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The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution THE LIFE-BOAT The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution VOL. XXXII JUNE, 1947 No. 342 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 152 :: Pulling and Sailing Life-boats, 2 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1947 - 75,570 The Life-boat Journal The Life-boat appears again after an was also possible to continue the illus- absence of just seven years. Its last trated annual, The Story of the Life- number was dated April, 1940. In that boat, under the title of The Life-boat month Germany invaded Denmark and Serzice and the War. Norway. At the end of the next month In the annual report, reduced from the British Expeditionary Fotce was over 200 pages to twenty-four, it was brought off from the beaches of not possible to publish the usual Dunkirk (nineteen of the Institution's accounts of the services of the life-boats, life-boats aiding in the work), and the but later on a supplement to the annual British Isles awaited invasion. It was report will be issued in which these apparent what scarcities there would accounts will be printed. With them be in these besieged islands, what strict will be lists of the men who won medals economies were needed; and the Com- for gallantry, and the lists of services mittee of Management voluntarily de- which used to appear in The Life-boat cided at once, as the Institution's help at the beginning of each year. Thus in economizing paper, to suspend this there will be no gap in the printed journal (which used over eighteen tons records of the work of the life-boat a year) and drastically to reduce the stations. The continuing difficulties in annual report, both in size and in the printing, from the scarcity both of men number of copies printed. and materials, make it still impossible These economies have continued to fix a date for the publication of until the present time. But the news this supplement. of the work of the Life-boat Service The Life-boat, though it can appear was still regularly distributed to its again, must be slimmer, not much more branches and workers in the briefest than half the size that it was before possible form. In September, 1940, the war, and the number printed of the first number of The Life-boat War each issue will for the present be less Bulletin appeared, a single sheet, than half of what it was. But here it printed by the Institution's own staff. is again, and we may perhaps hope It was published every quarter, the ihat it will be fully itself once more last number appearing in December, before it celebrates the centenary of its 1946. Altogether 26 numbers and over first number, published on March 1st, 110,000 copies of it were printed. It 1852. THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, 1947 A Record Year THE work of the Life-boat Service does which is likely to decline, are con- not grow less. It is actually increasing. founded by the facts. Sir William In spite of all that is being done, by Hillary, in his appeal for a Life-boat new inventions, to make travel by sea Service in 1823, wrote: "So long as safer as well as more comfortable, man shall continue to navigate the 146 more calls were made for the help of ocean, and the tempests shall hold life-boats in 1946 than ever before in a their course over its surface, in every year of peace. More calls were made age, and on every coast, disaster by even than in any of the last four years sea, shipwreck and peril to human life of the war. The number was 631. must inevitably take place." Had he The number of lives which life-boats known what stupendous ships would be rescued was 647. That is not a record, built, what marvellous things would be but it has been surpassed in only three discovered, what ingenious things in- other years of peace—1907, 1898 and vented in the next 124 years, he might 1892. well have hesitated to write those So the work goes on; and those who words; but he was wiser in his might think, not unreasonably, that ignorance. What he wrote then re- the life-boats are a service the need for mains true to-day. The Goodwin Sands THE Goodwin Sands have earned over of the coast have disputed the evil pre- and over again their grim description as eminence of the Goodwins, but since '; the graveyard of ships." In them are the war ended and the Straits of Dover sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the entrance to the Thames were and the bones of thousands of seamen. free again to all shipping, the Goodwins At low tide men have played cricket on have reasserted themselves and Walmer the Goodwins and have cycled on them, j has been the busiest life-boat station but such acts of familiarity leave them on our coasts. In the past twenty- unchanged as the greatest menace to five months (from the end of the ships in the waters of the British Isles. war on May 8th, 1945), the Walmer For many years the North Deal life- life-boat has gone out to the help of boat station, the nearest to the Good- twenty-one ships caught by the Good- wins, was the most famous of all life- wins. Only one of those ships was boat stations. When it was closed in British, a 7,000-ton steamer, and she 1932, its life-boats had rescued in its got off the Sands. Ten were from fifty-seven years 859 lives. There have European countries—three Swedish, been altogether three stations opposite two Dutch, one French, one Danish, the Goodwins — Kingsdown, North one Spanish, one Greek, and one Deal, and Walmer. Now there is only Polish. From these ships the Walmer W'almer, chosen as having the best life-boat rescued forty lives. The other beach for launching a motor life-boat. ten ships were all American, and These three stations, from 1865 to Walmer rescued from them ninety-twa the end of 1946, had rescued 1,646 lives. Altogether, the Wralmer life- lives. boat has rescued from the Goodwins in In recent years, other dangerous parts these twentv-five months 132 lives. A Wireless Appeal ON Christmas Eve of last year a wire- Council, a vice-president of the Institu- less appeal for the Life-boat Service tion and now the Institution's treas- was made by the Duke of Montrose. urer. The response to the appeal was chairman of the Scottish Life-boat £1,799 4*. Qd. JUNE, 1947] THE LIFE-BOAT By courtesy of} [Daily Graphic ON THE GOODWINS Two steamers from which the Walmer life-boat rescued eighty-three lives. In the foreground, the American Luray Victory, wrecked on January 30th, 1946; in the background, the Greek ha, wrecked on March 8th, 1947. THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, 1947 Wreck of the Life-boat at The Mumbles AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, •who -was 47 years old, had a very dis- April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles tinguished record. He was one of \vent out in a gale of exceptional the seven men who during the war severity to the help of the steamer won the gold medal of the Institution Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which for conspicuous gallantry. This was had been driven ashore on the rocks in October, 1944, when he rescued off Sker Point, eleven miles south-east forty-two lives from the Canadian of The Mumbles. No more was seen frigate Cheboque in a fierce gale, by or heard of the life-boat until daylight night. He had already won the next morning when she was found bronze medal, in January, 1941, when, ashore, bottom up, near the wreck of in order to rescue the crew of a the Samtampa. All her crew were steamer driven ashore, he took his drowned. The Institution has pensioned life-boat in the darkness right among their nineteen dependent relatives as if the coast defences of steel railway the men had been sailors of the Navy lines driven into the sand beneath killed in action. A full account of this the water. In his seventeen years as disaster will be published in the next an officer of the life-boat he took part number of The Life-boat. in the rescue of 127 lives. His portrait The coxswain, William Gammon, is on the cover. The Bravest Life-boatman of the Year UNDER the will of Miss Maud Smith, he won the Institution's gold medal; of Chesham Place, London, who died for 1945 to W. Orchard, assistant in February, 1943, £200 was given to motor mechanic at Padstow, for the Institution for investment, from taking command of the life-boat and which a sum not exceeding £5 was to rescuing seven lives from the Nor- be given in January of each year to wegian steamer Sjoj'na, for which he the life-boatman who had performed won the Institution's silver medal; the bravest act of life-saving in the and for 1946 to J. R. Harland, of previous year. The gift was to be the Whitby crew, for going overboard known as "Miss Maud Smith's reward from the life-boat in a rough sea for courage in memory of John, 7th and rescuing a man who had been Earl of Hardwicke." This award has washed out of the fishing boat Easter now been made three times.
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