Management.

Life-boat.

North Deal .

Friday, 25th July, 1919.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Reported the death of Sir R. U. PENROSE FITZGERALD, Bt., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institu- tion since 1888, and was created a Vice- President in 1916. Passed a vote of regret and condolence.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— .g s THE PETER COATS TRUST, for the provision of a Norfolk and Suffolk Life-boat .... 4,000 - - R. NEWTON, Esq., for the pro- vision of a Motor Life-boat for Hartlepool . . (on account) 2,000 - - Miss AGNES CROSS. Further towards the provision of a Motor Life-boat for Lowestoft (balance) 1,500 - - THE CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND (per W. FORTESCUE BARRATT, Esq.), amount ex- pended on Civil Service Life- boats in 1918 787 5 4 KENNETH M. CLARK, Esq.

(Donation) 50 - - —To be thanked.

Specially recognised the services of Mr. JOSEPH LOWER, who has held the office of Honorary Secretary of the Castleford Branch for many years.

Paid £10,654 16s. id. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £156 14s. f d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— lives Iiife-boat. Vessel. saved.

Aldeburgh No. 2 S.S. America, of Rio Janeiro. Stood by vessel.

Cardigan . . Fishing-boat Leo, of Cardigan .... 2 Kingstown . . Motor launch Blanch, of Dublin. Saved launch and . . . • 5 Margate No. 1 . H.M. destroyer Linnet, S. 59. Stood by vessel.

Margate No. 2 . Motor-boat Phasnix, of Maidstone. ' Stood by vessel.

Newbiggin . . Fishing - coble John Ellen, of Newbiggin.

Escorted coble into harbour.

Lives Vessel. . saveS.

S.S. Oude Maas, of Amsterdam. Stood • by vessel.

Schooner Fern, of Hull.

Landed 3.

Whitby No. 1 Kessingland Life-boat assisted to save the tug West Hyde, of London, and lighter A.C. 1213, and their crews of eleven hands.

Also voted £86 11s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:—-Aberystwith, Blakeney, Padstow No. 1, Padstow steam tug, Shering- ham, Upgang, and Wells.

Granted £26 2s. to men for injury, etc., in the Life-boat service at Donna Nook, St.

Anne's, and Scarborough.

Decided to send a special Letter of Thanks to Mr. J. H. PERRY for valuable assistance rendered on the occasion of a launch of the Cardigan Life-boat on the 12th July.

Voted a further sum of £50 for the benefit of the men of the Ramsgate Life-boat who took part in the rescue of the Indian Chief in 1881.

Friday, 12th September, 1919.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Reported the death of Admiral The Rt.-Hon.

the LORD BERESFORD, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1884, and was created a Vice-President in 1918.

Passed a vote of regret and condolence.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— The Trustees of the late Mr. W. £. s. d. BLOODWORTH 300 - - "ETHEL" 100 - - Anonymous 50 - - —To be thanked.

Reported the retirement, owing to ill-health, of Captain BASIL HALL, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Southern District.

Specially recognised the services of Miss SWALLOW, who has held the office of Honorary Secretary of the Peterborough branch for many years.

Paid £14,729 Os. Zd. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £128 7s, to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Bembridge.

Holy Island No. 1 Margate No. 2 Porthdinllaen Port St. Mary. .

Thurso ....

• Wells ....

Wexford Lives Vessel. • saved.

S.S. WaTculla, of Los Angeles ... 13 Fishing-tr awler, Harlech Castle, of Grimsby . ... 12 Motor - yacht, Blue DragoriJII. Stood by vessel.

Two small boats . . 3 Schooner Venus, of Castletown. As- sisted and stood by vessel.

Schooner, Mary Smethurst, of Wick. Stood by vessel.

Fishing - boat, Rock of Ages. Assisted ' to save boat and . 3 Fishing-lugger, Bo- nita, of Wexford.

Rendered assist- Voted 10s. to two men for putting off from Swanage in a motor-boat and saving two men from a small rowing-boat which had capsized,, ] on the 1st August.

Voted £2 to D. WEST for putting off from ! Montrose in a motor-boat and saving two I men in a small boat, which was being blown i out to sea in a strong W. gale and heavy sea, : on the 2nd August.

Voted £1 5s. to two men at Montrose who went in a motor-boat to the assistance of three young men in a small boat, which was being blown out to sea and was in danger of being capsized off Scurdy Ness, on the 6th August.

Voted £3 to three men for putting off from Hauxley in a fishing-boat and rescuing eight persons (two men, two women, and four children) from a pleasure boat, which was being carried out to sea by a strong W. breeze, on the 18th August.

Voted 10s. to two men for putting off from Whitby in a sailing-coble to the assistance of five persons in. a small pleasure-boat which, was seen to be in distress in a strong N.W.breeze, on the 21st August.

Rhyl .

Wicklow The Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat assisted to save the motor-schooner Fionia, of Copen- hagen.

Also voted £176 11s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress, etc.:—Clacton-on-Sea, Donna Nook, Gorleston No. 1, Llanddulas, Lossiemouth, North Deal, Palling No. 1, Ramsgate, Walton-on-the-Naze, Wells, and Wexford.

Granted £109 Is. id. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Fraserburgh and Ilfracombe, and also to meet the funeral and other expenses of the two men who lost their lives in the Rraserburgh Life-beat, on the 28th April, 1919.

Awarded the Silver Second Service Clasp to JOHN HOLBROOK, Coxswain of the Bembridge Life-boat, and an additional monetary reward to him and to each of the crew for a very fine service, resulting in the saving of thirteen lives from the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, on the 28th-29th August (described elsewhere).

Voted £1 10s. to three men for saving two lives off Skinningrove on the evening of the 16th June from a small coble which had capsized. Also voted £5 towards the cost of repairs to the rescuers' boat which had been damaged.

Voted £5 to FEED. TOCHER for saving three lives from the motor-boat Aurora, which was wrecked near Lossiemouth in a moderate N,B. gale, on the 26th July. The vessel stranded twenty yards from the shore in a raging surf, and Tocher waded into the sea at great personal risk. He told the crew to throw him a line, and then encouraged them to jump into the sea one by one, when, by means of the line, he dragged them ashore.

Friday, 10th October, 1919.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution:— Mrs. VALENTINE JACKSON (Vic- tory Bearer Bond) .... £100 - - —To be thanked.

Paid £11,257 17s. 6d. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £54 9s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives saved. V of Life-boat.

Caister No. 2.

Vessel.

S.S. Inchcolm, Leith. Stood by vessel.

Motor-launch Enter- prise ...

Motor-boat Kia-ora, of Kingstown .

The Margate No. 2 Life-boat assisted to save the motor-ketch GarMoch, of Stockton, and the Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat ren- dered assistance to the barge Lord Kitchener, of London.

Also voted £252 4s. 6 Z. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assem- blies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress, etc. : — Caister No. 1, Cloughey, Gorleston No. 1, Hoylake, The Mumbles, Palling No. 1, Polkerris, Port , Ramsgate, and Shoreham.

Granted £4 11s. to a man for injury in the Life-boat service at St. Anne's.

Voted £6 to three men for putting off from Holy Island and saving three persons who were in difficulties with a small collapsible boat belonging to the yacht Wavelet, of Blyth, on the llth August, in a rough sea.

One of the salvors, who returned the amount granted to him as a contribution to the Institution, was . presented with a framed photograph.

Voted £3 to four men for putting off from Brighton in a motor-boat to search* for four boys who had been blown out to sea in a small boat, on the 14th September. Also voted £1 Is. id. to cover the cost of the petrol consumed.

Friday, 14th November, 1919.

The RT. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meetings.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution:— ROBERT McCEAKEN, Esq. . . £50 - - —To be thanked.

Reported the decease of Captain G. H. FORBES, C.B.E., R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Northern District.

Appointed Commander C. E. AQLIONBY, D.S.O., B.N., and Commander E. S. CARVER, B.D., R.N.R., Inspectors of Life-boats for the Western and Eastern,Districts respectively.

Paid £11,958 19s. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £424 14s. 8d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Blakeney . . . . S.S. Urd, of Swansea . . ,4 Bridlington . ... Sailing - lugger Luna I., of Amsterdam . . 5 North Sunderland . H.M. patrol-boat ' London County.

Stood by vessel.

North Deal . . . Schooner Toogo, of Esthonia . 2 North Deal . . . Ketch Corinthian, of London 2 North Deal (Reserve) Schooner Toogo, of Esthonia.

Landed a survivor from ' a steamer.

Piel, Barrow . . . Fishing - boat Daisy, of Barrow.

Saved boat a n d . . 2 Robin Hood's Bay . Schooner Cap Pahs, of Vancouver.

Landed 1.

Robin Hood's Bay . Schooner Cap Palos, of Vancouver.

Landed 5.

'Sunderland (Motor) . S.S. Solo and S.S.

Confield. Stood . by vessels.

Life-boat.

Wells . .

Whitby (Motor) .

Vessel.

S.S. Urd, Swansea . .

H.M. motor launch No.

292. Assisted to save vessel and . . . .

Lives saved.

of 6 11 Appledore No. 1 Life-boat .assisted the s.s. Banaran, of Penscola; Hauxley Life-boat assisted to save the s.s. Meteor; Padstow No. 2 Life-boat and Padstow steam tug saved H.M. motor-drifter Crimson Rambler; Ramsgate Life-boat assisted to save the schooner Svanen, of Svendborg, and her crew of nine hands; and Whitby Motor Life-boat assisted to save the s.s. Bratto, of Newcastle.

Voted £290 3s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with ,'a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Crail, Cromer, Dunbar, Gorleston No. 2, Hoylake, Hauxley, Margate No. 1, North Deal, North Deal (Reserve), Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Porthoustock, Robin Hood's Bay, Ramsgate, Scarborough, and Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor).

Granted £22 6s. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Blackpool and Blakeney.

Reported that £290 13s. 6d. had been remitted from Fraserburgh, being the amount collected by the Local Disaster Fund, in aid of the dependent relatives of the two Lifeboat men who lost their lives in the accident to the Motor Life-boat, on 28th April, 1919.

Voted the Silver Third Service Clasp to WILLIAM ADAMS, Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, together with an additional monetary reward to him and to each of the crew,, in recognition of their services in saving two of the crew of the Esthonian schooner Toogo.

Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution to WILLIAM STANTON, Coxswain of the North Deal (Reserve) Life-boat, who took charge, when in a serious state of health, together with an additional monetary reward to him and to each of the crew in recognition of their services in saving two of the crew of the ketch Corinthian, of London.

Voted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the North Deal (Reserve) Lifeboat for, their good services when the boat was again launched and brought ashore a survivor of the Toogo, who was taking refuge on a steamer.

Voted the Best Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to Mr. JOHN PEIOB, Secretary of the Goodwin Sands Branch, in recognition of his zeal and constant attendance on duty on this occasion.

Reported that a letter had been received from the Esthonian Provisional Legation expressing the gratitude of that Government for the rescue of the two survivors of the} schooner Toogo, and their deep sense of obliga- : tion to the Life-boat crew. (These rescues ' were described in the February number of the ! Journal.) ',Voted £2 to JOHN COWIB, Coxswain of the Buckie Life-boat, and three other men for putting off to the assistance of three hoys in a small boat which had been blown out to sea, on the llth August. Also granted 10s. to the owner of the boat used, and 9s. 9d., the value of the petrol consumed.

Voted £2 to B. PERT and three other men for saving a man in a small boat which had been blown out to sea, off Montrose, during a strong W.N.W. breeze and very choppy sea, on the 12th August.

Voted £2 10s. to JOHN SHERLOCK (Coxswain of the Hilbre Island and Hoylake Life-boats), W. SHERLOCK (Second Coxswain of the Hoylake Life-boat), and three Coast-guards for rescuing a man who was surrounded by the tide on the rocks off Hilbre Point, on the 12th October.

• Voted £1 2s. 6d. to W. H. TRIPP and two other men for putting off in a shore-boat and rescuing a man whose small boat had broken adrift in a strong breeze and rough sea on the 25th October off Porthoustock. Also granted 7s. 6d. to'the owner of the boat used.

Voted £4 10s. to W. HEARTY and two other men for saving two men whose fishing curragh had capsized in Sheephaven Bay, Co. Donegal, on the 12th September.

Friday, 12th December, 1919.

The Kt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— jg_ s $ The Misses EDDY, for the pro- vision of a Motor Life-boat to be called " The Brothers". . 7,500 - - " D. B. E." . . (new donation) 75 - -= —To lie thanked.

Paid £9,439 Is. 6d. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £352 14s. 3d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Aldeburgh No. 1 Schooner Hannah Ransom, of South- ampton .... 1 Barry Dock . . Schooner Patria, of Oporto. Stood by vessel.

Coverack . . . S.S. Hattie Lucken- bach, of New York.

Rendered assist- ance. , Gourdon . . . Fishing-boats of Gour- don. Remained in attendance on fish-ing-vessels.

.- Gorleston No. 1 . S.S. Lesbos, of Bel- ; ,' gium. Landed 26.

Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Holy Island No. 1 Schooner Suomi, of Bafsoe . . . . , 12 Holy Island No. 1 Schooner Swomi, of Bafsoe. Stood by vessel.

Hoylake . . .. Schooner Bona H., of Nova Scotia. Stood by vessel.

Lowestoft . . Steam drifter Ocean Gift, of Lowestoft . 9 Sennen Cove. . H.M. motor launch No. 378 . . . . -8 The Cromer Life-boat assisted to save the steam-trawler General Botha, of Aberdeen; also rendered assistance to s.s. Refrigerant, of London; Caister No. 2 Life-boat stood by the drifter Emily Reach, of Buckie, and rendered assistance to the lighter Beaujolais, of Le Havre; Gorleston No. 1 Life-boat assisted the s.s. Hero, of Hull; Gorleston No. 2 Life-boat rendered assistance to the steam-drifter Loyal Friend, of Lowestoft; and Staithes Life-boat was launched to the s.s. Agnes, of Haugesand.

Voted £592 2s. IQd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Alnmouth, Barry Dock, Beaumaris (Motor), Boulmer, Bridlington, Caister No. 1, Dunbar, Eyemouth, Gorleston No. 1, Lowestoft, Mumbles, Newhaven (Motor), New Brighton No'. 1, North Deal, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Point of Ayr, Palling No. 2, Polkerris, Ramsey, Rhyl, Tynemouth (Motor), Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor), Winterton No. 2.

The Ramsgate Life-boat was also launched.

Granted £28 15s. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Appledore, Poolbeg, and Tynemouth.

Voted a framed Record of Thanks to each of the crew of the Lowestoft Life-boat for their good services in rescuing the crew of nine hands of H.M. sloop Pomona, which, was wrecked, during very severe weather, on the 30th September, 1918.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to THOMAS H. NICHOLAS, Coxswain of the Sennen Cove Life-boat, and an additional monetary reward to him and to each of the crew, in recognition of their services in rescuing eight of the crew of the Admiralty motor-launch, No. 378, on the 30th Novem- ber, 1919. (This rescue is described else- where.) Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution to JOHN BROWN, Master of the Drifter Bessie, and a sum of £2 to him and to each of the seven members of his crew, for their services in saving the crew of three hands of the lighter Tom Telford, which was totally wrecked, during severe weather, at Digg, Staffin, Skye, on the 18th September, 1919.

Voted £4 to three men for going to the assistance of a motor-boat, which was in distress and drifting towards the Nore Sands during severe weather, on the 2nd November, 1919.