UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great Lakes).

437 persons were " succoured," but it is nob clear from the Report what the precise meaning of this term is.

At the close of the year under review the American Life-Saving Service was managing and administering 285 Stations. There were 68 Self-righting Life-boats, 28 of them being 36-foot boats and 40 of them being 34-foot boats: Besides, there were 58 Beebe- McLellan Motor Life-boats. It is interesting to note that of the 4,096 imperilled persons who were taken ashore or to other places of safety by the Life-Saving crews during the year, 2,748 were transported in motor boats.

FEA.NCE.

The Annual Report for 1913 gives a record of 664 lives saved, 431 of which were saved by the Life-boats or the Rocket Apparatus of the Society, while 233 were saved by other means. The total saved by the Society up to the 1st January, 1914, since its foundation in 1865, now amounts to 16,517, while rewards have been granted for the saving of a total of 21,324 lives.

GERMANY.

The Annual Report of this Society for the year 1913-1914 shows that theactivity of the Life-Saving Stations was effective in saving life on 23 occasions, and resulted in the saving of 127 persons, 76 of whom were saved by Life-boats, and 51 by the Rocket Apparatus. This brings the total of lives saved by the Society since its foundation to 3,997.

The German Society has 133 Life- Saving Stations; 86 in the Baltic and 47 in the North Sea. Sixty-four are double Stations, i.e., they are provided both with a Life-boat and a Rocket Apparatus; 52 are Life-boat Stations only; and 17 are provided only with the Rocket Apparatus.

There are 8 open motor boats and 6 decked sailing boats with motors installed.

THE NETHERLANDS.

" De Reddingboot," the magazine of the Noord- en Zuid-Hollandsche Redding- Maatschappij, states that the Society, which was founded in 1824, now has 32 Pulling and Sailing Lifeboats, 2 Motor Boats and 2 Rocket Apparatus Stations. During 1913 the boats were launched thirteen times, and seven of the launches resulted in the saving of 69 lives. The total number of lives saved since the foundation of the Society amounts to 4,479.

SPAIN.

The Journal of the Spanish Life-boat Society for the quarter ending September, 1914, shows that the number of persons saved by the Life-boats and Rocket Apparatus of the Society since, its foundation in 1880 is 1,399, while 9,373 persons have been saved by other means, rewards being given by the Society in all these cases. In addition 103 vessels have been saved by the Society.

NORWAY.

The report of the Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning for 1913-1914 states that 92 men and 29 vessels were saved during that period. Two new Life-boats were placed on their Stations..