SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE LIFE-BOAT.

299 wrecks occasionally take place. A new life-boat, 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double-banked, has accord- ingly been sent there, and has been placed in a most efficient and commodious boat-house erected for it on an excellent site granted by his Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India. ROBERT KER, Esq., of Auchinraith, N.B., and members of his family, presented this life-boat station complete to the Society, along with a sum of money for its future support, in memory of Mr. KER'S eldest son, who was unfortunately drowned on the coast of the same county (Argyleshire) in which this memorial boat is placed. A neat tablet, carved in Aubigny stone, has been placed on the front of the life-boat house, with the following inscription on it: In tcman'am.

JOHN RONALD KER, DROWNED ON 26TH OCTOBER, 1867, of HIS 22ND YEAR

The boat, which is named the John R, Ker, was publicly launched at its station for the first time on the 21st June last, under the superintendence of Capt. D. ROBERTSON, R.N., the Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats to the Society. It should be mentioned that, at the benevolent donor's request, a house for the coxswain of the life-boat has been built connected with the boathouse.

LLANDULAS, NORTH WALES.—In the July number of the ' Life-boat Journal,' p, 237, we briefly reported that the Institution had sent a self-righting life-boat and transporting carriage to Rhyl, and added that they were to be kept there while the tubular boat on that station went to Liverpool to be repaired, and that ultimately the new boat and carriage would be stationed either at Llandulas or Abergele, whichever might be considered the best situation. We are now able to state that Llandulas has been chosen as the most eligible spot, the people of the neigh- bourhood being also most anxious to have the boat, and there being an excellent site available for a life-boat house, a good beach for launching, and a competent crew to work the boat. This is one of the fourteen life-boats presented to the Institution through its Manchester Branch, and was the gift of the late HENRY NIXSON, Esq., of Manchester, after whom it is named, and who had previously presented the Maryport life-boat to the Society. R. B. HESKETH, Esq., of Gwyrch Castle, presented the site for the boat-house, and liberally defrayed the entire cost of the building. The life- boat station was publicly inaugurated on the 25th September last; a procession was formed, which met the boat on its way from Rhyl, and escorted it to Llandulas, where the boat was launched after an appropriate prayer had been offered up by the Rev. J. DAVIES, the Hon. Secretary to the Llandu- las Branch of the Society.

MONTROSE, N.B.—The Montrose life- boat station has recently been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the Society has sent to that place a new life-boat, 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, and pulling 10 oars. It is provided with a transporting-carriage, and a substantial house has been erected for them on ~a convenient site obligingly granted by the Town Council. A launching way is also being constructed for the boat. The foundation stone of the house was laid with masonic honours on the 3rd July last by HENRY LINDSAY, Esq., then Collector of Customs at Montrose, who was acting as Honorary Secretary of the Branch, and who had occupied a similar position when Collector at Maryport, and had rendered most efficient service to the Institution in those capacities. The Montrose new life- boat was the gift of the merchants of Mincing Lane, who had also presented a sum of money to the Society to assist it in maintaining hereafter the station. At their request the boat is named the Mincing Lane. It was publicly exhibited and launched at Montrose on the 7th August, under the supervision of Capt. WARD, R.N., the Inspector of Life-boats to the Institution. The boat, gaily decked, was drawn through the town in procession ac- companied by bands of music, &c. The day was kept as a general holiday, and many thousands of persons were present to witness the proceedings. The boat was named, in the usual manner, by Mrs. LIND- SAY ; and, after being launched from the carriage, it was taken into the dock, and there upset twice under a crane to exhibit the self-righting and self-ejecting properties.

The life-boat was much admired, and every- thing connected with the demonstration passed off in the most satisfactory manner.

A public dinner was subsequently given, at which the toast in honour of the Institu- tion was most enthusiastically received.

The Caledonian Railway Company kindly gave this Life-boat and Carriage a free con- veyance over their line from Carlisle to Montrose. * FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—Another | life-boat has been placed on this station by i the Institution. The one sent there some j years since was one of the smaller class of i boats, and great difficulty was found in I launching it over the very flat and soft j beach; and as It was found that a larger ; boat was required for more distant services, a very fine twelve-oared double-banked boat, 35 J feet long and 8 feet wide, has been provided for the locality. The house erect- ing for the boat is placed in such a position that the life-boat can readily be launched to windward, where it will command the whole of the adjacent coast, leaving the original six- oared boat, the Sir Edward Perrott, to go off to the smaller class of vessels getting ashore near the beach. The expense of this large life-boat was defrayed from a fund collected by Captain F. SAUMAREZ FRASER, R.N., in the city and county of Worcester, this being the second boat that officer had been in- strumental in presenting to the Society, his first one, the City of Worcester, being stationed at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. In compliment to him, the Institution has called the Fishguard large life-boat the Fraser, so as to perpetuate his indefatigable exertions on behalf of the Life-boat cause, extending over some years. His boat was taken to Worcester, en route to its station, and on the 30th August it was drawn through the principal streets of the city, accompanied by a very large procession, and great numbers of people, all the local employers of labour having given their work- people a holiday, to enable them to take part in the demonstration. Having been taken to Pitchcroft, on the banks of the Severn, near the grand stand on the race- course, the boat was formally presented to the Society's representative on this occasion —the Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats. It was then named by Mrs. HENRY JONES, Captain FEASER'S daughter, and launched into the river, manned by an amateur crew of oarsmen belonging to the local rowing- clubs. These gentlemen put the boat through various evolutions, and ultimately, with some difficulty, the life-boat was capsized, the vo- lunteer crew going round in it, Some of them also jumped into the water, to demonstrate the value of the life-belts provided as usual for the life-boatmen. The boat was subse- quently forwarded on to its destination, and, on arriving there, was tried by its crew, who were much pleased with it. From Milford the boat was kindly towed to Fish- guard by the Trinity steamer.

DUNCANNON, WATERFORD HARBOUR.— The Society has recently forwarded a new life-boat, 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, and pulling 10 oars, to Duncannon, at the en- trance to Waterford Harbour, near the bar which runs across the river between Dun- cannon and Credan Head. There are a large number of resident fishermen to work the boat, and steamers are nearly always available to tow it out when wanted; and although'wrecks are not very frequent in the neighbourhood, still the people of Waterford were very anxious to have a life-boat for theiy estuaiy. There are good roads in the vicinity of the life-boat house, which Las been built on a convenient site kindly granted by the War Department, and the boat can be taken on its transporting-carriage along those roads, if necessary, to be launched either in the Bay inside Hook Point, or at Fethard to the east. The expense of the boat and its equipment has been met by legacies left to the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION by the late Mrs. and Miss WARNER of Lyncombe, Somerset, and the boat is named the Richard and Jane Warner. On the 20th September a demon- stration took place at Waterford on the life- boat arriving in that city. The boat was taken through the principal streets on its carriage, and was launched off the Quay, after being named by the Marchioness of ELY ; and the usual trials were then gone through with it, in the presence of a great number of people. It was subsequently taken to its station at Duncannon, where the crew were exercised in their new boat— all the proceedings being under the superin- tendence of the Assistant-Inspector of Life- boats. Messrs. MALCOLMSON BROTHERS, of London and Waterford, kindly gave the life- boat and its carriage a free conveyance to the last-named place on board one of their steamers.

- SOLVA, NEAR ST. DAVID'S.—As briefly noted in our last Number, the Institution has formed a life-boat station at Solva, Pem- brokeshire, for service on the south side of St. David's Head and in St. Bride's Bay.

It is a rock-bound coast, but a good crew can always be secured there for a life-boat, and one has been sent in the hope that it may be of service in the event of any ship

SALCOMBE, DEVON.—Another life-boat establishment has also been organized by the Society on the Coast of Devonshire, ! the boat, which is named the Mary Ann wrecks occurring in that locality in future.

Like the St. Justinian Life-boat Establish- ment, this station will be under the manage- ment of the Committee of the St. David's branch of the Institution. The boat pro- vided is one of the 10-oared 33 feet class, and for it a house is being erected on ground granted by the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. The entire expense of the life-boat establishment is the gift to the Institution of a benevolent lady, in memory of her deceased husband, who had been for many years an active and esteemed Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution; the boat is named the Charles and Margaret. It was publicly inaugurated at Solva on the llth September, being named by Miss WILLIAMS before being launched to exercise the crew. The boat had been sent vid Milford Haven, from which place it was towed to its station by the Trinity steamer. It had to encounter a heavy sea, particularly in the " tide race," but towed very well, shipping but little water in the passage.

SIDMOUTH, DEVON.—With the co-opera- tion of the local residents, who were anxious that Sidmouth should be provided with a life-boat, that they might be in a position to succour the crews of any vessels that might be wrecked there, and by the liberality of Mrs. REMINGTON of London, who through the Devon Central Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION gave the cost, 4201., of the boat and equipment, the Institution has been enabled to form a life-boat station at this place, where there are plenty of com- petent men to form the crew of the boat.

A good boat-house has been erected, and a 33 feet 10-oared life-boat and transport- ing carriage placed therein. Tire station was inaugurated publicly on the 25th Sep- tember, the Inspector of Life-boats attending on behalf of the Society. The usual cere- monial was gone through, the task of naming the boat the Remington being performed by Mrs. THORNTON, the wife of R. N. THORNTON, Esq., a liberal contributor to the local fund. Several thousand persons assembled to give the boat a hearty welcome, and enthusiastic cheers for the Institution and the benevolent donor were given by them in acknowledgment of the munificent gift thus presented to the town.

at Salcombe, a port where there is some trade, and where there is a good supply of men to work the boat. In September last a life-boat—a 33 feet, 10-oared one—and a transporting - carriage were accordingly sent there, and a very handsome house is being provided for their reception.

RICHARD DURANT, Esq., of Sharpham, had munificently defrayed the whole cost of the j Life-boat Establishment, and the boat, at ! his desire, has been named the Rescue. It ' was publicly launched at Kingsbridge on the 21st September—being first met at [ the entrance to that town by a large portion i of the inhabitants, including the public au- ! thorities, the Local Life-boat Committee, the officer, and a large number of the men, of the Coast Guard in the Salcombe Divi- sion, Foresters, Odd Fellows, pilots, and fishermen of Salcombe, school-children, &c., and the local Rifle and Artillery Corps. A procession was formed, and, accompanied by three bands of music, and a goodly show of flags and banners, the life-boat was es- corted to the head of the harbour, where the boat was formally presented to the Society by Mr. DURANT, and then named in the usual way by that gentleman's daughter, Miss DURANT. The Earl of DEVON, P. C., kindly presented the site on which to erect the boat-house. The life-boat was afterwards launched, and when it had been tested by being capsized under a crane to show its self-righting and other qualities, it was rowed to Salcombe by its crew. The Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Rail- way Companies kindly carried the boat and carriage free over their line to the Kings- bridge Road Railway Station.

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A life- boat for service to the crews of vessels getting on the Manacles Rocks, at the western side of Falmouth Bay, has been stationed at the fishing village of Porthou- stock, to the N.Wd. of those rocks, the boatmen of the place having expressed I a great desire to have such a boat com-mitted to their charge, promising their I hearty co-operation, by its means, when re-quired to save life from shipwreck. A boat, I 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 j oars, double-banked — furnished with a ! transporting carriage, and having a house provided as usual, has accordingly been handed over to the charge of the Local Committee appointed to look after the life-boat establishment. The expense of Story, had been met by a legacy bequeathed to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the late Mrs. MARY ANN STORY, of Kensington, who had expressed a wish that a life-boat might be named after her. The inauguration of the station took place on the 28th September, when about three thousand persons assembled to witness the reception and launch of the life-boat. WILLIAM TREVENNEN, Esq., President of the Local Committee, received the boat from the Institution's Inspector of Life-boats, and it was named by Miss SMEDLEY, who has taken much interest in the formation of the Porthoustock Life-boat Establishment.

After being launched and tried under sails and oars, the boat was twice upset alongside a pilot cutter, some of the crew going round in the boat. A public tea was given on the occasion in the boat-house, the farmers' wives, in accordance with a local custom, supplying the refreshments, and a good sum was thereby realized for the Life-boat Fund. This boat was also granted a free conveyance over the lines of the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway Com- panies.

MEVAGISSEY, CORNWALL.—This place has likewise been chosen as one of the stations of the Institution, the local residents being of opinion that it was highly desirable to have a life-boat establishment there, and giving their hearty co-operation in its forma- tion. The boat sent is a sister one to that at Porthoustock, a transporting-carriage j and boathouse being also provided as usual, j The boat is the gift of Sir ROBERT N. C. HAMILTON, Bart., K.C.B., and his friends and others in South Warwickshire, and at the desire of the donors it has been named the South Warwickshire. The demonstra- tion on the occasion of the launch was of a most pleasing character. It took place at Mevagissey on the 2nd October. The Honourable Mrs. TREMAINE performed with much eclat the ceremony of naming the boat. In addition to the usual prayer given by the vicar of the parish, the Rev.

H. A. BAUMGARTNER, a harmonium had been brought to the beach, and an appro- priate " Hymn for those at Sea " was sung by the children of the national school. The Institution was again indebted to the kind- ness of the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway Companies for the free conveyance of this life-boat from Bristol to the nearest railway point to its station.

PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL—The third life- boat placed by the Institution within a few weeks on the coast of Cornwall has been I forwarded to Port Isaac, the people in that ! locality having asked to be provided with a life-boat, which, it was thought, would pro- bably be useful there, especially to the crews I of fishing-boats, which sometimes had to run I for the port at great risk. There were also 1 sufficient boatmen to act as the crew of the I boat, and a Local Committee of resident ! gentlemen was readily formed to look after ! the station. The site for the. boat-house was presented by Lord ROBARTES, who has ever been ready to help forward the life- boat cause in Cornwall. The boat sent was a 32-feet 10-oared one, with 1 feet beam, and is provided with a transporting- carriage ; both were obligingly carried free to the nearest railway station to Port Isaac from Bristol by the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway Compa- nies. As usual a warm welcome was given to the boat by the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, who turned out in large numbers to meet it on its arrival and launch on the coast, Miss TREVAN, daughter of the Chairman of the Local Committee, performing the ceremony of naming the boat. The cost of this Life-boat Establishment was given to the Society, through its Devon Central Branch, by Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD THORN- TON WEST, of Streatham and Exeter, the boat being named the Micliard and Sarah, after the donors, who had on a previous occasion defrayed the entire expense of forming a Life-boat Establishment at West Wittering, Chichester Harbour.