viz.: — New Tractors, etc. . , . . . 602 13 7 Repairs to Tractors .... . 605 11 10 Alterations and Repairs of Life-boat Carriages . 315 12 5 Salaries and allowances of Assistant Inspector and Assistant Surveyor (2 persons) . . . 652 0 10 Travelling Expenses .... 535 5 0 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 42 2 6 2,753 6 2 Life-boat Houses, Slipways, etc. :- New Construction and Adaptation 17,446 13 Repairs and Maintenance 3,008 2 20,454 16 5 Life-boat Stores 22,383 9 0 Life-boat Storeyard at Poplar, including Taxes, Insur- ance and Repairs ...... 3,191 8 3 Salaries and allowances of Deputy Chief Inspector for Stores, Storekeeper and Clerks (17 persons), and Wages of Manual Workers (58 persons) . 13,560 4 6 Pensions and gratuity .... . 380 19 7 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 65 5 5 17,197 17 9 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. 11,771 14 10 Station Centenary Expenses ..... 20 4 7 Salaries of Assistant Secretaries, etc., of Stations (17 persons) 298 3 2 12,090 2 7 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 5,430 10 11 Grants to men injured in the Life-boat service . . 582 7 9 Fees of Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen, Wages of Motor Mechanics, etc 26,695 5 11 Payments to Life-boat Crews and Launchers for exercises, etc 6,724 12 11 Pensions and Retiring Allowances to Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen ..... 3,515 1111 Pensions and Grants to Relatives of deceased Life- boatmen and others ..... 1,501 1 6 Pensions and Gratuities to permanent Crews of Steam Life-boats ...... 906 19 0 45.356 9 11 Carried forward £220,174 8 6 JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 321

INCOME. Subscriptions, Donations, etc.: - s. s.

Life-boat Funds : — Civil Service Life-boat Fund, per H. A. Clark, Esq., I.S.O., in respect of the following Life-boat Establishments—Kingstown, Margate, Maryport, North Deal and Southend (additional) . . 2,385 7 4 North Dea\—Bevan Reward Fund (per the Charity Commissioners) 208 5 0 Covent Garden Life-boat Fund, per Bert J. Monro, Esq. (additional) 204 19 2 2,798 11 6

Income from Investments : — Dividends and Interest on Investments 42,419 14 9 Less Income Tax deducted 5,454 14 0 36,965 0 9 Special Purposes Trust Fund Income £ ». d. Account 1,633 18 11 Less Transfer to Special Purposes Trust Fund . . . . 388 1 7 1,245 17 4 Less Transfers to General Subscrip- tions, Station Branch Contribu- tions, and Financial Branch Contributions ... 73 8 10 1,172 8 6

Income Tax recovered . 4,362 14 4 42,500 3 7

Carried forward £i 87,204 7 1 322 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931- EXPENDITURE. S. s. d. S. a. d. Brought forward 220,174 8 6 Life-boat Inspectors, etc. — Salaries and allowances of Inspectors of Life-boats, and Clerks (20 persons) 6,739 19 8 Travelling Expenses, etc., of Inspectors . 2,350 9 4 Pensions and Gratuities ...... 2,273 17 0 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund . 108 15 11 n47q i 11 Administration : — One half of Salaries and allowances of Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary (General), and Clerical StaS (3i persons) 4,889 5 2 £ s. d. Rent, Leasehold Depreciation, Rates, Taxes, Lighting, Heating, Insurance, etc 1,262 9 7 Insurance under Workmen's Compensa- tion, National Insurance and Unem- ployment Insurance Acts . . 866 0 3 Commissionaires and Watchman (4 persons) 568 10 8 Telephones, Postages and Parcels . . 817 12 4 3,514 12 10 Less estimated amount chargeable to Publicity 1,700 0 0 1 814. 19 TO Pension ...... 49 13 0 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 165 2 11 Stationery, Office Expenses, Printing, Books, Circulars, Forms, etc. . . 1,492 7 9 Travelling Expenses to Headquarters — Committee of Management ...... 92 13 5 Auditors' Fee ...... 236 5 0 Law Expenses ...... 534 19 10 Repairs and improvements to the House of the Institu- tion ...... 37 7 0 Calls on Shares received from the Estate of the late Miss Sarah Berry ...... 25 0 0 Expenses re administration of the Estate of the late Miss G. D. Myatt 10 10 0 Expenses re administration of the Estate of the late Mr. W. C. Kettle 263 Publicity at Headquarters and 1102 Branches : — One half of Salaries and allowances of Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary (General) and Clerical Staff (as above), and Salaries and allowances of Assis- tant Secretary (Publicity), etc. (33 persons) 5,711 8 3 Salaries and allowances of District Organizing Secre- 6,628 19 9 Travelling expenses of District Organizing Secretaries 2,125 12 3 Annual General Meeting ...... 33 5 7 7,031 3 2 Stationery, Printing, Books, Circulars, Forms, Badges, Collecting Boxes, Postages, etc. .... 11,033 1 9 Printing and Binding the Annual Report and The 2,539 10 1 Salaries and Commissions of Assistant Secretaries, etc., of Branches (120 persons) ..... 4,548 4 1 Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 195 13 6 Estimated proportion of Administration Expenses as 1,700 0 0 41 546 18 5 Total Expenditure £282.544 12 0 JUNE, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 323

INCOME.

£ s. d. Brought forward 187,204 7 1 Sundry Receipts : Sale of old Life-boats, Life-boat Carriages, Life-boat £ s. d. Houses, Condemned Stores, etc. . . . 2,094 19 6 Sale of The Lifeboat Journal, Advertisements, etc. . 50 1 4 2,145 0 10 Ordinary Income 189,349 7 11 Legacies for General Purposes 69,539 o 2

Gifts and Legacies for Special Purposes: - Income only available :— Legacies .... 1,714 0 5 Special Gifts . . . . 824 14 4 2,538 14 9 Capital available :— Legacies .... 48,349 8 1 Special Gifts . . . 9,657 11 0 58,006 19 1 60,545 13 10 Total Receipts 319,434 7 n Less:— Transferred to Endowment Trust Fund . . 2,538 14 9 Do. Special Purposes Trust Fund . . 58,006 19 1 Less Calls on Shares, etc. . . 35 10 0 57,971 9 1 60,510 3 10 Total Receipts available for General Purposes • • • 258,924 4 i Transferred from Special Purposes Trust Fund for Life-boats, etc., included in Expenditure, defrayed during the year by Special Legacies and Donations ...... 13,783 5 1 272,707 9 2

Deficit charged to General Purposes Fund . . . 9,837 2 10

£282,544, J12 O

NOTE.—This account comprises the receipts and disbursements of the Headquarters of the Institution for the year to 31st December, 1930, and of the Branches for the year to 80th September, 1930. 324 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1931.

Where Help is Wanted. THE Institution is very anxious to form North-West of England. or develop Branches in the following places in the North-West of England, and CHESHIRE .—Tarporley. would be very grateful to any readers of CUMBERLAND.—Millom. The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch LANCASHIRE.—Colne, Little Lever with those who might be able to help. and St. Helens.

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The next number of " The Lifeboat " will be published in September, 1931.