Thursday, 14th January, 1915.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Voted the best thanks of the Institution to the REV. JOHN BROWN, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Hon. Secretary of the Gourdon Branch, which office he had just resigned.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations:— Northern District. — Cresswell, Boulmer, Alnmouth, Hauxley, Newbiggin, North Sunderland.

Irish District.—Howth, Wicklow, Kingstown, Poolbeg.

Southern District.—North Deal, Kingsdowne.

Also the reports of the Chairman of the Worthing Branch on his visits to Worthing, Brighton, Littlehampton.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the previous meeting :— £ s. d.

WHITBY MOTOR LIFE-BOAT FUND (per Capt. J. MILBURN) . . 1500 - - Mr. HOLDSWORTH LUNN and Mr. CONNOR P. S. PEROWNE for a Life-boat to be named the " Phyllis Lunn " 1900 - - CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND (per W. FORTESCUE BARATT, Esq.) 1142 17 5 Fethard Disaster Fund Committee 02 16 - Mrs. COOK 50 - - Miss B. DRUMMOND . . . . 50 - - Miss EMILY SMITH 25 - - Mr. J. D. CULLING WORTH . . . 20 - Mr. G. C. WHITAKER . . . . 20 - - "M. H." 15 - - Mr. H. ROBERTSON . . . . 15 - - Mr. P. 0. BROWN 14 - - The EARL OF DYSART . . . . 10 - - —To be severally thanked.

Reported the receipt of the following legacies:— £ s. j.

The late Mr. ALFRED H. PETT. of Hastings 1000 - - The late Mrs. MARY HEATH, of £ s. d.

Stafford 500 - - The late Miss K. CROTTY, of Astley Guise ". 496 13 5 The late Miss EMILY JONES, of London 225 9 10 The late Mr. C. AUBREY, of Durham - 180 - - The late Mr. EZEKIEL J. COHEN, of Stratford 153 16 1 The late Mr. WILLIAM McCuNN, of Largs (on account) . . . 150 - - The late MISS~HANNAH BLOXHAM, of Chester 95 4 6 The late Mr. J. P. HILTON, of Southport 90 - - The late Miss LUCIE HOUGH, of Ansdell (balance) . . . 79 5 10 The late Mrs. M. B. PITTMAN, of Leeds 50 - - The late Mr. C. C. BAILY, of Brighton (interest) . . . . 37 10 - The late Mr. WILLIAM STANSFIELD, of Sidcup (on account) . 3 16 - Paid £6,333 10s. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £387 14s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Abersoch . . Schooner Waterlily, of Barnstaple. Landed 3.

Abersoch . . Schooner Waterlily, of Barnstaple. . . . 3 Abersoch . . Schooner Sarah Ann Widdup . . . . 1 Ballycotton . S.S. Pinna, of London.

1 Stood by vessel.

Broughty Ferry An Admiralty Seaplane.

(Motor) Cambois Campbeltown No. 1 (Motor) Grail . . .

Filey . . .

Girvan .

Hayle . . .

Ilfracombe Kilmore Saved Seaplane and S.S. Tresfond, of Stavauger.

Stood by vessel.

Schooner La Fiancee, of Paimpol. Landed 4.

A Torpedo-boat Destroyer S.S. Boston, of Christiania Took a doctor to Ailsa Craig.

S.S. Cedarwood, of Middlesbrough. Stood by vessel.

Fishing-boat Fearless, of Ilfracombe. Saved boat a n d . . . .

Lauded an injured man from the Barrels Lightship.

Life-boat.

Llandudno Lowestoft .

Margate No. 2 Margate No. 2 Minehead .

Moelfre Moelfre Moelfre Newhaven (Motor) North Deal North. Sunderland North Sunderland Poole . . .

Lives Vessel. saved.

Fishing-boat Nellie, of Llandudno. Rendered assistance.

Trawler Boy Claude, of Lowestoft . . . 4 Barge Eileen, of Grays.

Stood by vessel.

Barge Circe, of London 3 Fishing-boats Lucille and Pearl, of Minehead 4 Ketch Jehoiah Wick, of Hoylake . . . . 4 Smack Vigilant, of Hoylake . . . . 4 Steam trawler Goosander, of Liverpool.

Stood by vessel.

Barge Nell and Jess, of Ipswich. Stood by vessel.

H.M. Fleet Auxiliary Montrose . . . . 4 S.S. Emma, of Gefle . 17 Boat of S.S. Emma, of Gefle . . . . . 3 Fishing-boat The Eclipse, of Poole.

Saved boat and . . 2 Ramsey . . Schooner J. H. Barrow, of Lancaster.

St. Andrews . A Torpedo-boat Destroyer 13 Scarborough . S.S. Leersum, of Amsterdam 17 Scarborough . S.S. Oallier, of London.

Landed 1 and rendered assistance.

Southend - on - Barge Outsider, of Roch- Sea ester. Stood by vessel.

Stromness Admiralty Mine-sweeper (Motor) Orsina. Stood by vessel.

Stromness Admiralty Mirie-sweeper (Motor) Lorenzo 10 Stonehaven . Nine Fishing-boats of Stonehaven and Gourdon.

Stood by boats.

Thurso . . . Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albatross. Stood by vessel.

Weymouth . Schooner Ardente, of Pampora . . . . 5 Whitburn . . Submarine C 12. Landed lfl( and rendered assistance.

Whitby No. 2 Coble Harvest Home, of Whitby. Saved coble and 1 Yarmouth . . Schooner Union, of Portsmouth. Assisted to save vessel and . 4 Clacton-on-Sea (Motor) Life-boat assisted to save the barge Lorna, of Grays, the barge Five Brothers, of Rochester, and the barge Renown, of London, and her two hands; Margate No. 2 Life-boat assisted to save the ketch Ivy, of Falmouth, and her crew of four; North Deal Life-boat rendered assistance to the S.S. Batjan, of Amsterdam; Redcar Lifeboat stood by the S.S. Meadowfield, of Glasgow; Scarborough Life-boat rendered assistance to the S.S. Gallier, of London, and to the Admiralty Mine-Sweeper No. 48; Southend-on-Sea Life-boat saved the barge Eliza, of Rochester, and landed her two hands, assisted to save the steam-tug Woodcock, of London, and her crew of four, and also assisted to save the barge John Tinnoth, of Rochester, and her two hands; Walton-on the- Naze (Motor) Life-boat saved the barge O. L. S., of London; and Whitby No. 2 Life-boat assisted to save the S.S. fane, of Bergen, also the S.S. Peveril, of Leith.

Also voted £1,599 13s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Aldeburgh No. 1, Arbroath, Blakeney, Bridlington Quay, Broughty Ferry (Motor), Buckhaven, Cemaes, Cromer, Donna Nook, Dunbar, Dungeness No. 1, Easington, Eastbourne No. 2, Falmouth, Filey, Fleetwood, Formby, Gorleston No. 1, Gourdon, Greencastle, Grimsby, Harwich (Steam), Holy Island No. 1, Kingsdowne, Littlehampton, Lowestoft, Lyme Regis, Margate No. 2, Mumbles, Newbiggin, Newhaven (Motor), North Deal, Palling No. 2, Penlee, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Piel (Barrow), Polkerris, Redcar, Runswick, St. Andrews, Scarborough, Sennen Cove, Skerries, Southwold No. 1, Stronsay (Motor), Tenby, Upgang, Wexford, Weymouth, Whitby Nos. 1 and 2, and Worthing. The Ramsgate Life-boat was also launched.

Voted £38 Is. 9d. to men injured in the Life-boat service at Blackpool, Gorleston, Minehead, and Newhaven.

Voted, with a deep expression of sympathy, the sum of £860 towards the widows and dependent relatives of the three men who lost their lives in connexion with the wreck of the Peterhead No. 2 Motor Life-boat when launched on service, in a whole S.S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 26th December.

Also granted an additional reward to the men who formed the crew of the boat on this occasion.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, Coxswain of the Crail Life-boat, and granted him and each of the crew an additional monetary reward, in recognition of their gallant services in rescuing, in three trips, fifty-four of the crew of one of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, which was wrecked near Kingsbarns on the 27th December. Also granted an additional reward to the crew of the St. Andrew's Life-boat for rescuing the remainder of the crew, thirteen in number. Reported that a letter of thanks had been received from the Admiral Commanding the Coast of Scotland, expressing his appreciation of the services rendered by the crews of these two Life-boats.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, together with the sum of £2, to ROBERT BROWN, also £2 each to two other men, for their gallant conduct in putting off in a small boat and saving two naval airmen, whose machine was in distress off Kingsbarns on the 1st January. It was blowing a strong S.E. by E. gale, and a very heavy sea was running, and the salvors incurred great risk in effecting the rescue.

Voted additional rewards to the crews of the Lyme Regis, Newhaven (Motor), North Deal, and Weymouth Life-boats, for arduous services performed under very severe conditions of weather during December.

Voted £30 in compensation for a horse which fell dead on the occasion of the launch of the Hoylake Life-boat on the 5th December.

Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, together with a sum of £2, to DAVID WATT, and £2 each to two other men who assisted him, for their very meritorious services and skilful seamanship, in rescuing the crew of five hands of the motor fishing-boat M.E. 129, which was wrecked off Gourdon Harbour in a strong S. gale and very heavy sea on the 2nd December. In this case the salvors incurred great risk; on one occasion their boat struck the rock on which the fishing-boat had been wrecked.

Voted £4 to four men for saving two men belonging to the fishing-boat Onward, of Liverpool, which stranded off Southport on the 28th November. There was a strong W.S.W. breeze at the time with considerable sea, and in performing the rescue the salvors were subjected to considerable risk. Four other men assisted in the work of rescue, arid were granted the sum of 10s. each.

Voted £6 to six men for saving the crew of three hands of the fishing-boat Orient, of Walberswick, which was swamped during a moderate S.W. gale and rough sea near Southwold Harbour, on the 6th December.

The salvors incurred considerable risk.

Voted £1 to two men for rescuing, at slight risk, five Belgian refugee boys, who were drifting out to sea in a small boat, off Lowestoft, on the 13th December. When the boys were picked up they were in a very exhausted condition, and they would have been lost had it not been for the prompt action of the salvors.

Voted £2 to four men for putting off in a boat and saving the crew of four bands of the fishing-boat Aline, of Arbroath, which sank near the Bell Bock after a collision on the 23rd December. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing at the time with a rough sea, and the damaged boat sank just as the endangered men had been taken off by the salvors.

Thursday, 11th February, 1915.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the Irish District Inspector on his visits to the following Life- Boat Stations:—Irish District.—Groomsport, Greencastle, Aranmore, Portrush, Cloughey, Donaghadee, Newcastle (Down), Blackrock, Greenore, Clogher Head, Drogheda, Skerries.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the previous meeting:— £ s. d.

Anonymous 50 - - Mr. W. H. A. WHARTON (annual subscription) 20 - - Mr. B. M. C. HIGGENS . . . 15 - - Mrs. C. BISCHOFFSHEIM . . . 10 10 - Mrs. B.HQRLEY BURY . . . . 10 - - Miss BARBARA M. L. GLOVER (collection) 7 - ~ —To be severally thanked.

Reported the receipt of the following The late Mr. JOHN H. DAVIS, of £ s. d.

Taunton (further on account) . 1000 - - The late Miss E. CHAGGS, of York . 200 - - The late Mr. T. SALISBURY, of Southport 100 - - The late Mr. HENRY LETT, of Bexley Heath 25 - - The late Mr. W. F. VEALE, of Great Yarmouth 99- The late Mr. THOMAS T. TAYLOR, of London, S.E. (further on account) - 11 6 Reported the dispatch to her Station of the new Arklow Motor Life-boat.

Reported the temporary closing of the Stronsay Station.

Paid £5,612 17s. &d. for sundry charges iu connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £357 6s. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Clacton-on-Sea Admiralty Mine-sweeper (Motor) Eaton. Stood by vessel.

Cromer . . S.&.New Oporto, of West Hartlepool. . . . 7 Cromer . . Ketch Thomas Stratton, of Maldon. Assisted to save vessel and . 4 Fishguard Schooner Hetty, of Fal- (Motor) mouth 4 Gorleston No. 1 H.M. Submarine E 11.

Stood by submarine.

Harwich S.S. Obidense, of Bergen.

(Steam) Landed 25 . . . 2 Life-boat.

Lowestoft .

Lynmouth.

Moelfre.

Montrose No.l.

Palling No. 2.

Redcar .

Walton-on-the- Naze (Motor) Western - super- Mare Vessel.

Barge Sirdar, of Grays Steam Trawler Utikasa, o f Cardiff . . . .

S.S. Earlford, of Glasgow Three fishing-boats of Montrose. Stood by boats.

S.S. New Oporto, of West Hartlepool S.S. Meadowfield, of Glasgow. Stood by vessel.

Admiralty Mine-sweeper Eaton. Stood by vessel.

Ketch Fane, of Bridgwater Lives saved.

2 10 10 Ackergill Life-boat rendered assistance to the Admiralty Armed Trawler Fair Isle; Margate No. 1 Life-boat assisted to save the barque Cedarbank, of Tvedestrand; North Sunderland Life-boat assisted to save the Steam Trawler, Regal, of Grimsby; Padstow Steam Tug assisted to save the S.S. Weekawken, of Swansea ; and Ramsgate Life-boat assisted to save the S.S. Goulburn.

Also voted £677 6s. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Ballycotton, Barry Dock, Caister No. 1, Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), Cromer, Dunbar, Fenit, Flam borough No. 2, Gorleston No. 1, Harwich (Steam), Holy Island No. 1, Ilfracombe, Littlehampton, Mablethorpe, North Deal, Padstow Steam Tug, Peterhead No. 1, Redcar, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough, Selsey, Sheringham, Spurn, Stronsay (Motor), Teignmouth, Tenby, Tynemouth (Motor), Walton-on-the- Naze (Motor), and Worthing. Ramsgate Life-boat was also launched.

Voted £7 15s. to men injured in the Lifeboat service at Gorleston, Newhaven and North Deal.

Voted additional rewards to the crews o£ the Ballycotton and the Cromer Life-boats for long and arduous services performed in very rough weather on the 1st and 18th-20th January respectively.

Reported that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty had sent a letter expressing their appreciation and thanks for the services rendered by the Grail and St. Andrew's Lifeboats in saving the crew of a Torpedo-boat Destroyer, which was wrecked at Kingsbarns on the 27th December.

Voted £1 10s. to four men for putting off in a motor-boat and, at moderate risk, saving the crew of fifteen hands of the S.S. Stranton, of Dundee, which was sunk in a collision off Margate on the 31st December. The rescued men were adrift in the steamer's boat, and it was blowing a fresh gale with a rough sea at the time.

Voted £13 10s. to nine men belonging to Inistrahull for saving the crew of twenty hands of the S.S. Tritonia, which struck a mine and was blown up on the 20th December.

The crew escaped in the ship's boat, and were observed in Inistrahull Sound. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing at the time with a rough sea, and the salvors put off in a boat to assist the shipwrecked men. After searching for about three and a half hours they failed to find the boat and returned ashore. They then ascertained that the endangered men were still adrift, and they again put off. After a somewhat long search they succeeded in finding the men, and saved them. Also granted £1 to the owner of the boat.

Further, granted a reward of £8 to eight other men who put off in a boat from Malin Head for the purpose of saving the crew of this vessel. Lloyd's signal-master, the Chief Officer of Coastguard, and the Sergeant of the Royal Irish Constabulary rendered valuable assistance at Malin Head in organizing help for the endangered men, and letters of thanks were sent to them in appreciation of their services.

Voted £3 to six men for putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of three men of the fishing-boat Lady Bute, which was swamped in broken water when making for Blackrock on the 28th December. The men, when saved, had been in the water clinging to their boat for a considerable time.

Voted £2 5s. to the coxswain of the Bembridge Life-boat and two other men for putting off in a boat and saving two Territorials, who were in great danger, owing to losing one of their oars and getting into the tide race on the 12th January. The salvors incurred considerable risk in performing this service.

Voted 10s. to a man for putting off in a boat - and saving the crew of four hands of the schooner Ensign, of Plymouth, which struck a rock and foundered when attempting to enter Salcombe Harbour on the 30th January. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing at the time, with a nasty sea.

Presented a Binocular Glass to Mr. Petty, Master of the War Department vessel Haslar, and the sum of £1 each to twelve men of the crew, and to seventeen men belonging to the Royal Garrison Artillery and the Royal Engineers, for their useful services in saving the Angle Steam Life-boat, which broke from her moorings on the 11th December and was washed ashore on the rocks in Chapel Bay.

Thursday, 11th March, 1915.

JOHN BEVILL FORTESCUE, Esq., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations :— Southern District. — Kingsdowne, North Deal, Worthing.

Eastern District.—Sheringham.

Irish District.—Tramore, Dunmore East, Fenit, Queenstown, Courtmacsherry, Helvick Head, Arklow, Cahore, Courtown.

Presented the reports of the District i Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting:— WHITBY MOTOR LIFE-BOAT FUND, £ s. d.

per Captain JOHN MILBURN . 160 9 4 ANONYMOUS 50 - - Mr. and Mrs. WORTHINGTON . . 25 - - ANONYMOUS (Edinburgh) . . . 20 - - Mrs. BAIRD 15 - - Sir GODFREY BARING . . . . 10 10 - Miss STAVELEY 10 - - Miss A. THOMAS 10 - - H.M.S. Actaon 5 - - —To be severally thanked, Reported the receipt of the following legacies:—• The late Mr. ERNEST DRESDEN, £ s. d.

of Cavendish Square, to endow a Life-boat to be named the Ernest Dresden 3000 - - The late Mr. FREDERICK M. KENDERDING, of Old Trafford . 2015 3 6 The late Mrs. SARAH A. MASON, of Bolton 250 - - The late Miss HENEIETTA RALPH, of Truro 121 14 1 The late Major-General TEMPLEMAN, of Budleigh Salterton. . 50 - - Also specially recognized the good services, extending over many years, of the following Honorary Secretaries of Branches of the Institution :—Mr. H. B. DA VIES, Anglesey; Mr. A. J. PARNELL, Bridlington Quay; the Rev. B. W. PERRY-Circuitt, Brixham; and Miss FRENCH, Palling.

Paid £6,837 16s. lid. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £363 2s. d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Lite-boat. Vessel. saved.

Barry Dock . A steamer of Glasgow.

Stood by vessel.

Bull Bay . . S.S. Cambank, of Cardiff.

Landed 21.

Cloughey . . S.S. Antonio, of Bilbao 24 Douglas . . Schooner Catherine Latham, of Chester . 4 Filey . . . Twelve cobles of Filey.

Stood by cobles.

Life-boat.

Flamborough No. 2 Holyhead No. 1 (Steam) Ilfracombe Kingsdowne Looe Mumbles .

Newbiggin Newbiggin North Deal .

North Sunderland.

Padstow No. 1 Scarborough .

Spurn .

Spurn .

Staithes Lives Vessel. saved.

S.S. Rhenania,of London 17 Schooner Reaper, of Castletown . . . 3 S.S. Bengrove, of Liverpool.

Landed 33.

Barque Alfheim, of Mandal. Stood by vessel.

S.S. Panama Transport, of West Hartlepool.

Landed 6.

Schooner I'll Away, of Fowey 3 Fifteen fishing-cobles of Newbiggin. Stood by cobles.

Coble The Sea Flower, of Newbiggin . . . 2 Schooner Proba, of Bideford . . . . 5 S.S. Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen . . 19 Steam Drifter True Friend, of Lowestoft.

Assisted to save vessel and 9 Coble Friendship, of Scarborough. Saved coble and . . . . 3 S.S. C.T. 8. Stood by vessel and rendered assistance.

Schooner William and Alice, of Hull . . . 4 Seven fishing cobles of Staithes. Stood by cobles.

Penlee Life-boat assisted to save the ketch Traly, of Tralee, and her crew of six; and Southwold No. 2 Life-boat assisted to save the ketch Zenobia, of London, and one.

Also voted £1,024 14s. lOd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:— Aldeburgh No. 2, Banff, Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), Grail, Dunbar, Dungeness No. 1, Eastbourne No. 2, Falmouth, Filey, Flamborough No. 1, Flamborough No. 2, Fleetwood, Grimsby, Harwich (Steam), Hastings, Hauxley, Holy Island No. 1, Kingsdowne, Kingstown, Mevagissey, Moelfre, Montrose No. 1, Montrose No. 2, Newhaven (Motor), New Romney, North Deal, Pakefield, Penlee, Peterhead No. 1, Piel (Barrow), Plymouth, Port Erin, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, Sennen Cove, Shoreham, Skateraw, Spurn, Tynemouth (Motor), Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor), and Worthing.

Voted £13 5s. 6d. to a man injured in the Life-boat service at Ramsey.

Also £17 5s. to pay the funeral expenses of the three Life-boatmen who lost their lives in the Peterhead Life-boat disaster on the 26th December, 1914.

Voted £250 to a fund opened locally for the benefit of the widow and children of E. J. BURGESS, who lost his life through the capsizing of the Worthing Life-boat, on the 17th February, when proceeding to the assistance of the schooner Kingshill. Fortunately the remainder of the crew were able to get back into the Life-boat in safety, and the Committee of Management voted the Coxswain, HARRY MARSHALL, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, for the skilful manner in which he managed his boat after the accident. Also granted him and each of the crew an additional 10s. on account of the arduous nature of this service.

Ordered a letter of thanks to be sent to the Honorary Secretary of the Barry Dock Branch for the prompt steps which he took to dispatch assistance to a steamer which stranded in Porthkerry Bay on the 5th March. Also presented an aneroid barometer to Mr. EVAN MILWARD, of the pilot vessel St. Quentin, for towing the Life-boat on this occasion.

Voted £7 3s. 5d. to be divided among the crew of the steam trawler Bulldog, for their meritorious efforts to render assistance to the hospital ship Rohilla, which was wrecked off Whitby on the 30th October-1st November, 1914.

Voted £4: to eight men for putting off in the steam-trawler Tarantula, and saving the coble Marjory and her crew of three hands, ofi Scarborough, on the 13th February.

The steam-trawler took the crew of three men on board and towed the coble back to port, but when just outside the harbour the coble was swamped and lost. A strong gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the salvors incurred moderate risk.

Voted £2 2s. to seven men for putting off in a coble and rescuing one of the crew of three men of the coble Sea Flower, which was capsized off Newbiggin on the 13th February. The Life-boat had been launched to assist the cobles as a strong E.S.E. gale was blowing. They succeeded in saving two of the crew of the Sea Flower, but the third man drifted away holding on to an oar, and had it not been for the prompt services of the salvors he would undoubtedly have been drowned.

Voted £A to eight men for putting off in the ship's life-boat (which is kept at Whinnyfold for life-saving purposes), and saving nine of the crew of the Blakedown, of Grimsby, which struck the Scaus of Cruden and sank on the 19th February. There was a rough sea at the time, and moderate risk was incurred by the salvors. The remainder of the crew of the vessel, four in number, succeeded in getting ashore in the ship's boat guided by the fishermen.

Voted JE1 10s. to four men for saving the fishing-boat Mary Ann Jessie, and her crew of three hands, which was in a perilous position in Montrose Bay on the 26th February. The vessel was driving towards the beach, where a heavy sea was breaking, when she was observed by the salvors, who were in the motor-boat Nina. They proceeded to the disabled vessel, and with great difficulty towed her into harbour.

Voted £3 15s. to ten men for putting off in three boats and saving the crew of sixteen hands of the S.S. Skotfos, of Christiania, which stranded on Seal Skerry, North Ronaldshay, on the 16th January. The vessel stranded at 9 P.M. on the 15th, and at about 3 P.M. next day the salvors succeeded in bringing the men ashore in safety. The distance between the land and the rock on which the vessel had stranded was about 300 yards.

NOTICE.

The next number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will be published on the 2nd August.