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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. XXIV.—No. 269.] MAY, 1920. [PRICE 6d. Annual Meeting. THE Ninety-sixth Annual General Meet- The SECBETAKY : These telegrams have just ing of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT come to hand:— INSTITUTION was held at Oaxton Hall, " Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Tenby Life-boat just returned from service with rescued Westminster, on Thursday, 22nd April, crew of a French ketch. All well. Bryant." 1920, at 3 P.M., the Right Hon. the " Newquay, Cornwall. This Life-boat, Viscount Burnham, C.H., in the Chair, launched on service this morning, saved five and amongst those present were:— men from French fishing-vessel, Philomdne. WindN.W. Heavy gale and sea. Thomas." His Excellency the Ambassador of the " Mumbles, Glamorganshire. Rescued •United States, the Earl "Waldegrave, last evening crew, bound Port of Nantes. P.O., V.P. (Chairman of the Committee Five landed Mumbles. Vessel wrecked, of Management), Sir Godfrey Baring, le Boulanger." Bt., V.P. (Deputy Chairman of the The CHAIBMAN : Your Excellency, Lord Committee of Management), Admiral Waldegrave, ladies and gentlemen, I have Sir Doveton Sturdee, Bt., K.C.B., occasion during the year to take many Chairs K.C.M.G., the Rev. Prebendary Gough, in many places and at many times, but I can Mrs. Henry Fawcett, Mr. W. J. Oliver honestly say that I never take the Chair with greater pleasure than I do to-day among all (Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland these glorious flags, not the least of which, Branch), the Hon. George Colville, " Old Glory," is represented here by His Admiral Sir Frederick E. E. Brock, Excellency the American Ambassador. K.C.M.G., C.B., Major-General Sir (Applause.) I say that because I make bold to say that no institution, deserves its prefixes Coleridge Grove, K.C.B., Mr. Robert of honour in the words "Boyal" and Birkbeck, V.P., Mr. Harry Hargood, " National" so well as THE ROY.AL NATIONAL O.B.E., Brigadier-General Noel M.Lake, LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. His Royal Highness C.B., Rear-Admiral Charles Rudd, Rear- the Prince of Wales, following the precedent of his father and grandfather, would have Admiral Hector B. Stewart, Colonel presided here had he not been on the high Sir H. Henry McMahon, G.C.M.G., seas on a high mission. It may interest you G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Sir Wood- to know that on more than one occasion he burn Kirby, Captain Sir Herbert Acton has taken a trip in a Life-boat out for exercise. When the Institution was founded in March, Blake, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. (Deputy 1824, King George IV. at once became its Master ofj the Trinity House), Mr. Patron, and since then most of the Princes of Harold D. Clayton, Mr. Herbert P. the Royal House have been Vice-Presidents; Lancashire, Colonel William Elliott, so your Institution is thoroughly Royal. It is thoroughly National because it is the C.B., Commander Erancis Eitzpatrick best expression of the best qualities of national Tower, R.N.V.R., Miss Alice Marshall character "in war and peace alike," as the ^Honorary Secretary Oxford Branch), founder, Sir William Hillary, said of its good Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N. purposes. It is National in its affectionate union with the Royal Navy, whose representa- (late Chief Inspector of Life-boats), tive we acclaim in Admiral Sir Doveton .Mr. George F. Shee, M.A. (Secretary), Sturdee. (Applause.) From no source do wo Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., receive more generous support than from the B.N. (Chief Inspector of Life-boats), officers and men of the Navy, who perhaps better than any—crede expertis—aie able to ^ Colonel Murray, O.B.E. (District Or- appreciate what faithful service in a Life-boat ganizing Secretary for Greater London), crew really means to the man and to his '"and Mr. P. W. Gidney (Assistant- country. »3ecretary). All the churches without distinction, whether within or without the Establish- r. / The GHAIBMAN : I will ask the Secretary to ment, take the keenest interest in the Society, yread certain telegraphic reports that ha has to the promotion of which was originally moved hand. by the two Archbishops of 1824, and many of c 2 32 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MAY, 1920. the hard-working secretaries of Station have been ordered, and a further batch will Branches have been and are ministers of quickly follow on. The cost of building, how- religion. It would indeed he a queer kind of ever, has increased from £3,500 to £7,500, and religion which would not hold in honour the the cost of endowment from £15,000 to physical courage and the moral courage which £17,000. Plans are in hand for a complete goes down to face the great waters in their dockyard in East London for the use of the angry mood for the salvation of our men. Life-boat Service. Electric or petrol power- The spirit of the Life-boat is the spirit of winches are to be used for all motor boats the trench war—the hold-fast temper which which are housed, and experiments are being gives up nothing and nobody for lost. Oliver made with a motor tractor for hauling the Wendell Holmes said of the sea: " The sea Life-boat on her carriage to any part of the remembers nothing. It is feline. It licks beach for launching. All this makes for your feet; its huge flanks purr very pleasantly speed, and speed is in itself the saving of life. for you, but it will crack your bones and eat But all this can only be done on the basis of you for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam the new values. from its jaws as if nothing had happened." Napoleon's phrase is quoted every day that If the sea remembers nothing, you of this in war the moral is to the material as three to Institution have proud remembrance of the one. In the war against the wild winds and sea. During the war, over 5,300 lives were the wilder sea, the morale of the man-power rescued, and of these over 1,660 were saved is nine-tenths of the whole. Therefore we from vessels mined, torpedoed, or otherwise must hope that the in-shore fishing population destroyed by the enemy. Last year the report will be maintained in all its age-long virility shows, as you would expect, smaller figures— and vigour. 379 lives as compared with 619 the previous Last year once more gave many examples year; but there were actually a larger number in action of the grand, old type of British of vessels, with the liberated traffic of the seamanship in its outstanding bravery. One narrow seas. is thankful to know that among them all The great majority of lives lost by shipwreck there was no loss of life last year. and saved by Life-boat service are naturally I well knew one of the old school, John British, and the great majority of the 57,000 Owston of Scarborough, whom I used con- lives saved-have been British lives. stantly to see over many years when I was In 1913, the last Abstract of Shipping there. He had passed forty years and more published by the Board of Trade, shows that, in the Life-boat, as Mr. Kipling says, " swept of the total casualties of our coasts—2,680— but surviving, half-drowned but still driving," 2,284 were of the British Empire, as against and had saved at least 100 lives. I often went only 396 of foreign shipping, and of lives lost out sailing with him, and I heard some of his in that year, 253 were British and only 98 sea stories. In his modesty, as well as in his foreign. Yet the American Ambassador, hardihood, he was the very type and pattern whom we so cordially welcome here to-day, of a Life-boat captain, and in his home he will note with interest the large number of was as good a citizen as he was a sailor at sea. American citizens whom the British Life- All I can say is, long may his happy breed boats have rescued, and that some of the endure. (Applause.) finest achievements in our war service were Now we come to the ways and means of the rescues on the treacherous Goodwin Sands helping the Life-boat Service in active opera- of the passengers and crews of the American tion for the safety of all who go by sea in ships, Sibiria and Piave ; while, as lately as ships. The financial position is not very the 28th August last, the crew of the steam- favourable, for there was a loss of over ship Wakulla were rescued by the Bembridge £13,000 in revenue last year as compared witn Life-boat by art effort extending over nineteen 1918. If we are not to lose our honour as hours of continuous work. (Applause.) This well as our security, more money must be it but one Life-boat, and there are nearly 250 found. Life-boats scattered along all the coasts of I am bound to say that I think the appeal the United Kingdom, from the Orkneys to the lies first and foremost to the Shipping Lines Soillys, and from Cromer to Fenit, on the of this country. These companies have not west coast of Ireland. There is no dangerous given enough, and it is not a pleasant reflec- headland, there is no busy estuary, there is no tion that before the war I have it on long stretch of slipping sand unprotected by authority for stating that many of the Ger- this mobile defence against the fury of the man Shipping Cornpanies subscribed more in winds and waves.
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