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THE LIFE-BOAT the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution VOL. XXXIII WINTER, 1950 No. 356 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1951 - 77,296 Two Irish Rescues by Night Wicklow and Dunmore East AT half-past ten on the 10th of Septem- the Wicklow life-boat to go out and ber, 1950—this being a Sunday—the stand by the Cameo, while salvage news reached the Wicklow life-boat operations by a tug were in progress. station that a ship was aground on At 8.10, therefore, the Lady Kylsant Arklow Sandbank. This was about launched once more. About a mile fourteen miles from Wicklow. A quar- from the Cameo, she found a tug ter of an hour later the Wicklow life- anchored. With great difficulty in the boat, Lady Kylsant, launched. It was heavy seas and rain she passed tow lines a fine day, the sea was calm, and a between the two ships, in an effort to light breeze was blowing from the south. help the tug pull the Cameo clear of the The life-boat reached the grounded sandbank. But the ropes parted; and ship by 12.30. She was the Cameo, a the attempt failed. The master of the motor vessel of Glasgow, bound for Cameo would still not abandon ship, Dublin laden with coal, with a crew of so there was nothing for the life-boat eleven on board. When the life-boat to do but return to Wicklow to await found her she was seven miles north of any further call. She got back at 7.20 the South Arklow Lightvessel. Her that evening. master refused help from the life-boat. Next evening, the 12th, at 8.57, the It was fine weather (he said) and he Cameo sent a message through the expected to refloat his ship on the Seaforth Radio, asking at last for the next high tide. So-the life-boat put life-boat. She launched for the third back to Wicklow, reaching her station time at 9.17. The honorary secretary at ten minutes past three that afternoon. of the station, Mr. Joseph T. O'Byrne, was aboard. The night was very dark, Attempts to Refloat and the tide was half flood; a strong Next morning, however (the llth of south-west wind was whipping up a September), the situation had changed. rough sea. The breeze of the day before had devel- oped into a southerly gale, causing The Rescue in a Gale heavy broken water on the bank. It By the time the life-boat-got to the was also raining. About eight o'clock, Cameo, the wind had increased to a the Dublin Port and Docks Board asked gale. The motor vessel was lying 118 THE LIFE-BOAT [WINTER, 1950 with her head to the north-east in reaching it just west of Red Head. He heavy broken water, with the tide put the second-coxswain at the wheel setting on to the bank. The coxswain and himself went forward on the look- anchored to windward, and veering out, searching the shore with his search- down on his cable until he was abreast light. He searched for nearly a mile, the Cameo's port side, threw lines until he recognised Portally Head, aboard and hauled the life-boat along- Then he ceased to follow the shore and side her. This was just after midnight. made towards the dreaded Falskirt For sixteen minutes he held her there, Rocks off Swines Head. There he rising and falling heavily, while the found the St. Dedan. She was not whole crew of eleven jumped singly on more than two cables from the rocks. to her deck. Then at last he cast off, The second coxswain brought the life- and brought her, undamaged, back to boat close alongside, and the coxswain land by four o'clock next morning. then saw that the fishing boat had The Institution made the following thrown out her fishing nets to act as an awards: anchor, but that she was still drifting To COXSWAIN EDWARD KAVAXAGII, rapidly stern first towards the rocks. for his splendid judgment and seaman- She would strike them in two or three ship, the bronze medal for gallantry, minutes; the nets would close round with a copy of the vote inscribed on her; a rescue would be impossible. vellum; To the motor-mechanic, J. BONUS, who handled his engines with great skill A Dangerous Manoeuvre and promptness, the thanks of the As the life-boat lay, the tide was Institution inscribed on vellum; carrying the fishing boat and the nets To MR. J. T. O'BYRNE, B.E., towards her. The coxswain told the M.I.C.E.I., the honorary secretary, a second-coxswain to go round the fishing letter of appreciation; boat—so that the life-boat would have To the coxswain, and each member the tide behind her—and to bring of the crew, £5 175. Qd. for the three her bow-on to the fishing boat amid- services. Total rewards, £50 7s. ships. He himself stood ready in the bows with a line. He knew that were there any delay in throwing the DUNMORE EAST line on board, or were the tow-rope to part, it would mean the certain loss of On the night of the 14th of December, the fishing boat and her five men. 1950, fishermen returning to Dunmore To get the life-boat near enough for East, on the coast of County Water- the line to be thrown was a difficult ford, reported that they had seen flares and dangerous manoeuvre. It had to about two miles away; and one of the be done in the teeth of the gale, in local fishing boats, the St. Declan, with extreme darkness, in heavy seas which five men on board, had not returned. were surging and boiling round the The news reached the life-boat station rocks. The second-coxswain brought the just before eight o'clock^ and at 8.20 life-boat's bow close to the fishing boat; the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith the coxswain threw the line; the line slipped her moorings. Since noon the was seized; the life-boat went slowly barometer had been falling rapidly. astern. To the heaving line the cox- The wind had steadily increased. It swain bent a rope, to the rope the was now blowing a gale from the south- anchor chain, to the chain the cable. east, with squalls of snow. The tide The fishermen made the chain fast to was flowing against the wind, and the their stern and cut away the nets; the sea was rough. coxswain veered out nearly eighty fathoms of cable; and the life-boat Searchings Along the Shore drew the fishing boat clear of the The life-boat went to the position rocks. In this way, stern-first, life-boat given, nearly a mile and a half from the and fishing boat moved slowly out to shore, but she saw no lights. The gale sea for nearly a mile. Then the tow was blowing dead on shore, so the cox- was changed to the life-boat's stern and swain turned again towards the shore, the fishing boat's bow, and they made WINTER, 1950] THE LIFE-BOAT 119 for Dunmore East, where they arrived To SECOXD COXSWAIN RICHARD at midnight. POWER, for the superb seamanship The Institution has made the fol- with which he handled the life-boat, the lowing awards: bronze medal for gallantry, with a copy To COXSWAIN PATRICK POWER, for of the vote inscribed on vellum; the perfect judgment with which he To the coxswain, second-coxswain and conducted the search and directed the each of the four members of the crew, rescue, knowing that he had not a a reward of £2 in addition to the reward moment to spare, a bar to the bronze on the ordinary scale of £l 10*. Scale medal which he won in 1941, with a rewards, £7 105.; additional rewards, copy of the vote inscribed on vellum; £12; total rewards, £19 10s. The Life-boat Service in 1950 THERE were 603 launches of life-boats Kavanagh, of Wicklow, Second-Cox- to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the swain William Jones, of New Brighton, record number in 1949—and life-boats and Coxswain Patrick Power and rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives Second-coxswain Richard Power, of were rescued by shore-boats, for which Dunmore East.* the rescuers were rewarded by the No lives of life-boatmen were lost as Institution, making a grand total for a result of accidents at sea, but the the year of 472 lives. bowman of the Walmer crew collapsed Life-boats also saved, or helped to and died in the life-boat while she was save, 81 boats and vessels, and helped on service, and a launcher at Cullercoats 240 more in various ways. was injured while helping to replace The total of lives rescued from the the life-boat on her carriage, and died Institution's foundation in 1824 up to later. The Institution pensioned their the end of 1950, was 77,196, an dependent relatives as if the men had average of over 50 lives a month for been sailors, soldiers or airmen killed in 127 years. action. Four bronze medals were won * Full accounts of these services will be found on pages for gallantry, by Coxswain Edward 117 and 120.
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