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

VOL. XXXV DECEMBER, 1960 No. 394

Notes of the Quarter THE December number of the Life-boat, shown in a film ; and an appeal will recording as it does the happenings in be made by Mr. Wynford Vaughan the months of July, August and Septem- Thomas, the well-known broadcaster. ber, invariably has a bulky section If every reader of the Life-boat were to devoted to the detailed accounts of persuade or invite a half-a-dozen friends services by the life-boats, for it is in the to see and hear this appeal, the benefit summer months that the greatest num- to the service could be substantial. ber of services takes place. Once again this year the help given by life-boats to SURVEYS OF LIFE-BOATS yachtsmen and others who have gone to Those closely associated with life- sea for their own pleasure has been boat stations know that it is the continual. During the two months of Institution's practice to take life-boats July and August, for instance, life-boats away from their stations for a thorough put out to the help of yachts and other survey every four years, in addition to pleasure craft no fewer than 76 times ; the normal annual inspection of all there were 41 effective services, and 37 life-boats lying afloat. The average lives were rescued. Yet during July annual cost to the Institution of the there was only one property salvage surveys is over £40,000. One remark- claim for the saving of a yacht, and in able fact that has emerged from an that instance the yacht had been aban- analysis of these costs is that the annual doned by her crew, who had been taken expenditure on surveys is actually less off by another boat. In August there than it was before the war, although were only three property salvage claims wage rates have approximately trebled. in all, and in September only one. The principal reason for this is that Pleasure craft have, of course, given because of the continual changes in rise to only a proportion of the services design and materials the amount of rendered by life-boats during these repair work, which surveys today show summer months. Numerous fishing to be needed, has been greatly reduced. boats were also towed in, refloated or escorted ; sick and injured men were FILMS AND PUBLICATIONS taken off lighthouses and lightvessels ; A new film on the life-boat service, a motor vessel which was drifting near which will be released for general dis- rocks was towed to safety ; a life-boat tribution, is at present in the course of stood by a tanker on fire ; and another production. The film is being made by life-boat was launched to the help of a Independent Artists with the full co- helicopter which had crashed into the operation of the Institution. It will be sea. in colour and will run for approximately half-an-hour. The present provisional TELEVISION APPEAL title is The Green Stars. Much of the The first appeal on behalf of the film is being made at Tenby in Pem- Royal National Life-boat Institution by brokeshire and other parts at Appledore television will be made early next year. and Minehead. Another film being The date is Sunday, 19th February, but shown in cinemas entitled Depth Charge the time cannot yet be stated with cer- features the St. Abbs life-boat. Neither tainty. A number of people who have of these films is at present available for been rescued by life-boats will record branch showings, but a new 12-minute their impressions ; the new life-boat colour film entitled Life-boat Call, station on the Lizard peninsula will be which depicts a service by the Southend 524 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 life-boat and shows life-boats under VISIT TO FREN'CH LIFE-BOAT construction. is now available to STATION branches. On the 27th of August, 1960, a A revised edition of the illustrated courtesy visit to the Calais life-boat 2s. 6d. booklet published by Pitkin station was paid by the Walmer life- Pictorials Ltd. entitled The Pictorial boat, the Calais life-boat having been Story of the Life-boat Service and its present at the naming of the new Heroes has recently been put on sale. Walmer life-boat last year. The Mayor On all copies sold by branches the of Calais presented Coxswain Frederick Institution makes a profit of lOd. Upton with a plaque in recognition of Routledge & Kegan Paul will be past services to the crews of French publishing in the spring How Men Are vessels in the Channel. Two other ex- Rescued From The Sea by Patrick life-boats with their owners aboard Howarth. This work traces the history accompanied the Walmer boat. One and describes the work of all the was the former Walmer life-boat, which organisations concerned with safety and is now owned by Mr. H. Schermuly, rescue at sea including Trinity House, President of the Walmer branch ; the the Coastguard, the Air/Sea Rescue other was the former Poolbeg boat Service, the Royal Life-Saving Society now owned by the Secretary of and other bodies as well as the Royal the Institution, Lieut.-Colonel Charles National Life-boat Institution. Earle.

Portrait on the Cover THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- trailing from her to leeward, Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who swain Cann took the life-boat under was appointed bowman in 1922, became her lee and succeeded in bringing off second coxswain in 1931 and has been her whole crew. For this service he coxswain since 1933. Since he became was awarded the bronze medal for a boat's officer Appledore life-boats gallantry. Five years later, in Novem- have been launched on service 119 times ber 1949, twenty-four sailors were and have rescued 105 lives. rescued from the Spanish steamer In 1944 the Appledore life-boat Monte Gurugu in a service in which the rescued the crew of seven of a concrete [Ifracombe, Appledore and Cloveily harbour unit, one of the concrete life-boats all put out. For this service caissons used for building the break- Coxswain Cann received a second water of the invasion port on the coast service clasp to his bronze medal. of Normandy, in a south-westerly gale. The photograph is reproduced by Although the craft was rolling heavily courtesy of the Western Times Co. and two broken towina wires were Ltd.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Life-boats LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1960 - 82,825 DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 525 Three Stations Celebrate Centenaries THE hundredth anniversary of the of July, 1960. A similar ceremony foundation of life-boat stations at took place at Whitehills, Banffshire, in Thurso and Whitehills in Scotland, and the Boyndie parish church on the 28th at Portrush in Northern Ireland, have of August, when Lord Saltoun once recently been celebrated. again presented a certificate. At Thurso Lord Saltoun, a member The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alder- of the Committee of Management of man R. G. C. Kinahan, presented the the Institution and Chairman of the vellum voted to the Portrush station at Scottish Life-boat Council, presented a ceremony in Portrush harbour on the the certificate inscribed on vellum, 3rd of September, 1960, after a short which the Committee of Management service of re-dedication. Commander had voted, at a church service held at A. J. O'B. Twohig represented the the Royal National Mission to Deep Committee of Management of the Sea Fishermen at Scrabster on the 31st Institution.

Boy and Uncle Rescued by Boatman ON the morning of the 12th of June, on the lilo and that he had been trying 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on to swim out to help. an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being Mr. Smith continued the search for carried down Wells channel on the the boy, and at 12.10 found him in Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The the water face downwards. He turned time then was 11.30, two hours after the boat head on into the wind and high water. The weather was over- current and allowed her to drift down, cast with a south-south-westerly wind towards the boy, who was then hauled of gale force and a choppy sea, and the on board. At this time the boat was ebb tide with an off shore wind was very near the bar. She was in about running fast down the narrowing ten feet of water and there was a short, channel between the exposed banks on steep, confused sea, but by his careful either side. The boy was being carried handling of the boat Mr. Smith did out towards the bar. not take any weight of water on About 11.40 Mr. E. B. Smith of board. Wells, who regularly ferries people across the channel, was landing some Learnt from Television Programme visitors to the north-west of the The evening before Mr. Smith had life-boat station. There a member of seen a television programme illustrating the St. John Ambulance Brigade told the Holger Nielsen method of artificial him that someone was in trouble in the respiration, and handing the tiller to channel. Mr. Smith asked for this the uncle with instructions to beach information to be given to the life-boat the boat, he began to try to revive the station, but decided to put out at once boy. Half an hour later the boat was in his own 14-feet boat, which had an beached, and a young girl visitor con- outboard engine. tinued the work of trying to revive the boy, who remained in the boat. Tossed into the Air Mr. Smith asked another visitor to As soon as he was clear of the beach summon an ambulance, and with the Mr. Smith saw a lilo being tossed into help of the uncle and a man named the air in the direction of the bar. Lade, who was serving in the Royal Then he noticed that a man was in the Air Force, he tried to take the boat up channel swimming on his back. He stream against the wind and current. approached the man, who was ex- Because of sand in the water intake the hausted, and pulled him into the boat. engine broke down, and they had to He then learnt that this man was the pull the boat into shallow water. Then uncle of the boy who was drifting out with the help of members of the life-boat 526 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 crew the boat was hauled up. By ambulance was waiting. Members of this time Mr. Smith himself was the crew continued with the artificial exhausted. respiration until the ambulance men took over, and the boy recovered. Boy Recovers For this service the thanks of the The boy was beginning to show signs Institution inscribed on vellum have of revival, and a doctor now appeared. been accorded to Mr. E. B. Smith. Using the tractor which normally helps The Institution also presented him with to launch the life-boat, members of the a watch and made him monetary pay- life-boat crew hauled the boat over the ments for loss of earnings and repairs sands to the life-boat station, where an to his outboard engine.

New Ways of Raising Money

The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, The Dover ladies' life-boat guild ran Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a a successful vanishing coffee party. The substantial contribution in his life-boat first hostess invited six people to coffee, collecting-box from a German visitor. charging each a shilling and giving each The German explained that he had a receipt from a book. She also gave been a U-boat commander in the last each of the guests a book containing war and had been rescued from the five receipts, each of the five in turn North Sea by one of the Institution's asking four people, the next four invit- life-boats. ing three, and the next three inviting two.

When Harbens' senior staff mess at Parkside Mills, Golborne, near War- rington, closed down, a collection of A doctor in Blyth visited an old-age beer mats assembled over 36 years and pensioner, who produced an old jug, numbering over 2,000 was given to the stating that he had put threepence a Institution to sell. An advertisement week into the jug throughout the year was placed in a national paper, and until life-boat day. When the jug the mats were sold for £17, the money was emptied it was found to contain being credited to the Golborne branch. 16s.

The Stanmore branch recently organ- Mr. Donald Pink, a woodcarver, ised what is known as a " good as holds an annual exhibition, a part of new" sale. People brought articles which is devoted to puzzles in wood. which they wanted to sell, and one If visitors are defeated by the puzzles penny in each shilling was taken for they can learn the solutions at the commission and given to the Stanmore enquiry desk on payment of a forfeit branch funds. in the life-boat collecting box.

The Bushey and Bushey Heath branch organised a Christmas punch party in A lady in Wales has raised more the house of a member of the com- than £250 for the Institution in the last mittee. Those who came were charged four years by making dolls and selling 3s. 6d. for tickets, and the recipe for them at a special doll stall on life- the punch was sold at a shilling. boat day. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 527 Two New Life-Boats Named NEW life-boats provided for the boat Solomon Browne, at a ceremony stations at Islay (Hebrides) and Penlee in Mousehole harbour on the 17th of (Cornwall) were formally named during September, 1960. The new boat, the summer. The Islay ceremony took which is also one of the 47-feet Watson place on the pier at Port Askaig on the type, has been provided out of legacies 22nd of July, 1960, when Lady Jean left by Miss Lydia Mary Dyer Browne Fforde named the new life-boat Francis of Launceston, Cornwall, Miss Blanche W. Wother'spoon of Paisley. The boat, Waterhouse of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, and Miss Sara Wilhelmina Davies of was provided from a legacy of the late Timperley, Cheshire, and the general Mr. F. W. Wotherspoon. funds of the Institution. Mr. A. W. Campbell, chairman of Captain R. E. Goodman, chairman the branch, took the chair, and Lieut.- of the Penlee branch, took the chair, Commander D. G. Wicksteed, northern and Lieut.-Commander H. H. Harvey, district inspector, described the new western district inspector, described the boat. Lord Saltoun, a member of new boat. The Hon. Greville Howard, the Committee of Management of the M.P., a member of the Committee of Institution and Chairman of the Management of the Institution, handed Scottish Life-boat Council, handed the the life-boat over to the branch, Mr. boat over to the branch, Mr. Neil Mac- J. K. Bennetts, honorary secretary of Millan, honorary secretary of the branchs the branch, accepting her. accepting her. After a vote of thanks The Dean of Truro, the Very Rev. had been proposed by Mr. E. C. Peat, H. M. Lloyd, assisted by the Vicar of honorary treasurer of the branch, and Paul, the Rev. J. H. Tyrrell, and the seconded by Mr. G. F. Baird, the Rev. Minister of St. Clement's Methodist G. W. Charlton, minister of the parish Church, the Rev. J. P. Homer, dedi- of Kilmeny, dedicated the life-boat. cated the life-boat, and after hymns The singing, which included a render- and a benediction the Mayor of ing of the 100th psalm in Gaelic, was Penzance, Councillor R. C. Matthews, led by the Bowmore Gaelic Choir, proposed a vote of thanks, which was conducted by Mrs. Barbara Penman, seconded by Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward and the Kidalton Choir conducted by Bolitho. Mr. John C. Hopkin. Music was played by the Penzance Lady Tedder named the new Penlee Silver Band.

New Life-Boat Station Opened THE Duke of Richmond and Gordon built because of the effects of coast opened the new life-boat house at the erosion, has cost some £75,000. In recently completed station at Selsey, 1925 the Selsey life-boat house was Sussex, at a ceremony on the 18th of situated on land, but over the years July, 1960. Earl Howe, Chairman of piles had to be provided to support it, the Committee Management of the and a gangway had to be constructed Institution, gave an address, the Rev. to breach the gap between the boat- E. Gearey, chairman of the branch, house and the land. This gangway taking the chair. The Rev. E. G. Wells, with its approach eventually became Vicar of South Bersted, dedicated the 270 yards long. The depredations of new boat-house, and Mr. A. G. the sea continued, and finally it became Doggart proposed a vote of thanks. clear that a completely new station The new station, which had to be would have to be built. 528 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Service of the Life-boats in July, August and September 134 Lives Rescued JULY secretary that a fishing boat was burn- DURING July life-boats were launched ing an orange smoke signal south-east on service 108 times and rescued 38 of St. Anthony Head. The life-boat lives. Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched at 2.25 in a gentle westerly ESCORT FOR COBLE AFTER CALL breeze and a choppy sea. It was one TO SPEEDBOAT hour before high water. The fishing Hartlepool, Durham. At 2.30 on the boat Soft Wings, with a crew of four, afternoon of 3rd of July, 1960, the second was found drifting out to sea with a coxswain was informed that a speed- rope round her propeller. The life- boat had capsized off the breakwater. boat towed the boat to safety and The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil arrived back at her station at 3.45. Service No. 7) was launched at three Rewards to the crew, £4. o'clock in a moderate east-south- easterly breeze and a moderate sea. YACHT TOWED CLEAR OF SANDS The tide was half ebb. Soon after the Margate, Kent. At 5.35 on the life-boat had left the harbour the speed- afternoon of the 8th of July, 1960, the boat was seen to be in tow, and the life- coastguard informed the honorary boat made for her station. On the secretary that a yacht was ashore on way back she closed a small fishing the Last Sands four and a half miles coble, and because of the state of the sea west-north-west of the coastguard look- the coxswain advised the skipper to out. When it was confirmed that her return to harbour. The life-boat es- crew were on board the yacht the life- corted the coble in and reached her boat North Foreland (Civil Service station at 4.50. Rewards to the crew, No. 11) was launched at 6.5 in a gentle £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, northerly breeze and a slight sea. It £1 16s. was low water, and the weather was showery. The life-boat towed the TOW FOR KETCH WITH ENGINE yacht Vengla, which had a crew of five, TROUBLE clear of the sands and brought her into Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 Ramsgate. The life-boat arrived back on the morning of the 6th of July, at her station at 3.25 the next morning. 1960, the coastguard informed the Rewards to the crew, £19 Is. ; re- honorary secretary that a yacht with a wards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s. crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TANKER east of St. Catherine's Point light- ON FIRE house. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was Angle, Pembrokeshire. Early on the launched at 4.51 in a moderate westerly morning of the 9th of July, 1960, breeze. There was a moderate sea and the coxswain told the honorary secre- the tide was flooding. The life-boat tary that he had heard a violent came up with the ketch Adele Jeanne, explosion and seen clouds of black which had developed engine trouble, smoke coming from the direction of and towed her back to Bembridge, the Esso jetty at Milford Haven. The arriving at 9.50. Rewards to the crew, life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary £10 17s. ; rewards to the helpers on Gar forth of Leeds was launched at shore, £3 5s. 6.48 in a moderate westerly breeze and a calm sea. It was high water. The TOW FOR FISHING BOAT FOUND explosion had occurred on board the DRIFTING tanker Esso Portsmouth, which was on Falmouth, Cornwall. At 2.15 on the fire. After searching without success afternoon of the 6th of July, 1960, the for survivors in the water the life-boat coastguard informed the honorary stood by the tanker until the fire was DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 529 under control. She returned to her in trouble and was drifting towards station at 12.30. Rewards to the Pendine. Someone on board was crew, £9 2s. ; rewards to the helpers waving a shirt. The life-boat Henry on shore, £6 16s. Comber Brown was launched five minutes later in a moderate south- DOCTOR BROUGHT TO MAN SAVED westerly breeze. The sea was rough, FROM YACHT and it was one hour before low water. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.54 When the life-boat reached the area on the morning of the 9th of July, indicated she found two yachts on the 1960, the coastguard told the honorary beach, one of them labouring violently secretary that a yacht had capsized off in the surf. A line was passed to this Brooklands Jaywick and that her crew yacht, and the life-boat towed her to were clinging to the keel. The life- Saundersfoot. The other yacht was boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched not in trouble. The life-boat then re- at 10.15 in a light westerly breeze and a turned to her station, which she reached slight sea. The tide was half flood. at 3.15. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; When the life-boat reached the yacht rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 18s. she found that her crew of two had been picked up by an outboard motor TWO YOUTHS RESCUED BY boat from a dredger, which was at BREECHES BUOY work near by. One of the survivors Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.14 on the needed a doctor, and the life-boat afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the made for Clacton, took a doctor aboard coastguard informed the honorary and returned to the dredger. She then secretary that a canoe had capsized off returned to her station, with the two Cuckmere. The life-boat Kathleen survivors on board, arriving at 12.15. Mary was launched at 1.25 in a strong Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards south-south-westerly breeze and a to the helpers on shore, £5 13s. rough sea. It was high water. When the life-boat reached the area indicated MAN TAKEN OFF YACHT ON two youths were found at the foot of SANDS the rocks, to which they had swum Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on from the canoe. A line was fired to the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the them, and they were hauled on board police informed the honorary secretary the life-boat by breeches buoy. The that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- life-boat arrived back at her station at tay sandbank on the south side of the three o'clock. Rewards to the crew, entrance to the Tay. As no other boat £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, was available, the life-boat City of £3 13s. Bradford II was launched at 7.3, with a boarding boat in tow, to warn the TOW FOR MOTOR YACHT WITH yacht of the dangerous quicksands in ENGINE TROUBLE the area. There was a light south- Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on south-easterly breeze and a calm sea. the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, It was two hours before low water. the coastguard informed the honorary The life-boat took off the occupant of secretary that a boat anchored off the yacht Duchess and landed him at Colne Point was dragging her anchor Broughty Ferry, arriving back at her and showing a distress signal at the station at 8.45. Rewards to the crew, mast-head. The life-boat Sir Godfrey £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, Baring was launched at four o'clock in £1 10s. a light south-south-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was two hours after high TOW FOR YACHT IN TROUBLE water. The life-boat came up with the IN SURF casualty, which was a motor yacht Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.10 on with a crew of three, and found that she the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, had engine trouble. The yacht was the coastguard informed the honorary towed to Brightlingsea, and the life- secretary that a yacht was apparently boat then returned to Clacton. The 530 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 weather by then had grown worse, and LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FRENCH the life-boat had to lie off the pier until YACHT IN GALE the morning. As conditions did not Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 improve, the life-boat returned to on the morning of the llth of July, Brightlingsea. She finally reached her 1960, the coastguard informed the station at 8.30 on the morning of the honorary secretary that distress signals 12th of July. Rewards to the crew, had been fired from a yacht between £36 11s. ; rewards to the helpers on Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat shore, £15 8s. Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 21.14 in a fresh west-south- westerly gale, heavy rain and a rough INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. sea. The tide was half ebb. The life- TROOPSHIP boat came up with the yacht Duclair of Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.50 on Le Havre, whose crew of four declined the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, assistance. The life-boat stood by the the coastguard informed the honorary yacht for some time and then returned secretary that the United States troop- to her station, arriving at 4.5. Rewards ship General Randall was passing to the crew, £12 19s. ; rewards to the through the Pentland Firth with a badly helpers on shore, £4 10s. injured man aboard, who had to be land- ed for hospital treatment. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was CANOEIST RESCUED IN HARBOUR launched at 5.40 in a fresh south- Dover, Kent. At 3.5 on the afternoon easterly breeze and a moderate sea. It of the 11th of July, 1960, a report was was one hour after high water. A received that a canoe had capsized in rendezvous with the troopship was Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern made in Thurso Bay, and the injured Africa put out at 3.15 in a fresh south- man and a medical officer were trans- westerly gale and a moderate sea. It ferred to the life-boat and landed. was two hours after high water. The The medical officer was later taken back life-boat picked up one man and the to the ship. The life-boat arrived back canoe. Another man who had been in at her station at 7.30. Rewards to the canoe had swum ashore. The life- the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers boat arrived back at her station at 4.15. on shore, etc., £3 9s. Rewards to the crew, £5; reward to the helper on shore, 5s. YACHT ESCORTED AFTER GOING AGROUND Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.53 on the LINE FIRED TO BOAT DRIFTING evening of the 10th of July, 1960, the NEAR ROCKS watchman on the east pier told the Troon, Ayrshire. At four o'clock on honorary secretary that a yacht was the afternoon of the llth of July, 1960, aground on the Brake Sands three and the coastguard informed the honorary a half miles south of Ramsgate. The secretary that a motor boat had broken life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out down with engine trouble near the Bell at 8.5, with the second coxswain in Rock off Prestwick. The life-boat command, in a west-south-westerly James and Barbara Aitken put out at breeze and a moderate sea. It was low 4.25 in a gentle north-westerly breeze water. The life-boat came up with the and a slight sea. It was two hours after motor yacht Salonika, which had a low water. The life-boat came up with crew of nine, and found that she was in the motor boat Aquila, which had a no immediate danger. With the incom- crew of two and which was drifting ing tide the yacht refloated, and the dangerously near the rocks. A line was life-boat escorted her to Ramsgate, fired, and a tow-rope passed to another reaching her station at 10.21. Rewards motor boat. The life-boat then returned to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the to her station, arriving at 6.30. Rewards helpers on shore, 10s. to the crew, £8 8s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 531 LEAKING TRAWLER FOUND AFTER a dinghy with two naval ratings return- NIGHT SEARCH ing to their ship was missing. The life- Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.14 on the boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse night of the 11th of July, 1960, the coast- put out at 1.57 in a strong southerly guard informed the honorary secretary breeze and a rough sea. There were that red flares had been observed six to heavy rain squalls. It was two hours seven miles east-south-east of the before low water. The life-boat carried Newarp lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat out an extensive search in co-operation Henry Blogg was launched at 10.40 in with other craft, using flares and her a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and searchlight. Shortly after daylight the a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the dinghy, which she weather was overcast with poor visi- recovered. The two ratings had swum bility. As no trace of the casualty could safely ashore after their dinghy had be found in the position given, it was capsized in the rough sea about two thought that she might have floated off hundred yards off shore. The life-boat the Happisborough Sands and be drift- reached her station at 6.15. Rewards ing. The area of search was altered, to the crew, £12 16s. and eventually the trawler Craddock, with a crew of six, was found with the TWO RESCUED AFTER YACHT motor vessel Melrose Abbey of Hull CAPSIZES standing by. The Craddock was leaking Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.10 on the badly, and two members of the life-boat evening of the 13th of July, 1960, the crew were put on board her. The life- coastguard informed the assistant boat sent a message by radio-telephone honorary secretary that a yacht had for a tug and stood by until the tug capsized about three-quarters of a mile arrived to take the Craddock in tow. from the boathouse. The life-boat The life-boat then returned to her Beryl Tollemache was launched at 7.18 station, arriving at 5.45 in the morning. in a strong southerly breeze and a rough Property salvage case. sea. It was low water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Kittiwake and BOAT RESCUES GIRL DRIFTING found two people clinging to her. They ON MATTRESS were taken on board the life-boat, which Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- towed the yacht ashore. The life-boat folk. At 10.27 on the morning of the arrived back at her station at 7.45. The 12th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- two survivors made a donation to the formed the honorary secretary that a Institution's funds. Rewards to the girl had been seen floating from the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on beach on a rubber mattress. The life- shore, £15 16s. boat Louise Stephens was launched three minutes later in a moderate westerly TOW FOR YACHT AFTER ENGINE breeze and a slight sea. It was two BREAKDOWN hours before low water. The girl was Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the picked up by a motor boat near the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the harbour mouth and transferred to the coastguard informed the coxswain life-boat. She was suffering from shock superintendent that a yacht was drifting and was wrapped in blankets. On being towards the entrance of the River Hum- landed, she was taken by ambulance to ber but was not showing distress signals. hospital. The life-boat arrived back at The yacht was kept under observation, her station at 10.41. Rewards to the and at 1.5 the life-boat City of Bradford crew, £6 5s.; rewards to the helpers on III was launched in a gentle westerly shore, £4 5s. breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat came up NIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING with the yacht Sthoreen, which had one NAVAL RATINGS man aboard, three miles south-east of Plymouth, Devon. At 1.45 early on Spurn Point and found she had a the morning of the 13th of July, 1960, broken rudder pintle and that her engine the coastguard told the coxswain that had broken down. She towed the yacht 532 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 to Grimsby and then returned to her launch was waterlogged and her engine station, arriving at 5.50. Paid per- was out of action. The life-boat took manent crew. her in tow and arrived back at her station at 12.35. Rewards to the crew, YACHT TOWED AFTER CREW £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, TAKEN OFF £3 5s. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, CANOE RACE COMPETITOR the coastguard informed the honorary RESCUED secretary that a sailing dinghy had cap- Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At sized in the Solent between Lymington 12.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of Spit buoy and Fort Albert. The life- July, 1960, the life-boat Rachel and boat S.G.E. was launched at 4.37 in a Mary Evans began escorting the com- fresh south-westerly breeze and a rough petitors in a canoe race from Watch sea. It was high water. As the life- Tower Bay towards Weston-super- boat was approaching the casualty, Mare. There was a fresh south-westerly which was the yacht Tomasina, the breeze and a choppy sea. A number of yacht's crew of two were picked up by canoes got into difficulties, and the life- a motor launch, which was on passage boat picked up the crews and took their from Hurst to Yarmouth. The yacht craft on board. One canoe capsized and was righted and taken in tow by the was spotted by an aircraft, which life-boat, which arrived back at her directed the life-boat to the position by station at 6.10. Property salvage case. means of flares. The life-boat rescued the canoeist and arrived back at her TOW FOR VESSEL DRIFTING station at nine o'clock. Rewards to the TOWARDS ROCKS crew, £15 Is.; rewards to the helpers Islay, Hebrides. At 11.53 on the on shore, £3. morning of the 15th of July, 1960, a report was received that the motor THIRTEEN PEOPLE CUT OFF BY vessel Universal Dipchick was calling for TIDE the assistance of a life-boat as she had Dover, Kent. At 6.15 on the evening lost her anchor and was drifting towards of the 16th of July, 1960, the police re- the Black Rock reef with her main en- ported that a number of people had gine out of action. The life-boat Francis been cut off by the tide at Fan Bay. W. Wotherspoon of Paisley put out at The life-boat Southern Africa put out, 12.12 in a moderate northerly breeze towing her boarding boat, in a moderate and a choppy sea. It was two hours southerly breeze and a moderate sea. after high water. The life-boat came It was one hour after high water. Thir- up with the vessel, which had a crew of teen people were taken off the beach, six, three hundred yards off the rocks transferred to the life-boat and landed and succeeded in taking her in tow. The at Camber. The life-boat arrived back life-boat reached her station at 1.45. at her station at eight o'clock. Rewards Property salvage case. to the crew, £10; reward to the helper on shore, 5s. WATERLOGGED LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW YACHT'S CREW TAKEN OFF Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 ISLAND on the morning of the 16th of July, 1960, Poole, Dorset. At 12.55 on the after- the coastguard passed on to the honor- noon of the 17th of July, 1960, the ary secretary a report that a motor police informed the honorary secretary launch was firing red flares three miles that a cabin cruiser was considerably east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse overdue from a fishing trip and that the Lumb was launched at 11.20 in a gentle crew's relatives were becoming anxious. south-westerly breeze and a moderate The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was sea. It was low water. The life-boat launched at 1.15 in a strong south- came up with the launch Batboat II, westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The which had one man on board. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 533 the yacht Forella ashore on Brownsea COASTER AND STEAMER IN Island, where she had been blown after COLLISION parting her anchor cable. Her crew of New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.18 two were standing by the yacht, and on the night of the 18th of July, 1960, the life-boat took them off and landed the coastguard informed the honorary them at Poole. The life-boat arrived secretary that a collision had occurred back at her station at 2.40. Rewards to between the coaster Denbigh Coast and the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on the s.s. Irish Maple one mile east of the shore, £1 16s. Formby light float, and that the Denbigh Coast was settling. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out at 10.30 in CREWS OF TWO DINGHIES a moderate westerly breeze with a slight TAKEN ON BOARD sea and rain squalls. It was two hours after high water. When the life-boat Coverack, Cornwall. At 4.38 on the reached the position it was found that afternoon of the 17th of July, 1960, the the crew of ten of the Denbigh Coast honorary secretary was informed that had been rescued by other vessels. A a dinghy appeared to be in difficulties ship's boat was taken in tow by the and was being blown ashore on Low- life-boat, which arrived back at her land Point. The life-boat William station at three o'clock in the morning. Taylor of Oldham was launched at 4.50 Rewards to the screw, £9 12s.; rewards in a strong west-south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was two hours to the helpers on shore, £1 12s. before low water. The life-boat went MAN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY alongside the dinghy, which was in a CAPSIZES dangerous position, and took off her Dungeness, Kent. At 9.20 on the crew of two. The life-boat took the morning of the 19th of July, 1960, the dinghy in tow and before returning to coastguard informed the honorary sec- her station picked up two other people retary that a sailing dinghy was in diffi- from a second dinghy, which was also culties two miles east of Dungeness in difficulty. This dinghy too was taken Point. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland in tow. The life-boat arrived back at was launched at 9.40 in a fresh south- her station at six o'clock. Rewards to westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on was high water. When the life-boat shore, £5 8s. reached the position, she found that the dinghy Siox Kayak had capsized and that her sole occupant was clinging to ISLAND'S OWNER TAKEN OFF her. The man was picked up and the TO HOSPITAL dinghy taken in tow. The life-boat Clovelly, Devon. At 4.45 on the after- arrived back at her station at 11.3. noon of the 18th of July, 1960, a message Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to was received that the owner of Lundy the helpers on shore, £9 15s. Island had injured his hand so badly that he needed medical attention ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TWO urgently. No other boat being available, CHILDREN ABOARD the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley Stromness, Orkneys. At one o'clock was launched at 5.30 in a fresh westerly early on the morning of the 21st of July, breeze and a moderate sea. The tide 1960, the police informed the honorary was half ebb. The injured man was secretary that after a small yacht had embarked and landed at Clovelly, where stranded under Ness Battery one of her a doctor was waiting, and the life-boat crew had come ashore to get help, but arrived back at her station at 10.15. on returning to the boat had found that The owner of Lundy Island made a she had refloated. The life-boat donation to the Institution's funds to Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson cover the cost of the launch. Rewards was launched at 2.3 in a light south- to the crew, £9 12s.; rewards to the easterly breeze and a smooth sea. It helpers on shore, £10 16s. was one hour before low water. The 534 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 yacht Spray, which had four people on that her crew of two were asking for board, including a woman and two help. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was children, was found at the entrance to launched at 3.42 in a strong south- Stromness harbour and was escorted to westerly breeze and a rough sea. The Graemsay. The life-boat arrived back tide was half ebb. On her way to the at her station at 3.30. Rewards to the position the life-boat picked up the four crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on occupants of a rowing boat, which was shore, £1 16s. in difficulties off Seaview. A later message stated that the sailing boat had ESCORT FOR WATERLOGGED gone ashore between Hill Head and Lee- YACHT IN TOW on-Solent and that her crew of two were Selsey, Sussex. At 12.15 on the after- safe. The life-boat was recalled and noon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coast- arrived back at her station at 6.50. guard informed the honorary secretary Rewards to the screw, £8 8s.; rewards that they were keeping the yacht Lucy, to the helpers on shore. £3 5s. which appeared to have engine trouble, under observation. A fishing vessel was TOW TAKEN OVER FROM COLLIER later seen to take the yacht in tow, but Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 6.50 on because of the deteriorating weather the evening of the 21st of July, 1960, at the time and the probable condition the coastguard informed the honorary of the Lucy, it was decided to launch secretary that the fishing boat Sparkling the life-boat. The life-boat Canadian Star was in a sinking condition and was Pacific was launched at one o'clock in being towed by the collier Capitol, which a moderate west-south-westerly breeze had asked for the help of a life-boat. and a moderate sea. It was two hours The life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield after high water. The Lucy, which was was launched at 6.55 in a fresh west- under tow and waterlogged, was north-westerly breeze and a smooth sea. escorted to Selsey, where she was The tide was half ebb. The life-boat beached. The life-boat arrived back at came up with the Capitol three miles her station at three o'clock. Rewards east-south-east of Scarborough and to crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers took over the tow. The life-boat arrived on shore, £4 18s. back at her station at eight o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER the helpers on shore, £6 13s. CAPSIZE Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one YACHT ESCORTED IN SQUALLY o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of WEATHER July, 1960, the coastguard informed the Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the honorary secretary that a small yacht afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the appeared to be in difficulties off the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the to keep a catamaran under observation. yacht was seen to capsize, and the life- As the weather was becoming rapidly boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest worse and the boat could not be seen was launched at 1.12 in a fresh north- because of heavy rain squalls, it was westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It decided to launch the life-boat M.T.C., was two hours after high water. The which put out at 2.54. It was two hours yacht's crew had managed to right her, before low water, there was a strong and the life-boat then escorted her to south-westerly breeze, and the sea was moorings, reaching her station at 2.50. rough. The life-boat came up with the Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to Shellduck, which was yawing badly, five the helpers on shore, £3 5s. miles east-south-east of Hastings. She had three men and a girl on board. The CREW TAKEN OFF ROWING BOAT life-boat escorted her to Rye and then Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.36 on returned to her station, arriving at 6.22. the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, A donation was made to the Institu- the coastguard informed the honorary tion's funds. Rewards to the crew, secretary that a dismasted sailing boat £9 16s.; rewards to the helpers on had been reported off Bramble buoy and shore, £24 12s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 535 INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF WELSH to her. The life-boat White Star, on ISLAND temporary duty at the station, was St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 8.5 launched five minutes later in a moder- on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1960, ate southerly breeze and a moderate sea. the coastguard informed the honorary Visibility was poor. It was low water. secretary that a man who had fallen The dinghy was found, and the two men, down the cliff at Ramsey Island was who were suffering badly from exhaus- injured, and that the services of the life- tion and exposure, were picked up. The boat might be required. The fact that life-boat took the dinghy in tow and the life-boat was needed was later con- arrived back at her station at 4.47. firmed, and the life-boat Swyn-y-Mor Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to (Civil Service No. 6) was launched, the the helpers on shore, £3 12s. boarding boat with a stretcher on board being taken in tow. There was a gentle ESCORT FOR YACHT IN ROUGH SEA westerly breeze and a moderate sea, and Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.40, early the weather was overcast and showery. on the morning of the 25th of July, It was two hours before low water. 1960, the coastguard informed the hon- Three of the crew of the life-boat landed orary secretary that a vessel was firing on the island and went to the farmhouse, red flares a quarter of a mile off Birling where a doctor was attending the in- Gap. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was jured man. The patient was transferred launched at one o'clock in a rough sea by stretcher to the boarding boat and and a fresh south-westerly breeze with then to the life-boat, which landed him rain squalls. It was high water. The at Forth Stinnan, where an ambulance life-boat came up with the yacht Lady was waiting. The life-boat arrived back Karem, which had a crew of three. She at her station at 10.45. Rewards to the put one man on board and escorted crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on the yacht, whose compass was out of shore, £2 12s. order, to harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at three o'clock. MAN'S BODY FOUND IN SEA Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.16 to the helpers on shore, £3 14s. on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, TOW FOR CATAMARAN AFTER 1960, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and LAUNCH TO DINGHY Phyllis Lunn was launched on exercise Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.40 on the in a light westerly breeze and a smooth afternoon of the 25th July, 1960, the sea. The tide was half ebb. Soon after coastguard informed the honorary sec- the life-boat had left the harbour the retary that a sailing dinghy had capsized body of a man who had gone overboard three miles south-east of the boathouse. from the yacht Solveig the night before The life-boat Watkin Williams was was found and recovered. Artificial launched at 3.45 in a gentle to moderate respiration was applied and the oxygen south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. resuscitation apparatus was used, but The tide was half ebb. The life-boat without success. A message was passed found a catamaran with a crew of three, by radio-telephone for an ambulance to who had attempted to assist the dinghy meet the life-boat, and the body was but were themselves in difficulties. The landed at 3.45. The exercise was then catamaran was taken in tow, and the resumed. Rewards to the crew, £7; re- life-boat arrived back at her station at wards to the helpers on shore, £1 5s. 6d. 5.30. The dinghy had been towed ashore by a motor launch. Rewards to TWO MEN RESCUED AFTER the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers DINGHY CAPSIZES on shore, £2 12s. Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 24th of July, 1960, the TOW OF FISHING BOAT TAKEN coastguard informed the honorary secre- OVER tary that a sailing dinghy had capsized Hastings, Sussex. At 9.45 on the two miles north-west of Penrhos beach evening of the 25th of July, 1960, the and that her crew of two were clinging coastguard informed the honorary 536 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 secretary that red flares had been coastguard informed the honorary sec- observed five miles south-east-by-south retary that a vessel towing a cabin of Fairlight. The life-boat M.T.C. was cruiser appeared to have broken down. launched at 10.9 in a gentle north- She was drifting broadside and flying westerly breeze and a smooth sea. a red flag on a short mast. The life- It was two hours after high water. boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at The fishing boat Our Lady was found 11.15 in a strong south-west-by-westerly to be in tow of another fishing boat breeze and a rough sea. It was low Patricia Peggy, and the life-boat took water. The life-boat came up with the over the tow to Hastings. The life- launch Victor, which had a crew of boat arrived back at her station three, some two miles south-west of the at 11.42. Rewards to the crew, £7; life-boat station and found that the rope rewards to the helpers on shore, £23 4s. which had connected the Victor and the yacht Lulworth Castle had parted. The TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH life-boat crew helped to reconnect the ENGINE DISABLED tow, and the life-boat escorted both Workington, Cumberland. At 5.7 on boats into smooth water, returning to the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1960, her station at 1.50. Rewards to the the coastguard told the honorary secre- crew, £10 16s.; rewards to the helpers tary that a fishing boat was firing red on shore, £11 4s. flares one mile south of Workington pier. The life-boat Manchester and TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FOULED Salford XXIX was launched three PROPELLER minutes later in a fresh west-north- Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th of was two hours before low water. The July, 1960, the coastguard informed the life-boat found the fishing vessel Prim- honorary secretary that a small boat rose, which had a crew of seven, drifting appeared to be in difficulties and drift- with her engine out of action. She ing off Porthdinllaen Point. The life- towed her back to harbour, arriving at boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched six o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £7. at 5.30 in a strong south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was one hour be- HELICOPTER CRASHES INTO SEA fore low water. The life-boat came Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- alongside the dinghy, which had a crew folk. At 11.53 on the morning of the of three, and found that her outboard 27th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- engine had broken down and that a rope formed the honorary secretary that a had fouled her propeller. The boat was helicopter had been seen to crash half a taken in tow, and the life-boat arrived mile east of Gorleston coastguard look- back at her station at 6.35. Rewards out. The life-boat Louise Stephens was to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers launched three minutes later in a gentle on shore, £3 18s. south-south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was high water. An air-sea ESCORT FOR BARGE IN TOW OF rescue launch, which had been exercising ANOTHER with the helicooter, arrived just before Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- the life-boat and rescued the helicopter ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- crew of three. The life-boat picked up guard informed the honorary secretary a rubber dinghy and transferred it to that a barge was flying the international the rescue launch. She then returned code flag F, indicating she was disabled, to her station, arriving at 12.20. Re- four miles east-north-east of Margate wards to the crew, £10; rewards to the pier. The life-boat North Foreland helpers on shore, £3. (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 8.36 in a moderate west-south-westerly TOW RECONNECTED AND BOATS breeze and a choppy sea. It was two ESCORTED hours before low water. The life-boat Dungeness, Kent. At 10.41 on the spoke the motor barge Pudge, which morning of the 28th of July, 1960, the had a crew of two, and the master said DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 537 that they were awaiting help from Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- another of the company's barges. After folk.—July 14th.—Rewards, £9. the second barge had taken the Pudge Coverack. Cornwall.—July 14th.—Re- in tow the life-boat escorted both vessels wards, £14 12s. to a safe anchorage. The life-boat Holyhead, Anglesey.—July 15th.—-Re- arrived back at her station at 10.30. wards, £8 18s. Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—July the helpers on shore, £4 4s. 16th.—Rewards, £11. Exmouth, Devon.—July 16th.—Re- The following life-boats went out on wards, £7. service, but could find no ships in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—July 17th. distress, were not needed, or could do —Rewards, £7. nothing: Torbay, Devon,—July 17th.— Salcombe, Devon.—July 2nd.—Re- Rewards, £8 6s. wards, £9 12s. North Sunderland, Northumberland. Salcombe, Devon.—July 3rd.—Re- —July 17th.—Rewards, £13 15s. wards, £8 4s. Newhaven, Sussex.—July 17th.— Re- Margate, Kent.—July 3rd.—Rewards, wards, £10 13s. £18 13s. Rhyl, Flintshire.—July 17th.—Re- Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- wards, £10 11s. folk.—July 14th.—Rewards, £9. Plymouth, Devon.—July 17th.—Re- Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—July 8th.—• wards, £9. Rewards, £11 18s. Islay, Inner Hebrides.—July 19th.— Portrush, Co. Antrim.—July 8th.— Rewards, £5 13s. Rewards, £7 16s. Wick, Caithness-shire.—July 20th.— Swanage, Dorset.—July 9th.—Re- Rewards, £6 8s. wards, £7 16s. Humber, Yorkshire.—July 21st.—Paid Runswick, Yorkshire.—July 9th.—Re- Permanent Crew. wards, £17 Is. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.— Boulmer, Northumberland.—July July 9th.—Rewards, £8 8s. 22nd.—Rewards, £15 16s. Selsey, Sussex.—July 10th.—Re- Dungeness, Kent.—July 23rd.—Re- wards, £7 14s. wards, £30 14s. Selsey, Sussex.—July 10th.—Re- Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—July wards.—£13 6s. 23rd.—Rewards, £13. Fowey, Cornwall.—July 10th.—Re- Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—July wards, £7 6s. 23rd.—Rewards, £7. Fowey, Cornwall.—July 10th.—Re- Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—July 24th.— wards, £8 8s. Rewards, £12 6s. Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—July 10th. Islay, Inner Hebrides.—July 24th.— —Rewards, £13 16s. Rewards, £21 Is. Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—July llth. Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—July —Rewards, £17 12s. 24th.—Rewards, £10 6s. Aberdeen No. 1.—July 12th.—Re- Plymouth, Devon.—July 25th.—Re- wards, £7 12s. wards, £4. Ramsgate, Kent.—July 12th.—Re- Broughty Ferry, Angus,—July 25th. wards, £7 10s. —Rewards, £7 17s. Humber, Yorkshire.—July 13th.— Torbay, Devon.—July 26th.—Re- Paid permanent crew. wards, £11. Donaghadee, Co. Down.—July 13th.— Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—July 26th.—Re- Rewards, £9 2s. wards, £28 6s. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—July Swanage, Dorset.—July 28th.—Re- 14th.—Rewards, £12 16s. wards, £21 9s. Holyhead, Anglesey.—July 14th.—Re- Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—July 28th.— wards, £15 3s. Rewards, £15 8s. Eastbourne, Sussex.—July 14th.—Re- Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—July 29th.— wards, £23 14s. Rewards, £12 11s. 538 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Howth, Co. Dublin.—July 29th.— two hours before low water. At the Rewards, £8 16s. request of the naval authorities the life- Padstow No. 2, Cornwall.—July 29th. boat towed the whaler into Porthleven, —Rewards, £12. as the boat was not equipped for being Dungeness, Kent.—July 30th.—Re- under way during darkness. The life- wards, £20. boat arrived back at her station at 11.45. Falmouth, Cornwall.—July 30th.—Re- Rewards to the crew, £9 16s.; rewards wards, £17 9s. to the helpers on shore, £10 16s. Anstruther, Fife.—July 30th.—Re- wards, £15 6s. THREE BOATS HELP TO REFLOAT Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—July 31st.—• YACHT Rewards, £10 12s. Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.30 on Falmouth, Cornwall.—July 31st.—Re- the morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, wards, £8 8s. information was received that a yacht Hastings, Kent.—July 31st.—Re- was aground in Machrihanish Bay. The wards, £28 8s. life-boat City of Glasgow 11 put out in Ramsgate, Kent.—July 31st.—Re- a fresh-to-strong north-north-westerly wards, £7 10s. breeze and a moderate to rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the yacht Skerryvore aground a quarter AUGUST of a mile north of Machrihanish Burn DURING August life-boats were launched with three of her crew of six on board. on service 96 times and rescued 48 lives. A line was passed and connected. Two fishing boats also reached the scene, and INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF IRISH with their help the yacht was refloated. LIGHTHOUSE The life-boat arrived back at her station Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At at 12.50 early on the 4th of August. 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of Rewards to the crew, £36 Is.; rewards August, 1960, a request was received to the helpers on shore, £1 9s. from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an MAN RESCUED FROM RUBBER injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- MATTRESS house and take out another keeper to Cromer, Norfolk. At 7.50 on the relieve him. The life-boat Douglas Hyde morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, the put out at 6.45, with a boarding boat coastguard informed the honorary sec- in tow, in a gentle southerly breeze and retary that a man on a rubber mattress a calm sea. The tide was half ebb. The appeared to be in difficulties and was life-boat embarked the injured man with drifting out to sea. No other boat being considerable difficulty and landed him available, the life-boat Henry Blogg was at Rosslare, where he was treated by a launched at 7.55 in a moderate south- doctor before being transferred to hos- westerly breeze and a corresponding sea. pital. The life-boat arrived back at her It was two hours after high water. The moorings at 9.10. Rewards to the crew, man was picked up about half a mile £10; rewards to the helper on shore, east of the life-boat station in an 15s. exhausted condition. The life - boat arrived back at her station at nine TOW FOR WHALER WITH CADETS o'clock. The rescued man made a ON BOARD donation to the Institution's funds. Re- The Lizard, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the wards to the crew, £7; rewards to the evening of the 2nd of August, 1960, in- helpers on shore, £5 12s. formation was received that a naval whaler manned by an officer and four TOW TAKEN OVER FROM DUTCH cadets on passage from Falmouth to SHIP Penzance was off the Lizard and might be Swanage, Dorset. At 6.44 on the in difficulties. The life-boat Duke of York evening of the 4th of August, 1960, the was launched at 8.15 in a light north- coastguard informed the honorary sec- westerly breeze and a calm sea. It was retary that the motor vessel Camroux I DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 539 of London had a yacht in tow which she secretary that flares had been seen be- wished to hand over. As no other boat tween the North and South Smethwick was available, the life-boat R.L.P. was buoys three to five miles east-south-east launched at 6.59 in a light south- of Bridlington. The life-boat Tillie westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at tide was half ebb. The life-boat took 9.5 in a light southerly breeze and a over the tow of the yacht Fairwinds, calm sea. The tide was half ebb. The which had a crew of two, a mile and a life-boat searched for three hours and half east of Peveril Point and towed her found the fishing boat Margaret Ann to moorings in Swanage Bay. The life- with her engine out of action and a boat arrived back at her station at 7.25. crew of five on board. She towed the Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to boat back to harbour and then returned the helpers on shore, £2 8s. to her station, arriving at 2.30 in the morning. Rewards to the crew, £ 1017s.; LIFE-BOAT RECOVERS BOYS' DINGHY rewards to the helpers on shore,£8 10s. Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 11.44 on the morning of the 6th of August, 1960, TOW FOR YACHT WITH ONE MAN the honorary secretary learnt from the ABOARD Wicklow life-boat station that a dinghy North Sunderland, Northumberland. had been seen to capsize off Mizen At 9.30 on the evening of the 7th of Head. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was August 1960, the coastguard informed launched at 11.51 in a light north- the honorary secretary that they had a easterly breeze and a moderate sea. It yacht under observation. Seventeen was two hours after high water. When minutes later they asked for the services the life-boat arrived at the position, of the life-boat. The life-boat Grace onlookers told the coxswain that the Darling launched at eight o'clock in a boys had reached the beach. The life- light northerly breeze and a slight sea. boat recovered their dinghy and re- It was low water. The life-boat came turned to her station, arriving at 1.20. up with the yacht, which had one man Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to on board, and towed her back to har- the helpers on shore, £3 14s. bour, arriving at eleven o'clock. Re- wards to the crew, £6. TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE TROUBLE BODY RECOVERED FROM SEA Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 on the Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.22 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1960, a evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the message was received from Valentia coastguard informed the honorary sec- radio that the fishing boat Ros Bui was retary that a body had been reported drifting two miles south of Puffin Head floating three hundred yards north- and needed immediate help. The life- north-east of Trevose lighthouse. No boat Rowland Watts put out at 7.45 in other boat being available, the life-boat a moderate north-easterly breeze and a Joseph Hiram Chadwick put out in a calm sea. The tide was ebbing. The gentle north-westerly breeze and a slight life-boat found the fishing boat six miles sea. It was one hour before high water. south of Puffin Head. The boat, which The dead body was recovered, and the had a crew of six, had engine trouble. life-boat returned to her station, arriv- The life-boat towed her into Portmagee ing at 8.30. Rewards to the crew, £5; quay and arrived back at her station rewards to the helper on shore, 12s. at 12.10 early on the 7th of August. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; rewards FISHING FLEET WARNED OF BOMB to the helpers on shore, 16s. DANGER Hastings, Sussex. At eight o'clock TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE on the evening of the 8th of August, ABOARD 1960, the police informed the honorary Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.57 on secretary that a fishing vessel had towed the evening of the 7th of August, 1960, an unexploded bomb on to the beach the coastguard informed the honorary at the fishing stage. After discussion 540 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 with the police, it was decided to launch FISHING BOAT TOWED TO PIER the life-boat to warn the fishing fleet Stronsay, Orkney Islands. At 6.25 on as they returned from fishing. The life- the evening of the 10th of August, 1960, boat M.T.C. was launched at eight a local resident told the honorary secre- o'clock. It was high water, there were tary that a fishing boat was in difficulties light north-westerly airs, and the sea close in to Warness and needed assist- was smooth. The life-boat patrolled ance. The life-boat John Gellatly Hynd- the area, and at 12.15, when the bomb man was launched at 6.45 in a strong no longer presented any danger, she north-north-easterly breeze and a rough began to escort the fishing boats to their sea. It was two hours before low water. berths. The weather was then deterior- The life-boat found the fishing-boat ating. The life-boat arrived back at her Jean with her engine out of order and station at 1.15. Rewards to the crew, a crew of two on board, and towed her £17 5s.; rewards to the helpers on to Eday pier. The life-boat returned shore, £20 10s. to her station at 9.5. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers YACHT TOWED IN AFTER NIGHT on shore, 12s. SEARCH Minehead, Somerset. At 9.50 on the FISHING BOAT WITH TWO ABOARD evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the TOWED IN coastguard informed the honorary sec- Sheringham, Norfolk. At 1.30 on the retary that a dismasted yacht appeared afternoon of the llth of August, 1960, to be broken down and in need of help the coxswain told the honorary secretary in Bridgwater Bay. Further enquiries that a small fishing boat with two men were made and, when the report was on board was having considerable diffi- confirmed, the life-boat B.H.M.H. was culty in making the shore. The life-boat launched at 10.25 in a gentle westerly Foresters Centenary was launched at breeze and a moderate sea. It was two 1.50 on the ebb tide with a fresh north- hours after high water. The life-boat easterly breeze blowing and a moderate came up with the yacht Pam, which had sea. The life-boat found the fishing a crew of three, some seven miles east boat Enterprise, with two men on board, of Minehead. She towed the yacht to and towed her to the shore. The life- harbour and arrived back at her station boat returned to her station at 2.34. at six o'clock in the morning. Rewards Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to to the crew, £13 13s.; rewards to the the helpers on shore, £17 8s. helpers on shore, £8 15s.

HELP FOR FRENCH TRAWLER EMPTY SAILING DINGHY TOWED IN AGROUND Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.12 Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.10 on the on the afternoon of the 12th of August, evening of the 9th of August, 1960, the 1960, the coastguard informed the coastguard informed the honorary sec- chairman of the branch, who was acting retary that a French trawler was aground as honorary secretary, that a sailing at the entrance to the harbour. Ten min- dinghy had capsized a mile and a half utes later the trawler asked for help. The from South Pirsey Head. The life-boat life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched Howard Marryat was launched at 12.28 at 8.30 at low water in a squally south- in a moderate to fresh north-north- westerly breeze and a moderate sea. westerly breeze with a calm sea. The An attempt was made to pull the trawler tide was flooding. The life-boat found off, but the tow-line parted. A tug had the sailing dinghy with no one on board. now reached the scene, and the life-boat She searched a wide area but found no passed a line from the tug to the trawler, sign of life. The dinghy was towed which was soon refloated and proceeded back to harbour, and handed over to into harbour. The life-boat returned to the receiver of wrecks. The life-boat her station at 9.45, Rewards to the returned to her station at 6.30. Re- crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on wards to the crew, £12 10s.; rewards shore, £3 13s. to the helpers on shore, £3 12s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 541

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' Bv courtesy of] [Belfast News-Letter CENTENARY CELEBRATION AT PORTRUSH (see page 525) DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 549 TOW FOR SMALL BOAT WITH TWO ASSISTANT MECHANIC BOARDS ABOARD YACHT The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 1.36 Swanage, Dorset. At 8.6 on the even- on the afternoon of the 12th of August, ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the 1960, the coastguard informed the coastguard informed the honorary sec- honorary secretary that a small open retary that a yacht with two people boat with two occupants was flying dis- on board was drifting near Old Hang tress signals a mile and a half-mile south Rocks. The life-boat R.L.P. put out at of Mumbles Head. The life-boat 8.19 in a gentle to moderate west-south- William Gammon—Manchester & Dis- westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was trict XXX was launched at 1.55 in a two hours before low water. The life- gentle to moderate west-north-westerly boat found the yacht Maricke anchored breeze with a smooth sea. The tide was on the edge of the Milkmaid Shoal with half ebb. The life-boat came up with her mainsail carried away and her the pleasure boat Roomer and towed auxiliary engine out of action. The her back to the Mumbles, arriving at coxswain put a man on board the yacht 3.6. Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to help weigh anchor, and the life-boat to the helpers on shore, £5 4s. then towed her into Poole harbour, where she anchored near Brownsea RESCUED MEN WITHOUT WATER Island pier. The life-boat returned to FOR TWO DAYS her station, arriving at 10.30. Rewards Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.55 on the to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the morning of the 13th of August, 1960, helpers on shore, £2 16s. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties three and a half miles south- SICK WOMAN LANDED FROM YACHT south-east of the Protector buoy. The IN TOW life-boat City of Bradford III put out Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.50 at 10.5 in a light south-westerly breeze. on the morning of the 15th of August, There was a moderate sea, and it was 1960, the coastguard passed on to the one hour after low water. The life-boat honorary secretary a report from the found a fishing boat, whose crew of two Galloper lightvessel that the yacht Julia, were taken on board and given hot bound from Rotterdam to Harwich, soup. The men had been without water was alongside with a sick woman on for two days and were very tired. The board. Great concern for her condi- assistant mechanic went on board the tion was felt by her husband, who was fishing boat to steer her, and the life- also aboard the yacht and who was a boat then towed her to Grimsby. The doctor. He had asked for assistance to life-boat afterwards returned to her bring her ashore without delay. The station, arriving at 7.15. Property life-boat Edian Cowtauld left her moor- salvage case. ings at 12.25 and put out, picking up on her way the second coxswain, who THREE RESCUED FROM CATAMARAN was lobster fishing. When the life-boat Selsey, Sussex. At 5.31 on the even- left the harbour the weather was cloudy ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the with a light north-westerly wind and a coastguard informed the honorary sec- corresponding sea. It was low water. retary that a catamaran had capsized a When the life-boat reached the yacht, quarter of a mile south of Selsey Bill. it was found that the woman and her The life-boat Canadian Pacific was nine-year-old daughter had been taken launched at high water in a gentle west- on board the lightvessel. The doctor, south-westerly breeze and a moderate who was the owner of the yacht, said sea. The life-boat picked up the three his auxiliary engine had broken down. people who had been in the catamaran He asked to be towed into the Walton from the water and returned to her River. After taking the yacht into station at seven o'clock. Rewards to Walton with the woman and child on the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on board, the life-boat returned to her shore, £4 17s. station at 10.30. The doctor made a 550 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 donation to the funds of the Institution. Trevose Head lighthouse had reported a Rewards to the crew, £21 13s.; rewards capsized boat with someone clinging to to the helpers on shore, £5 5s. her five hundred yards off the lighthouse. The no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chad- TOW FOR YACHT WITH EXHAUSTED wick was launched at 1.50 in a gentle CREW north-westerly breeze with a slight sea. St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.53 It was one hour after high water. The on the afternoon of the 15th of August, life-boat took the man on board and 1960, the honorary secretary received a towed the dinghy into harbour, return- message through the British Railways ing to her station at 4.5. A second man, wireless station asking for the life-boat who had been in the dinghy fishing, to go to the help of a yacht which was was helped ashore by the lighthouse sinking seven miles north of Platte keeper. Rewards to the crew, £7 Fougere. The life-boat Euphrosyne 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, Kendal put out at 12.7 in a moderate £1 4s. westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was high water. The life-boat found FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR the yacht Nomad with the R.M.S. St. SHORE Julian standing by. The coxswain put Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the a member of his crew on board the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the yacht, who reported that the yacht's coastguard informed the honorary sec- crew were exhausted and that there retary that red rockets had been sighted were about three feet of water in the to the south-east in the direction of yacht. The member of the life-boat Papa Westray. The life-boat John crew made fast a towing hawser and Gellatly Hyndman put out at 11.40 in a helped in baling during the tow back to gentle westerly breeze with a slight sea. St. Peter Port. The life-boat returned It was two hours before low water. The to her station at 3.30. Rewards to the life-boat found the fishing boat Press crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on On K.263 with a crew of two drifting shore, 15s. close in on the north shore of Eday. She towed her to a safe berth in Calf TWO RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED Sound and returned to her station at BOAT 2.20 in the morning. Rewards to the Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.50 on crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers the evening of the 15th of August, 1960, on shore, 12s. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had capsized SPEEDBOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR in Hartlepool Bay near the shore and Moelfre, Anglesey. At one o'clock that two people were clinging to her. on the afternoon of the 18th of August, The life-boat Princess Royal (Civil Ser- 1960, the coastguard informed the vice No. 7) launched at 6.10 in a gentle honorary secretary that a speedboat westerly breeze, taking a small boat had been seen to capsize a mile north- with her. There was a slight sea, and west of Moelfre Island and that shouts it was low water. The life-boat found for help could be heard. The life-boat the dinghy, and by the use of the small Watkin Williams was launched five boat the two people were taken on minutes later. A gentle south-westerly board the life-boat. The dinghy was wind was blowing and there was a towed back to harbour, and the life- choppy sea. It was two hours before boat returned to her station at 6.40. low water. When the life-boat reached Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to the scene a launch was picking up the the helpers on shore, £1 16s. survivors. Having checked that they were all safe, the life-boat crew took TWO MEN IN TROUBLE IN DINGHY the capsized boat in tow, and the life- Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.30 on the boat returned to her station, arriving afternoon of the 16th of August, 1960, at 2.30. Rewards to the crew, £4; the coastguard informed the honorary rewards to the helpers on shore, secretary that the keeper of the £3 5s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 551 ESCORT FOR DINGHY WITH TWO shaft was broken. The boy was taken CHILDREN ON BOARD on board the life-boat and given first Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 5.5 on aid treatment by the bowman. The the afternoon of the 18th of August, life-boat landed him, and he was taken 1960, the coastguard informed the by ambulance to hospital. The life- honorary secretary that a dinghy fitted boat then returned to the Fisher Lass and with an outboard engine, with two towed her to harbour, arriving at 2.15. children on board, had run out of petrol Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to and was in the tide race half a mile the helpers on shore, £8 9s. north-north-east of Dinas Head. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched YACHT'S CREW WITHOUT FOOD in fine weather with a gentle south- FOR THIRTY-SIX HOURS westerly breeze blowing and a slight Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.3 sea. It was high water. The life-boat on the afternoon of the 20th of August, escorted the dinghy about a mile and a 1960, the coastguard informed the half to Pwll-Gwaelod and returned to honorary secretary that a yacht was her station at seven o'clock. Rewards firing red flares to the east of the har- to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers bour. A moderate west-south-westerly on shore, £2 12s. wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and it was the first hour of the flood TOW FOR YACHT WITH SAILS tide. At 5.12 the life-boat Rosa Woodd CARRIED AWAY and Phyllis Limn was launched. She Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.17 on the found the yacht Pippa, whose crew morning of the 19th of August, 1960, asked to be taken into Shoreham Har- the coastguard passed on to the bour. They had engine trouble, all had honorary secretary a report from been sea-sick, and they had been with- the Kentish Knock lightvessel that the out food for thirty-six hours. As they yacht Lillibet was proceeding towards were incapable of sailing their boat into Middle Knock buoy with her sails the harbour, the life-boat towed her carried away and her ensign flying up- into the lock gates, reaching her station side down. The life-boat Michael and at 7.12. Property salvage case. Lily Davis was launched at 10.30 in a slight west-north-westerly breeze and a QUEEN'S COUSIN TAKEN OFF slight sea. It was higo water. The life- SPEEDBOAT boat came up with the yacht, which had Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- a crew of five on board, and found her noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares foresail had carried away and her engine and rockets were spotted over the Good- was out of action. She towed her into win Sands near the wreck of the N.E. harbour and returned to her station at Victory by the life-boat mechanic and 2.22. Property salvage case. others on the sea front. A west-south- westerly wind was blowing and the sea INJURED BOY LANDED FROM was moderate to rough. It was almost FISHING COBLE low water when the life-boat Charles Cullercoats, Northumberland. At Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was 12.56 on the afternoon of the 19th of launched at 5.17. A small shallow- August, 1960, the coastguard informed draught white speedboat was sighted the honorary secretary that a fishing and recognised as the Doughty, a turbo- coble was flying distress signals off craft belonging to Earl Granville, a Tynemouth beach. The life-boat Isaac cousin of the Queen. Two of the life- and Mary Bolton was launched at 1.2 boat crew boarded the speedboat, whose in a light north-westerly breeze with a engine had failed. Her owner and slight sea. It was two hours before low another man were taken on board the water. When the life-boat reached the life-boat. The Doughty was taken in fishing coble Fisher Lass she found that tow, and the life-boat then returned to one of her crew of six, a sixteen-year- her station, which was reached at 7.10. old boy, had injured his arm in the haul- Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to ing gear, and that the boat's propeller the helpers on shore, £13 10s. 552 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 ESCORT FOR LAUNCH IN ROUGH squally with a strong southerly wind SEA and a rough sea. At 8.10 the life-boat Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on Frank and William Gates was launched. the morning of the 21st of August, 1960, She reached the yacht at 8.55 and found the motor launch Coulin left Ballycotton that she had lowered her sails and was for Dunmore East, in spite of worsen- drifting helplessly. A French crabber ing weather. The coxswain gave advice was near by. The owner of the yacht on the best course to take to clear the decided to accept a tow from the broken water. As the launch was last crabber, which was entering New Quay seen on a dangerous course before being bay for shelter. The life-boat escorted blotted out by a rain squall, it was both boats to New Quay. Rewards to decided to launch the life-boat. A the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers strong south-south-westerly wind was on shore, £7 7s. blowing, and the sea was rough. The life-boat Ethel May put out at 12.45 BODY PICKED UP AND PUT ON and came up with the Coulin a mile BOARD POLICE BOAT west of Cufil Island. The launch's Whitehills, Banffshire. At 7.30 on crew of three were wearing life-jackets the morning of the 26th of August, 1960, and asked it the life-boat would escort the coastguard informed the honorary them to Helvick Head. The coxswain secretary that a motor fishing vessel was declined to do so and said he would ashore one mile east of Pennan. The escort the launch into Youghal harbour. life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. This was done, and the life-boat re- 10) was launched at 8.15 in a moderate turned to her station at five o'clock. southerly breeze and a moderate sea. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards It was low water. The life-boat found to the helpers on shore, 15s. nothing in the position given and had begun to search the area to the eastward, SICK MAN TAKEN OFF WELSH when some men on the shore asked for LIGHTVESSEL assistance as they had found a body. Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on The life-boat dropped anchor, and the the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, crew, using a rocket line, rigged a tail the coastguard informed the honorary block and then hauled the body off to secretary that the Trinity House depot the life-boat on a stretcher. The body had asked for the life-boat to be launched was transferred to a salmon coble, which to take a sick man off the Helwick light- had been engaged by the police, and vessel. The life-boat Henry Comber landed. The life-boat continued to Brown put out at 6.50 in a fresh south- search the area until she was recalled. easterly wind and a rough sea. It was She reached her station at 1.45. Re- high water. The life-boat reached the wards to the crew, £9 Is.; rewards to lightvessel at 8.50 and took off the sick the helpers on shore, 17s. man, who was suffering from appendi- citis. He was landed safely and trans- TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER FROM ferred to hospital, and the life-boat STEAMER returned to her station at 10.30. Re- Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on wards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the afternoon of the 27th of August, the helpers on shore, £4 11s. 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW OF was being towed by the steamer Foxfield, CRABBER and asked if the life-boat could meet New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 7.50 the vessels off Caldey Island. There on the evening of the 21st of August, were light south-westerly airs with a 1960, the harbour master informed the calm sea. The tide was half ebb. The honorary secretary that the small yacht life-boat Henry Comber Brown was Sylvia of New Quay appeared to be in launched and met the vessels south of difficulties and was drifting seawards. Caldey. She towed the launch into It was high water. The weather was Saundersfoot and returned to her station DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 553 at five o'clock. Rewards to the crew, tow about a mile and a half east of £13 Is.; rewards to the helpers on Tuskar Rock and was proceeding to- shore, £4 13s. wards Rosslare Harbour at four knots. As she had no large-scale charts on TWO MEN AND A WOMAN PICKED board, the assistance of the life-boat UP FROM SEA was requested to take over the tow. The Snoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.20 life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary on the afternoon of the 27th August, duty at the station, was launched at 1960, the coastguard informed the 10.25 on the ebb tide in a gentle to honorary secretary that a small sailing moderate north-westerly breeze and a boat had capsized outside the harbour. slight sea. The life-boat came up with The occupants of the boat, two men the Keizersveer near the South Shear and a woman, managed to clear the buoy and took over the tow of the sails and right the boat, which was fishing boat Two Boys of Wexford, drifting westwards. Their efforts to which had engine trouble. The life- bale out the boat were unsuccessful. A boat returned to her station at 11.40. moderate south-westerly wind was blow- Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to ing with a slight sea. The tide was the helpers on shore, 13s. ebbing. At 3.50 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched ESCORT FOR COBLE AS WEATHER and on reaching the scene picked up the GROWS WORSE three people who were in the water. Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.27 on the Several attempts were made to tow the morning of the 31st of August, 1960, a boat into harbour, but she continually telephone message was received that the broke adrift and was finally abandoned coble Julie was fishing off Filey Brigg a little way off the west breakwater. She in deteriorating weather conditions. was towed in later by another boat. There was a freshening north-easterly The life-boat returned to her station at wind with a moderate sea. It was high 6.30. Rewards to the crew £7; rewards water. At 11.40 the life-boat The Isa to the helpers on shore, £2 9s. and Penryn Milsted was launched and escorted the coble to safety. The life- FISHING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR boat returned to her station at 1.15. St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 9.45 on Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the morning of the 28th August, 1960, the helpers on shore, £8 11s. the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that some anxiety was felt for a The following life-boats went out on local fisherman,who had last been seen service but could find no ships in dis- to the westward of St. Abbs in his small tress, were not needed, or could do motor boat. The life-boat W. Ross nothing: Macarthur of Glasgow was launched at BIyth, Northumberland.—August 1st. ten o'clock on the ebb tide in a gentle —Rewards, £9 8s. south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. Mumbles, Glamorgan.—August 2nd. The life-boat found the fishing boat —Rewards, £12 16s. Vera anchored off Swindowne about New Brighton, Cheshire.—August three miles west-north-west of St. Abbs 2nd.—Rewards, £7 6s. Head. She towed her back to harbour, Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — returning to her station at 11.10. Re- August 2nd.—Rewards, £12 18s. wards to the crew, £6; rewards to the Amble, Northumberland.—August helpers on shore, £1 17s. 4th. Rewards, £8 8s. Moelfre, Anglesey.—August 5th.— TOW OF FISHING BOAT TAKEN OVER Rewards, £12 16s. Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At Padstow No. 1, Cornwall. August 10.2 on the night of the 30th of August, 6th.—Rewards, £6 12s. 1960, the Irish naval authorities at Coverack, Cornwall.—August 6th.— Cobh informed the honorary secretary Rewards, £14 12s. that the motor vessel Keizersveer of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—August 7th. Amsterdam had an Irish fishing boat in —Rewards, £12 11s. 554 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Flamborough, Yorkshire.—August Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—August 7th.—Rewards, £22 7s. 22nd.—Rewards, £12 16s. Swanage, Dorset.—August 8th—Re- Barmouth, Merionethshire.—August wards, £9 12s. 23rd.—Rewards, £9. Poole, Dorset.—August 8th.—Re- Salcombe, Devon.—August 23rd.— wards, £12 12s. Rewards, £8 4s. Fowey, Cornwall.—August 8th.—Re- Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—August 24th. wards, £7 2s. 6d. —Rewards, £11. Holyhead, Anglesey.—August 9th.—- Dungeness, Kent.—August 24th.—Re- Rewards, £9 12s. wards, £16 12s. Swanage, Dorset.—August 10th.— Holyhead, Anglesey.—August 25th.— Rewards, £17 17s. Rewards, £11 8s. Dungeness, Kent.—August 11th.—Re- Eastbourne, Sussex.—August 25th.— wards, £20. Rewards, £22 19s. Penlee, Cornwall.—August llth.— Selsey, Sussex.—August 25th.—Re- Rewards, £13 18s. wards, £19 7s. Minehead, Somerset.—August llth. Redcar, Yorkshire.—August 26th.— —Rewards, £14 16s. Rewards, £13 Is. Falmouth, Cornwall.—August llth.— Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—August Rewards, £9 16s. 27th.—Rewards, £13 17s. Dfracombe, Devon.—August llth.— Plymouth, Devon.—August 28th.— Rewards, £20 Is. Rewards, £10 16s. Blyth, Northumberland.—August Rhyl, Flintshire.—August 12th.—Re- 28th.—Rewards, £9 8s. wards, £12 2s. Redcar, Yorkshire.—August 28th.— Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—August 13th. Rewards, £14 13s. —Rewards, £11 17s. Workington, Cumberland.—August Dfracombe, Devon.—August 13th.— 30th.—Rewards, £7 12s. Rewards, £18 18s. Buckie, Banffshire.—August 31st.— Lowestoft, Suffolk.—August 14th.— Rewards, £10 8s. Rewards, £9 12s. Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—Aug- Newhaven, Sussex.—August 14th.— ust 31st.—Rewards, £15 18s. Rewards, £10 12s. Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—August Angle, Pembrokeshire.—August 15th. 31st.—Rewards, £6. —Rewards, £14 14s. North Sunderland, Co. Durham.— August 16th.—Rewards, £15 3s. Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— SEPTEMBER August 16th.—Rewards, £6 14s. Stronsay, Orkneys.—August 16th.— DURING September life-boats were Rewards, £6 12s. launched on service 65 times and res- Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—August 17th. cued 48 lives. —Rewards, £23 11s. Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.— FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO August 19th.—Rewards, £10. HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset.—August 20th.— Dunbar, East Lothian. At 7.45 on Rewards, £9. the morning of the 1st of September, St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—August 1960, the coastguard informed the 21st.—Rewards, £13 10s. honorary secretary that the motor fish- Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—August ing vessel Narada was in trouble three 21st.—Rewards, £10. miles south-east of May Island. The St. Helier, Jersey.—August 21st.— life-boat Margaret put out in a moder- Rewards, £19 13s. ate north-easterly wind with a heavy Exmouth, Devon.—August 22nd.— swell. The Narada had run out of fuel Rewards, £10 8s. and was drifting. The life-boat towed St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—August her into Dunbar and reached her station 22nd.—Rewards, £9 8s. at 11.30. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 555 SICK MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR the yacht's crew put out a kedge anchor. VESSEL At nine o'clock the yacht refloated, and Dfracombe, Devon. At 5.50 on the the life-boat escorted her to the mouth evening of the 1st of September, 1960, of the River Crouch. The crew of the the coastguard informed the honorary Jethen thanked the life-boat crew very secretary that a member of the crew of warmly for all the help given them, and the m.v. Colston was seriously ill and the life-boat finally returned to her needed hospital treatment, and asked if station at one o'clock early on the 4th the life-boat could bring him ashore. A of September. Rewards to the crew, gentle westerly wind was blowing with a £19 12s.; rewards to the helpers on choppy sea, and the tide was ebbing. It shore, £5 18s. was agreed that the m.v. Colston and the life-boat should rendezvous in TOW FOR COASTER FOUND DRIFTING Coombe Martin Bay. At 6.20 the life- Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4.15 on boat Robert and Phemia Brown was the morning of the 4th of September, launched with two ambulance men and 1960, a telephone message was received a stretcher on board. She met the from the owners of the coaster Ashdene Colston at 7.10. The sick man, who that she needed help some sixteen miles was unconscious, was taken on board south-south-east of Wick. There was a the life-boat and brought ashore. A moderate north-north-easterly wind and doctor and ambulance were waiting, a moderate sea. It was low water. and the man was taken to hospital. The There were no other vessels near the life-boat then returned to her station at Ashdene, and at 4.45 the life-boat City eight o'clock and was finally rehoused of Edinburgh put out. When she at 9.10. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; reached the Ashdene she found her with rewards to the helpers on shore, £11 2s. her engines broken down. The life- boat took her in tow to Wick and re- YACHT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH turned to her station at three o'clock. SEA Rewards to the crew, £19; rewards to Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- the helpers on shore, 12s. ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- REPORTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN retary that a yacht had fired three flares TROUBLE two hundred yards south of the Owers Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.45 on the lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian afternoon of the 4th of September, Pacific was launched in a strong west- 1960, a report was received that two south-westerly breeze with a rough sea boys were cut off by the rising tide and a flood-tide. She found the yacht at Broad Cove. Owing to rough seas Lionesse in difficulties and towed her to it was not possible for a boat to come Littlehampton. Property salvage case. close inshore, and the boys were warned to remain where they were until the tide YACHT FOUND ON BEAM ENDS turned, when they would be able to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.11 on climb back over the rocks. Almost the afternoon of the 3rd of September, immediately afterwards a message was 1960, the coastguard informed the received from the coastguard that three honorary secretary that a yacht was other children were cut off by the tide aground a mile and three quarters at Lee and that the life-boat might be north-west of the Mid-Barrow light- needed. At six o'clock a further report vessel. There was a moderate to fresh was received from passengers landing west-south-westerly wind and sea, and from a pleasure steamer that two youths the tide was about half-ebb. At 2.25 with a blue canoe were ashore at Brandy the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was Cove. It was ascertained that a cance launched. She found the yacht Jethen, had left Ilfracombe at two o'clock but with four people on board, high and had not returned, and this seemed the dry and lying on her beam ends. The most urgent call. At 6.35 the life-boat skipper went over to the life-boat and Robert and Phemia Brown was launched discussed what was to be done while in a moderate sea and a freshening 556 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 north-westerly wind. The tide was ebb- Kilronan to land the doctor. As the ing. The two youths, who had been in state of the weather and tide prevented the canoe, were seen in the breakers at her from reaching Rossaveal pier, she Brandy Cove. It was impossible, owing then made for Galway, where the to the state of the sea, for the life-boat woman was landed. The life-boat to come close inshore, and the youths finally reached her station at 5.35 the were hauled off through the breakers. next morning. Rewards to the crew, At 7.35 a further message was received £19 Is.; rewards to the helpers on from the police asking for help in the shore, £1 Is. Refunded to the Institu- search for the children missing at Lee. tion by the Galway County Council. The life-boat searched the area from Lee to Bull Point lighthouse without EXHAUSTED MAN TAKEN OFF success, and she finally reached her ROWING BOAT station at 8.50. The two boys reported Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 6.10 on to have been cut off by the tide made the evening of the 8th of September, their own way back. Rewards to the 1960, the second coxswain told the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers honorary secretary that a rowing boat on shore, £12 6s. was reported missing and might be in difficulties between Bradda Head and TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH Flirlwick Bay. The life-boat Matthew FOULED PROPELLER Simpson was launched at 7.23 in a fresh Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on south-south-westerly breeze with a cor- the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- responding sea and an ebb tide. When guard informed the honorary secretary the life-boat found the rowing boat, her that a local fishing boat needed help occupant, who had lost the outboard ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- motor overboard and had been rowing boat was not launched immediately as against the tide for some hours, was all the local boats were at sea, and it exhausted. He was taken on board the was thought probable that the boat in life-boat, which towed the dinghy back difficulty would be seen by one of them. to Port Erin. The life-boat returned to At 1.30, when most of the boats had her station at 8.10. Rewards to the returned to harbour, there was further crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on news of the boat needing help. The shore, £4 4s. life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a gentle-to-moderate southerly breeze BODY OF BATHER FOUND AFTER with a slight sea and an ebbing tide. SEARCH She found the fishing boat Marie Bhan Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.50 on the with her propeller fouled in her seine afternoon of the 9th of September, 1960, net and towed her back to Wick. The the honorary secretary received a report life-boat returned to her station at 4.45. that a man was missing from a party Rewards to the crew, £4 4s.; rewards of visitors who had been bathing at to the helpers on shore, £3. Keel Strand. The life-boat Rowland Watts left her moorings at 1.5 in a SICK WOMAN TAKEN OFF ISLAND moderate westerly breeze with a moder- Galway Bay. On the evening of the ate sea. The tide was ebbing. The 8th of September, 1960, the island life-boat found the man floating in the medical officer asked for the help of the water and took him on board. Artificial life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson to respiration was begun at once, but the take a sick woman from the Middle man did not recover, and his body was Island to the mainland for hospital landed at Valentia quay. The life-boat treatment. No other suitable boat was returned to her moorings at 7.30. Re- available, and the life-boat left her wards to the crew, £12 16s.; rewards moorings at 8.30. There was a strong to the helpers on shore, 16s. south-south-westerly breeze with a heavy swell and an ebb tide. The sick DOCTOR TAKEN TO WELSH ISLAND woman was taken on board with diffi- Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At culty, and the life-boat made first for 1.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 557 September, 1960, the coastguard asked ebb-tide. The life-boat towed the fishing the honorary secretary for the use of boat to Hastings, where arrangements the life-boat to take a doctor to a sick were made for a local boat to tow her woman on Bardsey Island. The life- on to Rye. The life-boat returned to boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched her station at 9.5. Rewards to the at 2.20 with a doctor on board in a crew, £9 16s.; rewards to the helpers gentle to moderate south-westerly on shore, £22 18s. breeze with a moderate sea and an ebb- tide. She took her boarding boat in LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL BOAT tow. On reaching Bardsey Island the REFLOATS doctor was taken ashore by a small boat, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.8 on and the life-boat stood off. About 5.30 the morning of the 12th of September, the doctor returned with the patient on 1960, the coastguard informed the a stretcher, and the life-boat took them honorary secretary that a motor boat to Morfa Nevin, where the sick woman was lying on its side at Barrow Sands. was taken ashore in the boarding boat A helicopter was not available, and the to a waiting ambulance. The life-boat life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returned to her station at 8.50 Rewards launched at 10.25 in a smooth sea with to the crew, £10; rewards to the helpers light airs and an ebb tide. She found on shore, £5 18s. the motor boat Vacation in no immedi- ate danger, but stood by until the boat SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH refloated. The life-boat returned to her STEAMER station at 4.30. Rewards to the crew, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- £14; rewards to the helpers on shore, folk. At two o'clock on the morning £5 8s. of the llth of September, 1960, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary TOW FOR YAWL DRIFTING TO that there was a sick man aboard the ROCKS Swedish steamer Arnold Bratt, which Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.10 would make for Yarmouth. At 6.39 a on the evening of the 13th of September, further message was received from the 1960, the coastguard informed the coastguard that the steamer had reached honorary secretary that red flares had Yarmouth Roads. A light southerly been observed off Buchan Ness. The wind was blowing with a slight sea. It life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was one hour before low water. At left her moorings at 9.30 at high water 6.45 the life-boat Louise Stephens was in a moderate south-westerly wind and launched with a doctor on board. a moderate swell. She reached the When she reached the Arnold Bratt the small fishing yawl Progress, which was sick man was found to be in great pain manned by a father and his son, at 9.55 and suffering from suspected appendic- and found her drifting towards rocks itis. The life-boat brought the man with her propeller fouled. The life- ashore, where an ambulance was wait- boat took the yawl in tow to Peterhead, ing. He was taken to hospital for an where she arrived at 10.15. She reached emergency operation. The life-boat re- her station at 10.25. Rewards to the turned to her station at 7.27. Rewards crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers shore, £2 8s. on shore, £5 8s. ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT TO FISHING BOAT TOWED TO SHORE HARBOUR Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- evening of the 11th of September, 1960, land. At 9.45 on the morning of the the coastguard told the coxswain that a 14th of September, 1960, the coastguard fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken informed the honorary secretary that a down off the De La Warr Pavilion, small local fishing boat was anchored Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was about a mile and a half north of Berwick launched at 6.4 in a slight south- with her engine broken down. A fresh easterly breeze with a smooth sea and an south-westerly wind was blowing and 558 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 the sea was beginning to rise. The life- 6.25. Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards boat crew were alerted while two local to the helpers on shore, 13s. boats were asked if they could assist. On leaving the dock, one fouled her CREW OF FOUR TAKEN OFF TENDER propeller. The other, the Eastern Star, Moelfre, Anglesey. At three o'clock reached the fishing boat Devotion, but on the afternoon of the 16th of Septem- the rope which she passed to her with ber, 1960, the honorary secretary was some difficulty carried away. The life- informed that a tender engaged on boat William and Mary Durham was diving operations had dragged her then launched, but as she neared the anchor in Benllech Bay. One engine two boats the Devotion managed to had stopped and there was a danger clear her propeller. The life-boat that the tender, which had a crew of escorted both boats into harbour. Re- four would be driven ashore. At 3.5 wards to the crew, £6; rewards to the the life-boat Watkin Williams was helpers on shore, £1 4s. launched. It was one hour after low water with a moderate to fresh north- ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN TOW erly breeze blowing and a rough sea. Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.25 The life-boat reached the tender at 3.40 on the morning of the 15th of Septem- and took the four men off. By this ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the time the tender was in the breakers close honorary secretary that a small fishing inshore. The rough weather prevented boat was on fire off North Head. The the life-boat from being rehoused at life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow Moelfre, and she made for Beaumaris, left her moorings at 9.32 at high water where she was moored until she could in calm weather and a smooth sea. On be rehoused at 12.30 on the after- reaching the casualty, the coxswain noon of the 19th of September. Rewards discovered that she had been taken in to the crew, £11 13s.; rewards to the tow by the fishing vessel Sunbeam. The helpers on shore £3 10s. life-boat escorted both boats to Peter- head and returned to her station at FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO 10.15. Rewards to the crew, £6; re- HARBOUR wards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s. Swanage, Dorset. At 12.44 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, ESCORT FOR U.S. PICKET BOAT 1960, the coastguard informed the Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At honorary secretary that a two-masted 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of fishing vessel, Mary Anne, had hoisted a September, 1960, the honorary secretary distress signal east of Durlston Head. learnt that the fishing vessel James Her engine had apparently broken Wickham, which was taking a party to down, and her sails had blown adrift. the U.S.S. Rhodes, had broken down At 1.4 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. and was flying distress signals. There The tide was half ebb and there was a was a light south-westerly breeze and a strong breeze with a rough sea. The slight sea. It was high water at 5.15 life-boat reached the Mary Anne at 1.25. when the life-boat Mary Stanford, on She had one man on board, and the life- temporary duty at the station, was boat took her in tow. As the wind had launched. When she reached the James backed from south-by-east to south- Wickham she found that her engine had east and had freshened, the coxswain been repaired, and she escorted her back decided to make for Poole Harbour, to Rosslare Harbour. As the life-boat which was reached at 4.35. There the was returning to her moorings, a picket Mary Anne was secured. It was decided boat from the U.S.S. Rhodes was seen that the life-boat should also remain drifting through the railway viaduct. at Poole until the weather improved and By the time the life-boat reached her she could be rehoused without risk of she was under way again and her engine damage. She finally reached her station too had been repaired. The life-boat at 9.40 on the morning of the 19th of escorted her back to the steamer and September. Rewards to the crew, £12 then returned to her station, arriving at 13s.; rewards to helpers on shore, £3. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 559 TRAWLER ESCORTED TO HARBOUR before the wind, with a foresail only. Selsey, Sussex. At 9.52 on the morn- Her crew asked to be escorted to Spurn, ing of the 18th of September, 1960, the as the yacht's engine was out of action coastguard informed the honorary sec- and a rope had fouled her propeller. retary that a trawler had sprung some By this time the wind had increased to plates and was making water rapidly gale force, and the yacht was taken in nine miles south-west of Owers light- tow. The tow-rope parted twice during vessel. At 10.5 the life-boat Cecil and the passage, and as the weather was Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at growing worse the yacht was towed to the station, was launched in a gentle Grimsby. The life-boat remained at easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It Grimsby until the next tide, by which was the last hour of the flood tide. She time the wind had decreased, and she stood by the trawler and then escorted finally reached her station at five o'clock her into Portsmouth before returning to in the afternoon. Permanent paid crew. her station at 5.30. Rewards to the crew, £15 17s.; rewards to the helpers ESCORT FOR LEAKING FISHING on shore, £5 3s. VESSEL Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- WOMAN RESCUED AFTER YACHT land. At 9.20 on the morning of the CAPSIZES 20th of September, 1960, the coastguard Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on informed the honorary secretary that a the afternoon of the 18th of September, fishing vessel had reported that she was 1960, the coastguard informed the making water fast and needed help. No honorary secretary that a boat had precise details of her position were capsized near the West Princess buoy. given, but she was believed to be be- The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched tween Burmouth and Berwick. At 9.32 at 2.22 in a freshening easterly breeze the life-boat William and Mary Durham with a rough sea and an ebb tide. The was launched at low water in a gentle life-boat picked up two men and a northerly breeze and a calm sea. On woman. The men were both uncon- reaching open water the coxswain saw scious, and artificial respiration was the fishing vessel, which was about half carried out continuously aboard the a mile south-east of Berwick pier. She life-boat, which landed the woman at was well down in the water. She had 2.55. Artificial respiration was con- no pump, and her crew of four were tinued ashore, but neither of the men baling with buckets. She managed to recovered. The woman was taken to make slight headway with her engine hospital, and the life-boat put out again running very slowly, and the life-boat to search for a third man, who had also escorted her to Berwick, where she was been on board. She could not find him pumped dry by the local fire brigade. and returned to her station at six The life-boat returned to her station at o'clock. The woman, who was the sole 11.30. Rewards to the crew, £8; re- survivor, lost her husband and her wards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s. twin brother in this disaster. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the TOW FOR YACHT AGROUND IN GALE helpers on shore, £3 5s. Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.56 on the evening of the of 20th September, 1960, TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE the watchman the on east pier told the Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the coxswain that a small vessel had been morning of the 20th of September, I960, burning flares near the no. 3 buoy. the coastguard informed the coxswain The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis superintendent that a light had been was launched at 6.5 in a north-westerly observed flashing off shore south of gale and a rough sea. It was low water. Withernsea. At 6.38 the life-boat City The life-boat found the yacht Spray of Bradford III was launched one hour aground on Brake Sands with her sails after high water in a strong north- carried away and her rudder lost. The north-westerly breeze and a rough sea. only man aboard her was exhausted. Off Easington a yacht was seen running The life-boat towed the yacht into 560 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Ramsgate harbour and returned to her intending to cruise for ten miles, and moorings at 7.20. Rewards to the that he had not returned. After con- crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on sultation with the coastguard the shore, 10s. honorary secretary decided to call out the life-boat. The life-boat Howard TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL IN ROUGH Marryat was launched at 11.34 in a SEA gentle to moderate north-easterly breeze Workington, Cumberland. At 7.5 on with a slight sea and a flood tide. The the evening of the 24th of September, coxswain began to search the area 1960, the coastguard informed the around St. David's Head and found the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel yacht, which had engine trouble, about had broken down off Seascale nine five miles from Strumble Head. The miles south-east of St. Bees. The life- life-boat towed her back to Fishguard boat Manchester and Salford XXIX was and returned to her station at 3.30 on launched at 7.33 in a fresh westerly the morning of the 26th of September. breeze with a rough sea and an ebbing Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards tide. The life-boat found the fishing to the helpers on shore, £3. vessel with one man on board and towed her to harbour. She reached her TOW FOR FISHING BOAT OUT OF station at three o'clock in the morning. PETROL Rewards to the crew, £15 17s.; re- Clovelly, Devon. At ten o'clock on wards to the helpers on shore, 19s. the morning of the 26th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the MOTHER AND BABY TAKEN OFF honorary secretary that the motor fish- VESSEL ing boat Lyn II was reported missing. Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.10 on the Later it was learned that she had put afternoon of the 25th of September, in to Lundy for petrol. At two o'clock 1960, the port medical officer told the the coastguard reported that the fishing honorary secretary that a baby had boat could be seen off Hartland Point been born on the m.v. Fravizo and that and that someone on board was waving the master had asked for a doctor as a red duster. It was low water when soon as possible. It was arranged that the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley the life-boat Solomon Browne should was launched in a strong south-easterly meet the vessel at 11.30 one mile south- wind and a moderate sea. When she east of the Wolf Rock. The life-boat reached the fishing boat, it was found was launched at 9.15 at high water in a that the boat had again run out of slight to gentle easterly breeze with a petrol. Two men and two women were moderate sea. She embarked a doctor taken on board the life-boat, which and a midwife at Newlyn and on reach- towed the fishing-boat to Clovelly, ing the motor vessel put them on board. arriving at 4.30. Rewards to the crew, The motor vessel made for Mount's £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, Bay, where the water was smoother. £8. There the mother and the baby were transferred to the life-boat. They were YACHT FOUND AFTER NEW POSITION landed at Newlyn at 3.15 in the morning GIVEN and taken to hospital. Owing to bad Salcombe, Devon. At 4.40 on the weather the life-boat remained at New- afternoon of the 27th of September, lyn. Rewards to the crew, £16; rewards 1960, the coastguard informed the to the helpers on shore, £7 13s. honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile and a half west of YACHT TOWED AFTER SEARCH Bolt Head. The life-boat Samuel and THROUGH NIGHT Marie Parkhouse was launched at 4.55 Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 8.40 in a gentle south-easterly breeze and a on the evening of the 25th of September, moderate sea. It was low water. At 1960, a lady informed the honorary sec- 5.15 the coastguard informed the honor- retary that her husband had put out in ary secretary that a yacht was making his yacht Linnet at 10.30 that morning for Hope Cove for shelter, and this DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 561 message was passed to the life-boat by told the coxswain they did not need help, radio-telephone. The life-boat found but the life-boat escorted the boat to the yacht and escorted her to safety, North Foreland. She returned to her returning to her station at 6.45. Re- station at 8.30, but because of weather wards to the crew, £7; rewards to the conditions was not rehoused until 11.30 helpers on shore, £1 4s. on the morning of the 2nd of October. Rewards to the crew, £11 5s.; rewards BODY OF SEAMAN TAKEN OFF to the helpers on shore, £10 9s. SWEDISH TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock ESCORT FOR YACHT INTO HARBOUR on the evening of the 27th of September, Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.54 on the 1960, the honorary secretary informed evening of the 29th of September, 1960, the coxswain that the life-boat Solomon the coastguard informed the honorary Browne would be required to take a sick secretary that a motor yacht Antaurus, man off the Swedish tanker Belmare. which was without lights and had an The life-boat was launched at ten o'clock unreliable engine, was overdue at Rams- in a gentle-to-moderate south-easterly gate. She had last been seen at 7.35 a breeze with a moderate sea. It was high mile and a half east of Kingsgate. The water. The life-boat met the tanker as life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was arranged, five miles south of Penzance launched at 10.5 in a gentle-to-moderate at 8.35. The man had died, and his easterly breeze and a moderate sea. body was landed at Newlyn at midnight. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat The life-boat remained at Newlyn owing found the yacht and escorted her to har- to weather conditions and was rehoused bour. The life-boat returned to her the following day. Rewards to the station at 10.45. Rewards to the crew, crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, on shore, £6 18s. 10s. TOW FOR AIR-SEA RESCUE LAUNCH The following life-boats went out on Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on service, but could find no ships in dis- the afternoon of the 29th of September, tress, were not needed, or could do 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment nothing: at Tenby requested the use of the life- Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—Septem- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in ber 1st.—Rewards, £9 2s. one of their air-sea rescue launches, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. September which had broken down off Caldey 2nd.—Rewards, £21 2s. Island. The life-boat was launched at Padstow No. 1, Cornwall.—September 12.48 in a fresh-to-strong south-easterly 4th.—Rewards, £7. breeze and a rough sea. It was high Clacton-on-Sea.—September 4th.— water. The life-boat towed the launch Rewards, £13 7s. into harbour and returned to her station St. David's, Pembrokeshire. Septem- at two o'clock. Rewards to the crew, ber 6th.—Rewards, £11 5s. £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—September shore, £5 5s. 7th.—Rewards, £9. Falmouth, Cornwall.—September 7th. ESCORT FOR SHIP'S BOAT —Rewards, £7. Margate, Kent. At 6.37 on the even- Padstow No. 1, Cornwall.—September ing of the 29th of September, 1960, the 8th.—Rewards, £10 15s. coastguard informed the honorary sec- Stornoway, Hebrides.—September retary that a ship's boat was flying a 8th.—Rewards, £15 17s. distress signal about a mile and a half Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- east of Kingsgate. The life-boat North folk.—September 9th.—Rewards, £10 Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was 10s. launched at 6.50 in a fresh easterly Stornoway, Hebrides.—September breeze with a moderate sea and a flood 10th.—Rewards, £25 9s. tide. She came up with the boat as Penlee, Cornwall.—September 10th. darkness was falling. The boat's crew —Rewards, £13 16s. 562 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Filey, Yorkshire.—September llth.— retary that a sailing barge was drifting Rewards, £16 10s. close inshore in Seaford Bay. The life- Cromer, No. 1, Norfolk.—September boat Kathleen Mary was launched at llth.—Rewards, £16 8s. 5.37 in a fresh south-westerly breeze and Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—September a calm sea. It was two hours after low 12th.—Rewards, £33 6s. water. When the life-boat reached the Padstow No. 1, Cornwall.—September position, she found that the fishing boat 13th.—Rewards, £11 7s. Wave Queen had a line aboard the barge Portrush, Co. Antrim.—September Ethel Ada, which had a crew of four, 13th.—Rewards, £10 4s. and was holding her off the shore. With Exmouth, Devon.—September 14th.— the help of the life-boat the barge was Rewards,—£14 17s. successfully towed to harbour. The Dungeness, Kent.—September 14th.— life-boat arrived back at her station at Rewards, £18 14s. seven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, Weymouth, Dorset.—September 17th. £3 13s. —Rewards, £7 12s. Salcombe, Devon.—September 17th. Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.23 on the —Rewards, £9 12s. evening of the 7th of June, 1960, the Coverack, Cornwall.—September 17th. coastguard informed the honorary sec- —Rewards, £30 17s. retary that a small yacht was in diffi- Angle, Pembrokeshire.—September culties off Ramrose Head. The life- 18th.—Rewards, £28 16s. boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—September put out at 6.30 in a light to moderate 19th.—Rewards, £8. south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. Buckie, Banffshire.—September 19th. It was two hours after high water. The —Rewards, £7 12s. life-boat came up with the yacht and Falmouth, Cornwall.—September 21st. took on board four people. She then —Rewards, £9. towed the yacht back to harbour, arriv- Stronsay, Orkneys.—September 30th. ing at 7.25. Rewards to the crew, £7; —Rewards, £10 8s. rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 Troon, Ayrshire.—September 30th.— 16s. Rewards, £15 17s. Plymouth, Devon. At 10.23 on the The following accounts of services in night of the 25th of June, 1960, the June 1960 were received too late for coastguard informed the honorary sec- inclusion in the September number of retary that some swimmers were in the Life-boat : difficulties near the Mewstone islet on the eastern side of the entrance to the Dover, Kent. At 10.53 on the night harbour. The life-boat Thomas Fore- of the 5th of June, 1960, the coastguard head and Mary Rowse put out at 10.39, informed the honorary secretary that a with her boarding boat in tow, in a yacht was burning flares a mile and a light easterly breeze and a calm sea. half off South Foreland. The life-boat The tide was half ebb. The Mewstone Southern Africa put out at eleven o'clock was shrouded by mist, but the boarding in a gentle south-westerly breeze and a boat was sent close inshore to make a slight sea. The tide was half ebb. The search. A boy and a girl were found life-boat came up with the yacht Themis, in an exhausted condition and taken off with a crew of five, which had run out a low rock. Another couple were also of fuel, and towed her back to Dover, taken off. The four people were trans- reaching her station at 12.45. Rewards ferred to the life-boat, where they were to the crew, £7; rewards to the helper wrapped in blankets and given hot soup. on shore, 5s. They were landed at Millbay dock, where an ambulance was waiting, and Newhaven, Sussex. At 5.30 on the the life-boat arrived back at her station evening of the 6th of June, 1960, the at 12.49. Rewards to the crew, £8 coastguard informed the honorary sec- 8s. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 563

Obituary COXSWAIN WILLIAM MCAUSLANE. a December night, and the coxswain Coxswain William McAuslane of finally had to bring her along three Troon died on the 16th of January, separate times to enable the crew to 1960, at the age of 83. He was appoin- jump. For two days afterwards he was ted bowman in November 1913, be- completely blind from spray. coming coxswain in 1920. He retired in 1942. In 1941 Coxswain McAuslane COXSWAIN BENJAMIN ARMITAGE. won the silver medal for gallantry for Coxswain Benjamin Armitage of the rescue of the crew of seven of the Hoylake died on the llth of August, s.s. Moyallon of Belfast. To rescue the 1960, at the age of 71. He was appoin- crew he had to drive the bow of the ted second coxswain in 1946 and cox- life-boat hard against the plunging swain in 1948. He retired in 1951. In steamer and hold it there with his February 1943 he was awarded the engines while the seven men jumped. bronze medal for gallantry when he and Coxswain Herbert Jones and Mr. COXSWAIN L. C. PENNYCORD. William Widdup, the station officer of Coxswain L. C. Pennycord of Selsey coastguard, put out in a dinghy and died in May 1960 at the age of 69. He rescued two men from a small boat. served as second coxswain from 1932 to The Institution also deeply regrets the 1936 and was coxswain from 1936 to deaths of four other former coxswains 1952. During his last year of service he in the past year :—• was awarded the bronze medal for COXSWAIN G. BRUNTON, of Dunbar. gallantry for the rescue of the crew of six of the m.v. Swift, registered in COXSWAIN J. E. MORRIS, of Barmouth. Costa Rica. The life-boat stood by for COXSWAIN T. H. PARNELL, of Aldeburgh seven and a half hours in a gale through COXSWAIN A. SLOAN, of Girvan.

Prize Winning Essay Miss SUSAN JANICE PRICE, of Greaves England: Midlands: Leslie Edwin Duncan, Harold Secondary Modern Boys' County Secondary School, Lancaster, School, Harold Street, Grimsby, won the first prize in the competition Lincolnshire. for the best essay on the Life-boat North-East: Valerie Hudspith, West- Service organised by the Institution. ern County Secondary Modern Girls' School, Wallsend, Northum- berland. Other Prizes North- West: Susan Janice Price, Greaves County Secondary School, The prizes for the best essays in Scotland, Lancaster. Ireland, Wales and six districts in England South-East : Ann Caroline were awarded to the following:— Kopperman, Cheam County Secondary Girls' School, Surrey. South- West: William Knowles Ireland: Eileen Woods, Movilla Secondary Smethurst, Fosters School, Tinneys Intermediate School, Newtownards, Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. Northern Ireland. London: Sandra Barnes, Eltham Hill School, London, S.E.9. Scotland: David Ross Davidson, Grantown Grammar School, Morayshire. BECAUSE of pressure of space caused by Wales: Pryce Michael Farmer, Ysgol Dyf- the very large number of services in July, fryn School, Nantlle, Penygroes, August and September, it is not possible Caernarvonshire. to publish the winning essay in full. 564 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-boat Crews THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a gratuity.

GEORGE FLETT Aberdeen .. Second coxswain 7 years. Coxswain 11 years. JOHN JAMES MURRAY Aberdeen .. Bowman 1J years. Second coxswain 9}. ALEXANDER DOIG .. Anstruther .. Member of crew 25 years. Bowman 11 years. Second coxswain 1 year. Coxswain 1 year. HUGH GOURLAY Anstruther .. Head launcher 9 years. Winchman, 8 years. Emergency mechanic 3 years Member of crew 7 years. Coxswain 5 years. TEAGUE WARD Arranmore Motor mechanic 29J years. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Baltimore .. Member of crew 2 years. Second coxswain 5 years. Coxswain 10 years. HARRY LLOYD JONES Barmouth .. Member of crew 31 years. Second coxswain 6 years. Coxswain 4 years. WILLIAM T. BLOIS .. Clacton-on-Sea Member of crew 13 years. ALEXANDER NELSON Donaghadee Member of crew 17 years. Bowman 19J years. Second coxswain 5J years. Coxswain 5J years. W. E. COCKINGS Dover Member of crew 19 years. Bowman 3 months. Second coxswain 8-| years. JOHN WALKER Dover Coxswain 13i years JOHN DUNNE Dunmore East Member of crew 4 years. Bowman 15| years. ALEX HUGGETT Eastbourne Member of crew 28 years. Bowman 5| years. Second coxswain, 2J years. CHARLES HENRY BROWN Falmouth .. Assistant mechanic 16 years. Bowman 9 years. Coxswain 13| years. ROBERT JOHN DA VIES Ferryside .. Coxswain 10J years. CHARLES T. ARTHUR Ferryside .. Motor mechanic 19 years. DONALD REES DAVIES Ferryside .. Second coxswain 13| years. Member of crew 17 years. WILLIAM JOHN THOMAS Ferryside . . Assistant mechanic 19 years. ALBERT WRIGHT Fleetwood .. Member of crew 36 years. Bowman 1 year. Second coxswain 1 month. Coxswain 6J years. THOMAS H. PEARCE Fowey Member of crew 3 years. Bowman 18J years. MARTIN FLAHERTY .. Galway Bay Second coxswain 1\ years. Coxswain 8J years. HUGH STEED Girvan Member of crew 10 years. Assistant mechanic 3i years. RICHARD HARFFEY .. Hastings Bowman 10J years. JOHN W. MARTIN .. Hastings Member of crew 10J years. Assistant mechanic 11J years. Motor mechanic 17J years. DECEMBER, 1960] THE LIFE-BOAT 565 GEORGE MILBURN .. Holy Island Member of crew 42| years. CHRISTOPHER O'CONNOR Howth Member of crew 29 years. Bowman 1J years. Second coxswain If years Coxswain 9 years. LAURENCE MCCANN Howth Assistant mechanic 5J years. JAMES M. CRANG Ilfracombe .. Member of crew 12 years. Assistant mechanic 11 years. WILLIAM J. LIVERSAGE New Brighton Member of crew 22 years. (Presented to his widow.) Bowman 17J years. DAVID G. THOMAS New Quay .. Member of crew 41 years. Second coxswain 1 year. JAMES KINSELLA Poolbeg Motor mechanic 20J years. MICHAEL POWER Poolbcg Assistant mechanic 11J years. DENNIS PROUDLEY Poole Member of crew 20 years. WILLIAM JAMES GOULD Pwllheli Member of crew 15 years. Bowman 3 years. Second coxswain 5 years. Coxswain 17| years. JOHN B. JONES Pwllhcli Member of crew 34 years. Bowman 2J years. Temporary coxswain ] year. Second coxswain 7J years. JAMES WALSH Rosslare Harbour Bowman 12 years. DAVID R. TALBOT .. St. Helier . . Member of crew 11|- years. Assistant mechanic |- year. CLIFFORD JENKINS .. St. Mary's .. Member of crew 12 years. Second coxswain 4 years. JOHN ROBERTS Senncn Cove Member of crew 34 years. Second coxswain 3J years. Coxswain 12 years. THOMAS LIONEL HOWELLS Tenby Member of crew 17J years. Bowman 2J years. HENRY OWEN THOMAS Torbay Assistant mechanic 10 years. Coxswain 9| years. JOHN FRY Torbay Member of crew 5 years. Bowman 7J years. WILLIAM R. Cox Wells Member of crew 17 years. Second coxswain 14 years. Coxswain 12 years. WILLIAM E. COOPEK Wells Member of crew 25 years. Second coxswain 12i years. VICTOR G. FREETHY Weymouth . . Member of crew 12 years. Bowman 9£ years. Second coxswain 4J- years. R. J. STOKES Weymouth . . Member of crew 26j years. JOHN M. SINCLAIR . . Wick Second coxswain 19 J years.

Shetland Life-boat on View in London THE new life-boat being built for Aith, White at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight Shetland Islands, will be exhibited at shortly before the show, is one of the the International Boat Show, sponsored 52-feet Barnett class, the largest type by the Daily Express, at Earls Court in of life-boat in service today. She is London, from the 4th to the 14th of driven by two 72 h.p. diesel engines. January, 1961. Space to exhibit this boat After being on show the life-boat will has been kindly donated by the Ship and return to Cowes and will then make the Boat Builders' National Federation. passage to Aith, which is the most The boat, which will have been com- northerly of all the Institution's life- pleted at the yards of Messrs. J. Samuel boat stations, under her own power. 566 THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1960 Singer Opens Display Centre MR. FRANKIE VAUGHAN, the well- tion at the last National Boat Show. known popular singer, opened a new Articles of equipment used in life- life-boat display centre at 167 King's boats, photographs and a number of Road Arches, Brighton, on the 23rd of items of historical interest are displayed July, 1960. The centre contains a in the centre, and souvenirs and book- number of life-boat models, and on lets are on sale. The display centre display at the opening was one of the was created largely by the efforts of Plymouth life-boat, which won the voluntary workers of the Brighton first prize in a model makers' competi- branch.

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