off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks whom they could not save, the salvors rowed to Heir Island, about a mile distant, and obtained a larger boat, and with two extra men, with' treat difficulty rescued a man and a girl, J. Hart and T. Murphy being nearly swept off the rocks while effecting the rescue. The Committee of Management were of opinion that the service was an unusually fine piece of work both skilfully and gallantly carried out.

Voted 10s. to two men for saving two men in a rowing boat which had been overtan by a sudden gale and was in danger of! Aberavron on the 1st November. The salvors were fishing when they observed signals of distress, and, proceeding to the scene, were able to bring the endangered men into safety.

Awarded a pair of Binoculars to WILL.IA.M McMURTRIE, Master of the tug-boat George Brown, and a monetary reward of £8 5s.

between him and ten other men for saving three persons from the schooner Campbeltown, which was wrecked in a S.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 7th November. The vessel was coming into Irvine Harbour when she struck the North Entrance, and a few hours after became a total wreck. Meanwhile the tug-boat George Brown proceeded to the wreck, but had to return for extra help, and, after obtaining this, the salvors were able, with considerable difficulty and at great risk, to save the men belonging to the schooner by hauling them, by means of lines, through the sea to the tug.

Voted £1 10s. to three men for putting off in a fishing-boat from Redcar and rescuing a pilot from an aeroplane which had fallen into the sea on the 16th November. The salvors in- curred some risk in rescuing the man owing to the danger of the boat fouling the gear of the aeroplane, which was nearly under water.

Voted £4 7s. 6d. to seven men at Bridlington for saving nine persons from the steam fishing- boat Joseph and Susannah, in moderate weather and a rough sea on the 16th Novem- ber. The vessel, in attempting to get into the harbour, struck the ground and com- menced to knock up behind the pier, drawing her anchor with her. Five men from the shore got on board and tried to get her afloat, when she knocked up further into the heavy surf, and suddenly settled down, the seas making a clean breach over her. The salvors put off in the motor-boat Blue Jacket and succeeded, at some risk, in taking nine men off the fishing-vessel, which was then com- pletely submerged.

Voted £3 15s. to five men for putting off in the motor fishing-boat Ballynoe to the assist- ance of the fishing-boat Helvick Lass, which was in distress off Helvick Head, in moderate weather, on the 26th October. The Helvick Lass had had her sails blown away, and, being without an anchor, she was in danger of going to pieces on the bar. Two of the salvors, in a small boat which they had towed with them, succeeded in rescuing th« two men on board the endangered vessel, after- wards towing her into safety.

ON A LEE SHORE.

From Mr. Bernard Gribble's painting, executed for the Institution.

NOTICE.—The next number OF THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in November, 1919.