THE LIFE-BOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

VOL. XXX. MARCH, 1937. No. 329.

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 132 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 35 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1937 65,096

Their Majesties the King and Queen : Patrons. His Majesty the King and Her Majesty be Patron, and the Queen is the the Queen have been pleased to become third Queen Consort. Her Majesty Patrons of the Institution. The King Queen Mary has been a Patron since is the seventh reigning sovereign to 1911.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.: President. H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., has 1930 he named two other motor life- been pleased to assume the office of boats on the Essex coast, at Walton-on- President of the Institution. He is the the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea. In 1931 fifth member of the Royal Family to he named the Newhaven, Sussex, become President. King Edward VII. motor life-boat, and in 1932 the motor King George V, King Edward VIIIJ life-boat at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. In and King George VI, all held this office 1933 he went to Shoreham Harbour, when they were heirs to the throne. Sussex, to name the motor life-boat, The Duke of Kent has already for a and in 1935 to Weston-super-Mare, number of years taken a personal Somerset. interest in the work of the life-boat Last year the Duke of Kent spoke service. He has named nine motor at the Annual General Meeting of the life-boats on different parts of the Institution, and presented medals for English and Scottish coasts. The first gallantry to fifteen life-boatmen from occasion was in 1928, when he English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh travelled specially to the Orkneys stations, and awards to thirteen to name the new motor life-boats at honorary workers for distinguished Stromness and Longhope, at that time services. the farthest north on our coasts. In The Duke assumes the office of 1929 he named the motor life-boat President with a wide personal know- Greater London, a gift of the Civil ledge of the work of the service and the Service, at Southend-on-Sea, and in men who man its life-boats. H.R.H. THE DUKE OF KENT, K.G. President of the Institution.

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A Record Year. THE year 1936 was for the life-boat them; and the life-boats saved or service the busiest in its whole history helped to save 5 of the vessels from of 113 years. Life-boats were launched destruction. Two of the vessels were 468 times to the help of vessels in Finnish; 51 lives were rescued from distress. That is an average of nine them. Two of the vessels belonged launches a week. Never before have to the United States of America; there been so many launches in one 33 lives were rescued from one of year. It is 88 more than in 1935. them. Of the other 20 foreign vessels, The next busiest year was 1911, when 4 were Dutch, 3 Norwegian, 3 Spanish, there were 458.J 3 Latvian, 2 Esthonian. and one each The busiest months were January were from Belgium, Denmark, Ger- with 62 launches and February with 53. many, Iceland and Italy. During the gales of October, November and December there were 135. During Services to Yachts and Fishing Boats. the three summer months, June, July Life-boats went out to the help of and August, there were no fewer 56 yachts (35 of them sailing yachts than 98. and 21 motor or steam yachts); saved The Institution gave rewards during or helped to save 14 of them ; helped the year for the rescue of 491 lives, in various ways 18 others ; and rescued 383 by life-boats and 108 by shore- 35 lives. They went out to the help boats. of fishing boats on 142 occasions; Life-boats saved or helped to save rescued 127 fishermen; and saved or from destruction 48 vessels and boats, helped to save 16 of the boats. and stood by, escorted to safety, or helped in various ways over 300 more. Ten Medals for Gallantry. Up to the end of 1936 the Institution It was a year also of rescues of great had given rewards for the rescue from gallantry. Ten medals were won. The shipwreck round the coasts of Great outstanding service of the year was Britain and Ireland of 64,902 lives. by an Irish crew. During the February That is an average of 11 lives a week gales the motor life-boat at Bally- for 113 years. cotton, Co. Cork, went out to the help Services to Foreign Vessels. of the Daunt Rock lightship in a sea The year was notable also for the so heavy that the spray was flying larger number of services to foreign over the lantern of the lighthouse, 196 vessels and the large number of lives feet high. She was out for 63 hours, rescued from them. Life-boats helped and during that time her crew had 31 foreign vessels, as compared with only 3 hours' sleep. They were at 17 in 1935, belonging to 14 different sea for 49 hours, and for 25 of them countries ; rescued 161 lives from them; they had no food. They were swept and saved or helped to save 21 of the by rain and sleet, and washed con- vessels. That is 46 more lives than in tinually by heavy seas, In the end they 1935 and 44 per cent of the total of 383 rescued the whole crew of the lightship. lives rescued during the year by life- For this rescue, one of the most daring boats. Life-boats were also called out to and exhausting in the whole history of the help of 18 other foreign vessels, but the life-boat service, Coxswain Patrick their help was not needed. Of the 31 Sliney was awarded the gold medal of the Institution and each of the six vessels to which help was given 7 were members of his crew the silver or French; 52 lives were rescued from bronze medal. Three other bronze 1 The yearly record of launches has been kept medals were awarded during the year, by the Institution since 1874. In that year there were 202 launches, less than half the two to Scottish coxswains and one to number in 1936. The fleet in 1874 numbered an English coxswain. Coxswain James 250 life-boats. That was the largest number of life-boats up to that year, and it had grown Sim, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, rapidly to that number from 30 in 1851. It can therefore be assumed with certainty that during won it in January for the rescue of the the fifty years from 1824 to 187~3, there was whole crew of the trawler Evergreen, no year in which the number of launches even approached the number for 193(5. wrecked in a snowstorm. Coxswain MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 213

William Dass, of Longhope, Orkneys, and some fired from the shoulder. won it in February for the rescue of They fire a long steel projectile which the crew of 41 of the French trawler carries the line, and they have a range Neptunia. He and his crew were also of 70 yards. The Institution has now awarded medals by the French Govern- adopted also the Schermuly pistol, ment. Coxswain Frank Blewett, of firing a rocket which carries the line. Penlee, Cornwall, won the bronze medal It has a range of 95 yards, and is to in January for the rescue of the whole be used in those motor life-boats which crew of the steamer Taycraig, which have not line-throwing guns. sank in a gale in Mounts Bay. Eleven New Motor Life-boats. Diesel Engines and Surf Motor Life-boats. Eleven new motor life-boats were As recorded in the article below, completed and were sent to the coast, the first motor life-boat to be built seven for England, two for Scotland, with Diesel engines was sent to the one for Wales, and one for the Isle coast. The first two motor life-boats of Man. Six replaced pulling and of the new surf type, described in the sailing life-boats, and the other five last issue of The Life-boat, were also replaced motor life-boats. They went completed and sent to the coast. to Ilfracombe (Devon), Yarmouth This surf type is experimental. If (Isle of Wight), Hythe (Kent), Wells it is successful, it will enable the Insti- and Sheringham (Norfolk), Seaham tution to place motor life-boats at a (Durham), North Sunderland (North- number of stations where it would umberland), St. Abb's (Berwickshire), be very difficult to launch the heavier Gourdon (Kincardineshire), St. David's types, and, in the course of a few (Pembrokeshire), and Port St. Mary years, to mechanize the whole fleet. (Isle of Man). At the end of the year ten more motor life-boats were A Line-Throwing Pistol. under construction, and there were It is fifteen years since the Institution 131 motor life-boats and 37 pulling adopted line-throwing guns. They and sailing life-boats, making a fleet have been placed in all the larger of 168 life-boats round the coasts of motor life-boats, some being mounted Great Britain and Ireland.

Diesel Engines. SINCE the first experiments with motor it was decided to order a pair of 40-h.p. life-boats in 1904, the Institution has Diesels to instal in a new motor life- used petrol engines. Diesel engines, boat, and this life-boat was stationed although they have important advan- at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, last tages have, until recently, not been summer, the previous Diesel-engined possible, because, with their low speed life-boat returning to the reserve fleet. of revolution, they have been too heavy Of the ten motor life-boats under for life-boats. In recent years, how- construction at the end of last year ever, the speed of the revolutions in six will have Diesels, and of eight more the Diesel has been greatly increased, laid down in February this year five and, as a result, the weight has been will have Diesels. These life-boats reduced to little more than the weight are all of the 46-feet Watson cabin of the petrol engine of the same horse- type. The Diesel engine would be too power. heavy for any of the lighter types of In 1934 a six-cylinder 85-h.p. Diesel life-boat engine was installed in a reserve motor These Diesel engines are 40-h.p. life-boat, and during the greater part four-cylinder engines, running at 1,200 of the year experiments were carried revolutions to the minute, the same out with this life-boat at various number of revolutions as the 40-h.p. stations. She then became the four-cylinder petrol engines. They Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat. As weigh 20 cwts. as against the 19 cwts. a result of the success of this life-boat of the petrol engine. The life-boats 214 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

develop the same speed, approximately carrying the same amount of fuel, a 8j knots, whether fitted with petrol or life-boat with Diesel engines can travel Diesel engines. The Diesel has two nearly twice as far as the same life- great advantages for life-boat work. boat with petrol engines. With petrol It uses heavy oil, which is much less engines the 46-feet Watson cabin life- inflammable than petrol, so that the boats can travel 116 miles at full speed. risk of fire is much smaller. It is much With Diesel they can travel from 210 more economical of fuel, so that, to 230 miles.

Fifty-two Lives Rescued. A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay. EARLY in the morning of 23rd January Many of her crew had taken off their the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, boots and were preparing to go over- of London, ran ashore on Checkstone board and attempt to swim to the Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth shore. It would have meant certain harbour, owing to the temporary failure death. of the steering-gear. She had a crew The life-boat closed at once, but the of thirty-two on board, and was bound work of rescue was very hazardous. from San Nicholas to the Continent The coxswain manoeuvred her in the with a cargo of grain. A south breeze darkness round the steamer's stern, was blowing and the sea was rough. which had swung very close to the The coastguard informed the Torbay shore, at the risk of being crashed life-boat station, and at 5.25 in the under it. He then brought her alongside morning the motor life-boat George on the lee side of the steamer, perilously Shee put out. She reached the steamer near the shore, which is studded with fifty minutes later and was asked by rocks. To add to the danger of the captain to stand by while efforts the darkness, the rocks and the seas were made to refloat her. Two Dutch breaking clean over the steamer, a tugs wirelessed that they were on their strong ebb tide was racing out of the way, and H.M. Destroyer Witch and a River Dart against the seas. Devonport Dockyard tug also came to the steamer's help. All efforts to Alongside the Wreck. refloat her at high water in the after- It took the life-boat twenty minutes noon failed, and early in the evening to get alongside. She was made fast the captain asked the life-boat to stand fore and aft, close abaft the bridge, but by all night, as the weather forecast her engines were kept running, ahead or was a southerly gale. Fresh supplies astern, all the time, to prevent the seas of petrol were sent to Kingswear. The from dashing her against the steamer. life-boat put in there ; refuelled ; and She was rising and falling from ten to returned to the steamer. fourteen feet, at one moment being level with the steamer's rolling chocks, Standing By All Night. and the next lifted to the level of her She stood by all night. The wind rails. Once, as she rose on the crest increased to a gale from S.S.E., with a of a sea, two of her crew only just very heavy sea, and at six next morning saved themselves, by throwing them- the steamer sent up rockets of distress. selves flat on the deck, from being Her captain thought that she could not crushed between the life-boat and one last until daylight. The heavy swell of the steamer's life-boats hanging low had lifted her, swung round her stern, in the davits, ready for launching, and was pounding her bows so heavily which they had not seen in the darkness on the rocks that all on board had to until the life-boat was being lifted up hold on with both hands. Seas fifteen right under it. feet high were breaking over the A rope-stave ladder was lowered steamer. They smashed the port side from the steamer, and by the uncertain of the bridge and flooded two holds, light of an electric lamp above, the one of them right up to the deck. men on board her were helped or lifted MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 215

FIFTY-TWO LIVES RESCUED. The S.S. English Trader Wrecked at Dartmouth. (See opposite page.)

By courtesy of] ; - [Topical Press Agency AN AMERICAN STEAMER BROKEN IN TWO. The Bessemer City on the Cornish rocks. (£ee page 226.) 216 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

one by one into the life-boat. There A month later the English Trader were fifty-two of them, for in addition was refloated but only after part of to the crew of thirty-two, fifteen her bow, which was held firmly on stevedores, three salvage officers, a the rocks, had been cut away from the pilot and a naval signalman had gone ship. on board the steamer the day before to For this gallant and dangerous ser- help in the efforts to get her off the vice the Institution has made the rocks. In a quarter of an hour they following awards :— had all been rescued. To COXSWAIN WILLIAM H. H. MOG- Then came the coxswain's most KIDGE, a clasp to the bronze medal for difficult and dangerous task, to get gallantry, which he won on the 30th the life-boat clear of the wreck and the December, 1935, for the rescue of the rocks. There was no room to turn her. skipper of the French trawler Satanicle ; She had to come out astern, passing To each of the seven members of the once more under the stern of the crew the thanks of the Institution steamer, and through very confused inscribed on vellum:—WILLIAM PILLAR, seas, where the strong ebb was meeting Second Coxswain; FREDERICK • C. the gale. The coxswain watched for SANDERS, Bowman; FREDERICK J. his chance. Then he yelled to everyone WELCH, Motor Mechanic; EDWIN to hang on tightly. The ropes were LAMSWOOD, Assistant Motor Mechanic ; cut, and the life-boat went full speed FRED R. TUCKER ; JOHN B. GLANVILLE ; astern, as the steamer's stern was GEORGE MOGRIDGE. lifting, and passed out under it into the To MR. H. M. SMARDON, the honorary full force of the gale, but clear of the secretary of the station, a letter of dangers of the rocks and the wreck. thanks; She made for Dartmouth, where she To the coxswain and each member landed the rescued men, and then of the crew, a reward of £2 in addition returned to her station, arriving at to the ordinary scale reward of £4 5.?., 12.15 in the afternoon. She had been making an award of £6 5s. each. out over thirty-one hours. Total rewards, £48 Is. 6d.

The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone. ON the night of Sunday, 13th December The news was passed by the Sandgate last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off coastguard to the motor life-boat Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and station at Hythe, five miles away, and driving rain. The day had been fine, arrived at 10.30. With a gale blowing and early in the afternoon the motor from the south-west, a very heavy sea fishing boat, Josephine II, had put out and a spring flood tide making, it was with three men on board. She was not only difficult, but dangerous to caught in the gale, returning to attempt a launch (which at Hythe is Folkestone. Her propeller was fouled by means of skids laid on the beach), by a trawl-rope; she carried no sails; owing to a wooden groyne and sea-wall and shortly after ten at night, when near the launching-place and to lee- half a mile south-east of Copt Point—a ward of it. Fortunately the tide was mile east of Folkestone—she sent up not quite full, but even then the risk signals of distress. The 20-ton motor was great that the life-boat would foul fishing boat, Florence Rosalind, manned the groyne and damage her propeller. by her owner, Mr. William Hall, her The coxswain decided to take the risk, skipper, Mr. William Fagg, and six and warned the crew and the fifty- Folkestone fishermen, at once put out. three launchers that success depended It was then 10.15. The men were in on their efforts. The motor life-boat their Sunday clothes. They did not Viscountess Wakefield was launched wait to change. in twenty-five minutes from the firing MARCH, 1987.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 217 of the maroons. The wind and seas One of the rescued men graphically de- carried her eastwards along the beach, scribed the danger run by their rescuers. but she got clear, missing the groyne by " The men in the Florence Rosalind only six feet. It was then 11.15. were for nearly all the time in more danger than we were in the Josephine. The Rescue. The wind was as hard a blow as I have About half an hour after midnight ever been in in a small boat. As the the life-boat found the Josephine II, Florence Rosalind came towards us, and which by that time was two and a half while having us in tow, we could see her miles east of Copt Point. The Florence being continuously washed by tremen- Rosalind had already reached her, had dous waves, and it was a .wonder some taken her in tow, and had saved her from of the men were not washed overboard. being driven on the rocks. She had had The wind and seas knocked the boat's her in tow for over an hour, but as the light out several times, and they were life-boat came up the tow-rope parted. pumping water out of the boat prac- The life-boat then passed a rope aboard tically the whole time. When the the Josephine II and the Florence Florence Rosalind got hold of us the Rosalind returned to Folkestone. As wind got fiercer, and it was only with soon as the life-boat started to tow the the utmost difficulty that she made rope parted. She went alongside the very little progress, but she certainly fishing boat again ; passed a second and held us to prevent us going on the heavier rope ; and once more started to rocks." tow, but the strain was so great that it pulled out the Josephine IPs stem- The Rewards. piece. A third time the life-boat went alongside her, and this time the three The Institution has made the fol- fishermen decided to abandon their lowing awards : boat. She was now only a quarter of To MR. WILLIAM HALL, the owner, an a mile from the rocks at the foot of inscribed silver watch and £1 17s. 6d. high cliffs. The three men were saved. To MR. WILLIAM FAGG, the skipper, Their boat went ashore and became a an inscribed silver watch and £1175. 6d. total wreck. To each of the six other members Meanwhile the Dover motor life-boat of the crew £1 17s. 6d. Sir William Hillary had also arrived. The Institution has also paid £4 to Her crew had stood by since 11 o'clock, Mr. Hall for ropes lost and damaged and at 11.40 she put out, as the news and petrol used. then received from the Sandgate coast- The launch of the Hythe motor life- guard was that the Florence Rosalind boat was carried out in the face of had the Josephine II in tow, but could great difficulty and danger, and its make no headway, and that the Hythe success was due to the courage and fine life-boat was not yet abreast the coast- spirit of the coxswain and crew. The guard station. She reached the scene Institution has made the following an hour later, ten minutes after the awards : Hythe life-boat. To COXSWAIN HENRY A. GRIGGS, the The Florence Rosalind arrived back thanks of the Institution inscribed on at Folkestone at 1.15 next morning. vellum. The Hythe life-boat, with the three- To the Hythe branch, a framed letter rescued men on board, arrived three of appreciation. quarters of an hour later. The Dover To coxswain and crew, £1 17s. 6d. life-boat reached Dover again at 3 each. o'clock in the morning. To each of the two members of the The crew of the Florence Rosalind, by Dover crew who are not full-time their promptness and gallantry, and at employees of the Institution, £117s. 6d. the risk of their own lives, undoubtedly The total payments for the service saved the three men of the Josephine II. amount to £84 10s. 6d. But for them she would have been There was a double ceremony for driven ashore, and the men have lost presenting the awards. At Hythe on their lives, before the Hythe life-boat 26th January, the Mayor of Hythe, could arrive. supported by the Mayoress and the 218 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. Mayor and Mayoress at Folkestone, members of the Folkestone branch of presided at a meeting at which the the Institution, and a wallet with ten awards to the Hythe crew were pre- shilling to each of the three men of the sented, and the money awards to the Josephine II, a gift from the Mayor crew of the Florence Rosalind. The of Folkestone. The coxswain and silver watches awarded to the owner and second coxswain of Hythe and their skipper of the Florence Rosalind were wives attended the presentation, and presented at Folkestone by the Mayor they, with the crews of the Florence on 30th January. In addition a wallet Rosalind and the Josephine II, and with ten shillings was presented to each their wives, were entertained to supper of the eight men, a personal gift from by the Mayor.

Four Days of Gales Six Launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. DUEING the gale on the East Coast on boat returned to Cromer at about mid- the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of night, but the weather had got much November there were six launches worse and was then too bad to allow at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and her to be rehoused, so she ran for Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer Gorleston. She arrived there at eight on station were out on service continuously the morning of the 18th, having been for forty-five hours, while the crew at forty-five hours at sea. She was left Great Yarmouth and Gorleston were in the harbour and the crew returned to out five times in the course of thirty- Cromer for dry clothing and a rest. five hours. They spent eighteen of these thirty-five hours at sea, and in the Two Life-boatmen Overboard. first of the five services two of them At 5.50 on the same morning, the were washed overboard. 18th, the coastguard had reported to The story of these six services begins the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston at Cromer at 11 A.M. on the 16th station that rockets had been seen near November, when the Haisborough light- Palling, and the motor life-boat John vessel reported that a steamer was and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood put ashore on the Haisborough Sands, three out at six o'clock. A whole northerly miles S.E. by E. of the light-vessel. A gale was now blowing, with a very moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing, heavy sea, and squalls of rain. The and a moderate sea was running on the life-boat saw a steamer ashore on the sands. The No. 1 motor life-boat mainland near Horsey Point. She H. F. Bailey, was launched atll.!2A.M. was the Yewbank, of Glasgow. Just as and found the vessel to be the Nor- the life-boat got abreast of her a very wegian steamer Nesttun, of Tvede- heavy sea broke on board the life-boat. strand. She had a crew of sixteen on It knocked all the crew down and board, and was bound from Trondhjem washed two of them overboard. One for London with a cargo of wood pulp. of them had taken off his life-belt a few The coxswain of the life-boat went on minutes before, but the other managed board, and the captain accepted his to get hold of him and supported him offer to help in refloating. A wireless in the water. The same wave damaged message was sent out for two tugs, and the gear of the steering-wheel, but the they were connected to the Nesttun by coxswain manoeuvred the life-boat the life-boat. They failed to refloat skilfully, and the two men were picked the steamer, and later two more tugs up after being just over fifteen minutes arrived and were connected. The life- in the water. During that time the boat stood by all that day and night. one life-belt had kept them both afloat On the morning of the 17th another in their oilskins and sea-boots. The attempt was made, again without man who had no life-belt was insensible success. The Nesttun then jettisoned when taken aboard, but he soon re- her deck cargo, and at 6.45 in the covered consciousness. Another big sea evening she was refloated. The life- hit the life-boat, and the wheel-gear MARCH, 1987.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 219

collapsed entirely. By this time the A Second Drifter in Distress. life-boat was nearingthe breakers on the At 7 P.M. yet another message was outer sandbank. The motor mechanic received. A disabled steam-drifter, in crawled along the after-box, with lines tow of another drifter, had parted her round him, and, with two men holding tow-rope and was driving towards the on to his feet, he managed to detach beach. Five minutes later the Cromer the damaged wheel-gear from the life-boat again put out, manned by the rudder. Gorleston coxswain and crew and the The life-boat then made for home Cromer coxswain and motor mechanic. under the hand-steering gear. She She found the steam drifter Pitagaveny, arrived at 11.30, and the men who had of Banff, with ten men on board. The been overboard were taken to the Pitagaveny had an anchor out, but it Mariners' Refuge for medical attention. was not holding and she was dragging The crew of the Yewbank were rescued rapidly in towards the breakers, about from the shore by the coastguard half a mile south of Gorleston pier. life-saving apparatus. The life-boat ran alongside. Her bow Meanwhile, at 6.30 the coastguard was damaged against the drifter, but had reported to Cromer that a motor she rescued the whole crew. A few barge, the Lady Gwynfred, of London, minutes later the Pitagaveny went was firing distress signals about one ashore. The rescued men were taken mile north of the life-boat station. The to the Mariners' Refuge, and the life- No. 2 motor life-boat, Harriot Dixon, boat was again ready for service at was taken to the water's edge, but a 8.15 P.M. very big sea washed her off the carriage, There were no more calls that night, and she went ashore. Before she could but early next morning, the 19th, the be got afloat again it was learned that coastguard reported that the S.S. the barge had grounded and that her Yewforest, of Glasgow, which was in crew had been rescued from the shore. the roads, was flying a signal for a doctor. The gale had moderated, but A Drifter Sunk with all Hands. very slightly, and the sea was still Two hours after the damaged Great rough. A doctor volunteered to go, Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had and the Cromer life-boat, still manned returned, a steam drifter put into by the coxswain and crew of Great Gorleston harbour and reported that a Yarmouth and Gorleston, and the motor drifter had turned turtle about Cromer coxswain and motor mechanic, half a mile N.W. of Gorton light-vessel. went out at 8.20 A.M., and put the She was the Olive Branch, of Peterhead, doctor on board the steamer. He with a crew of nine, making for Yar- found that a fireman had fallen down mouth. The wind was still blowing at the forecastle steps, but was already gale force, and the sea was very heavy. dead of his injuries. The life-boat The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston brought him ashore again, and returned life-boat did not put out again, owing to harbour at 9.35 A.M. to the damaged steering-gear, but her crew manned the Cromer life-boat, with A Steamer on Fire. the district engineer, Mr. J. A. Black, She had only just arrived when the and the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel going motor-mechanic in charge of the engines. south through Cockle Gat was on fire One of the two men who had been over- and urgently in need of help, and at board four hours before, Mr. Ellery 9.40 A.M., five minutes after returning, Harris, was one of the crew. The the life-boat was on her way out, with life-boat left at 1.55 P.M. No sign of the same crew, on her fifth service. the capsized drifter or of her crew could The steamer on fire was the Lindisfarne, be found. It was impossible that of Newcastle. She was at anchor in anyone could have lived in such a sea. Yarmouth roads. The Cromer cox- The life-boat, however, made a wide swain went on board her, and the search, and did not return until 4.50 P.M. Lindisfarne's captain asked him to fetch By this time the Cromer coxswain and help from H.M.S. Foyle, which was lying mechanic had come back to Gorleston near by. The life-boat took a fire-party to look after their boat. from the Foyle to the Lindisfarne, and 220 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. stood by while they extinguished the Refuge, Gorleston, and to the ROYAL fire. The fire-party was then taken NATIONAL MISSION TO DEEP-SEA into harbour, where H.M.S. Foyle had FISHERMEN, letters of appreciation ; now gone, and the life-boat was moored To each of the fourteen men in the up at 2 P.M. She was taken back to her Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor own station at Cromer next day. life-boat who went out to the help of From 11.12 A.M. on the 16th Novem- the Yewbank, 10s. in addition to the ber to 3.40 P.M. on the 19th, a period ,of award of £1 8s. 6d. on the standard seventy-six hours, the two life-boats scale. had been at sea for sixty-two hours. The awards for the six launches of The Institution has made the follow- the two Cromer motor life-boats and the ing awards to the Great Yarmouth and Great Yarmouth and Goileston motor Gorleston crew : life-boats, and for the attempted launch To ME. ELLERY HARRIS, who was of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat were : washed overboard, held up the other Cromer No. 1, to the S.S. Nesttun life-boatman in the sea, and afterwards (property salvage case), £3 10s. 6d.; went, out on all the other four services, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, to an inscribed barometer and £3, in the S.S. Yewbank, £29 13s.; Cromer addition to the same money awards as No. 2, to the barge Lady Gwynfred, the rest of the crew-; £28 12s. 6d.; Cromer No. 1, to the To COXSWAIN C. A. JOHNSON and drifter Olive Branch, £12 10s. 6d.; MOTOR MECHANIC B. J. DARBY, letters Cromer No. 1, to the drifter Pitagaveny, of appreciation; £21; Cromer No. 1, to the S.S. Yew- To MR. H. H. BARNARD, the honorary forest, £11 lls. 6d.; Cromer No. 1, to secretary of the station, and MR. J. A. the S.S. Lindisfarne, property salvage BLACK, district engineer, letters of case. thanks; Total money rewards, £106 18s. To MR. R. GREEN and MR. J. Mr. W. Hindle of Gorleston gave £150 FORREST, officials of the Mariners' to be divided among the life-boatmen.

A Hundred and Twenty-five Years Old. The End of the Ketch " Ceres." ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of running, and there was some fog. Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude At 11.15 the life-boat arrived. She with a cargo of eighty tons of slag. took the two men on board and circled Her crew was a skipper and a mate. round the Ceres to see if it were possible They intended to go over Bideford to take her in tow, but she was sinking Bar for the night, but at nine p.m. fast. With the ship's boat in tow, she they found water coming into the reached Appledore again at a quarter engine-room. They were then in of an hour after midnight. When, day Croyde Bay, some three miles north broke there was nothing of the Ceres of the bar. to be seen. They manned the pumps, but the So has passed away the oldest vessel water gained on them. They still in service in the British Isles, and hoped to get the ketch over the bar, probably the oldest in the world. She but she was rolling so badly that they was built at Salcombe, in 1811, and launched their boat in readiness and for 125 years had been engaged in the sent up rockets and flares. When the coastal trade. Thirty-seven years ago water was washing the decks they took the present chief inspector of life-boats, to the boat and lay in the shelter of the Commander E. D. Drury, R.D., R.N.R., ketch, waiting for the life-boat. made a short trip on board her. He At 9.45 their signals had been seen found her a wonderful sea-boat, but at Appledore, and at 10.15 the motor what was even more noticeable about life-boat V.C.S. put out. A light breeze her was the strength of her timbers. was blowing, a moderate sea was Her obituary has been written in verse MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 221

125 YEARS OLD. The Ketch Ceres, now sunk in Croyde Bay, entering Bude. (See opposite page.)

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By courtesy of] [Planet News CLACTON-ON-SEA LAUNCHING. 222 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. by Miss C. Fox Smith in Blue Peter. They did their best to beach her, but they These are the last two stanzas :* couldn't do no more, And she foundered at the finish there in " But a time it comes to ships and men sight of Appledore ; when sailing days are past, Even such as hail from Devon, where they And her bones'11 never flicker blue on any mostly build to last, 'longshore fire, And her seams began to open and the Severn For she'll lie there and she'll moulder as an tide came through, old ship might desire, And the water kept on gaming spite of all And hear the vessels passing by, and dream that they could do. about the past i They are quoted by kind permission of the And the great old times in Devon, where Editor and Miss Fox Smith. they built her once to last.

Services of the Life-boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management. Launches 144. Lives rescued 136. November Meeting. wind was blowing and the sea was Wells and Sheringham, Norfolk.— rough. The life-boat was on service On the night of the 20th September from 2.30 P.M. to 8.20 P.M. on the the coastguard reported a ship ashore 29th September, and from 5 a.M. to a mile east of Blakeney Point. A 10.45 A.M. on the 30th. The Karanan strong easterly wind was blowing, was eventually towed off and taken with a rough sea, and the weather was to King's Lynn.—Rewards, Shering- thick. The Wells motor life-boat ham, £28 0*. 6d.; Wells, first service, Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was £19 16s. 3d., second service, Property launched at 10.35 P.M., and the Sher- Salvage Case. ingham motor life-boat Foresters Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning Centenary at 11.37 P.M. Heavy seas of the 5th October the coastguard broke over the Sheringham life-boat reported that a sailing barge was in as she was being launched, washing difficulties, with its sails blown away, her off the carriage, but she was got and was drifting towards the Newcome away with the help of the haul-off rope. Sands. A moderate S.E. gale was The motor vessel Karanan, of Rotter- blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor dam, was found, with a crew of ten life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at and a cargo of strawboards, from 6.12 A.M., and found the barge Cetus, Groningen for King's Lynn. Both of London, three miles east of the life-boats remained by her throughout coastguard look-out with her sprit the night. At about 7 A.M. a tug broken, her sails in pieces and her arrived, and her rope was passed to steering-gear disabled. The life-boat the steamer by the Wells life-boat. stood by until a tug arrived and took At high water the Karanan did not the barge in tow. She then accom- refloat, and as she was not in any panied the vessels until they had got immediate danger, the Sheringham life- safely into Gorleston Harbour, and re- boat left for her station, arriving at turned to her station at 8.50 A.M.— 11.15 A.M. Later the Wells life-boat Rewards, £24 14s. 6d. returned to her station, arriving at noon. The Sheringham life-boat had Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morn- been out for 12 hours, and the Wells ing of the 5th October the coast- life-boat for 13J hours. guard reported a small sailing boat in Eight days later, on the 29th Sep- difficulties about three miles S.E. of tember, tugs tried to refloat the Kara- Clacton pier. She was the smack nan. It was necessary to have a boat Area, of Leigh-on-Sea, with six men on for liaison work, and as the weather board. Her sails had been blown was too bad for an ordinary boat, it away, and she was unmanageable. She was arranged that the Wells motor carried no dinghy. An E.N.E. gale life-boat should help. A squally north was blowing with a heavy sea. The MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 223 motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was to her station at 3 P.M.—Rewards, launched at 7.15 A.M., and found the £40 3s.; No expense to Institution for Arco in a precarious condition. She second launch. towed her to Brightlingsea, arriving at 10 A.M. Owing to the bad condi- Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— tions, she remained there all day, and On the night of the 17th-18th October returned to her station at 11.45 P.M.— the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Rewards, £21 Qs. 2d. Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole Montrose, Angus.—On the morning N.W. gale was blowing, with a very of the 5th October the sea, which had heavy sea, and snow showers. The been making with the ebb tide, rapidly nearest life-boat, at Port Askaig, was became worse, and by low water was already on service to another vessel. breaking right across the bar. Several Owing to the gale, there was a general of the smaller fishing boats were at sea, breakdown in the lines of communica- and as they could only make the tion, but news was got through to the crossing at very great risk, the No. 1 Stornoway life-boat station, about 125 motor life-boat John Russell was miles away, via the Wick and Storno- launched at 11.55 A.M. A moderate way coastguard. The motor life-boat S.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea William and Harriot set out at 4.40 was heavy. The life-boat stood by A.M. on the 18th. When she got as far the Mini and the Daisy as they came as Loch Alsh, about half-way, it was in, and returned to her station at 2.15 learned that the crew of the St. Joseph P.M.—Rewards, £9 8s. were safe. The life-boat crew had a meal, and the life-boat, after refuelling, Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on made for home, arriving at 10.10 P.M. the morning of the 17th October the News of the wreck had also been s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for received at Barra Island, and the Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks motor life-boat Lloyds set out at 10.25 one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light. A.M. She had about 65 miles to cover, A west gale was blowing, with a rough and arrived at the Grey Rocks at sea. An incoming steamer reported 6.30 P.M. Eighteen of the St. Joseph's her danger, and the motor life-boat crew had then been taken off by the Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at steamer Northern Castle. The master 11.30 A.M. She found the Shuna and three men, who were still on pounding badly, with her forward board, declined to leave. The life- holds flooded. She took off six of the boat, therefore, put into Tobermory, crew of seventeen, landed them at where she stayed the night. She put Port Askaig at 5.30 P.M., and put off out at 6.30 next morning, and this again ah hour later. She stood by the time rescued the four men, landing steamer all that night and next day. them at Oban at noon. Once again The weather was then very bad, with she returned to Tobermory, at 5 P.M., violent squalls, and heavy rain showers, and stayed overnight. At 6.30 A.M. and eventually she landed the remain- on the 20th she left for her station, ing eleven men at 7.30 P.M. on the arriving there at 1 P.M.—Rewards, 18th, thirty-two hours after she had Stornoway, £28 4s. ; Barra Island, first put out. At 10 A.M. on the 19th £41 12s. the life-boat took out the captain and six men and put them on board the Flamborougb, Yorkshire.—The No. 1 steamer, returning to her station at motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina 3 P.M. Next day a salvage officer who Whitley was launched at 1.30 P.M. on circled the wreck in an aeroplane the 19th October, as the weather was warned the life-boat station that the very bad and two cobles were at sea. men must leave the ship again, as their A north gale was blowing, with a heavy position was very dangerous. The sea. The life-boat found the toble life-boat put out at 9 A.M., the branch Boy's Own about two miles off, making honorary secretary, Mr. Maclndeor, very little headway against wind and and the salvage officer going with her. sea. She towed her to the North She rescued the seven men and returned Landing. She put out again and 224 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. found the Pioneer about two miles difficulties near the Mid-Barrow light- south of Flamborough Head, also vessel. A moderate S.W. gale was trying to make the North Landing. blowing, with a very rough sea, and Conditions were too bad for this, and squalls of rain. The man burnt the life-boat escorted her into the blankets to attract attention, and his shelter of Bridlington bay, where she signals were seen and repeated by light- was able to make the Flamborough vessels in the area. It was not known South Landing, and the life-boat made by those on shore exactly where the for her station, arriving at 3.45 P.M.— casualty was, and three life-boats were Rewards, £15 Ss. 6d. sent out to search. The Clacton-on- Sea motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden Girvan, Ayrshire.—Early on the was launched at 6.30 A.M., the Margate afternoon of the 24th October the motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil coastguard reported that a steamer off Service No. 1) at 6.45 A.M., and the the harbour was flying distress signals. Southend - on - Sea motor life - boat A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) at heavy sea, and the weather was thick, 7.25 A.M. The Southend boat went to with heavy rain and hail squalls. The the Nore and Mouse light-vessels, and motor life-boat Lily Glen—Glasgow was eventually found the yacht in tow of a launched at 2.12 P.M., and found the collier, near No. 11 buoy in Barrow s.s. Finvoy, of Belfast, in distress with Deeps. She took over the tow, took a disabled rudder. A fishing boat was the man on board, and made for her standing by. The life-boat took a mes- station, arriving at 12.55 P.M. The sage ashore, and then went back to Margate boat saw the other life-boats, the Finvoy, and she and the fishing boat and after searching unsuccessfully for stood by all the afternoon. During some time, returned to her station at the evening other steamers arrived, 12.15 P.M. The Clacton boat also and eventually the Finvoy was taken made a search and came up just as the in tow for Greenock. The life-boat Southend life-boat was taking the continued to stand by until she was on yacht in tow. She arrived back at her her way, and returned to her station station at 1 P.M.-—Rewards, Clactori-on- at 10 P.M.—Rewards, £20 9s. Sea, £12 15*. 9d.; Margate, £14 2s.; Southend, Property Salvage Case. Donaghadee, Co. Down.--At 7 P.M. on the 24th October it was reported to Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.55 the life-boat authorities tha t the motor P.M. on the 25th October the motor boat Courageous, with eleven people life-boat Greater London (Civil Service on board,, who had gone to the Old No. 3), which had just returned from Lighthouse Island to shoot rabbits, the service already described, was was long overdue. A strong squally warned that a yacht was ashore on S.W. wind was blowing, with a strong Nore Sands, She put off again imme- choppy sea. At 7 p.M. the motor life- diately. A moderate west gale was Jboat Civil Service No. 5 put out and blowing, with a very rough sea. The found the motor boat at anchor in life-boat found the yacht Spray, of Ram Harry Gellett with her engine Portsmouth, aground on East Nore broken down. She towed her to Dona- Sands. She took off the two people ghadee, where the people were landed on board, and two life-boatmen were at 9.10 P.M. On the way the coxswain put on the yacht. She then landed sent a Morse message to the Orlock the two people, returned to the yacht, Head coastguard, so that the relatives and towed her in. She arrived back of the eleven rescued people might at her station at 3.25 P.M.—Property know that they were safe.—Rewards, Salvage Case. £15 5s. Margate, Kent.—At about 5 P.M. on Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, the 25th October the coastguard re- Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on ported that a small fishing boat had the morning of the 25th October the broken down and was drifting ashore yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, east of Margate jetty. A very heavy with one man on board, got into N.W. squall was blowing, with a rough MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 225 sea. The motor life-boat Lord South- and thence by car. The life-boat bar oush (Civil Service No. 1) was coxswain was ill in bed, but against launched, for the second time that doctor's orders he decided to go, and day, at 5.15 P.M., and found the local the rnotor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth fishing boat Britannia in distress with was launched at 1.30 A.M., arriving on her engine broken down. The life-boat the scene at 9 A.M. She found that towed her back to harbour, arriving at sixteen of the steamer's crew of twenty 5.50 P.M., and was rehoused when the had been drowned, but that the other weather moderated, at 11.30 P.M.—• four, although badly hurt, had managed Rewards, £14 2s. to scramble on to the rocks. They were taken into the life-boat, with Maryport, Cumberland. — After two great difficulty, by breeches-buoy, and days of very bad weather, conditions landed at Crinan, on the mainland. moderated somewhat on the 26th The life-boat returned to her station October and herring drifters put to at 7 P.M., after an absence of seventeen sea. During the afternoon the weather and a half hours. The Latvian Consul got very bad again, and by 6.30 P.M. at Glasgow telegraphed the ." ever- a whole W. gale was blowing, with an lasting gratitude of four survivors and exceptionally heavy sea. The weather my personal thanks." An inquiry into was thick, with rain and hail. Red the cause of death was held by the flares were seen north of Maryport, in Sheriff's Court at Oban, and the Pro- Allonby bay, and the motor life-boat curator Fiscal commended the good Joseph Braithrcaite was launched at work of the Port Askaig life-boat. 7.5. P.M. She escorted in the drifter A letter of thanks was sent to the L.A.Ii. Houston at 7.55 P.M., and British Broadcasting Corporation for landed her own bowman, who had their co-operation. News of the wreck collapsed suffering from a severe cold. was also received at Barra Island, She took another man on board and set where the life-boat crew assembled.—• out again. Some time later the drifter Rewards, Port Askaig, £31 18s. 9d.; which had signalled for help got in Barra Island, £4 2s. unaided, and as all the vessels were safely in, the life-boat was recalled. Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The motor She arrived back at her station at life-boat Edward and Isabella Irttiin 10.15 P.M., but could not be rehoused was launched at 11.20 P.M. on the owing to the very bad conditions, 26th October, and returned after a and was left at moorings.—Rewards, fruitless search for a fishing boat with £24 10s. two men on board, at 4 A.M. on the 27th. She was being taken back to Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra her house at 11 A.M. when news was Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the received that the motor fishing coble 26th October the Latvian steamer White Lady, of Sunderland, was at sea. Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound The weather was bad, with a strong light from Liverpool to Blyth, was N.W. gale and choppy sea. As the caught in a sudden and exceptionally boat was about a mile and a half severe storm near Jura Sound. A E.S.E. of Roker Pier, it was decided to whole W. gale blew, bringing a very go out to her. She was escorted into heavy sea. The weather was thick, harbour, which was reached at 12.15 P.M. with rain showers. The Helena Faul- —Rewards, First service, £15 7s. 6d.; baums was driven on to the rocks at second service, £7 15s. 6d. the Island of Beulnanuamh, near Fladda light, at the west end of Jura Sound, Troon, Ayrshire.—Early on the morn- and foundered in a few minutes. Her ing of the 27th October it was learned SOS had been picked up, and in spite that a vessel, four or five miles south of the fact that all land lines were of Ayr harbour, was making distress down, news was broadcast by the signals. A whole W.N.W. gale was British Broadcasting Corporation and blowing, with a very heavy sea, and eventually got through to the Port snow showers. The motor life-boat Askaig life-boat station, also from the Sir David Richmond of Glasgow put out Southend coastguard to Port Ellen, at 2.45 A.M., and found the vessel to be 226 THE LIFEBOAT. [MARCH, 1937

the s.s. Dunvegan, of Liverpool, bound returned to her station at 10.40 A.M.— light for Ayr. Her master said that he Rewards, £6 13s. was afraid that she would drag her anchors, and asked the life-boat to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the stand by until daylight. The life-boat afternoon of the 31st October the stood by until the master said that owner of a motor yacht which was his ship was all right, and returned anchored east of Yarmouth pier hired to her station at 8.30 A.M.—Rewards, two men in the motor launch White £12 6s. 3d. Heather to put him on board his yacht. A strong north gale was blowing, with Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the after- a rough sea, and rain. After the yacht noon of the 27th October the steamer had got under way the White Heather Golfta, of London, sheltering in Ramsey fouled the mooring-chains, and was bay while bound from North Africa to held stern on to the wind and sea. Workington, signalled that a doctor She filled, and was in danger of sinking. was needed immediately. A strong Her plight was seen on shore, and the N.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched sea, and heavy rain squalls. The at 4.30 P.M. She rescued the men, motor life-boat Lady Harrison was towed the White Heather back to launched, with a doctor and the Rev. harbour, and returned to her station M. W. Harrison, chairman of the at 5.45 P.M.—Rewards, £8 17*. 9d. station, on board, and went to the Goleta, which was lying about three Dover, Kent;—At 1 P.M. on the 1st miles N.E. of the harbour. One of her November a message was received crew was injured, four were suffering from the Royal Naval Shore Signal from poisoning, and there was no food Station that a small boat was making or water on board. The injured man signals of distress east of Dover har- was taken ashore, and the life-boat bour. A moderate N. breeze was set out again with food, water and blowing, with a moderate sea. The medicine. She returned to her station life-boat's motor boarding-boat, Wil- at 6.30 P.M., but there was too much liam Myatt, put out at 1.5 P.M., picked sea on the beach to permit her being up the boat—the Tom Tit, of Dover, rehoused, and she was moored in the with two men on board—about a mile harbour. At 7.45 P.M. flares were to the east, and towed her into harbour. seen about half a mile S.E. of the She returned to her moorings at 1.40 harbour, and the life-boat put out P.M.—-Permanent paid crew. again. She found the schooner Edith May, of Wexford, bound light for St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on Maryport, dragging her anchors. The the lst-2nd November the coastguard master was afraid that she would be reported a vessel ashore west of St. blown out to sea, so the life-boat took Ives. She was the American steamer off the crew of three and landed them. Bessemer City, of New York, bound She arrived back at her station at from Liverpool for London with a 9 P.M., and was rehoused an hour general cargo, and a crew of thirty- later.—Rewards, First service, £19 Is.; three. She had run on to the rocks second service, £25 2s. 6d. near Pen Enys Point. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning and the weather was cold, with driz- of the 31st October it was learned that zling rain. The motor life-boat Caro- a man in a small fishing boat was line Parsons was launched at 12.16 A.M. trying, unsuccessfully, to make har- on the 2nd November, and with great bour. A whole north-easterly gale difficulty got alongside the Bessemer was blowing, with a very rough sea. City. The captain refused to leave The motor Gfe-boat William and Clara her, but sent ten men aboard the life- Ryland put out at 9.40 A.M., and found boat, which landed them at St. Ives the boat S.W. of Stone pier. The man at 1.45 A.M. At 2.40 A.M. she left had been pulling against wind and again and took off another seventeen, sea, and was exhausted. The life-boat returning to St. Ives with them at towed the boat into harbour, and 4.50 A.M. After refuelling, she once MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 227

A LONDON BARGE IN DISTRESS.

By courtesy of] [ H. Frederick Low, Norwich With the Lowestoft Life-boat Standing By. The Cetus in tow of a tug.

By courtesy of [H. Frederick Low, NorwKIt The Cetus entering Gorleston Harbour. (See page 222.) 228 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. more put out. The wreck was now Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. breaking up, and there was danger in —4th October. Flares had been re- going alongside, as the bow and stern ported, but they were probably bright were moving. Five officers were lights on a trawler, as nothing could be rescued, and then, when the ship had found.—Rewards, £28 10*. broken in two, the captain was taken off. The life-boat arrived back at her Lowestoft, Suffolk.—4th October. A station at 6.55 A.M. At 10.50 A.M. she small boat had capsized; she was took the captain back to the wreck, picked up, but her crew of two could but it was impossible to get near, as it not be found. One had swum ashore, had moved farther inshore. The life- but the other was lost.—Rewards. boat returned to her station again at £27 11*. 6d. 11.45 A.M. The American Consul at Plymouth visited the station and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—8th October. A thanked all concerned. — Rewards, trawler was sinking, but her water- £74 14s. &d. tight bulkhead held and she was taken in tow by another trawler.—Rewards, Filey, Yorkshire. — Early on the £7 19s. morning of the 2nd November the local fishing fleet, fifteen boats, put to Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—10th Octo- ssa in fair weather. Later on the ber. A yawl had grounded, but got off. weather changed, and by 8.45 A.M. a —Rewards, £14 5s. strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate and increasing sea, Portrush, Co. Antrim.—12th October. heavy rain and fog. One of the cobles Flares had been reported, but a search left her lines and ran for shore to ask revealed nothing.—Rewards, £14 9s. 6d. for the life-boat, as the cobles were in danger. The pulling and sailing life- Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—13th boat Jlollon the Third was launched at October. The French motor vessel St. 9.36 A.M., escorted all of them into Barbe, of Treguier, signalled for medical safety, and returned to her station at aid, but it was found that she wanted a noon.—Rewards, £15 145. 6d. pilot.—Rewards, £7 15s. 6d.

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Campbeltown, Argyllshire.— 19th Walmer, Kent.—6th November. A October. A trawler appeared to be in fishing boat had been reported missing, difficulties, but she was simply drifting but she got in without help.—Rewards, about while the decks were being £30 16s. Qd. cleaned.—Rewards, £10 6s. 3d. December Meeting. Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— 20th October. A sailing smack had Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.50 P.M. sunk, but her crew took to their boat on the 2nd November Wick coastguard and were picked up by another smack. reported that they had received a —Rewards, Lowestoft, £19 19s. 6d.; wireless message from the master of the Kessingland, £23 8s. 6d. tug Warrior, of Glasgow—which was towing the ferry steamer Snowdrop, of Flamborough, Yorkshire.—20th Octo- Liverpool, to ship-breakers at Bo'ness ber. Rockets had been reported, but —that one of his crew had been seri- no trace of a vessel in need of help ously hurt. A squally W.S.W. breeze could be found.—Rewards, £30 9s. was blowing, with a heavy swell, and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Dover, Kent.—25th October. A yacht H.C.J. put out at 1.5 P.M., took off the had been reported in distress, but a injured man, whose right thigh had tug took her in tow.—Rewards, £2 17s. been broken, and landed him at Thurso, where a doctor was waiting. The Plymouth, Devon. — 26th October. master of the tug had also asked for a Strange lights had been seen, but it was life-boatman to be put on board to learned that they were being used by pilot him into Scrabster, and this had a party who were trying to rescue a been done. After landing the injured cow which had fallen over the cliffs on man the life-boat returned to the to the shore.—Rewards, £2 12s. 6d. vessels, and escorted them into Scrab- ster, where they dropped anchor at Walmer, Kent.—27th October. A 11.30 P.M. The life-boat returned to boat belonging to a steamer was in her station at midnight.—Rewards, difficulties, but the steamer reached £21 12s. 6d. her first.—Rewards, £15 10s. 6d. New Brighton, Cheshire.—During the Skegness, Lincolnshire.—27th October. evening of the llth November the Distress signals had been reported near owner of the local motor fishing boat the Lynn Well lightship, but a search lone reported that his boat had gone revealed nothing.—Rewards, £9 17s. out early in the morning in company with several other boats, but had not Hartlepool, Durham.—27th October. returned with them. She was carrying A distress signal had been reported, a crew of three. A moderate to strong but nothing could be found.—Rewards, S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough and £10 19s. 9d. increasing sea, and visibility was poor, owing to heavy rain. The No. 2 motor Anstruther, Fifeshire.—26th October. life-boat William and Kate Johnston A small vessel was in distress to the put out at 7.51 P.M., and found the east of Leith Pier, but her crew were lone near R.I bell-buoy in Rock Chan- rescued by a pilot cutter.—Rewards, nel. Her engine had broken down, £18. her rigging carried away, and she was shipping heavy seas. The life-boat Arklow. Co. Wicklow.—27th October. towed her back to New Brighton, and Signals had been reported from the returned to her station at 10.15 P.M.— Arklow lightship, but help was not Rewards, £13 7s. 6d. needed.—Rewards, £8 8s. 6d. Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—30th Octo- of the 12th November a motor boat ber. A large vessel had been reported from H.M.S. Lucia ran aground on the drifting, but no trace of her could be south end of the northern arm of the found.—Rewards, £18 2s. Qd. breakwater at Portland harbour. She 230 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. was reported by the Royal Naval 5.15 A.M. The owners made a donation Police at Bincleaves, and the motor of £15 15s. in appreciation of the ser- life-boat William and Clara Ryland vices rendered.—Rewards, Blackpool, was launched at 8.20 A.M. A S.W. £28; Fleetwood, £16 11s. 6d.; Lytham- gale was blowing, with a very rough St. Anne's, £11 14s. sea, and heavy rain. The life-boat found that the boat had sunk, and that Exmouth, Devon.—The motor life-boat her crew of four had got on to the Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched breakwater and near-by rocks. The at 4.52 P.M. on the 15th November, as life-boat got them on board, took them the coastguard had reported that a to H.M.S. Lucia, and returned to her trawler, at anchor one mile off West station at 9.30 A.M.—Rewards, £6 13s. Bay, was in need of help. She had asked for a tug earlier in the day, but The Humber, Yorkshire.—In the morn- conditions were too bad to allow of one ing of the 12th November the life-boat putting out. The sea was very heavy, watchman saw a small vessel flying a and a whole S.W. gale was blowing, signal, and drifting slowly towards the with squalls of rain. The life-boat Binks Sands. A moderate S.E. breeze found the trawler to be the Crystal, of was blowing, with a nasty sea. The Dieppe, with a crew of five. Her motor life-boat City of Bradford II. trawl had fouled her propeller, and she was launched at 9.30 A.M., and found was being swept by big seas. The the motor fishing vessel And Schou, of life-boat stood by her all night. At Frederickshaven, Denmark, at anchor 7 A.M. on the 16th the gale abated, and near the Binks. She had dropped she towed her into Lyme Regis, arriving anchor just before the life-boat arrived. there at 10.30 A.M. At 12.15 P.M. the Her engine had broken down, and the life-boat left for her station, but when master asked to be towed out of danger. off Sidmouth her engine broke down. The life-boat towed the And Schou to A passing trawler towed her to Straight Grimsby and returned to her station Point, where the Exmouth pilot boat at 2 P.M.—Property Salvage Case. picked her up and towed her in. She reached her station at 5.45 P.M., after Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St. an absence of nearly twenty-five hours. Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of An increase in the usual money award the 14th November the Liverpool on the standard scale was granted to steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from each member of the life-boat crew.— Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of Rewards, £57 10s. gravel, anchored about three miles N.W. of North Pier, Blackpool, as her Selsey, Sussex.—During the evening engine had broken down. A moderate of the 15th November the coastguard to strong N.W. breeze was blowing, reported red flares four miles S.W. with a rough sea. The steamer's signals from the look-out. A strong W.S.W. of distress were seen, and the Blackpool breeze was blowing, with a moderate pulling and sailing life-boat John Row- swell. The motor life-boat Canadian son Lingard, the Fleetwood motor Pacific was launched at 9.23 P.M., and life-boat Frederick H. Pilley, and the found the s.s. Harvest Queen, of New- Lytham-St. Anne's motor life-boat castle-on-Tyne, steaming dead slow J.H.W., were launched at 8.25 p.M., about five miles S.E. from Nab Tower. 8.50 P.M., and 9.45 P.M., respectively. She was bound from Shoreham to The Blackpool boat reached the Portsmouth with a cargo of iron plates. steamer first, and stood by while she Her master asked the life-boat to made temporary repairs to her engines. stand by, as she had lost her steaming Later the Fleetwood life-boat arrived, and starboard bow lights, her steering- and after the steamer had cut away gear was frequently breaking down, and her anchors, which were fouled, she had lost her hatch covers, with escorted her back to Fleetwood, arriv- the result that she was making a lot ing at 5 A.M. Blackpool got back to of water in the hold. The life-boat her station at 2.30 A.M. The Lytham escorted her into Portsmouth, and re- boat found that her help was not turned to her station at 8.40 A.M. on wanted, and returned to her station at the 16th.—Rewards, £22 11s. Sd. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT 231 Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Olive into the South Outlet, and re- Gorleston, Norfolk.—During the gale turned to her station at 4.30 P.M.— on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, Rewards, £8. 18th, and 19th November, the motor life-boats at Cromer and Great Yar- Hastings, Sussex.—The motor life-boat mouth received seven calls for service.— Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched Rewards £106 18*. (For full account at 8.17 A.M. on the 18th November t6 of these services see page 218). search for the local open fishing boat Little Culverden, which was missing. A Seaham, Co. Durham.—At about 3 strong N. breeze was blowing, with a p.m. on the 17th November the motor rough sea. The life-boat found the fishing coble Sonny was seen to be flying Little Culverden riding to an anchor distress signals three miles to the south about two and a half miles south from of the harbour. The weather was very St. Leonards pier. Her engines had cold, with a N.E. gale and heavy sea. broken down, she was half full of water, At 3.15 p.m. the motor life-boat Elliot and the two men on board were ex- Galer put out, and got alongside the hausted. The life-boat towed her back coble at about 4 p.m. She found that to Hastings, and returned to her station her engine had broken down and that she at 9.40 A.M.—Rewards, £19 2s. 3d. was shipping water. The life-boat took her crew of four on board and took the coble in tow, but the weather was so Appledore, Devon.—On the afternoon bad that she broke adrift and was lost. of the 19th November a resident at The life-boat returned to harbour at Westward Ho telephoned that the 5.30 P.M.—Rewards, £7 9s. Sd. motor trawler Clarissa, of Bideford, was burning red flares a short distance Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the 17th out from Westward Ho. The wind November a heavy gale sprang up was only light, and the sea was smooth, from the north, with a very heavy sea but the motor life-boat V.C.S. was and rain. Several open cobles were at launched at 4.25 p.M. to investigate. sea, and the motor life-boat Stanhope She found the Clarissa near Pulley Smart was launched at 6.55 P.M. She buoy, in a sinking condition, due to a went in the direction where the boats bad leak. Her crew of three were had been last seen. At 7.35 P.M. she exhausted from pumping. Some of the spoke the coble Kate and Violet, and life-boat crew manned the pumps, and learned that the cobfe Vera Mary, of the life-boat towed the Clarissa to Bridlington, with two men on board, Bideford quay. She returned to her was in difficulties. She found her at station at 10.35 P.M. The master 8 P.M., five miles south of Bridlington. and owner sent a letter of thanks.— Her engine had broken down and she Rewards, £25 Os. 7d. was three parts full of water. With some difficulty she took the coble in The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 9.35 tow and arrived at Bridlington at P.M. on the 22nd November a message 9 P.M.—Rewards, £18 7*. 6d. was received from the port doctor at Grimsby that the Latvian steamer Sunderland, Co. Durham. — In the Everolanda, of Riga, at anchor S.E. of afternoon of the 17th November the Spurn light-vessel, had wirelessed that coxswain saw two cobles in difficulty off a, woman on board had appendicitis. Hendon. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, He asked if the life-boat would try to with a rough sea and heavy rain. The find the steamer and bring the woman motor life-boat Edward and Isabella ashore. The wind was=light and the Irwin put out at 2.50 A.M., and came up sea smooth, but there was a very dense with the local coble Olive, with five fog. The motor life-boat: City of Brad* men on board, about one hundred ford II put out at 9.45 P.M., and felt yards off the beach at Hendon. The her way out to the Spurn light-vessel. Olive had been towing the other coble, The light-vessel had no information, so the Agnes, but the Agnes had foundered the life-boat searched round and spoke and her crew of two had got on board several vessels at anchor, but without the Olive. The life-boat towed the result. She searched all through the 282 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. night, but still could not find the stern on to the tide. There was no Everolanda, and returned to her station sign of the others, and the life-boat at 6.30 A.M. on the 23rd. Two hours made off to look for them. She was later it was learned that the Everolanda recalled by shouts and whistles from had not arrived in port, and the life- the T. H. Burton, and learned that the boat put out again. The fog was still dumb barges had struck the dock wall very dense. The life-boat went to the and sunk. The T. H. Burton was Spurn light-vessel once more, and this nearly awash, being held down by the time the light-vessel got in touch with. tow-rope of one of the sunken barges. Humber radio. Humber radio in turn The life-boat went alongside, and wirelessed to the Everolanda and got a rescued four men, three being the crew correct bearing. This was passed to and one a man from another barge. the life-boat and she soon found the Of the other five men of the barges' steamer. The woman, who was in crews, three had been rescued by men great pain, was taken to Grimsby, and from the docks, but two had been the life-boat returned to her station at drowned. The lifeboat landed the 1.40 P.M. The agents for the steamer rescued men at New Brighton stage at made a donation to the Institution.— 10 P.M. She then returned to her Permanent paid crew.—Rewards, £l 7*. moorings, but it was found that the motor boarding-boat had been partially Appledore, Devon.—The ketch Ceres, filled, and that the engine had been of Bude, left Swansea for Bude with a flooded. It was not until 1.30 a.M. on cargo of slag on the 24th November, the 1st December that the engine was That night, when in Croyde bay, she started. Five men of the life-boat sprang a bad leak, and foundered. Her crew then went ashore in the boarding- crew of two men were rescued.—Re- boat, and two of them took her to pick wards, £19 12*. (For a full account of up the rest of the crew. When they this service see page 220.) were coming ashore two big waves put the engine out of action again, and Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon the boat drifted out into heavy seas. of the 30th November the motor life- During a lull the men rowed her back to boat Laurana Sarah Blunt went out on the life-boat, and finally got ashore at exercise. When near Cape! Island, she 4 A.M. The barge T. H. Burton even- saw two men in a small fishing boat, tually broke away from the tow-rope about a mile and a half S.E. of the which was holding her and drifted up island, waving for help. She was the the river, where she was taken in tow. motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Bally- A letter of thanks was received from the cotton. Her engine had broken down. rescued men. An increase in the usual She had dropped an anchor, but it was money award on the standard scale not holding, and she was dragging out was granted to each member of the to sea. The two men were very wet life-boat crew.—Rewards, £24 5*. 6d. and cold. The life-boat towed the Point Girl into Youghal harbour, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.30 A.M. on returned to her station at 4.50 P.M.— the 2nd December it was learned that Rewards, £5 17*. 6d. three motor fishing vessels were ex- pected to return. There was a strong, New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.2 P.M. broken sea at the harbour entrance, on the 30th November a telephone with a strong N.W. breeze and showers message was received from the dock- of rain, and there would be danger to master, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool, that the boats in making harbour. The a motor barge, and three dumb barges No. 2 pulling life-boat Jacob and Rachel in tow, were aground off the North Valentine slipped her moorings at 11.45 Salisbury pierhead. There were eight A.M., and went to the harbour entrance. or ten men on board the four barges. The fishing boat Provider came in first, A whole N.N.W. gale was blowing, at about 1.30 P.M., followed by the with a very rough sea. The No. 2 Success and the Pilot Me. Each one motor life-boat William and Kate John- was escorted in by the life-boat, which ston put off at 9.10 p.M., and found the returned to her station at 2.30 P.M.— motor barge T. H. Burton, of Liverpool, Rewards, £13 10s. 6d. 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Whitby, Yorkshire.—-During the morn- Fleetwood, Lancashire.—12th Novem- ing of the 4th December the motor ber. A fishing boat had fouled her fishing coble Mayflower, at sea north propeller and gone aground, but did not of Whitby, appeared to be in diffi- need help.—Rewards, £14 14s. culties, and a watch was kept on her. A strong, squally N.W. breeze Ramsey, Isle of Man.—12th November. was blowing, with a rough sea. The A steamer had gone ashore, but her crew Mayflower was seen to hoist sail, but a were rescued from the shore by the squall carried mast and sail away. coastguard life-saving apparatus.— The motor life-boat Margaret Harker Rewards, £26 2s. 6d. Smith was launched at 9.30 A.M., and came up with the Mayflower about Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 14th three miles north of Whitby. Her November. A new steamer had run lines had fouled the propeller, and ashore while on trial, but was got off stopped the engine. She was drifting, by tugs.—Rewards, £6 12s. stern first, with the wind and sea towards Whitby. The life-boat kept Lowestoft, Suffolk.—15th November. alongside her until she had drifted A motor yacht had caught fire, but right into harbour, and returned to her men on the beach helped the crew station at 11 A.M.—Rewards, £8 5s. 6d. ashore.—Rewards, £19 19s. 6d. Whitby, Yorkshire.-—At noon on the Barra Island, Hebrides.—16th Novem- 5th December a strong N.W. breeze ber. Two keepers had put out from was blowing, with a very heavy ground Monach Island lighthouse, forty-five sea, and seas were breaking heavily miles from Barra, in a small boat on outside the harbour entrance, making the previous day, and all trace of them it very dangerous for the local motor had been lost. An unsuccessful search fishing boats Venus, Easter Morn, was made, and later it was learned that Provider, Gallilee, Endeavour and Suc- the men had been drowned. The cess, which were seen making for the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses harbour. The motor life-boat Mar- sent a letter of appreciation.—^Rewards, garet Harker Smith was launched at £23 5s. 6d. 12.30 P.M., escorted the boats safely in, Scarborough, Yorkshire.—17th Novem- and returned to her station at 1.35 ber. A motor coble and a rowing P.M.—Rewards, £9 4s. 6d. boat had been overtaken by a sudden The following life-boats were storm, but reached safety unaided.— launched, but no services were rendered Rewards, £36 10s. 6d. for the reasons given :—- Howth, Co. Dublin.—28th November. A man had fallen over the cliffs and Troon, Ayrshire.—8th November. A disappeared in the sea before help small boat with two men on board was could reach him.—Rewards, £5 18s. 6d. adrift, but the men got ashore unaided. Rewards, £9 16s. 6d. Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Swanage, Dorset. — 9th November. Sussex.—30th November. A Govern- What had appeared to be a small boat ment balloon had drifted out to sea, and was found to be floating wreckage.— the life-boats put out, but were recalled, —Rewards, £8 10s. as the balloon was filled with dangerous gas.—Rewards, Newhaven, £16 16s.; Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—llth Shoreham, £15 7s. 6d. November. Red flares had been re- ported, but no vessel in distress could Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and be found.—Rewards, £11 14s. Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December. A Royal Air Force machine came Portrush, Co. Antrim.—llthNovember. down at sea at night, but could not A motor boat bound for Rathlin Island be found, and the pilot was drowned. was overdue, but arrived while search —Rewards, Hartlepool, £14 18s. 6d.; was being made for her.—Rewards, Runswick, £30 7s.; and Teesmouth, £14 19s. 6rf. £12 2s. 234 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Whitehills, Banfishire.—4th December. January Meeting. At 7.10 A.M. the coastguard reported that a distress flare had been seen about Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— three miles N.W. of East Head. A At about 5 P.M. on the 5th December strong north-westerly gale was blowing, the steam tug Royal Britain, with the with a very heavy sea. The weather lighter Richland, of Newcastle, in tow, was thick, and bitterly cold. The was seen making for harbour. A motor life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, launched at 7.35 A.M., but could find with a rough sea. The tow parted and no trace of any vessel in distress. She the Richland was in danger of going on spoke a steamer which reported that to Spittal Point, on -which seas -were she had seen no signals. It is thought breaking heavily. The motor life-boat that the reported flare probably was Westmorland was launched at 5 P.M., the glare from a passing drifter's and stood by the Richland until the engine-room fire when it was being tug had passed her another tow-rope. stoked. When the life-boat returned The vessels then got safely into har- to Whitehills huge seas were running bour, and the life-boat returned to across the harbour entrance, and the her station at 6.45 P.M.—Rewards, coxswain ordered the drogue out. £10 19s. 9d. Just then a very heavy sea swept over the life-boat, and Alexander Mair, the Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the man who was attending to the drogue 5th December, during the height of a rope, was washed overboard. He held northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, on to the rope, however, and was stopped and signalled by morse to the pulled back on board. The life-boat, life-boat station that a doctor was slightly damaged by the force of the wanted. The weather was very cold, sea, returned to her station at 10.30 with heavy snow showers. A doctor A.M., after an arduous trip made under arrived by car from Bridgend, and the very bad conditions. The Institution motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put sent a letter of appreciation to Coxswain out at 11.30 P.M., with him and the A. Findlay and his crew, and an increase station honorary secretary, Mr. D. in the usual money award on the stand- Maclndeor, on board. The steamer was ard scale was granted to each member the Northern Coast, of Liverpool, and of the crew.—Rewards, £14 175. 9d. one of her crew had dislocated a shoulder. The doctor went on board Moelfre, Anglesey.—6th December. At and treated the man, and the life-boat 6.20 P.M. a message was received from returned to her station at 1 A.M.— Point Lynas that the 3,000-ton Nor- Rewards, £14 18s. 6d. wegian steamer Spurt was in distress in the Moelfre roads. A whole N. gale Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At was blowing, with a very heavy sea, about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a and the weather was bitterly cold. The message was received that a steamer motor life-boat G.W. was launched at was in distress on the south side of the 6.30 P.M., but failed to find the steamer, Ribble channel. She was the Helen which must have gone on her way. Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, The life-boat returned to her station with a crew of eleven and a general at 11 P.M., but conditions were too bad cargo. She had lost her rudder and to permit rehousing. Four men stayed gone ashore, and was pounding heavily. on board and she went to moorings. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, The weather still got worse, and at with a rough sea. The motor life-boat 5 A.M. on the 7th she ran to Beaumaris J.H.W. was launched at 4.20 P.M., and for shelter, returning to her station at found that a pilot boat was standing 10 A.M. An increase in the usual by the Helen Craig, but was unable to money awards on the standard scale help her. The Helen Craig's master was granted to two of the four men asked for a pilot, and the life-boat who stayed on board the life-boat, and fetched one from the pilot boat. He special money awards to the other two, did not board the steamer, however, the permanent paid coxswain and as the tide was ebbing and the weather motor mechanic.—Rewards, £19 11s. 6d. was likely to get worse. The life-boat MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 235 ran alongside, took off the crew, and Kjorrefjord, of Farsund, bound for the landed them on Lytham pier. She Tyne with a general cargo, ran ashore returned to her station at 8.20 P.M. on Whitburn Steel, about two miles The weather moderated, and next north of Sunderland. The wind was morning at 4 A.M. she took the steamer's only light and the sea smooth, but crew out again and put them on board. there was a fog. The motor life-boat She got back to her moorings at 8 A.M.— Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched Rewards, £16 10s. Bd. at 4.50 P.M. and stood by the steamer until she refloated at high tide and Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morn- went on her way. The life-boat re- ing of the 6th December a motor turned to her station at 10.20 P.M.— fishing coble and two keel boats were Rewards, £19 5s. Sd. at sea. A strong W.N.W. gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea, and the Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The motor motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was life-boat William Evans was launched launched at 8.45 A.M. in case her help at 7.30 P.M. on the llth December, in should be wanted. She went off in a answer to an urgent call from the northerly direction after the coble, neighbouring island of Inishnaine, for but was recalled '•> y the coastguard, as a priest to administer last rites to a the coble had got in from the east. dying man. No other suitable boat The life-boat had slight trouble with her was available. A strong breeze was engine, but put to sea again using her blowing, with a heavy sea, and the sail to help the engine. She met the weather was thick. The life-boat keel boat Just Reward about a mile and made the trip, and returned to her a half to the N.E., and escorted her station at 10 P.M.—No expense to the back to harbour. The other keel boat Institution. had got into safety, and the life-boat returned to her station at noon.— Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.17 A.M. Rewards, £19 9*. on the 12th December the coastguard Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the evening reported that distress flares had been of the 8th December the coastguard seen four or five miles N.E. of Castle reported that the Barrow Deep light- Hill. A moderate N.W. gale was vessel was firing signals of distress as blowing, with a rough sea, and it was flares had been seen in a south-westerly very cold. The motor life-boat John direction. The wind was light and the R. Webb was launched and found the sea smooth, but there was a thick fog. s.s. Tanny, of Bristol, disabled by a The motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden boiler explosion. She rescued her crew was launched at 7.40 P.M., and was of five and landed them at Tenby at directed by the light-vessel to a position 8 A.M. Later the Tanny was towed to about two miles S. by W. There she Appledore.—Rewards, £15 3*. Qd, found the motor vessel Conida, of London, at anchor .in about twelve Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— feet of water. The Conida had been On the night of the 13th-14th December aground, and had afterwards lost her the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats propeller. As she drew eleven feet and a Folkestone fishing boat went and there were still two hours to ebb out to the rescue of the crew of three tide, the life-boat towed her into of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, deeper water. The life-boat then went of Folkestone.—Rewards, Vellum to the Trinity steamer Strathearn, Thanks, Framed Letter, Silver Watches, which was lying about four miles off, with awards of money and allowances and asked her to send out a wireless for ropes lost and damaged and fuel message for a tug. She returned to used. Hythe, £61 15s. 6d. ; Dover, the Conida, stood by her until a tug £3 15s.; Folkestone, £19. from Harwich had taken her in tow, (A full account of this service appears and got back to her station at 4 A.M. on on page 216.) the 9th.—Property Salvage Case. Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the 9th the j 13th December the coastguard December the f Norwegian ti steamer telephoned that a vessel was ashore 236 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coast- could not be rehoused, and some of the guard station. There was a thick fog, crew had to remain on board until a moderate N.W. wind and a ground 7.30 A.M. on the 14th December. A swell. As the tide was very low, the few hours later the life-boat again motor life-boat Charles Cooper Hender- went to the Alert and brought her son could not get away until 5.15 A.M. into the bay. The captain wrote She found the steamer Soudan, of the thanking the life-boat crew for their P. & O. Line, London, bound, laden, help.—Rewards, £18 6s., and Property for London from the Far East. The Salvage Case. coxswain boarded the Soudan and the life-boat stood by until she refloated. Arbroath, Angus.—At midday on the Finding that the steamer was not 17th December a S.E. gale was blowing, making water and that she would be with a rough sea and heavy rain. The able to go on to London, the life-boat local fishing boats Sceptre, Our Boys, returned to her station at 8.45 A.M.—• Golden Rule, Breadwinner and Helen Rewards, £24 16s. 9d. Cargill were expected in, and as the harbour bar was very dangerous, the WicVlow.—On the evening of the 13th motor life-boat John and William December signals of distress were seen Mudie was launched. She escorted all coming from the ketch Ivy P. of the boats into harbour and returned Dublin, which was lying at anchor to her station at 4.15 P.M.—Rewards, about two miles E.N.E. of Wicklow £5 18s. 6d. harbour. A strong S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and Newbiggin, Northumberland. — The heavy rain. The motor life-boat local motor fishing cobles Homeland, Robert Theophilus Garden was launched Provider and Harold did not return at 5.30 P.M. She found that the Ivy P., when expected on the 17th December, bound from Courtown to Liverpool, and the pulling and sailing life-boat was leaking badly and in danger of Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 2.2 foundering. Her crew of four were P.M. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, exhausted. The life-boat rescued with a heavy swell. Just as the life- them and arrived back in harbour at boat got away the cobles were seen 7.30 P.M. The life-boat crew stood by approaching. The Provider's engine all night, waiting for a chance to save had broken down and the other cobles the ketch. At 3.30 A.M. on the 14th had been standing by her. The life- she went out again. Some of the life- boat escorted them into safety, and boat crew and the crew of the ketch returned tocher station at 2.45 P.M.— were put on board the ketch to lift her Rewards, £14 4s. anchor and man the pumps, and the life-boat towed her into harbour at Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On 5.30 a.M.—Rewards, £17 17s. 6d. ; the 21st December the Esthonian Property Salvage Case. steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into diffi- culties through her rudder shaft break- Moelfre, Anglesey.—During a whole ing. A strong south-westerly breeze S.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, the was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat G.W. was launched at steamer Scillonian saw her and stood 11.30 P.M. on the 13th December to the by. News was passed by the coast- help of the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, guard, and the Sennen Cove motor which had lost some of her sails and one life-boat The Newbons, and the Penlee of her anchors and started to drag the motor life-boat W. & S., were launched other anchor about five miles N.E. of at 11.50 A.M. and noon respectively. Moelfre Island. She was bound for The Sennen life-boat came up with the Runcorn, laden with coal, and had on Mina about eight miles S.W. of Tol- board the captain, his wife, a crew of Pedn look-out. The Scillonian had then four, and a dog. All were rescued by got a line on board and was trying to the life-boat and one man who was tow her. The life-boat passed another injured was sent to hospital. When line between the steamers, and later the rescued had been landed at'about put one of her own ropes on board the 1.30 A.M, it was found that the life-boat Mina and helped in towing her. Shortly MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 237 afterwards the Mina sheered very received from the Belgian Government. badly and the life-boat let go her tow. —Rewards, £19 55. Then the other two lines parted. By this time, however, the Mina had Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of made temporary repairs, and was out the 1st January a vessel was seen to be of immediate danger. The life-boat in distress. She was the cargo steamer stood by until it was seen that she was Crockshot, of Newcastle, bound with a able to go on her way, and then, as the cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one heavy sea would prevent her rehousing, from the Tyne to London. She had ran for Penzance, arriving at 6 P.M. stranded on a shoal near N.W. Scroby She returned to her station, and was buoy. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, rehoused, next day. The Penlee life- with a very choppy sea, and the boat had found that her help was not weather was thick, with rain. The wanted, and had returned to her pulling and sailing life-boat CharUs station at 3.30 P.M. The weather was Burton was launched at 10.15 A.M., and too rough for rehousing, and she was tugs also put out. The life-boat crew moored in Newlyn harbour until next helped to jettison some of the cargo in day.—Rewards, Sennen Cove, Property an effort to get the Crackshot off, and Salvage Case ; Penlee, £12 Us. 6d. the life-boat stood by all that day and night and the following morning. The captain of the Crackshot then said that Cromarty.—On the afternoon of the he would signal for the life-boat if he 23rd December the local fishing boat needed her again, and she returned to Messina, with three men on board, her station, arriving at 1 P.M. She was seen to be in a dangerous position had been on service for nearly twenty- off South Suter Point. She was trying seven hours. The Crackshot -was to get back after lobster fishing, but refloated at about 1.30 A.M. on the could make no headway against a 5th January.—Property Salvage Case. strong, squally S.W. breeze and rough sea. The motor life-boat James Macfee Caister, Norfolk.—On the 3rd January was launched at 3 P.M., towed the seven young men put out in the sailing Messina back to harbour, and returned boat Seabird on a trip to the steamer to her station at 3.35 P.M.—Rewards, Crackshot, which had stranded off £5 14s. Caister two days earlier. A fresh west wind was blowing, with a moderate North Sunderland, Northumberland.— sea. The Seabird got into difficulties. At 2.55 A.M. on the 28th December the Her sail was torn, her crew were unable coastguard reported that the Longstone to make any headway with oars, and lighthouse was firing rockets. A strong she was carried seawards. Her distress S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a signals were seen on shore, and the rough sea, and the weather was very pulling and sailing life-boat Charles cold, with patches of fog. The motor Burton was launched at 1.55 P.M. She life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 3.10 came up with the Seabird S.W. of the A.M., saw flares in the direction of Cockle light-vessel, rescued the seven the Knavestone Rock, and found the young men, and towed her back to .Ostend motor trawler Roger Henri Caister. She returned to her station aground. The Roger Henri had a crew at 4.10 P.M. The young men wrote a of six on board, and was bound with letter of thanks, saying: " Being a cargo of fish from Moray Firth to Caister lads, we invariably help at all Ostend. Her back was broken, and she life-boat launches. This has made us was continually swept by heavy seas. realize all the more the necessity for a The life-boat got as near as possible on quick launch, and we shall be only too the lee side. Ropes were passed to the pleased to help the Institution in every trawler and attached to her small boat, possible way in future."—Rewards, which was lying alongside. The boat £21 185. was hauled to the life-boat, and by this means the six men were rescued. The The following life-boats -were life-boat returned to her station at launched, but no services were rendered 4.45 A.M. A letter of thanks was for the reasons given : 238 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Cromarty.—30th November. A motor Before she could get clear heavy seas boat was in distress off Brora some threw her back on the beach. Within thirty miles to the north, in a whole a few minutes she was hauled back on N.W. gale, but was taken in tow by a to the slipway, and got away at the fishery cruiser. The life-boat's mast second attempt. When she arrived off broke as she was running under sail Orfordness she received a signal that before the gale. She returned under of the four people on board the Excel motor power after seven hours at sea.— three were missing and one was saved. Rewards, £14 2s. They had jumped overboard when she neared shore. One girl had been Barrow, Lancashire.—6th December. washed on to the beach alive. The Red flares had been reported eleven other three had been swept away and miles N.W. of Walney Light, but drowned. The life-boat searched until nothing could be found.—Rewards, dark, but could find no trace of them. £17 6*. 6d. As she would be unable to land at Aldeburgh, owing to the heavy sea and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—llth December. low tide, she ran for Harwich, arriving A motor vessel had stranded on the at 7 P.M. At 8 A.M. next morning she beach south-east of Orford lighthouse, left for her station, reaching there at but got off and went on her way.— 11.30 A.M. Rewards, £22 Us. 6d. The Institution sent a letter to the station expressing appreciation of the Padstow, Cornwall.—12th December. expeditious manner in which the life- A Port Isaac fishing boat was over- boat was launched in difficult circum- due, but returned unaided.—Rewards, stances.—Rewards, £44 18s. lOd. £8 10s. 6d. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. —14th December. A steamer had —12th December. The motor vessel been in collision with the Newarp Apollinaris, of Rotterdam, had grounded light-vessel, but she did not need help. north of Winterton look-out, but In response to flares the life-boat then refloated without help. — Rewards, went to Horsey Gap, where she found a £27 7s. 6d. steamer stranded, but she could not get alongside, as the steamer was high Lowestoft, Suffolk.—12th December. up the beach. The coastguard life- Flares had been reported and a search saving apparatus was already in was made over a large area, but nothing communication with the wreck.—Re- was found.—Rewards, £33 17s. 6d. wards, £30 1 Os.

Swanage, Dorset.—-13th December. Anstruther, Fifeshire— 16th December. Rockets had been reported in the A steamer had grounded in West Bay, direction of Old Harry Rocks, but Elie, but the life-boat found the crew nothing could be found.—Rewards, being rescued by the coastguard's life- £22 11s. saving apparatus.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire. of the 13th December the motor vessel —On the morning of the 16th Excel, of Dover, left Ramsgate for December the Cockenzie drifter Mar- London. On board were the owner, garet and Francis was bound, light, his two daughters and son. The Excel from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of ran into bad weather, her engine broke three on board. A whole southerly gale down, and she was driven right off was blowing, with a very heavy sea. her course. At midday on the 14th The Margaret and Francis sprang a she was drifting close to the shore near leak, became unmanageable, and was Orfordness. A whole S.S.W. gale was driven on to the beach at Belhelvie. blowing, with a very heavy sea. The Life-boat stations were warned by the coastguard warned the life-boat station coastguard, and the Aberdeen No. 1 and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy motor life-boat Emma Constance put Beauckrk was launched at 1.30 P.M. out at 11.5 A.M. She found the drifter MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 239 almost submerged and partly broken Port Askaig, Islay.—On the afternoon up by the tremendous seas ; but she re- of the 31st December the Oban coast- ceived a recall signal from the coast- guard telegraphed that an aircraft had guard, and returned to her station at reported a ship drifting eastward 1.20 p.M. Of the drifter's crew of three, through the Gulf of Corrievreckan, one had been swept off with the wheel- which is north of Jura Island. A strong house, and the others had jumped S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy overboard. Unfortunately only one sea and hail showers. The motor life- man reached the shore. The Newburgh boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched pulling and sailing life-boat John and at 5.30 P.M., but returned twelve hours Robert C. Mercer had been taken along later without having seen any sign of the beach on her carriage, and arrived the vessel. Later it was learned that opposite the wreck at 11.30 A.M., but the Norwegian steamer Karmt, of by that time the men had all gone Haugesund, had been sheltering in the overboard. She, therefore, made for area, but had gone on her way. An home again, arriving at 5 P.M. A letter increase in the usual money award on of appreciation was sent to the New- the standard scale was granted to burgh station for the smart way in each member of the life-boat crew.—- which the tractor and life-boat were Rewards, £14 6s. 6d. taken to the scene of the wreck, along three miles of soft beach against the Margate, Kent.—The motor life-boat gale and sandstorm.—Rewards, Aber- Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) deen, £6 17*.. Qd.; Newburgh, £17 7*. 6d. was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 10th January, in answer to a message from Montrose, Angus.—17th December. An North Foreland wireless station, re- overdue fishing boat came in while the ceived through the coastguard, that a life-boat was out looking for her.— trawler about thirty miles E. by N. of Rewards, £5 19*. Margate was in need of immediate help. Barra Island, Hebrides.—18th Decem- A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with ber. Anxiety had been felt for a a choppy sea. After the life-boat had Northbay fishing boat, but she got in put out it was learned that the trawler safely—Rewards, £10 6s. 3d. Notre Dame de Lourdes, of Boulogne, had been in collision with the British Buckie, Banff shire.—18th December. steamer Theems. Seven of the trawler's Flares had been reported to the N.W., crew had been drowned, and the but no trace of any vessel in distress remainder had been picked up by the could be found.—Rewards, £15 9*. Theems. A wireless message was sent out asking ships to speak the life-boat Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. if seen, and to tell her to return to her —31st December. A doctor went station. She did not receive this mes- out to the Smiths Knoll light-vessel sage, however, and searched for some to bring ashore an injured man, but hours. She returned to her station at the weather was so bad that it was 7 P.M., after nearly nine hours at sea, decided that it would be less dangerous having covered about seventy miles. to leave him on the light-vessel than to An increase in the usual money award attempt to get him into the life-boat.— on the standard scale was granted to Expenses defrayed by the Trinity each member of the life-boat crew.— House. Rewards, £13 17s. 9d.

Silver and Bronze MedalsTfor Aberdeen. THE Institution has awarded its silver the crew, for the rescue on 26th January medal to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of of the crew of the steamer Fairy, of Aberdeen, and its bronze medal or King's Lynn. A full account will be thanks on vellum to each member of published in the next issue. 240 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Shoreboat Services. For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.

November Meeting. ney River. A strong and squally easterly wind was blowing, the seas Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the were high, and the tide ebbing. The 2nd September a salvage party of six boat was struck by a squall and was marooned on the wreck of the capsized. The men clung to the bot- Harvest Queen, owing to their boat tom of the boat. Two men, Mr. breaking away and capsizing. Their Samuel Buckland, a chair attendant, plight was seen by a plumber, and Mr. Charles Langford, a float who called out ex-Coxswain Oliver attendant, succeeded, after four or Storm and went out with him in a five attempts, in launching a 10-feet motor boat at 11 A.M. A heavy swell rowing dinghy, and in three-quarters was running, with a strong northerly of an hour reached the capsized boat. wind, and it was impossible to get With great difficulty they rescued the alongside. At considerable risk the three men, one at a time, by means of two men rescued the party with the a rope over the stern of the dinghy. help of life-lines. The rescuers were The rescuers were not experienced in engaged for about three hours.—Re- handling boats and risked their lives.— wards, £2, and 3s. 6d. for fuel used. Rewards, a framed letter of apprecia- tion and £2 to each of the two rescuers. Eastbourne, Sussex. — On the 14th September a sailing dinghy, with two Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—The fish- boys on board, capsized in a moderate ing vessel Sweet Home, with four men W.S.W. breeze, with a choppy sea. on board, ran out of fuel and anchored The boys were rescued by two life-boat- near Davaar lighthouse on the 17th men who put out in an outboard October. She was kept under obser- motor boat. The life-boat coxswain vation by the keeper, and was seen to also put out in his boat, but his help hoist a signal. The keeper then tele- was not needed.—Rewards, 10s. to the phoned to the life-boat station. The coxswain. The other men had already sea was rough, with a strong N.W. been rewarded from another source. breeze blowing, but the four men were in no danger. The motor fishing vessel Clovelly, Devon.—On the afternoon of Ave Maria, manned by a crew of five, the 16th September a visitor called put out and towed the Sweet Home in, the attention of a boatman to two thus saving a launch of the life-boat. women who had been cut off by the No risk was incurred by the men, who rising tide among the rocks, about were engaged for just under an hour.— half a mile from Clovelly quay, and Rewards, £1 5s., and 2s. 6d. for fuel who were in some danger of drowning. used. A fresh north breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The boatman Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At about 3.10 put off in a small rowing boat, took the P.M. on Sunday, the 25th October, the women on board, and landed them at coastguard informed a fisherman that Clovelly. He ran some risk, as the a small outboard motor boat, with rocks made it difficult to get inshore, three men on board, was in difficulties and the women were too frightened to three-quarters of a mile from Castle help themselves. The rescue took half Hill. The tide was ebbing, a moderate an hour.—Reward, 7s. 6d. sea was running, and there was a fresh N.W. wind. The fisherman put Penarth, Glamorganshire.—At 1.30 P.M. out in his motor boat and found that on Sunday, the 20th September, a the boat was disabled by an engine 17-feet half-decked sailing boat with a breakdown, and that her anchor would crew of three men was going up- not hold. He took her in tow and channel from Cardiff towards the Rum- brought her into harbour. No risk MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 241 was incurred, and the rescue took about Freda had had an engine breakdown, half an hour.—Rewards, 105., and took her in tow, and brought her into 2s. 6d. for fuel used. Cadgwith. The men were engaged for just over an hour and ran some risk.— Rewards, £l 10s., and 7s. 6d. for fuel Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. — At about used. 4.50 P.M. on the 25th October four men who were fishing off Scratby in the Filey, Yorkshire.—On the evening of motor boat Rainbow saw a distress the 29th October it was learned that signal from the motor fishing boat three boys had put off in a coble Lily Georgina, about one and a quarter during the afternoon and had not miles out. A fresh W. by N. wind returned when expected. A light S. was blowing, with a very choppy sea. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, The Rainbow found the Lily Georgina and the weather was misty. The drifting with her engine broken down, honorary secretary of the life-boat and her crew of three rowing, but not station arranged for two cobles to go making headway. She took the dis- out in search, but just as they were abled boat in tow and brought her in. being launched the missing boat came The rescue took over one hour. The in.—Rewards, £l. distress signal had been seen from the life-boathouse and the life-boat December Meeting. would have been launched but for the action of the Rainbow.—Rewards, £1 The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—While 10*., and 2s. for fuel used. out training on the evening of the 31st August five members of the Mum- Flint, Flintshire.—On the morning of bles Amateur Rowing Club got into the 26th October a man put out from difficulties, their boat being caught in Llanerchymor in the auxiliary motor a strong current and forced against a fishing boat Evelyn with a punt in pylon. The boat sank and the men tow, fishing for cockles. A sudden clung to the pylon and to the wire storm sprang up and the punt sank. stays. Seeing their dangerous position, The auxiliary engine was stopped by Mr. Daniel Slavin, caretaker at the seas which half filled the boat, and the Mumbles Battery, put off single-handed anchor which the man dropped failed in a rowing boat and picked up the to hold. The boat was driven before men.—Reward, letter of thanks. The the storm under a little sail and rescued had already rewarded him. eventually came to anchor between Flint and Burton Point at the mouth Whitstable, Kent.—Early in the after- of the River Dee. All that day and noon of the 31st October a small boat night she remained at anchor. Next with two men on board was seen to be morning she was seen, and four men in trouble off Seasalter. A moderate put off from Flint in an 18-feet motor breeze, increasing later to gale force, boat. A W.N.W. gale was blowing at was blowing from the N.E., with a the time, with a rough sea. At some rough sea, and rain. At the request risk they rescued the man, the service of the coastguard volunteer-in-charge occupying about an hour.—Rewards, at Whitstable, two men put off in an £3, and 3*. for fuel used. 18-feet motor boat, but found that the small boat had been beached, and that Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At about 11 A.M. the two men had been helped ashore. on the 27th October the motor fishing This attempted service occupied three boat Freda, with a crew of four, was hours, and was carried out at moderate seen to be flying a distress signal three risk.—Rewards, £l 10s., and 5s. for miles to the S.S.E. A moderate fuel used. W.N.W. breeze was blowing offshore, with a moderate sea. The local life- Hastings, Sussex.—At about 2.45 A.M. boat crew and part of the crew of the on the 20th November the life-boat Lizard station were at sea, and a coxswain and two other men, who 22-feet motor boat, with a crew of were just about to drop anchor on four, put out. She found that the returning to Hastings in their motor 242 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. boat, saw a red flare about two and a and the sea smooth, but there was a half miles south of St. Leonards pier. very thick fog. Cries for help were A fresh east breeze was blowing, with heard, and at 5.45 P.M. the life-boat a rough sea. The three men put out coxswain, the motor mechanic, and again, and found the motor fishing three other members of the crew, put boat Enterprise, with a crew of four, off in the life-boat boarding-boat. lying helpless, as her nets had fouled They found the boats at anchor about her propellers. At slight risk they a mile and a half east of Lytham pier, towed her ashore. The service took took the ten men off, and landed them two and a quarter hours.—Rewards, on the pier at 7.15 P.M.—Rewards, £2 5s., and 4s. 6d. for fuel used. £3 155.

January Meeting. Folkestone, Kent.—On the night of the Hastings, Sussex.—At midday on the 13th-14th December the motor fishing 2nd December a small boat with one boat Florence Rosalind, with a crew of man on board was blown away from eight, helped in the rescue of the crew the mouth of Rye harbour towards of three of the motor fishing boat broken water off Jury's Gap. A fresh Josephine II.—Rewards, Two silver to strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, watches and £15, and also £4, for lost with a heavy ground swell. Two and damaged ropes and fuel. (For a fishermen put off in a 15-feet open full account of this service see page 216.) motor boat owned by Mr. J. Moon, of Hastings, who accompanied them, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon with great difficulty, and at some risk, of the 20th December the coastguard towed the boat to safety. The rescue reported that the local fishing coble took one and a half hours.—Rewards, Royal Empire was in distress about a letter of appreciation to Mr. Moon, half a mile south of Saltwick Nab. A £1 each to the fishermen, and Ss. for strong south-westerly breeze was blow- fuel used. ing, with a moderate sea. Ex-Coxswain Harland and three other men put off Lythami-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—On in a motor fishing boat and found the the afternoon of the 9th December it Royal Empire drifting out to sea. Her was learned that two open boats, with engine had broken down, her anchor ten men on board who had been had been lost, and she had no sails. gathering mussels, had not returned She was towed back to harbour.—Re- when expected. The wind was light wards, £l 10s., and 3s. for fuel used.

Life-boat Days in 1936. DURING 1936 life-boat flag days were than in 1935. The number of people held by 766 of the 1,071 branches of who contributed was 5,404,000, which the Institution; nine fewer than in was 180,000 more than in 1935. The 1935. The amount collected on these average contribution was If of a days was £42,715, which was £375 less penny.

Golf Competitions. DURING 1936 sixty-four golf clubs in the clubs contributed £196 11s. 5d. Great Britain and Ireland held This is eleven more clubs than in 1935 competitions in aid of the life-boat and an increase in the contribution of service for which the Institution £22 6s. 6d. The same appeal has been presented spoons as prizes. As a result made to golf clubs for 1937. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 243

A Centenarian of Eastbourne. A Link between 1784 and 1937. By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station. THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th of whom was Edward Allchorn. They February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline had to make two journeys to the wreck Allchorn, who was a hundred years old to rescue the twenty-nine persons on last year. She was born on 3rd May, board, and shortly after they left her 1836. She had three children, fifteen for the second time her decks blew up. grandchildren, twenty-three great- For this service the Institution awarded grandchildren, and five great-great- £20 to the life-boat's crew, and sent its grandchildren. thanks to Mr. Hamilton, principal Mrs. Allchorn, who was a daughter of officer of Customs, for the efficient state William Breach, remembered the first in which the life-boat was kept. train coming to Eastbourne, and as a girl was employed at the Old Town Post A Sussex Medal. Office, one of her duties being to go on foot, three times a week, to the coast- Mrs. Allchorn had in her possession a guard on Beachy Head with their medal which was specially struck to letters. commemorate the service and was pre- Three of Mrs. Allchorn's grandsons sented to each member of the crew. On are members of the present life-boat one side is the portrait of John Fuller crew, and her family have been as- with the words : " John Fuller, Esq., sociated with the Eastbourne life-boat Rose Hill, Sussex " ; on the other: station even longer than she herself can " Presented to Edward Allchorn for his remember. Her husband was a son of conduct in saving the lives of twenty- Edward Allchorn, who was born on nine shipwrecked persons, 1833." 5th October, 1784, and who was a In 1842 the life-boat rescued the crew member of the first life-boat crew at of seven from the ship Watts, wrecked Eastbourne. near Eastbourne in a violent gale from Our life-boat station was established the south-west. Twelve fishermen in 1822, two years before the Royal manned the life-boat, and received a National Life-boat Institution itself reward of £6 from the Institution. was founded, and was not taken over Three years later, on 28th December, by the Institution until 1853. The 1845, the life-boat went out to the help first life-boat was a gift from Mr. John of a Dutch East-Indiaman Twee Cor- Fuller, M.P., of Rose Hill, Sussex, who nelissen, a ship of about 860 tons, laden died in 1833. His estate passed to the with coffee, indigo and sugar, which son of his first cousin, Mr. Augustus went ashore in Pevensey Bay, near Eliot Fuller, for many years Member Tower 55, and became a total wreck. of Parliament for East Sussex. The The Eastbourne life-boat rescued the life-boat he left " to the inhabitants master and nine seamen. Eighteen of Eastbourne." She was built by others had got ashore in the ship's boat Simpson, of Eastbourne, and was 25 feet the day before. long, 8 feet 6 inches broad, and 3 feet Thirteen men manned the life-boat 6 inches deep. She pulled ten oars. on this service. They received rewards The boat had no name, but she is said of five guineas from the Institution and to have had a rose carved on her. five guineas from Mr. A. E. Fuller ; and the South Holland Society for The First Service. Saving the Shipwrecked presented each Her first service was in February> member of the crew with a silver medal 1833. On the 21st of that month the and a diploma in English. ship Isabella, on passage from London One of the thirteen men was Thomas to Demerara, was wrecked on the Allchorn, born on 15th December, 1800, Boulder Bank. A hurricane was a brother of Edward. The diploma blowing. The life-boat put out to her presented to him is still in the possession help, manned by twenty fishermen, one of Mrs. Caroline Allchorn. On it is the 244 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

fullest account we have of the service. order to save part of her crew,—consisting of It reads as follows : the Master and nine Seamen—who were in imminent danger of losing their lives, having DE already taken refuge in the rigging ; which said exertions have been crowned, by the ZUID HOLLANDSCHE MAATSCHAPPIJ assistance of Divine Providence, with such complete success, that all were landed safe on tot Redding van shore and treated with cordial hospitality. ROTTERDAM, 3 April, 1846. SCHIPBREUKELINGEN W. Van Houten, President. F. P. Van Houten, Secretary. te To complete the record of Mr. ROTTERDAM. Fuller's life-boat, she went out to the barque Druid, of Sunderland, on llth DIRECTORS January, 1862, and rescued nine lives. Next year she was replaced by another of the life-boat. She had then been on service SOUTH-HOLLAND INSTITUTION forty-one years, and had rescued fifty- five lives. For The Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. A Link with the First Life-boat. Established At By the death of Mrs. Allchorn, we ROTTERDAM, have lost not only a link with the first life-boat service at Eastbourne, but a Do With Gratitude and Humane Feelings, link between the very beginning of life- boat work in Great Britain and the Present to You, modern life-boat fleet. It was in 1784 THOMAS ALLCHORN, that Lionel Lukin, the London coach- builder, bought a Norway yawl and residing at Eastbourne, County of Sussex, converted her into an " unimmergible THE SILVER MEDAL, boat." That was the first experiment in life-boat construction, for two years As A Lasting Memorial, later Lukin converted a Northumber- land coble into another "unimmergible of your bold and praiseworthy exertions, exhibited on the 28th day of December, 1845, boat," and she was the first boat to be with several of your brave Shipmates, in stationed on our coasts for the express launching and manning the LIFE-BOAT,—be- purpose of saving life from shipwreck. longing to A. E. Fuller, Esq., M.P., of In that year of Lukin's experiment, Rose-Hill,—and under a great risk of losing your own lives, working through a high surf 1784, Mrs. Allchorn's father-in-law, and tremendous sea, blowing at that time a Edward Allchorn, who served in the heavy gale, to reach the Dutch East-Indiaman first Eastbourne life-boat was born. TWEE CORNELISSEN, H. D. VAN DYK, Mrs. Allchorn's grandsons, Edward's Commander, stranded—on her homeward bound Voyage from Batavia to Amsterdam,— great-grandsons, are serving in the in Pevencey-Bay, on the coast of Sussex, in Eastbourne motor life-boat to-day.

Portrait on the Cover. THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- rescue of the crew of three of the swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, barge Marie May, of Rochester, in of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- the early morning of 12th November, swain for two and a half years, and 1929, in a 70-mile an hour gale, with a for over nineteen years has been very heavy sea running. He won the coxswain; so that he has been an Institution's thanks on vellum for officer of the life-boat for nearly another fine service in January of this twenty years. During that time the year, of which a full account will be station has rescued 29 lives. Coxswain found on page 216. The photograph Griggs won the Institution's silver of Coxswain Griggs is by Mr. Harold B. medal for gallantry in the great gales Burdekin, of London and Reigate, and of the winter of 1929 to 1930, for the is reproduced by his kind permission. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 245

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By courtesy of] [Roy Hudson, Eastbourne MRS. ALLCHORN ON HER 100th BIRTHDAY. Reading a telegram of congratulation from the King. 246 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937. The Tale of a Kettle. THIS is a true story, although the name returned to her station after a service of the life-boat station is not men- of sixteen hours, with both coxswain tioned. In one of the heavy gales of and motor mechanic under a cloud. last winter one of the motor life-boats They themselves suspected the bovril. on the South Coast put out on service The crew, however, were certain that it shortly after dusk and was out the simply meant that their coxswain and whole night. motor mechanic could not stand a bit During the night the coxswain of a sea. thought that he would like to cheer On the arrival at the station someone himself with some hot bovril, and the looked inside the kettle and the mystery motor mechanic put on the kettle to was solved. Bovril was cleared of the boil. When the bovril was made the suspicion of causing instead, as it coxswain drank off one cup of it, the undertakes to do, of preventing " that motor mechanic another. Shortly sinking feeling." The coxswain and afterwards, to their own horror, and motor mechanic were cleared of the the amusement of the crew, they suspicion of unseaworthiness. Inside were both very sick. The life-boat the kettle was a piece of soap.

Comedies of a Cow—and a Burning Chimney. THE false alarms which call out life- coastguard to be lights flashing at sea. boats are very varied. On the 26th Awards amounting to £2 12s. 6d. were October last, with a gale blowing, the made to the crew. Plymouth motor life-boat put out— At North Sunderland, at 6.30 on the because a cow had gone wandering. morning of 18th January, a gale was At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard blowing from the south with a heavy at Mothecombe reported distress sig- sea running and showers of rain. The nals. The crew of the life-boat were coastguard reported red rockets seen summoned and she left her moorings. to the north of the harbour, and the The honorary secretary meanwhile got motor life-boat was launched. She throBgh to the coastguard for further searched northwards for five miles, and infojjflation, and was told that the east to the Longstone Lighthouse, but lights ^een were not distress signals. could find no ship in distress. After The life-boat was recalled. being out for two hours she returned. What had happened was that a cow Later it was discovered that a chim- had wandered away and gone over the ney had been on fire and what was cliff8* and the lights were the lanterns thought to be red rockets was burning of the farmer and his men searching for soot which the gale was carrying sea- her along the shore. It was these that, wards. Awards amounting to £20 5s. in the rough weather, had looked to the were made to the crew for their search.

life-boat Service in the East End of London. THE secretary of the Institution would lecting boxes and then emptying them. like to repeat the appeal made in the Miss Dorothy Davies, who has a last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers wide knowledge of East London, and from Greater London to help to develop for the past five years has been doing the Institution's work in the East End life-boat work in Stepney, which by forming an East End branch, in- already has a branch of the Institution, cluding Stepney, Bethnal Green, Shore- would act as honorary secretary. This ditch and Poplar., What is wanted in summer she is again organizing a life- particular is the help of owners of cars, boat day. Any readers of The Life-boat who would be asked to give either a who would be willing to help should morning or an afternoon, not more than write to Mr. John Terry, District three or four times a year, to the Organizing Secretary, 42, Grosvenor work of distributing life-boat col- Gardens, S.W.I. MAKCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 247

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen. Coxswain's Certificate of Service. Life-boatman's Certificate of Service. THE LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE THE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have SERVICE, and & PENSION, have been been awarded to : awarded to :— . ' SYDNEY J. BROWN, 6J years second cox- FREDERICK BARNES, 19J years coxswain swain and 8 years bowman of the Kessing- and 13 years second coxswain, and 2J years land life-boat, on the closing of the station. bowman of the Selsey life-boat. The LIFE-BOATMAN'S CERTIFICATE IVOR M. ARNOLD, 17J years coxswain, OF SERVICE, and a GRATUITY, have 3£ years second coxswain of the St. been awarded to : David's life-boat. HERBERT W. HART, 5J yearsjbowman of the JAMES NISBET, 5J years coxswain and 17j Kessingland life-boat, on the closing of years second coxswain of the St. Abbs life- the station. boat. CHARLES PHILLIPS, 12J years motor mechanic of the Selsey life-boat and 1 year motor JAMES CANNON, 16J years coxswain of the mechanic of the Brixham life-boat. Peel, Isle of Man, life-boat. THE LIFE-BOATMAN'S , CERTIFICATE EDWARD J. SMITH, 7J years coxswain, 3 OF SERVICE has been awarded, on years second coxswain, and 4J years retirement, to :— bowman of the Kessingland life-boat, on RICHARD S. OLIVER, 15 years a member of the closing of the station. the crew of the Hauxley life-boat. JAMES MARTIN, 5 years coxswain, 14f years WILLIAM ROBSON, 20 years a member of the second coxswain, and ll£ years bowman crew of the Kirkcudbright life-boat. of the Portrush life-boat. Pension. ROBERT HARLAND, 5 years coxswain, 10 PENSIONS have been awarded to the years second coxswain, and 2 years bow- following : man of the Whitby life-boats. RICHARD MAJOR, 4f years shore-signalman at the Humber, and 12J years shore- THOMAS W. WELHAM, 5 years coxswain, 1 signalman at Flamborough. year second coxswain, and 9 years bowman WILLIAM H. WHYTE, 11J years shore-signal- of the Whitby life-boats. man at Kingstown.

Awards to Honorary Workers. Honorary Life-Governor. Lady CLARK, chairman, Ladies' Sub-com- DR. R. JULYAN GEORGE, M.D., has been mittee, Belfast branch. elected an honorary life-governor of the Major E. R. COOPER, F.S.A., for his writings Institution in recognition of the valuable on Suffolk life-boatmen. help which he has given at Port Isaac, Captain RICHARD R. DAVIES, honorary Brixham, and Paignton during his fifty secretary and treasurer, Anglesey branch. years' association with the life-boat ser- Lady NASH, president, Ladies' Life-boat vice. Guild, City of Limerick branch. Mrs. LAURA M. SMITH, life-boat worker, Tbe Thanks of the Institution on Vellum. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Nottingham branch. The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION Mr. ERNEST WOOLFIELD, honorary secretary, INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been Kessingland station branch. awarded to :— Mr. DAVID KENNEDY, on his retirement after 17 years as honorary secretary of the Aneroid Barometer. Newcastle (Dundrum) station branch. The ANEROID BAROMETER, with in- Lieut.-Cplonel H. W. MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., scription, has been awarded to Mr. MAR- on his retirement after 23 J years as SHALL FHISKNEY, for bis valuable services honorary secretary of the Douglas station as honorary secretary of the Teesmouth branch. station branch. Gold Badge. The GOLD BADGE, with the RECORD OF Binocular Glass. THANKS, has been awarded to the fol- The BINOCULAR GLASS, with inscription, lowing :— has been awarded to the following honorary Mrs. HILDA BROWN, honorary secretary, secretaries of life-boat stations in recog- Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Withernsea nition of valuable services :— branch. Mr. TIMOTHY F. BARRETT, Fenit; Mr. GEORGE W. BUGG, honorary secretary, Mr. TOM F. BEVAN, Lynmouth ; Norwood District of Lambeth life-boat Dr. JOSEPH SOAR, Mus.D., St. David's ; Day. Mr. SYDNEY TAYLOR, Lo-westoft. 248 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1987.

Life-boat Picture or Statuette of a Mrs. ELSIE M. PETERS, vice-president and Life-boatman. honorary secretary, Ladies' Life-boat The LIFE - BOAT PICTURE or the Guild, Culcheth-with-Kenyon branch. STATUETTE OP A LIFE-BpATMAN Mrs. J. FIERCE-LEWIS, president Ladies' has been awarded to the following: — Life-boat Guild, and life-boat day organ- Mrs. ALEXANDER, honorary secretary and izer, Rhyl branch. treasurer, Westbury and District branch. Miss WINIFRED PRICE, president and hon- Mrs. LAURA ABMITAGE, honorary secretary, orary secretary, Shirley branch. Hepworth and Scholes branch. Mrs. EDITH B. RICKARD, honorary secretary, Miss PAT BAIRD, worker, Aberystwyth Ladies Life-boat Guild, and life-boat day branch. organizer, Newquay, Cornwall, branch. THE BALLYCOTTON LADIES'LIFE-BOAT GUILD. Mrs. AGNES M. SCANTLEBURY, worker, Miss S. I. BEVAN, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Port of Plymouth Guild, Llandudno branch. branch. Mr. C. J. A. BOORMAN, honorary secretary, Mr. ROBERT G. SHANNON, assistant secretary, Ilford branch. Douglas station branch. Mrs. W. S. BOYD, honorary secretary, Surgeon Captain C. R. SHEWARD, R.N., Holmfirth branch. honorary secretary, Upper Norwood branch. Engineer Rear-Admiral R. BRYAN, honorary Mrs. S. R. SHIPSTONE, worker, Withernsea secretary, Tavistock branch. branch. Mrs. MAY S. CHARLES, worker, Ladies' Life- Mr. ERNEST H. H. SHORTING, honorary boat Guild, Port of Plymouth branch. treasurer, Broseley branch. Mrs. ELSIE COCHBANE, honorary secretary, Miss H. A. SOUTHWORTH, honorary treasurer Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Selby "branch. and honorary secretary, Hindley branch. Mrs. J. W. COULTHURST, vice-president, Miss VIOLET E. STONEBRIDGE, life-boat day Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Keighley branch. organizer, Ely. Mr. DAVID CORMACK, honorary secretary, Mrs. EDWARD TAYLOR, president, Ladies' Lockerbie branch. Life-boat Guild, Littleborough branch. Mr. WILLIAM C. DAY, honorary treasurer, Miss ANNIE TONKS, president, Sutton Cold- Southend-on-Sea branch. field branch. Mr. J. DAVIDSON DICKIE, honorary secretary, Mrs. KATHLEEN WHITAKER, president, - Elgin branch. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Kendal branch. Mrs. STELLA N. DUTTON, honorary secretary, Mrs. C. A. WILDERS, honorary secretary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Ramsgate branch. Sutton-in-Ashfield branch. Miss CATHERINE M. EDGAR, honorary trea- Mrs. JOHN WOLSTENHOLME, joint honorary surer, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Kirkin- treasurer, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Bury tilloch, Lenzie and District branch. branch. Mrs. FLORENCE GAYDON, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Port of Plymouth branch. Record of Thanks. Mr. R. J. GERMAN, honorary secretary and The RECORD OF THANKS has been treasurer, Stamford branch. awarded to the following :— Mrs. CHARLES GRAHAM, vice-president and Mrs. ELLEN L. ANDERSON, worker, Solihull concert organizer, Isle of Arran branch. branch. Miss ADA L. GRANGE, life-boat day organizer, Mrs. E. A. BERG, worker, Dundee branch. Bognor Regis branch. Mrs. CECILIA BROOKS, honorary secretary, Mr. W. IRVING, worker at Silloth. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Shrawley branch. Mrs. ANNE E. MCNEAL, worker, Ladies' Mrs. ALEICE M. CLEWER, chairman and life- Life-boat Guild, Llandudno branch. boat day organizer, Leyton branch. Mrs. C. MAHLOW, honorary secretary, Mit- Miss HILDA M. DALEY, worker, Aberystwyth cham branch. branch. Mrs. LILIAN G. MARSDEN, honorary secre- Mrs. MARGUERITE DAVIES, member of com- tary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Huddersfleld mittee, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, South branch. Caernarvonshire branch. Miss ANNIE S. MARSHALL, honorary secre- Paymaster Captain ARTHUR C. DENMAN, tary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Kirkin- R.N. (ret), honorary treasurer and assistant tilloch, Lenzie and District branch. honorary secretary, Weymouth station Mrs. CAROLINE E. MAURICE, honorary branch". secretary, Marlborough branch. Mrs. HILDA A. DUNNINGHAM, honorary Miss B. MERRY, worker, Ladies' Life-boat secretary and treasurer, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Llandudno branch. Guild, Middlewich and District branch. Mrs. MAUD MILLICAN, vice-president, Nor- Mrs. FRANCES A. JONES EVANS, member of thampton branch. committee, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, South Mr. JOHN E. MOULAND, assistant secretary, Caernarvonshire branch. Southampton and District branch. Mrs. ALICE G. FOWLER, worker, Withernsea The Rev. R. T. NEWCOMBE, M.C., honorary branch. secretary, Hull and District branch. Miss MARY GRIFFITH, member of committee, Mr. HUGH C. ORR, for organizing collections Ladies' Life-boat Guild, South Caernarvon- in his cinemas, and organizing a dance, shire branch. Coventry. Mrs. IDA HARRIS, life-boat day organizer, Miss MAISIE OWEN, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Loughton District, Woodford and District Guild, Llandudno branch. branch. Lady PEAKE, president, Ladies' Life-boat Miss KATHLEEN M. HOBBS, worker, Oxford Guild, St. Albans and Harpenden branch. branch. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 249

Miss JESSIE B. HENDERSON, worker, Ladies' Mrs. JANE OSBOHNE, honorary secretary, Life-boat Guild, Keighley branch. Hayle branch. Mrs. AMY J. HENINGHEM, president, Ladies' Miss D. PARKINSON, worker, Withernsea Life-boat Guild, PockJington branch. branch. Mrs. ERNEST JOSEPH, ex-chairman, Ladies' Miss PHYLLIS B. PORTER, honorary secretary, Life-boat Guild, Swansea branch. Enfield branch. Mrs. ELIZABETH M. RUSSELL, honorary Mrs. W. P. LAIBO, worker, Dundee branch. secretary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Holmes Mrs. OLWYN M. LLOYD, member of commit- Chapel, Goostrey, Chelford and District tee. Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Menai Bridge branch. branch, and afterwards honorary treasurer, Sister LALLA D. SCOTT, worker, Conway Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Conway branch. branch. Mrs. LAURA E. NORCI.IFFE, honorary secre- Mrs. ELIZABETH A. SNELL, chairman, Ladies' tary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Stainland, Life-boat Guild, Swansea branch. Greetland, and West Vale branch. Mrs. W. F. SOUTAR, worker, Dundee branch.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 12th November, 1936. Thursday, 10th December, 1936. Sir GODFREY BAKING, BT., in the chair. Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair. Resolved that the hearty and respectful Resolved that Commander F. F. Tower, thanks of the committee of management be O.B.E., late R.N.V.R., and Commodore the accorded to H.R.H. the Duke of York, K.G., Right Hon. the Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., for graciously consenting to assume the V.D., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., be appointed vice- office of President of the Institution. presidents of the Institution. Reported the receipt of the following Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• special contributions :— The late Mr. H. B. G. Warren— £ s. d. The late Mr. Caleb Diplock— £ s. d. donation from executors for donation from executors . 250 0 0 provision and equipment of a Anonymous ; . . ; 50 0 0 life-boat .... 5,000 0 0 Dr. W. K. Dunscombe . . 50 0 0 The late Dr. William Briggs— Sowerby Bridge Ladies' Life- donation from executors . 27 11 10 boat Guild . . . 26 5 0 Paid £24,764 10s. 2

Thursday, 31st December, 1936. Included in the above were :— Paid £18,063 10s. lid. for sundry charges in £286 Is. 9d. to pay the rewards for life- connexion with the construction of life-bbats, boat services ; life-boathouses and slipways, etc., and the £356 14s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- maintenance of life-boat stations. boat launches Included in the above was £10 8s. 6d. to a (Accounts of these services and launches man for injury in the life-boat service at appear on pages 234-239) ; Wells. £26 18s. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £2 3s. for services previously reported ; Thursday, 14th January, 1937. £321 7s. 4d. on account of pensions already Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair. granted to the dependent relatives of men Reported that His Majesty the King had who had lost their lives in the life-boat •been graciously pleased to grant his Patron- service at Aldeburgh, Caister, Fethard, age to the Institution. Filey, Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, Reported that Lieut-Col. R. W. Roylance, The Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, J.P., had been elected chairman of Lloyd's Padstow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Runs- for the ensuing year, in succession to Mr. wick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrew's, Troon, Neville Dixey, and thus had become an ex Whitby, and Wells ; officio member of the committee of manage- ment. £45 10s. to men for injury in the life-boat Confirmed the appointment of Mr. F. J. service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Terry as joint district organizing secretary Moelfre, Newhaven, and Walmer. for Greater London. Voted £9 10s. on account of additional Reported the receipt of the following rewards to the crews of the Margate and special contributions :— Port Askaig life-boats. £ s. d. Decided that, in the special circumstances, King George's Fund for Sailors 1,000 0 0 a weekly allowance of 10s. be paid to the Anonymous .... 100 0 0 widow of ex-Second Coxswain W. E. Haylett, The Southern Railway . . 31 10 0 of Caister. Coxswain Haylett, who had British Forces in Iraq . . 28 1 9 retired owing to illness due to exposure in Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P. 26 5 0 the life-boat service, had been in receipt of Polish British Steamship Co., Ltd. 26 5 0 an allowance from the Institution. Port Line , , , , 26 5 0 Voted a compassionate grant of £9 to Paid £17,022 19s. lOd. for the total charges Andrew Young, ex-coxswain of the Cloughey of the Institution during the month, including life-boat, who is in poor circumstances. rewards for services, payments for the con- Voted £26 11s. to pay the rewards for struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and the Folkestone, Hastings, Lytham, and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat Whitby shoreboat services, accounts of stations. which appear on page 242.

Life-boat Stamp Club. Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Besides individual stamps, she would be Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, most grateful for gifts of collections the honorary secretary of the Life-boat from any philatelists who may be giving Stamp Club, reports that the club is up collecting, as she would be able to growing, but that the demand for dispose of collections entire without stamps is greater than the supply. any difficulty.

Obituary. THE Institution very much regrets the the North Deal, Kent, station; and the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, Rev. Henry Vyvyan, for thirty-eight C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years years honorary secretary of the Cadg- honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle with, Cornwall, station. The record of of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John their services to the Institution will Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of appear in the next issue of The Life-boat. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT 251 News from the Branches. 1st November, 1936 to 31st January, 1937. Greater London. North-West of England. BARNEHURST.—Mrs. Pickering ap- ACCRINGTON.—Annual meeting on 10th pointed honorary secretary. December, the Mayor, president, in the chair. BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day at CARSHALTON.—Lantern lecture to the Church, Clayton-le-Moors and Oswaldtwistle. Women's Citizens Association by the dis- Collections in cinemas, calendar tea, and trict organising secretary. jumble sale. Amount collected in 1936, BEXLEY.—Mrs. Hamilton appointed £124, an increase of £6 on 1935. honorary secretary. Dance. Bridge and whist drive. BURNT OAK.—Special meeting. Speaker: BARROW.—Annual meeting on 25th The district organizing secretary. Branch November, the Deputy Mayor in. the chair. formed. Mrs. Grey-Skinner, chairman ; Mr. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. S. C. Jones, honorary treasurer; Mrs. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, Goodrich, honorary secretary. Dance. dance. Amount collected in 1936, £132. CHELSEA.—Lantern lecture by Mr. Annual dance, arranged by the Ladies' Kibble. Life-boat Guild. CLAPHAM.—Whist drive. BOLTON.—Bridge and whist drive. BALING.—Lantern lecture by Mr. Arm- BREDBURY.—Whist drive. strong to Methodist Church. BURNLEY.—Presentation of prizes won HAYES.—Dance. in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- HORNSEY.—Whist drive, with address tary schools by the Bishop of Burnley. by the district organizing secretary. Prizes BURY.—American tea at the house of presented by the Mayoress. Lantern lecture Mrs. Wolstenholme, honorary treasurer. by Mrs. Winwood. ILPORD.—Mrs. F. W. Alway appointed CASTLETOWN.—A flower show was held honorary secretary of the branch and Ladies' last summer which, unfortunately, was not Life-boat Guild in succession to Mr. C. J. A. mentioned at the time in News from the Boonnan and Miss J. Larkin. Branches. It has been held annually for a number of years. ISLINGTON.—Lantern lectures by Mr. Leckie and the district organizing secretary. CHESTER.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. J. Bennett MITCHAM. — Special meeting, Captain Kennedy, its honorary secretary since 1925. Brook-Smith presiding. Presentation to Mrs. Marlow of the life-boatman statuette awarded COLNE.—Concert given by Come Op- to her by the Institution. Whist drive. timists. PADDINGTON.—Visit of Trinity Ramb- FARNWORTH.—Special meeting at the ling Society to Storeyard. house of Mrs. Ben Hesketh. Ladies' Life-boat PECKHAM.—Miss Porter appointed hon- Guild formed. President, Mrs. J. Johnson ; orary secretary. honorary treasurer, Miss McDermott; ROMFORD.—Whist drive. honorary secretary, Mrs. Ben Hesketh. ST. ALBANS.—Dance. HEYWOOD.—Annual meeting on 19th ST. PANCRAS.—Mrs. Gordon Hume ap- November. Speaker : The district organizing pointed honorary secretary and Mr. Charles secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat W. Lawrence assistant secretary. Film show day and whist drives. Amount collected in and lantern lecture by Mr. Leckie. Lecture 1936, £51, an increase of £1 on 1935. by Mr. J. Evans to Medburn School. Whist drive. SOUTHEND.—Supper and concert to the HINDLEY.—Whist drive and dance. life-boat crew. Mr. Frank H. Garon, host. HOLLINGWORTH.—Jumble sale. Speakers: Alderman R. Thurlow Baker (chairman), the district organizing secretary, HORWICH.—Whist drive and dance. Mr. H. A. Potter, Mr. Frank Fisher and Mr. KENDAJU—Annual meeting on 7th De- J. Leslie Elliston (secretary). cember, Mrs. C. H. Whitaker, president, in UXBRIDGE.—Dance. the chair. Speaker : The district organizing WALTHAMSTOW. — Concert. Dance. secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- Carol singing. boat day, bridge and whist drive. Amount collected in 1936, £131. WELLING.—Mrs. Hook appointed hon- orary secretary. Whist drives. KIRKBY LONSDALE.—Musical evening WESTMINSTER.—Children's carol sing- at Underley Hall by permission of Lady ing. Henry Bentinck, president, organized by Mrs. Lectures at Bermondsey, Coldharbour, Reynolds. Lantern lecture given by Mr. Croydon, Deptford, Stoke Newington, Wands- W. Pattinson. worth and Wood Green. LANCASTER.—Annual meeting on 1st Note.—For a proposal to form an East December, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker : End branch see page 246. The district organizing secretary. Efforts of 252 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

the past year : Bridge and whist drive, foot- MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM.—An- ball collection, cinema collection, garden fete nual meeting on 25th November, Mr. W. J. at Howe Ghyll, and jumble sale. Amount Garnett in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey collected in 1936, £137. Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, LITTLEBOROUGH.—Dance. fishermen's concerts, collections on ships. LYMM AND HEATLEY.—Bridge and Amount collected in 1936, £228, an increase whist drive. of £103 on 1935. LYTHAM—ST. ANNE'S.—American tea, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, MOTTRAM AND BROADBOTTOM.— Lytham section. Annual meeting on 4th November. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- the past year : Whist drive and jumble sale. TRICT.—Annual meeting on 28th January, Amount collected in 1936, £20, an increase of the Lord Mayor of Manchester in the chair, £8 on 1935. supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Eccles, Alderman E. A. Hardy, J.P., Alder- NEWTON-IN-MAKERFIELD.—Dance. man Joseph Crookes Grime, O.B.E., J.P., chairman, Alderman Sir William Davy, J.P., NEW BRIGHTON AND WALLASEY.— honorary treasurer, Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., Dance and whist drive. Collections on honorary secretary, and Dr. I. W. Slotki, Wallasey Corporation's ferry boats. M.A., Litt.D. Speaker : Commander Henry Strong, R.D., R.N.R. (ret.), a member of the OLDHAM.—Annual whist drive and dance. committee of management of the Institution. ORRELL.—Whist drive. Amount collected in 1936, £2,751. Special meetings of district presidents. POYNTON.—Special meeting at "Wen- Addresses by the branch secretary to the ning," Poynton Park. Speaker : The district Manchester Girls' Institute, Salford Docks organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat branch and Lower Broughton branch of the Guild formed. Patron, the Rev. K. Brooks Women's Citizens Association, and the Somerville, M.A. ; chairman, Mrs. Edward Crossley Girls' Club, Ancoats. " Bring-and- Groome ; honorary treasurer, Mrs. Philip buy " sale, arranged by Mrs. E. H. Cartledge Lees ; joint honorary secretaries, Mrs. Archer and Miss Vera Wood. Pearson and Miss T. Groome. ALTRINCHAM. — Sunday service. RADCLIFFE.—Annual meeting on 26th Dinner dance. Lecture. November. Efforts of the past year : CHEADLE.—Bridge drive at the house Dancing display and whist drives. Amount of Mrs. W. A. Hawes, vice-chairman. collected in 1936, £41. Concert, organized by Mrs. A. Higson. Whist drive. DENTON.—American tea. RAMSBOTTOM.—Dance, arranged by the FALLOWFIELD.—Kitchen shower and Ladies' Life-boat Guild. sale of work. ROMILEY.—Annual meeting on 17th GORTON.—Annual dinner dance and November, Mrs. Kinsey, president of the smoking concert. branch, in the chair. Speaker : The district PRESTWICH.—Annual meeting on 1st organizing secretary. Amount collected in December, the chairman of the Prestwich 1936, £39. Urban District Council presiding. Military whist drive. RUSHOLME.—Special meeting, the SANDBACH.—Annual meeting on 29th Rev. A. E. Horner, M.A., presiding. Life- November. Speaker : The district organizing boat Guild formed : President, Rev. A. E. secretary. Amount collected in 1936, £41, Horner, M.A. ; vice-presidents, Councillor an increase of £7 on 1935. C. H. Barlow, Councillor R. G. Edwards, Coronation dance. Councillor C. R. Rodgers; honorary treasurer, Mr. Charles H. Clarke ; honorary SOUTHPORT.—Annual meeting on 3rd secretary, Mr. C. R. De la Wyche, jun. December, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : Film display, including life-boat films, by The district organizing secretary. Efforts of Miss Ruth Stuart. the past year: Life-boat day, Mayoress's Life-boat films shown by Mr. C. R. De la appeal, card afternoon. Amount collected in Wyche, jun., the honorary secretary. 1936, £273, an increase of £53 on 1935. SALE AND BROOKLANDS.—Whist Annual dance, organized by Mrs. Claff and drive and dancing display. a committee. Whist drive and dance. URMSTON.—Annual whist drive and TYLDESLEY.—Coronation dance and dance. " At home." WALKDEN, WORSLEY AND DIS- WIGAN AND STANDISH. — Annual TRICT.—Annual dance. Whist drive. meeting on 8th December, Mrs. Percy Rushton in the chair. Speaker : The district WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORL- organizing secretary. Efforts of the past TON-ON-MEDLOCK.—Annual meeting year : Life-boat day, bridge drive. Amount on llth November. collected in 1936, £152. Concert, organized by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild committee. Whist drive. WORKINGTON.—Annual balls. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 253

North-Eatt of England. SELBY.—Presentation to Mrs. D. Coch- ALNWICK.—Concert. rane, honorary secretary, of the life-boatman statuette awarded to her by the Institution. BEDLINGTON.—Whist drive. Bridge drive. BERWICK.—Annual dinner to life-boat SLEIGHTS.—Entertainment. crew. Whist drive at Spittal. SOUTH SHD3LDS.—Dinner and whist BLYTH.—Whist drive and dance. Supper drive. to life-boat crew, given by Mr. J. Keenlyside. SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Bridge and whist BRADFORD.—Annual meeting on 22nd drive. January, the Lord Mayor, president, in the chair. Presentation to Sir Henry Sutcliffe SPENBOROUGH.—Bridge and whist Smith, chairman of the branch, and to Mr. drive. R. V. Rushworth, of the vellums recording STOCKTON.—Dinner dance. their appointment as honorary life-governors STOKESLEY.—Dance. of the Institution, and to Mr. James Thoseby of the gold badge awarded to him by the TYNEMOUTH.—Supper to crew. Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life- WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Annual meeting boat day, bridge drives, house-to-house of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 5th Novem- collections, matinee. Amount collected in ber. Efforts of the past year: Bridge and 1936, £1,237. whist drives, life-boat day. Amount col- CAWTHORNE.—Whist drive and dance. lected in 1936, £109. CONSETT.—Bridge drive. " Bring-and- WHITBY.—On Armistice Day, llth buy " sale. November, the motor life-boat put out, with fishing boats, A service in memory of those CRESSWELL.—Social evening. who lost their lives at sea in the Great War DARLINGTON.—Whist drive. was conducted on board the life-boat, and a GATESHEAD.—Bridge drives. wreath was cast on the sea. HECKMONDWIKE.—Bridge drive. WITHERNSEA.—Presentation to Mrs. W. Shipstone of the life-boatman statuette HOLMFIRTH.—Whist drive. awarded to her by the Institution, and to HUDDERSFIELD.—Annual meeting on Mrs. Fowler and Miss D. Parkinson of the llth December, Mrs. T. Shires, J.P., in the records of thanks awarded to them by the chair, Speaker : Councillor D. J. Cartwright. Institution. Efforts of the past year : Bridge and whist drive, American tea and sale, life-boat day. Midlands. Amount collected in 1936, £303, an increase of £24 on 1935. BADSEY.—Whist drive. KEIGHLEY.—" Bring-and-buy " tea. BIRMINGHAM.—Collections at Theatre LEEDS.—Annual meeting on the 13th Royal, Alexandra and Empire Theatres. January, Alderman Sir George Martin, Annual life-boat ball. Dance arranged by K.B.E., J.P., chairman of the branch, pre- Mrs. Jordan, Acocks Green, and by Miss siding. Efforts of the past year : Dance, life- Summers at Lozells. House-to-house collec- boat day, special appeal. Amount collected tions at Saltley, King's Norton, Selly Oak in 1936, £750. and West Bromwich. MARKET WEIGHTON.—Whist drives. BLACKHEATH.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. T. Siviter, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. — Concert, joint honorary secretary since 1933. bridge drives. Presentation of prize won in the life-boat NORMANTON.—Cinema show. essay competition for elementary schools at NORTHUMBERLAND. — County life- the Odeon Theatre. boat ball, at which the Duchess of Northum- BRISTOL.—Annual life-boat dance. berland, C.B.E., received the guests. COVENTRY.—Presentation of the vellum PATRINGTON.—Cinema show. awarded to Mr. William Liggins, vice- RUNSWICK AND STAITHES.—Annual president, recording his appointment as an meeting on 28th January. Efforts of the honorary life-governor. Dance at the Rialto. past year : Life-boat day, social. Amount DERBY.—The branch has suffered a collected in 1936, £130, an increase of £26 severe loss by the death of Mr. Arthur on 1935. Wormald, its honorary secretary since 1934. SCARBOROUGH.—Annual meeting on EVESHAM.—Carol party. 2nd December. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. KIDDERMINSTER. — Carol party at Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the In- Wilden. stitution. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day. Amount collected in 1936, £560, LANGWITH.—Whist drive. an increase of £100 on 1935. Bridge drive. LINCOLN, AND NEWCASTLE-UNDER- SEAHAM.—The branch has suffered a LYME.—Whist drive and dance. severe loss by the death of Mr. T. Turner, NOTTINGHAM.—Annual meeting, the its honorary treasurer since 1923. Duke of Portland, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., a Dance and whist drive. Children's ball. vice-president of the Institution and patron 254 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

ef the branch, presiding, supported by the EASTBOURNE.—Annual meeting, the Sheriff of Nottingham (Mr. A. Savage) and Mayor presiding. Efforts of the past year : Commander G. J. Mackness, D.S.C., R.N., Life-boat days in Eastbourne and district, chairman. Mr. A. L. Morell appointed and other collections arranged by the honorary secretary. Amount collected in Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected 1936, £440. in 1936, £1,288, an increase of £140 on 1935. Dance and cabaret. Dance, organized by EPPING.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the Raleigh Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1936, Ballroom, lent by Sir Harold Bowden, Bt. £104, an increase of £8 on 1935. Bridge drive held by the Radcliffe Ladies' Whist drive. Golf Club. Bridge drive held by the Bulwell Hall Ladies' Golf Club. FOLKESTONE.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, vice-president, in the chair. Efforts OWSTON FERRY.—Concert. of the past year : Ball, bridge and whist RUGELEY.—Annual life-boat dance. drives, fete, house-to-house collections. Amount collected in 1936, £212, an increase SPILSBY.—Dance at Coningsby. of £16 on 1935. STOKE - ON - TRENT. — Bridge drive, Presentation of awards for the service to arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. the Josephine II on 13th December. (See TOWCESTER.—Carol party. page 216.) WOLVERHAMPTON. — Supper dance, Series of bridge drives. Life-boat ball. attended by Sir Charles Mander, Bt., J.P., GRAVESEND.—Address to the Rotary and Lady Mander. Club by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman Lectures at Kenilworth and Redditch. of the Institution. HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS.—An- nual meeting, the Deputy-Mayor presiding. South-East of England. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts ALDEBURGH.—Church collection at the of the past year : Life-boat days at Hastings annual fishermen's thanksgiving service. and Battle, blessing of the sea service, ATTLEBOROUGH.—Life-boat day and collections at cinemas and a theatre, house-to- " Heroes of the Sea" film shown with house collections. Amount collected in 1936, collections. £653, an increase of £125 on 1935. BEXHILL.—Annual meeting, Colonel HITCHIN.—Whist drive. T. B. Harris, D.S.O., a member of the HYTHE.—Presentation of awards for the committee, presiding. Efforts of the past service to the Josephine II on 18th December. year : Life-boat day. Amount collected in (See page 216.) 1936, £247, an increase of £150 on 1935. KESSINGLAND.—Annual meeting of the BOGNOR REGIS.—Carol singing. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Efforts of the past CAISTER-ON-SEA. — Ladies' Life-boat year : Whist drive and dance, beach collec- Guild formed. Mrs. Graham Hughes, pre- tion. It was decided to form a financial sident ;: Mrs. William Smith, honorary branch to continue working for the Institution secretary; Miss Haylett, assistant honorary after the closing of the life-boat station. secretary. Whist drive and dance. CAMBRIDGE. — Annual meeting, Mrs. LEATHERHEAD.—Carol singing. Giles, president, in the chair. Efforts of LOWESTOFT.-^Annual meeting, Mr. F. the past year: House-to-house collection. Spashett, J.P., chairman, presiding. Efforts Amount collected in 1936, £96, an increase of the past year : Life-boat day. Amount of £2 on 1935. collected in 1936, £202, an increase of £51 on 1935. CHELMSFORD.—Two whist drives. MARGATE.—Visit of the motor life-boat CLACTON.—Whist drive, arranged by the to the Tongue and Edinburgh lightships with Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Visit of the motor Christmas gifts from the people of Margate, life-boat to the Barrow Deep and Mid- and to the Girdler lightship with Christmas Barrow lightships, with Christmas gifts from gifts from the people of Herne Bay. the people of Clacton. MARLOW.—Carol singing. CLAYGATE. — Branch formed. Mrs. RAMSGATE.—Triennial Admiral Back Robert Bevington, honorary secretary. Lec- dinner to the life-boat crew, the Deputy ture to the women's branch of the Con- Mayor presiding. Speaker, Lieut.-Col. C. R. servative and Unionist Association. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the In- COBHAM.^-Sale of Christmas presents. stitution. Visit of the motor life-boat to the Brake lightship with Christmas fare from CROMER.—Annual meeting, Lord Suffield, the people of Ramsgate. president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, collections at boat- RICKMANSWORTH AND CROXLEY houses. Amount collected in 1936, £681, an GREEN.—Bridge drive. increase of £96 on 1935. ST. IVES.—Annual meeting, Mrs. F. M. Warren, vice-president, in the chair. Efforts CUCKFIELD.—Carol singing. of the past year : Life-boat day. Amount DORKING.—Whist drive. collected in 1936, £68. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 255

SELSEY.—Presentation of the certificate South-West of England. of service awarded by the Institution to APPLEDORE AND BIDEFORD,—An- Coxswain Frederick Barnes on his retirement, nual meeting, Mr. H. C. Whitehead, president, by Major J. S. Courtauld, M.C., M.P., pre- in the chair. Amount collected in 1936, £182. sident of the branch, Mr. E. G. Arnell, J.P., chairman, presiding. Visit of the motor BODMIN.—Life-boat day and life-boat life-boat to the Owers lightship with Christ- films shown at the cinema. mas fare. BRIDGWATER.—Annual dance at North SHERINGHAM. — Annual meeting. Petherton. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day. CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH.—Special Amount collected in 1936, £334, an increase meeting, Mr. A. Jagger presiding. Speaker : of £104 on 1935. Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Amount col- SHOREHAM.—Dance at Southwick, ar- lected in 1936 by Camborne branch, £70, an ranged by the Ladies' committee. Bridge increase of £13 on 1935. drive at Shoreham arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. CADGWITH.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of the Rev. Henry SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON Vyvyan, its honorary secretary for thirty- REGIS.—Whist drive and dance. eight years. The record of his services to SLOUGH.—Rummage sale. the Institution will be published in the next issue of The Life-boat. SOUTHBOROUGH. — Annual meeting, Mr. C. Kynaston, a member of the committee, EXETER.—Whist drive. presiding. Efforts of the past year : House- FOWEY.—Annual whist drive, organized to-house collection in Bidborough, Penshurst, by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Southborough and Speldhurst. Amount col- ISLE OF WIGHT.—American tea and lected in 1936, £61, an increase of £14 on 1935. annual ball and dance, arranged by the SWAFFHAM.—Separate branch formed Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Cowes. Part pro- from East Dereham. Honorary secretary, ceeds of play by the Ryde Amateur Players. Mrs. Robinson. Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, of the challenge TOLLESBURY. — House-to-house col- shield for the South-West of England District, lection. in the life-boat essay competition for elemen- TRING.—" Riders of the Storm" film tary schools, won by Edmund George Reed, shown, with collections. of Oakfield Church of England Boys' School, Ryde. WALTON AND FRINTON.—Annual LYNDHURST.—Address to Minstead meeting, Mr. J. W. Eagle, J.P., chairman, Women's Institute. presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day and life-boat Sunday. Amount MINEHEAD.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. M. collected in 1936, £261. Brandram presiding. Amount collected in Visit of the motor life-boat to the Kentish 1936, £180, an increase of £13 on 1935. Knock lightship and the Gunfleet lighthouse PAIGNTON.—Whist drive and variety with Christmas fare. entertainment. WALTON-ON-THAMES AND WEY- PENLEE.—Annual meeting, Alderman C. BRIDGE.—Bridge tournament. Tregenza, C.A., presiding. Amount collected in 1936, £199, an increase of £23 on 1935. WELLS - NEXT - THE - SEA. — Woollen scarf-helmets, from Mrs. Manby, of Codsall, PLYMOUTH.—Annual meeting. Amount Staffordshire, presented to the life-boat crew. collected in 1936, £574. Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat WINDSOR.—Address to the Rotary club Guild, Commodore B. K. Davies presiding} by Lieut.-Col. A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., supported by Lady Humphreys, vice-chair- T.D., deputy secretary of the Institution. man, and Mr. Buller Kitson. Efforts of the WINSLOW.—Whist drive. past year : Life-boat day, bridge and whist drives, concert. Amount collected in 1936, GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLES- £487, an increase of £4 on 1935. TON.—On Armistice Day, llth November, Bridge and whist drive arranged by the motor life-boat put out, and a service in Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Annual life-boat memory of those who lost their lives at sea ball. Presentation by the chairman of the in the Great War was conducted on board by education committee of a prize won in the the Vicar. Afterwards wreaths were cast life-boat essay competition for elementary on the sea. schools. Lectures were given at Gadebridge Park POOLE.—Annual meeting, the Mayor and Locker's Park Schools by Captain H. E. presiding. Amount collected in 1936, £283. Holme, R.N. (ret.), honorary secretary of the REDRUTH.—Annual meeting. Amount Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead branch ; at collected in 1936, £22. King's School, Choir School and Mathematical School, Rochester, by Colonel A. C. Barnby, SHAFTESBURY.—Life-boat day at Mot- O.B.E., honorary secretary of the Rochester combe. branch, and to the Women's Institutes at SOUTHAMPTON.—Whist drive, arranged Byfleet, Embrook, Fulmer, and Westerham. by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. 256 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

SWANAGE.—Annual meeting, Lieut.-Col. address was given by Captain Robert Mends, E. J. Hurt, T.D., president and chairman, R.N. presiding. Amount collected in 1936, £135. COATBRIDGE.—Whist drive, organized TORBAY.—The branch has suffered a by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. severe loss by the death of Miss Shears, J.P., DUNBAR.—The station has suffered a the honorary secretary of the Brixham severe loss by the death, on 29th November, Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1927. at the age of 75, of Dr. Duncan Macdonald, who had been its chairman for twenty-six WATCHET.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. K. years. Hole, chairman, presiding. Amount col- Annual meeting. Efforts of the past year : lected in 1936, £86, an increase of £7 on 1935. Life-boat days and whist drive. Amount collected in 1936 £283, an increase of £14 WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Vouchers for on 1935. Christmas fare presented to the crew by the Presentation of New Year's gifts to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Dunbar and Skateraw life-boat crews. WEYMOUTH.—Annual meeting. Amount DUNFERMLINE. — Annual Christmas collected in 1936, £293, an increase of £69 dance. on 1935. EDINBURGH.—Annual meeting on 26th WINCHESTER.—Lantern lecture and November,Bailie Gilzeanpresiding. Speakers: talk on " The Alhambra, Spain," given by Rear-Admiral R. C. Davenport, C.B., Com- Mrs. Waddell at Colden Common, stall of manding Officer, Coast of Scotland, Major fancy goods, and silver collection. House- Andrew Wilson, O.B.E., and Admiral Sir to-house collection in Sutton Scotney and John F. E. Green, K.C.M.G., C.B., chairman district. of the branch. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day procession and appeal for subscriptions. Annual meeting of Ladies' Scotland. Life-boat Guild on 26th November, Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., president, in the ABERDEEN. — Annual life-boat ball, chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat attended by the Lord and Lady Provost day, bridge and whist drive, golf tournament, and over 700 guests. cake and candy sale, and appeal for subscrip- ARBROATH.—Annual meeting of the tions. Amount collected by branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Chapel, presi- Guild in 1936 £2,347, an increase of £156 on dent, in the chair. Speaker: Mr. A. E. 1935. Baker, senior coastguard. Efforts of the Lantern lectures. past year: Life-boat day, concert, and ELIE.—Whist drive. appeal for subscriptions. EYEMOUTH. — Annual meeting, Sir BANFF, MACDUFF, WHITEHILLS, Christopher Furness, Bt., president, in the AND GARDENSTOWN.—Annual meeting of chair. Presentation of the silver watch the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 3rd November, awarded by the Institution to Mr. William J. Mrs. Christie, president, in the chair. Lady Patterson, skipper of the Spes Bonn, for his Abercromby appointed honorary president. gallant attempt to save the steam drifter Speaker : The Scottish organizing secretary. Jacob George of Great Yarmouth, stranded Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days, at Eyemouth on 4th February, 1936. Efforts house-to-house collection, and military whist of the past year : Appeal for subscriptions. drive. Amount collected in 1936 £11. Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat GLASGOW.—Annual ball, arranged by Guild at Macduff, Provost Paterson presiding. the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The Scottish organizing secretary. Lantern lecture. Committee appointed. GOURDON.—Annual meeting on 26th BURNTISLAND AND ABERDOUR.— November, Mr. Thomas Johnston, chairman, Annual whist drive. presiding. Efforts of the past year ; Naming ceremony of the motor life-boat and life-boat CAMPBELTOWN.—Annual meeting on day. Amount collected hi 1936 £22, an 2nd November, Dr. J. P. Brown, D.S.O., increase of £15 on 1935. president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: House-to-house collections, golf com- GOUROCK.—Life-boat ball, attended by petitions, and appeal by the committee. the Earl of Glasgow. Lantern lecture. Amount collected in 1936 £144, an increase INVERNESS.—Jumble sale at Rothie- of £11 on 1935. murchus, Aviemore, arranged by Mrs. Briggs. Mr. George McEachran, who died at the end of October in his 79th year, had been ISLE OF BUTE.—Whist drive and dance. coxswain of the life-boat for nearly twenty- seven years. He had retired in 1927. KEITH.—Special meeting, Provost Thom- son presiding, to form a Ladies' Life-boat CARDENDEN.—Church services in Auch- Guild. Speaker: The Scottish organizing terderran Church. The Rev. D. M. Douglas, secretary. Badges presented to Guild mem- M.A., B.D., conducted the service, and an bers by Mrs. Gordon, of Buchromb. MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 257

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Annual meeting on elementary schools, won by Bartholomew 18th December, Sir Charles D. Hope-Dunbar, Duggan of Meenamara School, Dungloe, Co. Bt., president, in the chair. Efforts of the Donegal. Mr. Eugene Mahony, M.C.C., pre- past year: Life-boat days, cake and candy sided. Speakers : The chairman, the Bishop, sale, lecture, and appeal for subscriptions. the Very Rev. P. Kerr, B.A., B.D., and the Amount collected in 1936 £169, an increase Ven. Archdeacon McClenaghan, M.A. of £5 on 1935. Lantern lecture. NAAS.—Annual life-boat dance. LEVEN.—Whist drive. PORTRUSH.—Annual meeting. Dr. W. Porter in the chair. Speakers : The chair- NEWBURGH. — Children's fancy dress man, Mr. A. J. W. Christie (the honorary party. secretary), and the district organizing secre- PETERHEAD.—Annual dance, arranged tary. Amount collected in 1936, £174, an by Mr. G. N. Craighead and committee. increase of £15 on 1935. TROON.—Annual meeting on 27th No- WESTMEATH (N).—Special performance vember, Provost McAllister, president, in the by Jimmy O'Dea and company, organized by chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat the honorary secretary. day, joint church service, and appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected in 1936 £108. WEXFORD.—Dance. Bridge drive. VALE OF LEVEN.—Annual meeting on YOUGHAL.—Whist drive. 19th November, Mrs. William Scott, vice- president, in the chair, in the absence of the president. Speaker: The Scottish or- Wales. ganising secretary. Efforts of the past year : (Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Life-boat day, whist drive and dance. Amount collected in 1936 £69. and Shropshire.) Bridge drive. ABERAYRON.—Life-boat day and dance. WICK.—Whist drive. BARRY.—Whist and bridge drive and Lantern lectures at: Aberlady, Airdrie, dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Bellshill, Clackmannan, Cromarty, Dunoon, Guild. Falkirk, Greenock, Huntly, Lasswade, CARDIFF AND PENARTH.—Presenta- Lauder, Leith, Lochwinnoch, Musselburgh, tion at a meeting of the Penarth Urban Dis- Penicuik and Renfrew. trict Council, by the chairman, of the framed letters of appreciation awarded by the In- stitution to Mr. Samuel Buckland and Mr. Ireland. Charles Langford^for the rescue of three men from a capsized sailing boat off Penarth Pier BANGOR.—Bridge drive. Presentation on September 20th, 1936. Money awards of prize won in the life-boat essay competition made by the Institution had already been for elementary schools. presented. Speaker : The district organizing BELFAST.—The branch has suffered a secretary, supported by Mr. Dennis Morgan, severe loss by the death of Mr. Thomas branch secretary, and Miss B. N. Williams, Richardson, D.L., a member of the committee honorary treasurer of the Penarth Ladies' for many years and chairman since 1934. Life-boat Guild. Mr. R. E. Workman appointed chairman of CONWAY AND DISTRICT.—Annual branch in place of the late Mr. Thomas meeting on 4th November. Mrs. Guyse Richardson, D.L. Barker, chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Annual life-boat ball. Dance. Proceeds Guild, presiding, supported by the Mayor. of opening night of Ambassadors' Cinema Speaker : The district organizing secretary. given to the Institution by the proprietor, Efforts of the past year : Annual appeal for Mr. D. D. Young. Royal North of Ireland subscriptions, life-boat day. Amount col- Yacht Club Lecture. Retiring collection lected in 1936, £129, an increase of £25 given to the Institution. on 1935. BRAY.—Annual life-boat dance. FERRYSIDE.—Dance. CORK.—Annual life-boat dance. Speech GORSEINON.—Whist drive. by district organizing secretary at Irish Cruising Club dinner. HEREFORD.—Annual meeting on 26th November, Vice-Admiral F. P. Loder- DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Whist drive. Broad- Symonds, C.M.G., J.P., chairman, presiding. cast on Christmas Day by the motor mechanic, Speaker : The district organizing secretary. A. F. Smith. Efforts of the past year : Annual appeal and Mr. Dan Murphy, who died at the beginning subscriptions, life-boat day. Amount col- of December, was coxswain of the life-boat lected in 1936, £52, an increase of £25 on for sixteen years, retiring in 1929. 1935. HOWTH.—Arrival of new motor life-boat. LLANDYSSUL.—Life-boat day. LETTERKENNY.—Presentation by the NEWPORT (Mon.).—The Ladies'Life-boat Most Rev. William MacNeely, D.D., Bishop Guild has suffered a serious loss by the death of Raphoe, of the challenge shield for of Mrs. J. Sadler, a member of the Guild for Ireland in the life-boat essay competition for many years. 258 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Services of the Life-boats of the Institution during 1936. Persons Time of rescued from 1936. Launching. shipwreck. Jan. 3. 1.0 p.m.Eleven fishing boats of North Sunderland. North Sunderland pulling and sailing life-boat stood by boats. „ 7. 10.55 a.m. Motor fishing coble Reliance, of Holy Island, Holy Island motor life-boat escorted coble into harbour. „ 8. 9.24 a.m. Motor fishing boat Annie, of Portsmouth, Bembridge motor life-boat saved boat and rescued - - - - — — — — — — 2 ; „ 9. 3.30 p.m. S.S. Co-operator, of Fenit. Fenit motor life-boat escorted vessel into safety. >. 9. 3.30 p.m. S.S. Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool. Baltimore motor life-boat stood by vessel. ,, 9. 3.58 p.m. Motor launch Nor Nor, of St. Mary's. St. Mary's motor life-boat escorted vessel to safety. .. 9. 5.25 p.m. Motor vessel Zeehond, of Groningen. Plymouth motor life-boat stood by and escorted vessel into harbour. „ 9. 11.30 p.m. Motor vessel Innishovien, of Chester. Barrow motor life-boat landed an injured man. » 13. 10.10 p.m. Motor fishing boat Provider, of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life-boat stood by boat. ». 14. 6.20 p.m. Motor fishing boat Greta, of Portpatrick. Portpatrick motor life- boat saved boat and rescued ------3 „ 15. 11.5 a.m. Fifteen fishing boats of North Sunderland. North Sunderland pulling and sailing life-boat stood by. fishing fleet. „ 15. 8.0 p.m. S.S. West Hika, of Mobile, U.S.A. Seaham motor life-boat rendered assistance. -•• ., 15. 10.45 p.m. Fishing fleet of Burtonport, Arranmore and other islands. Arran- more motor life-boat escorted fleet into safety. ,, 16. 6.53 a.m. Steam trawler Confederate, of Aberdeen. Peterhead motor life- boat escorted vessel into safety. ,, 17. 10.10 p.m. Pilot cutter William Porter, of Aberdeen. Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------3 18. 2.8 a.m. Steam trawler Evergreen, of Aberdeen. Fraserburgh motor life-boat 9 21. 10.0 a.m. Schooner Flying Foam, of Bridgwater. Beaumaris motor life-boat 7 tt 21. 1.57 p.m. Twelve motor fishing cobles of North Sunderland. Holy Island motor life-boat escorted cobles into harbour. 21. 3.40 p.m. S.S. Vbari, of Tallinn, Esthonia. Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat s. '•!, stood by vessel.

»» 25. 7.50 p.m. S.S. Greyfriars, of Newcastle. Flamborough No. 1 motor life-boat stood by vessel. ,. 25. 9.0 p.m. Steam trawler Andri. of Eskif jordur, Iceland. Whitby No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat ------u 27. 2.35 a.m. S.S. Taycraig, of London. Penlee motor life-boat — — — — — 9 ;; 27. 6.15 a.m. Royal Air Force S.S. Cawley. Plymouth motor life-boat rendered assistance. ''. „ 29. 12.45 p.m. Motor fishing coble Our Brother, of Boulmer. Boulmer motor > life-boat escorted coble into harbour. , „ 30. 11.35 a.m. Motor fishing boat Acquire, of Inverness. Fraserburgh motor life- boat rendered assistance. • „ 30. 12,14 p.m. Fishing cobles Mizpa, John and Margaret, and Primrose, of New- biggin. Newbiggin pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety. ' ,, 30. 12.40 p.m. Eight fishing boats of Arbroath. Arbroath motor life-boat stood by boats. ,, 31. 9.10 a.m. S.S. Fedora, of Genoa, Italy. Dungeness No. 2 motor life-boat stood by vessel. „ 31. 11.20 p.m. Motor fishing boat Primrose, of Clogher Head. Clogher Head motor , life-boat escorted boat into harbour. .Feb. 3. 9.50 a.m. Thirteen fishing cobles of Newbiggin. Newbiggin pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety. :7 b£S;.ss'3. 11.45 a.m. Fishing boats Lindfar and Catherine, of Eyemouth. North Sunder- land pulling and sailing life-boat stood 'by boats. ? r • ,, -S3 4. 12.40 p.m. Steam drifters Daisy, of Berwick, and. Young Kenneth, of Great - Yarmouth. Berwick-on-Tweed motor life-boat stood by boats. 5. 7.45 p.m.] S.S. Elsie Annie, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour motor life-boat and stood by vessel and rescued ------10 6. 4.0 p.m. J |:" 10. 12.50 p.m. St. Mary's motor life-boat took a doctor to St. Martin's Island. 10. ' 1.10 p.m. Motor fishing boat Provider, of Whitby. Whitby No, 1 motor life- boat escorted boat into harbour. -^ MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 259

Persons Time of rescued from Launching. shipwreck 2.58 p.m. A fishing boat of Youghal. Youghal motor life-boat saved boat and rescued - - - - 10. 4.0 p.m. Ketch Albatross, of Brest. Sennen Cove motor life-boat — — — — 10. 11.30 p.m. S.S. Duero, of Cadiz. Dunmore East motor life-boat stood by and escorted vessel. 11. 8.15 a.m. The Daunt Rock lightship. Ballycotton motor life-boat — — — 14. 11.0 p.m. S.S. Lackenby, of West Hartlepool. Cadgwith pulling and sailing life-boat landed 3, and stood by vessel. 16. 9.10 p.m. Motor fishing boat Sceptre, of Portballintrae. Portrush motor life- boat rendered assistance. 16. 10.32 p.m. Motor liner Winchester Castle, of London. Weymouth motor life- boat stood by vessel. 17. 6.0 a.m. Motor barge River Witham, of Hull. The Humber motor life-boat stood by vessel. 18. 6.9 p.m. Steam trawler Strathmartin, of Aberdeen. Lenvick motor life-boat stood by vessel. 20. 9.50 a.m. Twelve motor fishing cobles of Holy Island and Seahouses. Holy Island motor life-boat escorted cobles into harbour. 20. 10.0 a.m. Fifteen fishing boats of North Sunderland. North Sunderland motor life-boat escorted boats into safety. 21. 11.0 a.m. Fishing boat Myrtle, of St. Abbs. St. Abbs motor life-boat escorted boat into harbour. 21. 12 noon Longhope motor life-boat took an appendicitis case to Scapa. 21. 7.40 p.m. Steam trawler Neptunia, of Havre. Longhope motor life-boat 41 23. 6.45 a.m. Steam trawler Algorma, of Grimsby. The Humber motor life-boat stood by vessel. 23. 11.16 a.m. Schooner Rosmeur, of Douarnenez, France. Appledore motor life- boat stood by vessel. 24. 1.45 p.m. Three motor fishing boats of Whitby, and two Royal Air Force boats. Whitby No. 1 motor life-boat escorted boats into har- bour. 24. 4.10 p.m. Motor fishing boats Launch Out and Progress, of Scarborough. Scar- borough motor life-boat escorted boats into harbour. 24. 10.15 p.m. St. Mary's motor life-boat took a sick man to Penzance. 27. 2.24 a.m. S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, motor life-boat rendered assistance. 27. 9.0 a.m. Barge Davenport, of Ipswich. Eastbourne motor life-boat - - 29. 11.30 a.m. S.S. Wexfordian, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour motor life-boat stood by vessel. 8. 4.45 p.m. and S.S. Wexfordian, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour motor life-boat 9. 3.0 p.m. landed 9 and landed 4. 9. 5.55 p.m. A rowing boat of Dover. Walmer motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------10. 1.35 p.m. S.S. Ardgantock, of Greenock. Whitby No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat stood by vessel. 11. 12.15 a.m. Motor vessel Mary Birch, of Hull. The Humber motor life-boat stood by vessel. 11. 9.50 a.m. Motor vessel Zuidland, of Rotterdam. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rendered assistance. 16. 5.35 a.m. Steam trawler Siberite, of Hull. Stromness motor life-boat - 11 19. 3.45 a.m. The Kish lightship. Kingstown motor life-boat landed an injured man. 20. 5.54 a.m. S.S. Hansa, of Wismar, Germany. Boulmer motor life-boat assisted to save vessel. 23. 6.45 p.m. A motor boat of Christchurch. Swanage motor life-boat rendered assistance. 25. 9.45 a.m. Fishing cobles Dorothy Rose, John and Nancy, Topmast and Sybil Joyce, of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted boats into safety. 3.44 p.m. Motor vessel Apricity, of London. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rendered assistance. 9.0 a.m. and S.S. Boree, of Caen, France. Cromer No. 1 and Wells motor life- 9.35 a.m. boats landed 7 and rendered assistance respectively. 9.0 p.m. S.S. Osterhav, of Helsingfors, Finland. Wick motor life-boat 29 4.0 p.m. Longhope motor life-boat took an appendicitis case to Scapa. 7.15 a.m. Fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat stood by boats. 260 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Persons Time of rescued from 1936. Launching. shipwreck. April 2. 7.45 a.m. Motor fishing boat Little Madge, of Sheringham. Sheringham pulling and sailing life-boat saved boat and rescued - - - - 2 7.15 p.m. Motor yacht Elsina, of Shoreham. Shoreham Harbour motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued — — — — — — — — — — 6 3.55 a.m. Fishing cobles George and Margaret, Hope-on, Our Boys, and John and Margaret, of Newbiggin. Newbiggin pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into harbour. 7. 5.30 p.m. Barge Edith and Hilda, of Rochester. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat stood by vessel. 9. 5.47 p.m. Motor yacht Roma. Selsey motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued ______2 11. 5.25 p.m. Motor yacht Roma. Shoreham Harbour motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued ______2 14. 2.55 p.m. Motor fishing boat Vesper II, of Fraserburgh. Whitehills motor life- boat escorted boat into harbour. 15. 2.10 p.m. Five motor fishing boats of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life- boat escorted boats into harbour. 16. 11.45 a.m. The Longstone lighthouse. Holy Island motor life-boat landed an injured man. 19. 10.0 a.m. Motor fishing coble Lily, of Whitby. Whitby No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat escorted coble into harbour. 20. 7.0 a.m. Fishing boat Rally, of Selsey. Selsey motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ______2 20. 7.0 a.m. Aith motor life-boat landed an injured boy from Papa Stour. 20. 11.25 a.m. Barge Will Everard, of London. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat stood by vessel. 22. 8.0 a.m. Eight motor fishing boats, of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life- boat escorted boats into harbour. 24. 1.8 a.m. Fishing boats Maggie Smith, Sunshine, and Girl Mary, of Arbroath. Arbroath motor life-boat escorted boats into harbour. 25. 4.30 a.m. Four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn. Salcombe motor life-boat ---__-______-- 22 25. 11.0 p.m. Yacht Mavan. Caister pulling and sailing life-boat stood by yacht and afterwards saved yacht and rescued — — — — — — — 2 May 2. 4.15 p.m. Steam trawlers Evaristo Perez and Teresa Campos, of Vigo, Spain. Ballycotton motor life-boat rendered assistance. 5. 3.25 p.m. ' 6. 1.30 a.m. S.S. Birtley, of Newcastle. Sunderland motor life-boat stood by 7. 4.30 p.m. vessel. 6. 7.0 a.m. Seven motor fishing boats of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life- boat escorted boats into harbour. 6. 8.15 a.m. Motor fishing cobles Flora and Star of Hope, of Staithes. Staithes pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into harbour. 6. 10.15 a.m. Motor fishing boats Margaret and William, Douglasses and Ina, of Blyth. Blyth motor fife-boat escorted boats into harbour. 13. 11.10 a.m. Steam trawler Morvina, of Grimsby. Stromness motor life-boat 3 16. 3.35 p.m. Motor fishing boat Eagle, of Scarborough. Scarborough motor life-boat escorted boat into harbour. ,, 16. 6.55 p.m. Four men marooned on a dolphin in Pegwell Bay. Ramsgate motor life-boat -_------___---- 4 ,, 19. 5.55a.m. S.S. Mars, of Liepaja, Latvia. Anstruther motor life-boat landed 10. „ 22. 11.28p.m. Motor pinnace from yacht Westward, of London. Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ '24. 9.15 a.m. Motor cruiser Water Nymph. Wells motor life-boat rendered assistance. ,, 27. 4.56 p.m. Motor yacht Sunbeam, of Boston. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued - • ------3 „ 28. 8.55 a.m. Six motor fishing boats of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life-boat escorted boats into harbour. „ 29. 4.57 p.m. Motor yacht Little Mariner, of Southampton. Weymouth motor life-boat saved yacht. ,, 31. 1.0 p.m. Motor fishing boat The Lily, of Grimsby. The Humber motor life-boat rendered assistance. June 2. 11.0 a.m. Yacht Vixen, of Dublin. Kingstown motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued ------1 „ 5. 12.15 p.m. Motor fishing boat Smiling Morn, of Southwold. Southwold motor life-boat rendered assistance. ,, 10. 6.0 a.m. Steam drifter Reclaim, of Lowestoft. Angle motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 13. 2.10 a.m. Ketch St. Austell, of Barnstaple. St. Ives motor life-boat saved vessel and rescued ------4 MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 261

Persona Time of rescued from 1986. Launching. shipwreck. June 19. 4.25 p.m. Yacht F.L.B., of Blyth. Skegness motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2 „ 19. 11.20 p.m. Motor fishing boat Gleaner, of Penzance. Penlee motor life-boat escorted boat into safety. „ 21. 12.55p.m. Steam trawler Pointz Castle, of Swansea. Courtmacsherry Harbour motor life-boat stood by vessel. „ 24. 6.10 a.m. Steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen. Stromness motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 24. 10.0 a.m. Steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff. Fraserburgh motor life-boat stood by and rendered assistance. „ 24. 6.10 p.m. Motor boat Carrick Lass, of Girvan. Girvan motor life-boat landed 1. „ 29. 12.45 a.m. Motor fishing boat Nellie, of Guernsey. St. Peter Port motor life- boat rendered assistance. 9.25 a.m. Steam trawler New Choice, of Granton. Longhope motor life- boat assisted to save vessel. 12 midnight. Motor trawler Bohemian Girl, of Grimsby. Stromness motor life- boat stood by vessel. 5. 11.0 p.m. Auxiliary yacht Una, of Brightlingsea. Walton and Frinton motor life-boat landed 4. 5. 11.30 p.m. Rowing boat Our Boys, of Eastbourne. Eastbourne motor life- boat rescued _____---_------2 7. 7.10 p.m. Steam trawler Avonglen, of Aberdeen. Peterhead motor life-boat stood by vessel. 12. 2.0 a.m. Boat Stella Marts, of Southbourne. Bembridge motor life-boat landed 2. 12. 6.57 p.m. Motor yacht Dawn Wind, of Lymington. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued — — — — — — — 2 12. 7.50 p.m. Yacht Mayfly, of Poole. Torbay motor life-boat escorted yacht into safety. 18. 10.0 -a.m. Yacht Bon Espoir, of St. Briene, France. Selsey motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued ------2 18. 3.0 p.m. Barge Victa, of London. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat saved barge and rescued ------2 18. 6.0 p.m. Yacht Raider, of Leigh-on-Sea. Aldeburgh No. 1 motor life-boat escorted yacht to safety. 18. 7.12 p.m. A dinghy of Tankerton. Margate motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------1 18. 11.50 p.m. Steam yacht Carmela, of London. Plymouth motor life-boat rendered assistance. 23. 10.54 a.m. Fishing boat Rally, of Selsey. Selsey motor life-boat saved boat and rescued _____-_------1 23. 12.10 p.m. Motor yacht Thistle, of Burnham-on-Crouch. Eastbourne motor life-boat rendered assistance. 5.50 p.m. Motor launch Stella, of Lowestoft. Aldeburgh No. 1 motor life- boat saved launch. 3.15 a.m. Yacht Mariner, of Dumfries. Kirkcudbright motor life-boat escorted yacht to safety. 2. 11.12a.m. Yacht Tom Boy, of Newhaven. Hythe motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 3 2. 11.30 a.m. Yacht Mary, of Liverpool. Clovelly motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued ------4 2. 12.30 p.m. Two small boats of Benllech. Moelfre motor life-boat saved boats and rescued — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 7 3. 8.40 a.m. A yacht of Rainham. Margate motor life-boat stood by yacht. 3. 11.30a.m. A dinghy of Jaywick. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat saved boat. 3. 7.45 p.m. A small boat of Lowestoft. Lowestoft motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------4 5. 6.12 a.m. S.S. Record, of Portsmouth. Swanage motor life-boat rendered assistance. 6. 1.53 a.m. Auxiliary yacht Vixen, of Bude. Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat 4 7. 1.30 a.m. Yacht Mono, of Heswall. Llandudno motor life-boat landed 3. 7. 9.45 a.m. Fishing boats Liberty 11 and Edna, of Sheringham. Sheringham motor life-boat escorted boats into safety. 7-11. 11.40a.m. S.S. San Francisco, of Havre. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat rendered assistance. 7. 2.23 p.m. Yacht Madeline. Skegness motor life-boat saved yacht and rescued 2 8. 9.45 p.m. Motor boat Sarah Ann Holden, of Salcombe. Salcombe motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------1 262 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Persons Time of rescued from 1936. Launching. shipwreck Aug. 9. 7.15 p.m. Motor yacht Sunstar, of Southampton. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 18. 12 noon. Steam trawler Runswiek Bay, of Hull. The Humber motor life- boat rendered assistance. „ 18. 1.59 p.m. Schooner Six Sisters, of Hull. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat escorted vessel to safety. „ 19- 2.40 p.m. Small boat Fidget, of Walmer. Walmer motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------2 „ 19- 5.33 p.m. A speed-boat of Hastings. Hastings motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 19. 6.0 p.m. A small boat of West Runton. Sheringham motor life-boat saved boat and rescued — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 » 19- 6.20 p.m. Yacht Mary, of Leigh-on-Sea. Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 26. 2.25 p.m. S.S. Southsea, of Portsmouth. Bembridge motor life-boat stood by vessel. „ 31. 8.45 p.m. Motor cruiser Martaban, of Cardiff. Barry Dock motor life-boat rendered assistance. Sept. 1. 4.0 p.m. Yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris. Portrush motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 4. 5.0 p.m. Sailing yacht Woodpecker, of London. Southwold motor life-boat escorted yacht into harbour. „ 15. 2.0 p.m. Steam trawler Inverclyde, of Granton. Fraserburgh motor life- boat landed 10. „ 16. 10.28 a.m. Ketch Dido C, of Barnstaple. Ilfracombe motor life-boat landed 8. „ 16- 11.5 p.m. Motor yacht Sydia, of Bembridge. Bembridge motor life-boat landed 3 from Horse Sand Fort. „ 20. 10.35 p.m. Motor vessel Karanan, of Rotterdam. Wells motor life-boat stood by vessel. „ 20. 11.37 p.m. Motor vessel Karanan, of Rotterdam. Sheringham motor life- boat stood by vessel. „ 22. 11.50 p.m. Boat of ketch Amazon, of Plymouth. Plymouth motor life-boat escorted boat to harbour. „ 23. 12.30 a.m. Motor launch Silver Cloud, of Coverack. Coverack motor life-boat rendered assistance. 29. 2.30 p.m. I Motor vessel Karanan, of Rotterdam. Wells motor life-boat 30. 5.0 a.m. f rendered assistance. Oct. 5. 6.12 a.m. Sailing barge Cetus, of London. Lowestoft motor life-boat escorted boat into harbour. 5. 7.15 a.m. Smack Arco, of Leigh-On-Sea. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat saved vessel and rescued ------6 5. 11.55 a.m. Fishing boats Mini and Daisy, of Montrose. Montrose No. 1 motor life-boat stood by boats. 17. 11.30 a.m 19. 10.0 a.m, S.S, Shuna, of Glasgow. Port Askaig motor life-boat - - 17 20. 9.0 a.m, 18. 10.25 a.m.) 19. 6.30 a.m. j S.S. St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, Norway. Barra Island motor life-boat - 4 19. 1.30 p.m. Motor fishing cobles Boi/'s Own and Pioneer, of Flamborough. Flam- borough No. 1 motor life-boat escorted cobles into safety. 24. 2.12 p.m. S.S. Finvoy, of Belfast. Girvan motor life-boat stood by vessel. 24. 7.20 p.m. Motor boat Courageous, of Donaghadee. Donaghadee motor life-boat rendered assistance. 25. 7.25 a.m. Yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch. Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat rendered assistance. 25. 12.55 p.m. Yacht Spray, of Portsmouth. Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat rendered assistance. 25. 5.15 p.m. Motor fishing boat Britannia, of Margate. Margate motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ___----____- 2 26. 7.5 p.m. Herring drifter L. A. B. Houston. Maryport motor life-boat escorted vessel into safety. 27. 1.30 a.m. S.S. Helena Faulbaums, of Riga. Port Askaig motor life-boat 4 27. 2.45 a.m. S.S. Dunvegan, of Liverpool. Troon motor life-boat stood by vessel. 27. 11.15 a.m. Fishing coble White Lady, of Sunderland. Sunderland motor life-boat escorted coble into harbour. 27. 2.45 p.m. S.S. Goleta, of London. Ramsey motor life-boat landed an injured man and rendered assistance. 27 7.45 p.m. Schooner Edith May, of Wexford. Ramsey motor life-boat landed 3. 81. 9.40 a.m. A fishing boat of Weymouth. Weymouth motor life-boat saved boat and rescued _ — -_- — - — — — — --— 1 MARCH, 1937.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 263

Persons Time of reicued from 1936. Launching. shipwreck. Oct. 31. 4.30 p.m. Motor launch White Heather, of Yarmouth. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, motor life-boat saved boat and rescued — — — — — — 2 Nov. 1. 1.5 p.m. Sailing boat Tom Tit, of Dover. Dover motor boarding boat ren- dered assistance. 2. 12.16 a.m-1 S.S. Bessemer City, of New York. St. Ives motor life-boat rescued 10.50 a.m./ crew and took master out to wreck ------33 99 2. 9.36 a.m. The fishing fleet of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted fleet into safety. II 2. 1.5 p.m. Tug Warrior, of Glasgow, and ferry-boat Snowdrop, of Liverpool. Thurso motor life-boat landed an injured man and rendered assistance. 99 3. 4.10 p.m. A rowing boat. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat saved boat. >» 11. 7.51 p.m. Fishing boat lone, of New Brighton. New Brighton No. 2 motor life-boat saved boat and rescued — — — — — — — — — — 3 »> 12. 8.20 a.m. Boat from H.M.S. Lucia. Weymouth motor life-boat took 4 men from breakwater. »» 12. 9.30 a.m. Motor fishing vessel Aud Schou, of Frederickshaven. The Humber motor life-boat rendered assistance. II 14. 8.25 p.m. S.S. J. & J. Monks, of Liverpool. Blackpool pulling and sailing life-boat stood by vessel. II 14. 8.50 p.m. S.S. J. & J. Monks, of Liverpool. Fleetwood motor life-boat escorted vessel into safety. I» 15. 4.52 p.m. Trawler Crystal, of Dieppe. Exmouth motor life-boat saved vessel and rescued — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 5 It 15. 9.23 p.m. S.S. Harvest Queen, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Selsey motor life-boat escorted vessel into safety. II 16-18. 11-12 a.m. S.S. Nesttun, of Tvedestrand, Norway. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat rendered assistance. II 17. 2.50 p.m. Fishing cobles Olive and Agnes, of Sunderland. Sunderland motor life-boat saved one coble and rescued _____--- 5 I) 3.15 p.m. Coble Sonny, of Seaham. Seaham motor life-boat ----- 4 ft 17. 6.55 p.m. Coble Vera Mary, of Bridlington. Bridlington motor life-boat saved coble and rescued ------2 II 18. 8.17 a.m. Open fishing boat Little Culverden, of Hastings. Hastings motor life-boat saved boat and rescued — — — — — — — — — — 2 18. 7.5 p:m. Steam drifter Pitagaveny, of Banff. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat 10 „ 19. 4.25 p.m. Motor trawler Clarissa, of Bideford. Appledore motor life-boat saved vessel and rescued —— — — — — — — — — — — 3 II 19. 8.20 a.m. S.S. Yeivforest, of Glasgow. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat took out a doctor. J) 19. 9.45 a.m. S.S. Lindisfarne, of Newcastle. Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat rendered assistance. „ 23. 8.45 a.m. S.S. Everokmda, of Riga. The Humber motor life-boat landed a sick woman. *ff 24. 10.15 p.m. Ketch Ceres, of Bude. Appledore motor life-boat ----- 2 30. 2.50 p.m. Motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton. Youghal motor life-boat saved boat and rescued ------2 » 30. 9.10 p.m. Motor barge T. H. Burton, of Liverpool. New Brighton No. 2 motor life-boat ------4 Dec. 2. 11.45 a.m. Motor fishing boats Provider, Success, and Pilot Me, of Whitby. Whitby No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat escorted boats into harbour. »» 4. 9.30 a.m. Motor fishing coble Mayflower, of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life-boat escorted coble into harbour. t» 5. 12.30 p.m. Six motor fishing boats of Whitby. Whitby No. 1 motor life-boat escorted boats into harbour. f» 5. 5.0 p.m. Lighter Richland, of Newcastle. Berwick-on-Tweed motor life- boat stood by vessel. *i 5. 11.30 p.m. S.S. Northern Coast, of Liverpool. Port Askaig motor life-boat took a doctor to vessel. ii 6. 8.45 a.m. Fishing boat Just Reward, of Scarborough. Scarborough motor life-boat escorted boat into harbour. »t 6. 4.20 p.m. \ S.S. Helen Craig, of Belfast. Lytham-St. Anne's motor life-boat 7. 4.0 a.m.| landed 11, and put crew on board again. »» 8. 7.40 p.m. Motor vessel Conida, of London. Clacton-on-Sea motor life-boat rendered assistance. »» 9. 4.50 p.m. S.S. Kjorrefjord, of Farsund, Norway. Sunderland motor life-boat stood by vessel. » 11. 7.30 p.m. Galway Bay motor life-boat took help to a neighbouring island. » 12. 6.38 a.m. S.S. Tanny, of Bristol. Tenby motor life-boat ------5 264 THE LIFE-BOAT. [MARCH, 1937.

Persons Time of rescued Irom 1936. Launching. shipwreck. Dec. 13. 5.15 a.m. S.S. Soudan, of Glasgow. Dungeness No. 2 motor life-boat stood by vessel. ,, 13. 11.15 p.m. Motor fishing boat Josephine II, of Folkestone. Hythe motor life-boat — ~ — — — — — — — — __ — ____ 3 13. 5.30 p.m.) Ketch Ivy P., of Dublin. Wicklow motor life-boat ----- 4 14. 3.30 a.m. j and assisted to save vessel. 13. 11.30p.m. j Schooner Alert, of Falmouth. Moelfre motor life-boat rescued — - 6 14. 9.0 a.m. j and saved vessel. 17. 12 noon Five fishing boats of Arbroath. Arbroath motor life-boat escorted boats into harbour. 17. 2.2 p.m. Three fishing cobles of Newbiggin. Newbiggin pulling and sailing life-boat escorted boats into safety. 21. 11.50 a.m. S.S. Minn, of Parnu, Esthonia. Sennen Cove motor life-boat assistance. 23. 3.0 p.m. Fishing boat Messina, of Cromarty. Cromarty motor life-boat rendered assistance. 28. 3.10 a.m. Motor trawler Roger Henri, of Ostend. North Sunderland motor life-boat — - — — — — — — — - — — — ---- 6

SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S WORK. Lives rescued by Life-boats ----_-_-_____ 383 Lives rescued in other ways for whose rescue the Institution gave rewards _-______---______log Total of lives rescued ------491 Persons landed from vessels or rocks on which they might have been in danger ______80 Boats and vessels which Life-boats saved or helped to save - - - 48 Boats and vessels which Life-boats stood by, escorted to safety, or helped ______--____-_ over 300 Total number of launches, including those in which for various reasons no services were rendered --_-______468

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