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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. XXXIV SEPTEMBER, 1955 No. 373 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF lives were rescued. The category to attended a meeting of the Committee which the greatest number of services of Management of the Institution on was rendered was that of motor the 14th of July. 1955. Licutenant- vessels, steamers, motor boats and General Sir Frederick Browning was barges. There were 20 launches to in attendance. The Duke of Pklin- vessels of this kind and 45 lives were burgh is ex-qfficio a member of the rescued. There were 15 launches to Committee of Management as he is fishing boats and 13 to yachts, but as Master of the Honourable Company of many as 20 lives were rescued from Master Mariners. This was the first yachts and only 4 from fishing boats. time he had attended a meeting, There were 6 launches to aircraft, 3 and during his visit to headquarters he to small boats and dinghies and 2 to examined with great thoroughness the people who had been cut off by the drawings of all the types of life-boat tide. Life-boats were launched 3 being built today. Within a week of times to land sick men, and there were attending the meeting the Duke of 3 launches following reports of distress Edinburgh, on a visit to the Scilly signals which led to no result. Isles, presented to Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, the certi- GIFT OF FOUR NEW LIFE-BOATS ficate inscribed on vellum which Mrs. E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin, who accompanies the bronze medal. Cox- died on the 21st of May. 1955, left a swain Lethbridge won his medal and sum of money in her will large enough vellum for the rescue of 25 people to pay for four new life-boats. Mrs. from the Panamanian steamer Mando Cubbin lived for many years in the late at night on the 21st of January, Isle of Man and regularly sailed round 1955. A full account of this service the west coast of Scotland. She appeared in the June number of the stipulated in her will that two new Life-boat. life-boats should be built for the Isle of Man and two for the north-west BUSIEST MAY EVER coast of Scotland. New life-boats In 1955 life-boats were launched in will, therefore, eventually be built out May more often than they had ever of this legacy for Douglas and Port St. been before in that month. The total Mary in the Isle of Man, Barra Island number of launches was 65, and 84 in the Outer Hebrides and Mallaig, 106 THE LIFE-BOAT [SEPTEMBER, 1955 Inverness-shire. The Barra Island USE OF DIRECTION FINDING GEAR and Mallaig stations will have 52-feet A service carried out by the Rosslare Barnett boats, which according to Harbour life-boat on the 3rd of May prices at the time of Mrs. Cubbin's provided the first example of the death cost £34,500 each. Douglas successful use of radio direction- and Port St. Mary will have 46-feet finding gear fitted in a life-boat to 9-inches Watson boats which at that locate a casualty. Direction-finding time cost £30,000 each. The price of equipment is used in conjunction with new life-boats of course, continually the existing radio receiver, which is increases and the exact amount which fitted as standard equipment. A fixed the Institution will receive from the loop is mounted on the top of the after late Mrs. Cubbin's munificence cannot cabin, and a goniometer unit is fitted therefore be stated exactly, but it is beside the receiver in the radio tele- evident that the legacy will be the phone cabin. The equipment can be biggest which the Institution has ever used successfully only if the casualty received. Among other big legacies or another vessel standing by can received in the past were those from send out a signal on its transmitter. the late Mrs. Alice Pugh of Kensington, This signal is then tuned in on the who died in 1944 and who left the goniometer, and its bearing in relation Institution £68,828, and that of Mr. to the life-boat is passed to the cox- James Stevens of Birmingham, who swain. The equipment has been fitted died in 1894 and from whose will the experimentally in a limited number of Institution received £50,000. This life-boats. An account of the Rosslare sum proved large enough for the Harbour life-boat's service is given on building of 20 new life-boats. page 120. Sixteen Men Rescued from Wreck ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S. they could do to keep afloat when they Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to had hove-to. the east of Beachy Head. During the The life-boat took the Endeavour in next ten days a number of salvage tow at 5.45, and three-quarters of an boats went out to her, and at 4.30 hour later anchored her in the lee of on the afternoon of the 6th of May Eastbourne pier. While she was tow- Coxswain Thomas Allchorn, of East- ing the Endeavour she received a bourne, learned from the coastguard further distress message by radio that flares were being shown from the telephone, which stated that another wreck of the Germania. salvage boat was in difficulties a mile The maroons were fired, and at and a half south-east of the Eastbourne 4.45 the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl life-boathouse and was asking the Tollemache was launched. A fresh Hastings life-boat to launch to her help. gale was blowing from the south-west, there was a rough sea, and it was over- Second Boat Found cast. It was an hour before low water, and because of the state of the tide Coxswain Allchorn decided to make the life-boat bumped twice on the for the second boat and found her to sand as she was being launched. the cast of Cooden. This boat was The life-boat headed for the Ger- the Moonbeam, which also had two mania, but before reaching her she men on board. The time was now saw a boat a mile to the south-west about seven o'clock. of the wreck. This was the salvage The life-boat took the Moonbeam in boat Endeavour. There were two men tow and headed back towards East- on board, and from them Coxswain bourne. In the very rough seas tow- Allchorn learned that the flares had ing was difficult, and the tow rope been shown to call attention to their parted four times. Soon after the distress. In the heavy seas it was all Moonbeam had been taken in tow a SEPTEMBER, 1955] THE LIFE-BOAT 107 piece of driftwood was drawn into the Engine's Damaged Shaft life-boat's starboard propeller. This There was a rope ladder over the caused the shaft to bend, and there was side of the wreck, and by holding on a drop in revolutions as a result. It to lines which hung from the deck was nearly nine o'clock at night by and by the use of her engines the crew the time the life-boat anchored the kept the life-boat in position. Al- Moonbeam close to the Endeavour and though she was in the lee of the took both crews off. Germania she was rising and falling While the Eastbourne life-boat had in a considerable sea. Throughout been towing the Moonbeam she had this operation the motor mechanic, received a further message by radio [Michael Hardy, was handicapped by telephone saying that more flares had having to nurse the starboard engine, been shown from the wreck. The which had a damaged shaft, yet he life-boat therefore returned to the succeeded in carrying out all the cox- Germania, which she reached about swain's instructions with complete 9.30. The coxswain found that the success. Life-saving Apparatus team had got a There were sixteen men on board line aboard from a cliff-top, but the the wreck, and in less than ten min- salvage party on board the Germania utes they all clambered down the rope had not been taken off. ladder and jumped aboard the life- boat. One man hurt his foot and Fresh Gale Blowing others received minor injuries. By this time a fresh gale was blow- Coxswain Allchorn succeeded in ing from between south-west and bringing the life-boat clear of the west, and a heavy sea was running. wreck without damage, and he then The tide w^as about half flood, and be- returned to Eastbourne. The sur- cause of heavy clouds the night was dark. vivors were landed at 10.15. Coxswain Allchorn made one explor- In addition to the Endeavour and atory approach to mark the rocks the Moonbeam two other motor boats, surrounding the Gcrmania. The the Enfilade and the William III, were wreck lay on a rocky ledge in very also in difficulties during the day. shallow water about half a mile east of The William III was escorted by the Beachy Head lighthouse, with her Newhaven life-boat to Newhaven. and bow to the north-west on one ledge the Enfilade was finally wrecked near and her stern on another.
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