Two Life-boats, the new Motor Life-boat for Ballycotton and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat recently sent to Llan- dudno, both went out on their first services to the help of old Life-boats.

The new Ballycotton Life-boat, of the 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) type, reached her Station on 4th September.

Thirteen days later, on the afternoon of 17th September, she was called out for the first time. A strong breeze was blowing with a rough sea and thick rain squalls. The Coxswain had seen tie fishing-yawl Boozer, of Ballycotton, with her sails blown away ; the breeze was freshening ; and it was feared that the yawl would be carried out to sea.

Twenty minutes after putting out the Life-boat came up with the yawl, and brought her, and the crew of two, safely into harbour. The yawl was an old Life-boat, the Oliver Goldsmith, which was stationed at Ballycotton from 1880 to 1890 and rescued 21 lives. One of the two men on board the yawl was a member of the new Life-boat's Crew.

The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Sara Jane Turner, which had previously been stationed at Montrose, was sent to Llandudno during the summer to replace the Theodore Price, which after twenty-eight years in the Life-boat Fleet, had been sold out of the service.

On 4th October, the old boat, converted into a cabin-cruiser, fitted with an engine and now named Marelli, was coming over from Conway to be inspected by her former Crew. The new Life-boat was to be launched to salute her as she came in, but she did not come. Instead a message was received that a boat had been seen drifting in distress in the Conway Estuary. The new Life-boat was launched—her first launch on ser- vice—and arrived to find that the boat had been taken in tow by a passing vessel. Her engineer had collapsed, and there was no one on board who could manage the engine. The boat was the old Theodore Price..