FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the committee of management, Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer, and Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., of The Humber.

The four appeals brought a response of £17,052.

Coxswain Blogg: Talks to the World Besides these appeals, there was a large number of broadcasts. The first was by Coxswain Blogg in November, 1939. In the series called In England Now, he described, in an interview, three of his rescues, from the Fernebo, in the war of 1914-1918, from the Sepoy in the years between the wars, and from the Mount Ida, the first life-boat service in the 1939-45 war to win a medal for gallantry. This talk was broadcast direct to Europe, the West Indies, South America (north of the Amazon), Africa, India, Malaya, Western Australia, Eastern Canada, United States of America, and the Far East. A record was taken and it was later broadcast twice again, first to Europe, Africa, the whole of Canada, and the United States, and then to all Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Africa, the Near East (Palestine, Turkey, etc.), and the Far East.

"Into Battle" Coxswain Blogg again spoke, in October, 1941, in In Town - To-night, describing the rescue of the crew of six steamers wrecked in convoy on the Haisborough Sands on 6th August 1941. On 4th March (the birthday of the Institution), 1942, a recorded talk by him was broadcast in the Foreign Service. His broadcast appeal came eleven days later, and at the end of the month in an interview he again 'described the service to the six steamers, and the work of the station since the outbreak of war, in the series Democracy Marches, in the North American Service. Then, in August of the same year, the stories of this same service, and of the service to the English Trader, in October, 1941, when Coxswain Blogg and four of his crew were washed overboard, were told in the series Into Battle. Coxswain Blogg was also one of the characters (described as the "all-time Superman of the Life-boat Service") in a half-hour sketch called "An American in England—Life in an East Coast Town," in which the narrator described the life of Cromer, and talked with various Cromer people.

The parts of the people, including Coxswain Blogg, were taken by actors.

The sketch was broadcast throughout the United States by the Columbia Broadcasting System in December, 1942, and was given in the British Home Service in the following January.

In the Humber and the Thames In December, 1941, Coxswain Robert Cross spoke of the work in war of the station on The Humber in the one o'clock news in the Home and Forces Programmes.

Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, spoke twice. In March, 1940, he was in In Town To-night, in the Home Programme, describing the work of his station in peace and war, and in January, 1943, he spoke about it again in the Forces Programme in A Call for the Life-boat.

Southend was again on the air in October, 1940, when the Joint Broadcasting Committee made a trip in the life-boat and recorded it, the record being broadcast to foreign countries.

Coxswain Albert Spurgeon, of Lowestoft, did a short recorded talk describing how he won the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of a naval vessel, and carried on for nine hours with a threeinch cut in his jaw. This talk went out on the Radio News Reels North American Service in November, 1943, and in the Pacific Service in December.

Scottish Coxswains on the Air Three Scottish coxswains broadcast, Andrew Mearns, of Montrose, in the postscript to the one o'clock news, in the Home and Forces Programmes, in January, 1942, describing how he and two of his crew were thrown out of the life-boat when she nearly capsized, in the previous November; Francis Mair, of Buckie, describing in the Scottish Magazine in December, 1942, how he rescued the crew of an R.A.F. launch in the previous September; and James Coule, of Broughty Ferry, taking part in the description of a visit which he and his crew paid to an Air Force Station. Captain A. Stephen, honorary secretary at Fraserburgh, who won the silver and bronze medals for gallantry, broadcast twice, describing rescues at Fraserburgh, in In Town To-night in December, 1940, and in the one o'clock news in the following January.

Another speaker in In Town To-night was Commander J. D. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., in December, 1940, describing the work of the .stations on the east coast since the outbreak of war, and his own experiences on service as a district inspector.

Margate's Four Broadcasts Margate was on the air four times.

In May, 1940, in the fortnightly News Letter for the Empire and Overseas, and later in the Magazine for the Empire and Overseas, an account was given of the work of the station since the outbreak of war. In October, 1942, Mr. Raymond Glendenning visited the station and did a fifteen-minute broadcast called Launching of the Margate Life-boat, which included the words of command and sounds of the launch, and talks with Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, D.S.M., and his crew.

Later, extracts from this broadcast were given in the weekly review, in the Overseas Services, of life in Great Britain, called Behind the Battle Front.

Coxswain Parker was also heard in Here in Britain in May, 1942, in an account on the eastern transmission of the history and work of the Life-boat Service. It included a recorded talk by Coxswain Parker on the Margate life-boat helping to bring off the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk* and a recorded talk by Lieut.-Col. C. R.

Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, on the Institution's work.

An Irish Coxswain's Bravery A distinguished Irish coxswain, Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co.

Down, who, during the war, won the gold medal, and the bronze medal twice, figured in the series Marching On in the Home and Forces Programmes in August, 1942, in a broadcast called • Life-boatman Murphy.

Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., the honorary secretary of the Torbay station was twice on the air, speaking about a war service by his life-boat in the series Transatlantic Call; People to People from Devon, in the Home Service in March, 1944, and again ni December of the same year, when he spoke of another Torbay service in the Forces Programme in World News and Home News from Britain and Canada.

In the Children's Hour in May, 1941, Mr. John Drew, the motor mechanic at Penlee, gave two talks on the Penlee life-boat. In September, 1942, in a programme The Fair Flower of Northumberland, there were accounts in dramatic form of Grace Darling's rescue of the survivors of the Forfarshire. and the meetings of the Gentlemen of the Lawe House, at South Shields, at which the first life-boat was designed.

There was also an interview with Mrs.

Nannie Lisle, of Cullercoats, holder of the Institution's gold badge for collecting. In January, 1944, the Children's Hour had a half-hour talk on how the life-boat was invented, with stories of rescues on the north-east coast of England.

"Strange to Relate" Another historical talk was in January, 1940, in the series Strange to Relate. It was on the remarkable journey of the Lynmouth life-boat, which was dragged across Exmoor to Porlock Weir and there launched, on the night of 12th January, 1899. The talk was repeated in September, 1941.

Lynmouth was again on the air in June, 1943, when the coxswain spoke in a programme on the history of Exmoor.

In January, 1944, there was a talk on the Pacific Service called St. Ives—• Cornwall, which included the work of the St. Ives life-boat station. A general talk on the work of the Institution was given to Latin America in August, 1940, and in March, 1942, Brigadier- General Sir Wyndham Deedes, C.M.G., D.S.O., broadcast a geijeral life-boat talk to Turkey in Turkish. In June* 1943, there was a short general talk to Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, transmitted from the B.B.C., and in October of the same year, a short description of the Sheringham station in the war was broadcast to Canada in French by the Overseas Unit of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"Fishers of Men" Finally, in June, 1941, there was a half-hour programme in the Home Service, written by A. P. Wilson and W. Farquharson Small, called "Fishers of Men, a Short Tribute to the Work of our Life-boats in War Time." It included the share of the life-boats in bringing off the B.E.F. from Dunkirk; the first war service at Aldeburgh; the service by the Troon life-boat to the Moyallon in December, 1940, with the motor mechanic speaking; the Whitby service to the Belgian steamer Charles in February, 1940, when two life-boatmen lost their lives; a service by Selsey to an airman in June, 1940, and the airman's message of gratitude; talks with Coxswain Blogg, Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., the Institution's Consulting Naval Architect, the wives of the coxswain and bowman of Newbiggin, and a dialogue between the Scottish organizing secretary (not speaking in person) and a life-boat day worker..