Management.

Thursday, 18th December, 1924.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Decided to close the following Stations : — Gorleston, No. 2.

Winterton, Nos. 1 and 2.

Arrangements having been made for the Life- boat Service under the Aberdeen Harbour Com- missioners to be transferred to the Institution as from 1st January, 1925, the agreement with the Commissioners was sealed.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.

SINGAPORE, COLLECTION iy, per the Rev. J. A. B. COOK . . . 214 15 4 Sir HARRY POLAND, K.C. (addi- tional donation) ..... 100 - — F. 0. BBOWN, Esq. (special Cen- tenary box collection) ... 62 - — ANONYMOUS ....... 50 - - —To be thanked.

Paid £21,675 12$. 5d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the main- tenance of the various Life-boat establish- ments.

Voted £98 4s. 3d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat Services : — Lives Life-boat. 'Vessel. rescued.

Newhaven . . Tug EtcAmere, of New- (Motor) haven .... 4 S.S. .Dieppe, of New- haven. Stood by vessel.

Runswick . . S.S. Princesse Cttmen- tine, of Antwerp . 19 S.S. Printxsse CUmen.- tine, of Antwerp . 1 Torbay (Motor) A fishing boat of Paign- ton. Saved boat, and rescued .... 4 The Cromer No. 1 (Motor) and Palling No. 2 Life-boats launched to the help of the s.s.

Vojvoda Putnik, of Split, the Crozner Life-boat assisting to save the vessel and rescue her crew of forty-one, and the Palling Life-boat render- ing assistance. The Gorleston No. 1 (Motor) Life-boat saved the s.s. Fox, of Hull, and rescued her crew of six.

Also voted £305 18«. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress : — Bembridge (Motor), Brooke, Caister No. 1, Dunbar, Gorleston (Motor), Hoylake, Longhope, Newcastle (Co. Down), New Quay (Cardigan), Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Skegness, Southwold, Stonehaven, Stromnesa (Motor), Tynemouth (Motor), Wey- mouth (Motor) a,nd Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (Motor).

Granted £19 5s. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Aianmore, Sheringham and Torquay.

Voted a gratuity of £3 to Richard Chadwick, messenger, and an old Life-boatman, at Flam- borough, on his retirement on account of old age.

Voted an additional reward to the Crew of the Weymouth Life-boat for an arduous ser- vice on the 27th November.

Awarded the Bronze Medal of the Institu- tion, accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, to Andrew Tose, Coxswain, and Thomas Patton, Second Coxswain, of the Runswick Life-boat, also granted additional monetary rewards to them and to each of the Crew and helpers, in recog- nition of a meritorious service, carried out at considerable personal risk when the Life-boat rescued the Captain of the s.s. Prtjicesse CUmentine, of Antwerp, which was ashore near Staithes, during a whole S.E. gale, with a very heavy sea, on the 27th November, 1924.

(A full account of this service appears on page 63.) Decided that, in recognition of the gallant services of the Crew of the Newhaven Motor Life-boat in rescuing from shipwreck the crew, four in number, of the tug Richmere, of Newhaven, and in standing by the s.s. Dieppe, of Newhaven, both of which were in distress off Newhaven, during a whole S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, on the 27th November, 1924, the following awards be granted:—The Bronze Medal of the Institution to Coxswain Richard Payne, accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed; and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed, together with a monetary reward, to all the members of the Crew—W. Clarke (Second Coxswain), F. Payne (Bowman), E. Cantell (Motor Mechanic), C. Holder, P. Jones, T. Cuddington, 8. Winder, and J. Clark. (A full account of this service appears on page 63.) Voted £4 10*. to the Coxswain of the Life- boat at Southend-on-Sea, and five other men, for putting off ill a motor boat to the assistance of s.s. Oehringen, which had been damaged in a collision dvning foggy weather on the 20th Nov- ember, 1924. Their services were not required.

Also granted 3s. 6d. to the signalman and 5s. for stores used.

Thursday, 22nd January, 1925.

The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the Chair.

Appointed, as from 1st March, 1925, Major A. G. WABZ, M.C., Organizing Secretary for the South-Eastern District, in succession to Mr. H. A. Bryden.

Reported the receipt of the folio-wing special contributions : — £ s. d.

CIVTL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FVHD (on. account of the Margate Motor Life-boat) . . . . 2,000 - - KINO GEORGE'S FUND FOR SAILORS ....... 1,000 - _( AHOSYMOUS (additional) Miss A. E. MOSES (additional) .

WHITE STAR LINE (being a portion of collections on board their steamers) . . .

THNAKSGIVING SERVICE, CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER (Collection) ......

ANONYMOUS ......

ANONYMOUS ......

A. BARRETT, Esq .....

CAMS HILL PRISON, CONVICTS AT — To be, thanked.

500 - 100 - 100 - 100 - -; 68 2 52 10 50 - 26 5 - 9 Paid £10,633 for sundry charges in connexion with the constrnetion of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £443 19s. 6rf. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat Services : — Lives JCJfe-boat. Vessel. rescued.

Abersooh Abersoch Anstruther .

Blyth (Motor) .

Cromer (Motor) Holyhead No. 1 (Steam) Holyhead No. 1 (Steam) Newbiggin . .

Newcastle, . Co. Down Newcastle, .

 

Co. Down St. Andrews Tenby (Motor) Tenby (Motor) Tenby (Motor) Ketch Millom Costfa, of Barrow . . . 3 Ketch Mittom Castle, of Barrow . . . 3 S.S. Ghingford, of Dundee 12 S.S. Ahtad, of Flekkefjord.

Stood by vessel.

Smith's Knott Light Vessel. Rendered assistance.

Schooner Ellen Annie, of Aberystwyth . . 4 Schooner Mary Sinclair, of Barrow . . 4 Seven fishing cobles, ofNewbiggin. Stood by cobles.

Motor launch St.

George, of Kingstown 4 S.S. Katherine, of Liverpool. Stood by vessel, S.S. Ghingford, of Dundee. Stood by vessel.

S.S. Poethlyn, of Cardiff.

Rendered assistance.

Steam trawler Arctic Prince, of Shields.

Landed 10.

Steam trawler Arctic Prince, of Shields . 10lift-boat.

Troon . .

Walton-on-the- Naze (Motor) Weymouth .

(Motor) Whitby (Motor).

lives Teasel. rescued.

S.S. Marjorie Seed, of Newcastle. Stood by vessel.

Swedish s.s. Atlantic . 6 Brigantine La Servanaisse, of St. Malo.

Stood by vessel.

Motor fishing boats, Pilot Me and Bemembrance, of Whitby.

Escorted boats into harbour.

The Holyhead No. 1 (Steam) Life-boat assisted to save the schooner Mary Sinclair* of Barrow; and the Margate No. 1 Life-boat saved the barge Nell Jess, of Ipswich, and rescued her crew of four hands.

Also voted £781 6s. Wd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress : — Balcary, Baltimore (Motor), Barry (Motor), Bembridge (Motor), Broughty Ferry (Motor), Brooke, Brighton, Caister No. 1, Dunbar, Eastbourne (Motor), Fleetwood, Fraserburgh (Motor), Girvan, Gorleston (Motor), Holyhead No. 1 (Steam), The Humber (Motor), Johnshaven, Kiagsdown, Longhope, Looe, Moelfre, North Deal, Palling No. 2, Penlee (Motor), Piel (Barrow), Poole, Ramsgate, Rhosoolyn, St. David's (Motor), St. Ives, Smerwick, Stornoway, Swanage, Torbay (Motor), Walton-on-the- Naze (Motor), Whitby, Worthing, and Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (Motor).

Granted £21 5s. 6d. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Berwick-on-Tweed, Cardigan and Hartlepool.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of JOHN PENROSE, Life-boatman, who was left with a child and practically unprovided for. Penrose had been a member of the Sennen Cove Life-boat crew since 1898, and Bowman since 1920.

Voted a compassionate grant of £13 to defray the funeral expenses of JOEL HUHST, for many years a member of the crew of the Ramsgate Life-boat, whose widow was left in extremely poor circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £3 to FKANK VATOHAN, who for thirty -one years was Lampman to the Hayling Island Life-boat, and is now old and very poor.

Granted £5 each to the ten members of the permanent crew of the Wexford Life-boat as compensation for losses sustained when the Life-boat station was destroyed by the sea.

Granted an additional monetary reward to tlie crew of the Newhaven Motor Life-boat in recognition of a fine service to the tug Bichmere on the 27th November. A Bronze Medal and Vellums of Thanks were awarded by the Committee, f or the Service, in December, 1924.

Addressed a Letter of Appreciation to Mr.

H. N. COLLET, Honorary Secretary at Worthing, who went into the sea to help atthe launching of the Life-boat, on the 31st December, and granted an additional monetary reward to each of the other helpers.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the St. Ives Life-boat, in recogninitioa of an arduous service on the 2nd January.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the Swanage Life-boat, in recognition of an arduous service on the 27th December. (This reward the men have returned to the Institution as a donation.) Granted a reward of £8 to the skipper and ot ±8 to the skipper and crew of a ateam trawler which helped the Stornoway Life-boat on the 22nd December.

Awarded the Bronze Medal of the Institution accompanied by a copy of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum and framed, to J. H. GttLmas, in recognition of his gallant conduct in rushing into the sea and rescuing a man, at Southwold, on the 26th November, 1924. (This Service was described in The Lifeboat for February 1925.) Awarded the Silver Medal of the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum and framed, to GEOBGE CBAIO, Senr., in recognition of his gallant conduct in rescuing three of the crew of five of the trawler Press Home, at Portlethen, on the 26th November. To effect the rescue Craig—who is in his seventieth year—struggled through the heavy sea, over submerged rocks, at great per- sonal risk. (This service was described in The Lifeboat for February, 1925.) Voted £5 to JOHN WILKIE, an old age pensioner, and £1 each to two other men, for rescuing the crew of four hands of the ketch Mimi, which was wrecked, about one mile to the south of Irvine Harbour, on a flat sandy beach, 100 yards from the water's edge, on the 6th October, 1924, during a moderate N.W.

Je with a heavy sea. Wilkie made his way out to the ketch, having to swim the latter part of the way, and picking up a buoy and line thrown from her, he returned with them ashore.

Communication, having thus been established with the wreck, Wilkie made a second journey to her, and then, as he was exhausted, the two other men took up the work of rescue, bringing ashore the Captain, who had only one arm and one leg, and his son. The other two members of the crew got ashore themselves by the rope.

Voted £10 10s. to the Skipper and Crew of the trawler William ButUr, of Aberdeen, for rescuing on the 10th of November, 1924, three of the five occupants of a small boat which was capsized off Orasay Island in a heavy sea, during a strong easterly gale, while on her way from Castlebay, Barra, to the Island of "Vatersay, Hebrides. The trawler at once went full steam ahead to the rescue, at the same time getting her boat, manned by the mate and three members of the crew, ready for launching.

One man was passed clinging to an oar, and the boat was lowered to rescue him, the trawler going on to pick up two other men who were clinging to the submerged boat.

1LThis she succeeded in doing, but the remaining two men of the crew o{ five were drowned.

The skipper incurred some risk in steaming right up to the boat, as she was close to the rocks, but he realized that the ship's boat could not reach the men in time to save them.

Voted £8 12s. 6d. to seven men for rescuing two of the four hands of the fishing boat Robina, which stranded on the breakwater at the mouth of Girvan Harbour, during a moderate S.W. gale with a heavy sea, on the 26th December, 1924. On seeing a flare, and discovering what had happened, the Harbour and Magter got a motor cobi* to go out and ahe rescuedtwo of the men. She then pulled the r Robina off the breakwater, and made for harbour with the rescued men, one of whom was unconscious. The Harbour Master and another man who had jumped into the Sobina from the breakwater helped the other two members of her crew to salve her. The rescuers' boat was damaged, and the Institution defrayed the cost of the necessary repairs, amounting to £10 8s.

15th August. The other boy got ashore himself safely. The accident occurred at the river mouth, where the current was running swiftly with the ebb tide. But for the promptness of f * the rescuers the boy would have been drowned.

Voted £1 to two men for rescuing two small boys at Wicklow, on the llth December, 1924.

The boys were in a rowing boat which drifted out to sea with a strong S.W. breeze and the tide. The prompt action of the men in going to the rescue saved the launching of the Lifeboat.

Voted £1 10s. to four men for rescuing one of two boys who were in a boat which capsized near the Life-boat house at Montrose, on the Thursday, 19th February, 1925.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported the receipt of the following the special contributions:— d.

PRUDENTIAL ASSITANCE Co.

(further on account of Motor Life-boat for Ramsgate) . . 2,000 - - Mr. JOHN PKOCTOR . . . . 200 - - The Hon. and Rev. E. V. R.

POWYS (additional donation) . 40 - - Admiral Sir ARTHUR MOORE, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.M.G. . . 26 - - Sir JOHN HOWABD, TRUSTEES OF THE LATE (additional) . . . 12 10 - —To be thanked.

Paid £13,484 8«. Id. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat houses and Slipways and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £177 14*. 9d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Lowestoft (Motor) Livei rescued.

S.S. Tannian, of Loudon.

Stood by vessel.

Life-boat.

Lowestoft .

(Motor) Pwllheli . .

Vesse!.

Lives rescued.

Southend-on-Sea Teignmouth Wexford (Motor) Wicklow (Motor) Pishing smack Ebenezer, of Lowestoft .

Fishing smack Norah, of Pwllheli . . .

Ketch Amis Reunis, of Falmouth. Assisted to save vessel and rescued . . . .

Barge Albert, of Roches - tei A yacht. Rendered assistance.

Fishing boats Geisha, Kathleen Glare, Maura and Silver Bdl, of Wexford.

Saved boats and II Schooner JJiolinda, of Wexford. Stood by vessel aad Tendered assistance.

Also voted £154 Os. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Oaister, Courtmacsherry, Duubar, Eastbourne, Fleetwood, Girvan, Holyhead (Steam), The Hum her (Motor), Kilmore, Penlee (Motor), Tenby (Motor), and Youghal.

The Swanage and Wexford (Motor) Lifeboats were also launched.

Granted £30 10s. to men. for injury in the Life-boat Service at Berwick-on-Tweed, Lowestoft, and Whitehaven.

Voted a compassionate grant of £25 to the widow of HENBV COKKISH, Coxswain of the Ramsey Life-boat, who was left with a family in poor circumstances, and had to vacate the rooms over the Life-boat house. Also defrayed the funeral expenses, amounting to 15 15s. 6rf.

Approved of the temporary closing of the Courtmacsherry Life-boat Station. When the crew were summoned for service on the night of the 13th January insufficient men to form a crew mustered, and as only one volunteer in addition could be obtained the boat was not launched.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the Youghal Life-boat for an arduous service on the 9th February.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew and helpers at Ramsey for a service on the 8th February.

Addressed a Letter of Thanks to Coxswain EDWABD WICKHAM, who got up from a sick bed to take charge of the Wexford Life-boat on the 9th February. Also sent a Letter and a Life-boatman Statuette to J. WICKHAM, the Second Coxswain's fourteen-year-old son, who went out in the Life-boat on the same occasion.

Voted £2 to two men who rescued the only occupant of a small boat in distress, off Tenby, on the 9th February, 1025. Also granted2s. 6d. for petrol consumed. The boat was attempting to enter harbour under sail, during a S.W. gale with a rough sea, when the sail carried away. The motor was started, but soon failed. The anchor was then let go, but began to drag. Seeing the boat to be in peril, the salvors put ofi in a motor boat and brought her safely into harbour. Some risk was incurred in effecting the rescue, as the disabled boat was drifting on a lee shore.

Voted £4 to four men for rescuing the crew, four in number, of a fishing boat, at Aberdeen, on the 29th January, 1925. Owing to the breakdown of her motor the boat was drifting ashore, broadside on near the mouth of the river Don, in a strong S.W. wind. The salvors, who were in another boat, saw the signals for help and succeeded in picking up the boat, just on the edge of broken water, and towing her into safety. The timely assistance of the rescuers undoubtedly saved the four men, as their boat would soon have gone ashore in the heavy surf.

Thursday, 19th March, 1925.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the President of the Institution, had written an autograph letter to the Chairman conveying his thanks to the Honorary Workers and the Officers and Staff for their work in connexion with the Centenary Year.

Decided to divide the area covered by the Midlands, Wales and Ireland District, Commander B. W. M. Lloyd, D.S.O., R.N., being appointed Organising Secretary of the Midlands, and Mr. H. G. Solomon, of Wales and Ireland (including Shropshire and Herefordshire).

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• £ g. d.

L. M. Tours, Esq. (additional donation) 30 - - Miss E. M. REITH (donation) . . 26 - - —To be tbank".d.

Paid £14,648 Ifts. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways and the maintenance of the various Lire-boat establishments.

Voted £128 Os. Qd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat Services:— Persons rescued.

Clacton-on-Sea . Ketch Bosina, ofPly- (Motor) mouth . . . . 4 Holyhead . . Schooner Mary Ann (Steam) Mandatt, of Barrow. 4 Scarborough . Two fishing boats. Es- (Motor) corted boats into harbour.

Scarborough . Two fishing boats. Es- (Motor) corted boats into harbour.

Troon . . . Schooner Kate, of London . . . . 3Persons rescued.

Whitby (Motor). ¥ive fishing boats. Escorted boats into hour.

Wbitby (Motor). Five fishing boats. Escorted boats into harbour.

The Ramsgate Life-boat rescued from shipwreck the crew, five in number, of the motor barge Phyllis Hudson of London, and the Holyhead (Steam) Life-boat rendered assistance to the Schooner Mary Ann Mandall, of Barrow.

Also voted SITO 16s. 8d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Ballyeotton, Baltimore (Motor), Caister, Dunbar, Gorleston (Motor), Margate No. 1, Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, and Torbay (Motor).

The Holyhead (Steam) Life-boat was also launched.

Granted £43 3s. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Baltimore, Torquay, Walton-on-the-Naze, and Whitehaven.

Voted a special gratuity of one year's wages and also a pension to the widow of HERBERT HARBISON, Assistant Mechanic to the New Brighton Motor Life-boat, who was accidentally drowned, while engaged on Life-boat work, on the 9fch March, 1925.

Reported that the Board ol the Esthonian Red Cross have awarded a Medal and Certificate to WILLIAM: ADAMS, ex-Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, in recognition of the good services rendered to the Esthonian schooner Toogo, on the 2nd November, 1919.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the St. Andrew's Life-boat in.

recognition of an arduoos service on the 23rd December.

Awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, and the sum of £3 toMB. JOHN RASKIN, also £35 to thirteen other men in recognition of their good services in rescuing ten of the eleven members of the crew of the S.S. Claremorris, of Belfast, which was wrecked near Portpatrick, during a whole S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, on the 23rd December, 1924. Mr. Rankin, a farmer, arrived first on the scene and, with the help of five men from his farm, established connexion with the wreck by means of a line which was thrown from her. Other helpers came and the shipwrecked men were hauled ashore to safety. The service was performed at considerable personal risk, as the rescuers had to work from the rocks in a gale of wind with a rising tide.

Voted £9 to three men for rescuing the four hands of the schooner Mary Waters, of Jersey, which stranded at Ardrossan, during a strong S.W. gale, with a heavy sea, on the 7th February, 1925. The salvors incurred great risk in effecting the rescue, which was carried out at eleven o'clock at night. The vessel was on the beach, and in approaching her the rescuers' boat was in considerable danger of being capsized and thrown ashore.

Voted £7 to seven men for attempting to render assistance to the schooner Dicdvnda, of Wexford, when she was in distress, during a strong W.N.W. gale with a rough sea, off Greystones, on the 29th January. Although unsuccessful the men made a plucky effort at considerable personal risk. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat went to the schooner and rendered help.

Voted £4 to four men for rescuing the two occupants of a small fishing boat which was in difficulties, having been overtaken by an increasing westerly gale, while out fishing five miles N, by E. of Portmuck, on the 21st November, 1924. Also granted 3*. for petrol consumed. No risk was incurred by the salvors but their timely help saved the small boat, which would have been unable to make the land unaided..