SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mr. JOHN FERNLEY, of Southport, to defray the cost of a Life-boat to be named the Eliza Fernley, has been appro- priately devoted to providing this new Life-boat, to which that name has accord- ingly been given. A new transporting carriage was sent with the Life-boat; and as the Boat-house at Southport had only recently been re-erected by the Corpora- tion, on a new site under the Promenade, the Establishment is now in a thoroughly re-organised and efficient condition. On i the 30th January last, the new Life-boat, [ accompanied by the band of the local Vounteer corps, was drawn on its carriage through the principal streets of the town six splendid horses beiag lent for its use by the town authorities. On arriving at the beach, it was named in the usual way by Miss FERNLEY, a niece of the deceased gentleman before mentioned. It was then launched and tried by the crew, who were well pleased with the new boat.

In accordance with the usual custom of the Institution, when a boat has become unfit for further work, a framed metal tablet has been placed in the Boat-house, recording the gift and services of the previous boat at Southport. The in- scription thereon is as follows:—SOUTHPORT LIFE-BOAT STATION ROYAL NATIONAL THE first Life-boat placed on this Station by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was sent here in 1861. It was presented to the Institution by JAMES KHOWLXS, Esq., of Eagley Bank, near Bolton, and was named THE JESSIE KNOWLES.

In 1873 that Life-boat was replaced by another, after having saved 75 lives from the following wrecked •Teasels.

Lives saved.

20th October, 1862, Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore ........ 4 20th September, 1863, Barque St. Lawrence, of Liverpool— saved vessel and crew . 14 31st October „ Barque Tamworth, of Skien, Norway ........ 17 4th December ., Ship David White Clinton ........... 8 20th October, 1864, Sloop Liver, of Carnarvon ........... 3 2nd February, 1867, Sloop Peneverance, of Liverpool . ........ 2 Schooner William Wallace, of Dundalk—saved vessel and crew 15th December, 1870, Schooner Jesiie, of Gourock 26th August, 1871, Barque Times, of Liverpool 14th December „ Barque J&aneille—remained by vessel.

Total .

13th March, 1868, Ship Jfielaux, of St. John's, N.B.— rendered assistance.

8th August, 1869, - - ' - ..... --- . 

Besides the before-mentioned tablet, an- swain of the Southport Life-boats, who other on the same plan has, at the wish of died a few weeks before the arrival of the Local Committee, been provided, and 1 the new boat. His numerous services ia put by the side of the other, as a record of j the Life-boats are detailed as follows : — the good services of tie late brave cox- THIS TABLET Is placed in the Boat-house by the Institution a» a record of the long and faithful services in the cause of humanity of the late WILLIAM ROCKUTF, who, for upwards of thirty years, commanded the Rescue and the Jessie Knotaks Life-boats.

ln the Rescue Life-boat be.jraa instrumental in saving 175 lives, as enumerated below ; and in" tie Jessie Knowles Life-boat 75 lives, as recorded on the other Tablet in this House.

NUMBER OF LIVES SAVED.

Liberty, of Carnarvon ...... 5 Portland, of Glasgow ....'. 9 Sell, of Drogheda 6 Ceres, of Padstovr 6 Alexander, of New York .... 22 Jane and Alice 1 Alice, of Conway 3 Pent, of Drogheda 5 Trite She, of ficlov 14 Howard, of Liverpool 24 Brian Boron, of Runcorn .... 5 Susannah Gumming, of Liverpool, N.B. 9 Ebenezer, of Preston 4 Catherine, of Havannah. .... 9 John, of Bangor ....... 2 Diana, of Liverpool 22 Melbourne, of Liverpool .... 21 Mineral, of Barrow 3 Monmnoil, of Preston 2 Hope, of Dublin ........ 3 175 Total February 1874.

SHIPS AND CBEWS SAVED.

Mary, of Liverpool.

A Dutch brig from Amsterdam.

Pilot, of "Wexford.

Minew, of Cork.

JBoswvrth, of Whitby.

farter, of Liverpool.

American, of Liverpool, Henry Winch, of Liverpool.

Broomilaw, of Glasgow.

Jane, of Kirkcudbright.

James Christian, of Douglas.

Commerce, of Penzance.

Sate, of Liverpool.

Hero, of Preston.

Antilles, of Glasgow.

RALPH BAKTON, Vice-Admiral, Honorary Secretary of the Southpoit Branch of the Institution.

STONEHAVEN, N.15. — This Life-boat, which met with sneh an unfortunate acci- dent on the 27th of February last, was so much damaged by being violently dashed by the heavy seas for hours against the large stones and masses of rock at the back of Aberdeen Pier, after she was aban- doned, that it was found impracticable to repair her. Still the way in which the boat passed through this trying ordeal, which would have destroyed any ordinary boat in a very short space of time, demon- strated in a most striking manner the great strength of the diagonal principle of boat-building, carried out in the self-right- ing Life-boats of the Institution, and the ample security that is, in that respect, given to the crews who work those boats.

Even in its injured condition the Life- boat had not lost its powers of flotation.

In March last the NATIONAL- LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION sent a new 33-feet, 10-oared 1 Life-boat to Stonehaven, the boat being •' named the Star. The Assistant Inspector of Life-boats found no difficulty in pro- curing a crew for the new boat when he ; took her out for her first exercise, and i they were much pleased with her behaviour ; on the occasion, the wind blowing hard ! off the land at the time. It should be mentioned that the Aberdeen Steam Navi- I gatiou Company readily granted the dam- : aged boat a free conveyance to London on board one of their steamers..