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St. Mary's (Isles of Scilly),—Dr. W. E, Ivers, of Bryher. Isles of Scilly, bronze medal; Jamos, 'T. Lethbridge, second coxswain, and T. H. Rokahr, motor me- chante, lifeboat at St. Mary's, lales of Scilly, bronze medals; Matthew Lethbridge, coxswain, feboat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, silver medal; Mr. Charles Jenkins, of Bryher, Isles of Scilly, allver medals; three other men, all named Jenkins, bronze .medals.
Lowestoft (Suffolk)-Albert Spur- geon, coxswain, Lowestoft life- boat, silver medal.
William Moelfre (Anglesey). —
Williams, bowman, representing crew of lifeboat at Moelfre, Angclsey, each awarded bronze medal.
Cromer, Great
Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Southwold.- Frank Uperaft, coxswain life- boat at Southwold, bronze medal; George Dalls, second coxswain Cromer lifeboat, representing the crow, each awarded bronze medal. those to whom you will present
The French Ambassador ex- awards for gallantry and for dis- (Anglesoy) lifeboat, for their work
in connection with the rescue of pressed gratitude on behalf of his tinguished services."
the crew of the ketch Excel, on country for the services of the in- The Prince of Wales read this Oct. 21 last, and Coxswain Blogg, stitution's boats in saving French message from the King at the of Cromer, for the rescue of fifteen sailors. Other speakers were the annual meeting of the Royal Na- men from the Dutch steamer Rt. Hon. Philip Snowdon, M.P, tional Lifeboat Institution. over Georgia, on Nov. 22 last year. Dame Caroline Bridgeman, Sir which he presided, at the Central (Cheers.)
William Milligan, Sir Godfrey Hall, Westminster. Appealing for "Coxswain Blogg." anid the Baring, and Sir Richard Williams- help in the provision of motor life- Prince, "who, I can see, is known Bulkeley. boats, the Prince suggested that, to all of you, also holds the V.C. there might be generous persons of the service for the magnificent who would like to present one of rescue of the crew of the Swedish WARSHIP EXPLOSION the boats under construction and steamer Fernebo in January, 1917.” give it a name selected by them- In the course of 104 years this selves, perhaps the name of some double honour stood to the credit of one who made the supremo sacrifice only six other meni-Colonel Six in the war. If so he would person-William Hillary, the founder of the ally welcome such a gift.
institution, who earned the gold Warrant Engineer Harry Edmund A notable feature of the gather-medal three times, and five other Kent, R.N., and James Geo. Brady, ing was the presentation to Cox-mon, all of whom were lieutenants
a. bollermaker, who were killed by swain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, of in the Royal Navy and Coastguard
EXPERTS PUZZLED AS TO CAUSE.
At the Inquest, at Devonport, on
a clasp to the Institution's gold officers, "Blogg's achievement," said an explosion in H.M.S. "Courage- medal-the "V.C." of the service-the Prince, "is one which confers ous," the aircraft carrier, the ver- which he previously won in 1917, honour not only on himself, nos dict was accidental death, caused Coxswain -Blogg is the only man only on the splendid crew which he by the bursting of a retor, there alive and the only coxswain in the leads, nor even only on the Norfolk being no evidence as to the cause. Engineer Lieut.-Commdr. W. J. history of the, institution, as well stations which have a magnificent
as the first man since 1848, to re-record in the annals of the lifeboat, Cole said that the accident occur. ceive the double award. Two other service, but on the whale service, red during the trial. of a bilge presented-whose spirit he iso splendidly pump.. He. could give no theory gold medals were
why the pump burst. There was (Cheers.) the first time since
that embodies." 1914
In a reference to Coxswain Flem-no evidence of any faulty material. three gold medala had been won in
Engineer Commander G. B. Allen. a year, and only the second time ing, of the Great Yarmouth and
Gorleston lifeboat, who was award was also unable to suggest any since 1851.
ed the silver medal, the Prince said, cause of the accident. There was The Prince, in his address, said "He already holds the gold medal no indication of any old fracture he regarded the lifeboat service as for splendid service to the Hopelyn or flaw. It was his opinion that one in which the very beat qualities in October, 1922, and the bronze the disc had burst, the two parts of our race were expressed, not in medal earned on another occasion, going in different directions one supreme effort as in war, but In fact, it might seem as if. Cox-damaging other parts of the ma- in a constant, year to year, day and swain Fleming was a collector of chinery. night output of heroism,
medals, and he wanted to have the ance, and humanity.
complete sot gold, silver, and bronze." (Laughter.)
endur-
Illustrating the endurance of the
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"Since my recent appointment to the high office of Master of the Merchant Navy and of the Fishing crews, the Prince mentioned that Fleets," he continued, "I am even the Southwold rescue lasted thir North wall basin: Wildawan; prouder than before to be in the teen hours, the Moelfre boat was South wall basin: Bruce, Moth; chair, because this second title out for seventeen hours, the Great East wall basin: Nessus, L3, L27; gives me yet another link with this Yarmouth
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working for twenty-one Marazion, Belgol; West wall Dock: crews, which are the very pick of hours, and the Cromer men for Petersfield, Durban; in Dockyard: that splendid body of men our twenty-eight hours. Since that L16, L1, L20, L83; No. 8 buoy:
in date the Ramsgate men, the Verity, Wishart, No. 6 buoy: Whether they looked to the rescue of the crew of the trawler Berwick; No. 7 buoy: Wivern; No. material output in the construction Cyclone, of Boulogne," were fight-8 buoy: Wolverine, Veteran; No. 9 of new lifeboats and slipways, or
for buoy: Foxglove; No. 11 buoy: to the value of the lives saved, the ing for the lives of the crew
No. 12 buoy: society was in the happy position upwards of thirty hours. During Witherington; of always returning a high rate of the year 354 lives in all were saved Iroquois; No. 13 buoy: Wanderor: No. 18 buoy: Ruthenia; No. 19 by lifebeats and shore boats. interest.
buoy: Somme; No. 25 buoy: Saving Homes,
Kharki; oil fuel jetty: Francol;
fishermen" (Cheers.)
The work of the crews was car
ried out mostly in the darkness of "I personally," continued the Kowloon anchorage: Portol. winter nights at remote spots on Prince, "have never had the very Foreign warships: Frenchi the coast, and often nothing fur-unfortunate experience of being Algol (at No. 10 buoy), Vigilante; ther was heard of it than a few shipwrecked, but should this ever Portuguese; Patria; American: lines in the local newspapers. It befall me, and I happen to be in- Hart and Rizal (at No. 4 buoy). therefore required some imagina-
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At present some eighteen motor- lifeboats were being built-seven for England, six for Scotland, three for Ireland, and two for Wales. This was part of the in- stitution's alm of transforming the fleet of pulling and sailing life boats into one of motor-boats, The wisdom of this was obvious. Ex-
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