Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.

It will be remembered that she was then 1,200 miles from the coast of Western Australia, and that the last wireless message received from her reported that her crew were taking to the boats. After that there was silence for twenty-three days. All hope had been abandoned.

And then, on 27th July, telegrams were received announcing that the boat in charge of the Master had arrived at Rodriguez Island. Three days later the other boat, in charge of the Chief Officer, reached Souillac, on the south coast of Mauritius. Ten of the crew died at sea, from exposure, and another died shortly after landing at Mauritius. The remaining thirty-three were saved.

The Master, Captain Cecil Foster, and the Chief Officer, Mr. James C. Stewart Smith, were awarded Lloyd's Silver Medal for Saving Life at Sea, and as a result of an appeal in the columns of Lloyd's List, the Committee of Lloyd's collected a sum of £1,453, which has been distributed among the crew. The logs of the Master and Chief Officer were ! originally published in Lloyd's List, and in republishing them as a pamphlet at Gd., and in devoting the proceeds of their sale to marine charities, that paper has done a further service for which every one will be grateful. For many will be very glad to have, in this permanent form, the story of this remarkable voyage. One admires the cheerful courage of the men who endured for twenty- three days in one case, and twenty-six in the other, on starvation rations of a little biscuit, a little condensed milk and a little water helped out with an improvised song on ham and eggs. One admires still more their discipline. One admires, as much as either, the pride of the captain which made him, as he entered the harbour and passed under the stem of a steamer, decide that " as we had come so far, we'd go ashore and not board the steamer." But one's last impression, and it is an impression strengthened by the simple matter-of- fact way in which the story is told, is that these men, who have suddenly become famous, were, after all, doing and suffering in only a little higher degree, what many hundreds of their fellow-seamen in our Mercantile Marine do and suffer with the same ready courage and good discipline, though the story of it is never told.