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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. XXXVII JUNE, 1963 No. 404 Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period prototype life-boat can be built, and in which a number of important some two or three years may elapse before advances were made in the develop- this prototype can be effectively tested ment of life-boat design and in the under service conditions. task, which is a continuous one, of NEW FAST RESCUE CRAFT modernizing and re-equipping the life- Concurrently with these important boat service as a whole. During this developments in the design of life-boats period a new type of life-boat was com- experiments have been carried out with pleted. This was the 48-foot 6-inch a new type of fast rescue craft designed Oakley life-boat, which is described in primarily for inshore rescue work in the detail on page 452 and illustrated on summer months. These craft are inflat- pages 472 and 473. able and are constructed of a tough In the summer of 1958 the first of the nylon material proofed with neoprene. Oakley type of life-boat was completed. They can be driven at 20 knots or more, This was the 37-foot boat, and a num- a 40 h.p. outboard motor being ber of these life-boats are now in mounted on a wooden transom. The service. The Oakley life-boat, as is types with which the Institution has generally known, is a self-righting boat, been experimenting are 15 feet 9 inches but the most important quality of the in length and have a beam of 6 feet boat is not simply that she will right 4 inches. Craft of this type are being herself automatically if she capsizes but placed at the life-boat stations at that she is a more stable boat than Aberystwyth, Gorleston, Redcar and comparable life-boats of the non-self- Wells, and trials will be carried out at righting type, her self-righting quality other points on the coast between life- being provided by an ingenious system boat stations. The craft will normally of shifting of water ballast. The same be manned by a crew of two with two principle has been applied in the new additional helpers to assist in launching 48-foot 6-inch boat, but this is, of course, where necessary. Those who man them a boat of a larger type with a cabin and will receive service rewards on the same shelter for the crew and survivors. At scale as members of life-boat crews. An the time of going to press the new life- illustration of this new type of rescue boat is on her way to Leith, where she craft is to be found on page 475. will be inspected by representatives of life-boat societies from many countries WORST WINTER IN MEMORY who are attending the ninth interna- The winter of 1962-1963 was as tional life-boat conference. severe as any in living memory, and an The 48-foot 6-inch life-boat is not the examination of the accounts of services only type on which the Institution is in this number of the Life-boat will working. Designs have been submitted show continual references to sleet, for a life-boat which will be some 70 snow and ice, with more than one feet in length, will have a higher cruising instance of a life-boat being used to speed than existing life-boats in the convey people or supplies when places fleet and from which it will be possible had been cut off by blizzards. In the to launch a smaller boat for inshore course of the winter one outstanding rescue work. When inviting designs for service by a life-boat led to the winning the new type of life-boat the Institution of the Institution's highest award for gal- made it clear that steel construction lantry, the gold medal. The medal, which might be acceptable. Extensive tank is being presented by Princess Marina, tests will have to be carried out before a Duchess of Kent, at the international 450 THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, 1963 life-boat conference in Edinburgh, was framed letter of thanks was sent from awarded to Coxswain Hubert Petit, of the Chairman of the Institution to St. Peter Port, Guernsey, for the rescue Coxswain George Mitchell and his of nine people from the Norwegian crew. This service was briefly referred motor vessel Johan Collett on the night to in the March 1963 number of the of 5th/6th February. A full account of Life-boat on page 440. the service appears on this page. Cox- swain Petit is only the third man to SUPPORT FROM AMERICAN7 WIVES receive the Institution's gold medal A delightful ceremony of an unusual since the end of the second world war, kind took place in Aldeburgh recently and it is an interesting fact that one of when the Mayoress of Aldeburgh, Mrs. the others was also a Channel Islander. Dudley O. Knowles, issued membership This was Coxswain Thomas King, of badges of the ladies' life-boat guild to the St. Helier, whose medal was awarded 38 wives of the fighter pilots of the U.S. in 1949. The third gold medallist was 91st Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre. 81st Tactical Fighter Wing stationed at Another service of exceptional merit in the R.A.F. station at Bentwaters, appalling conditions was carried out by Suffolk. There has been no previous the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat on the example of a group of American women 28th and the 29th December, 1962, joining a ladies' life-boat guild en masse when an east-north-easterly gale reach- in this fashion, and the example of the ing force 11 was blowing, and the wives was soon emulated by their hus- life-boat carried out a search for bands, when eleven members of the approximately 14 hours, conditions Tactical Fighter Wing became active being such that during the entire search associate members of the Aldeburgh the life-boat's drogue was streamed. A and District ladies' life-boat guild. Third Gold Medal since the war AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th casualty about six o'clock and that February, 1963, Niton radio informed some six other vessels were also making St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that for the position to give help if needed. the Norwegian motor vessel Johan The Johan Collett, a vessel of 1,995 Collett needed help immediately. Her gross tons, with an overall length of position was fourteen miles west-north- 258 feet, a beam of 41 feet and a loaded west of Les Hanois lighthouse. draught of approximately 19 ft. 6 ins., The assembly signal was made at was bound from Tunis to Ghent. Her 3.30, and at 3.45 the St. Peter Port cargo of zinc concentrates had shifted, life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal, which is causing a severe list to starboard. one of the 52-foot Barnett class, left her Ship's Boat Lowered moorings. At that time a near gale was At five o'clock her master decided to blowing from the south, but the wind lower the ship's boat while the weather was increasing, the sea was rough and conditions still allowed him to do so, the weather was overcast, visibility and eleven of the crew were transferred being moderate. It was high water. to the s.s. Bonnard and later landed at Message from Frigate Ostend. At 6.4 three more of the crew Coxswain Hubert Petit set a course left in a rubber raft and were picked close inshore south of the island in up by the s.s. Kaupanger. By this time order to avoid a 3-j knot foul tide. By the President Kruger had reached the going inside the rocks and keeping only scene, and four of the merchant ships about fifty yards off shore the life-boat which had been standing by left. made good time to Les Hanois light- Coxswain Petit was ably assisted in house and passed it at 4.46. An hour navigating to the scene of the casualty earlier a message had been received from by his son, John Petit, a master mariner. the South African frigate President Mechanic E. C. Pattimore also helped Kruger that she expected to reach the by taking occasional D/F bearings of JUNE, 1963] THE LIFE-BOAT 451 the President Kruger, and the frigate was on her beam ends with seas sweep- gave useful assistance by taking check ing her port side. There were still six bearings of the life-boat. men on board. The life-boat reached the Johan At 12.45 these men decided to Collett at 6.30. By then the weather had abandon ship, and Coxswain Petit ran deteriorated, the wind had shifted to the in under her port quarter. He could south-east and was blowing a gale, and hardly have had more difficult con- visibility was about four miles. There ditions as the vessel was still being was a long low swell and seas estimated towed at about 3 knots. at some fifteen feet between trough and crest. It was snowing and there was Illuminated by Searchlight severe icing on the windscreen. The Coxswain Petit had to manoeuvre the depth of water around the Johan life-boat so that her starboard side was Collett was about 36 fathoms. alongside the motor vessel's port quar- ter on the top of a sea, allowing enough Heavy List to Starboard time for the survivors to jump aboard.
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