For which Rewards were given at the October, November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.

EOBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.— On 3rd September the ex-Coxswain of the Life-boat and three ex-Life-boat- men saw a small skiff with five men on board capsize about 150 yards from the shore. A strong N.E. breeze was blow- ing and the sea was rough. The four men put off at once in a rowing boat, and were so quickly at the scene of the accident that they rescued all five men. But for their prompt action the men would undoubtedly have been drowned. The rescuers' 20-feet boat was overloaded with nine men on board, and it was not without danger in the rough sea that she was brought ashore.

—Rewards, £1 10s.

DEAL, KENT.—On 13th September two amateur fishermen were out in a small paddle punt. A strong N.E.

wind was blowing, and with the flood tide a heavy swell got up. The men attempted to land on the beach, but failed, and* their punt was washed along the beach and overturned. They were in a very perilous position and would probably have lost their lives, but two men rushed into the breaking seas and hauled them out.—Rewards, £1 10s.

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK.—Two boats which were out fishing on 14th October did not return. A freshening N.N.E.

wind was blowing, with an increasing sea, and the Second Coxswain of the Life-boat, with another man, put out in an open motor fishing boat. They found that the two fishing boats had been carried to leeward, and took them in tow. In doing so they ran some risk in the rough sea, but they brought the two boats and the four men on board them safely in.—Rewards, 15s., and Is. for fuel used.

YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—On the even- ing of 7th April an open boat, with four men on board, which had been drift-netting for salmon in the river, was capsized by a heavy broken sea off Cleary's Bank. A fresh S.W.

breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. Thies of the men managed to cling to the keel of the upturned boat, and the fourth became entangled in the net. Eight men in two other boats, who were fishing about 500 yards away, pulled at once to the rescue, and at some risk succeeded in saving the four men.-—Rewards, £3.

ST. MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY.—On the evening of 15th September a boy, nine years old, was out in a punt. He fell overboard ; the punt drifted away ; he could not swim. Another boy, Wil- liam Robinson, aged fourteen, put off in another punt. He pulled for 250 yards, and arrived just in time to seize the drowning boy under water. At the risk of upsetting his own punt, he dragged him on board.—Reward, a copy of the edition de luxe of " Britain's Life-boats," signed by th* Prince of Wales.

SKERRIES, Co. DUBLIN.—At six in the morning of the 5th August, Mr.

Lauder, a surgeon dentist and a visitor to Skerries, Co. Dublin, saw the yacht Sammy, of Kingstown, anchored dan- gerously near rocks. Her sails were set; half a gale was blowing from the eastward with a heavy sea; and the rocks were dead a-lee of the yacht.

The four men on board her were shout- ing for help. Mr. Lauder hurried off to get help, and with the three other men, Mr. Thompson, a college student of seventeen, Mr. Fullerton, a deaf swimming-club attendant, and Mr.

Comerford, a crippled ship's carpenter, succeeded in launching a boat, but found it impossible to pull out of the harbour. Mr. Lauder then got the help of the fishing boat Ivy, which went out, taking with her Mr. Lauder, Mr. Fullerton, and Mr. Thompson.

When she got near the yacht the two former manned the fishing boat's punt and were veered down to the yacht which was then in grave danger. They got a hawser aboard the yacht, and she was towed to safety.—Rewards : To Mr. J. W. Lauder, a Letter of Thanks and an inscribed Aneroid Barometer.

To Mr. Albert Fullerton, a Letter of Thanks and £2. To Mr. William Thomp- son, a letter of Thanks and a Framed Life-boat Picture. To Mr. Jack Comer- ford, a Letter of Thanks and 10s. To Captain W. Donaldson, of the fishing boat Ivy, a Letter of Thanks, an inscribed Fisherman's Aneroid Baro- meter, and 10s. for fuel, etc. To the crew of the Ivy, 10s. each to three men.

CHICHBSTER HARBOUR, SUSSEX.—The barge Dell May, with two men on board, ran aground on a sandbank in the en- trance to Chichester Harbour, some distance from the shore, on the 2nd December. Signals for help were seen at about 1.45 P.M. by two men who were on Hayling Island beach. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy sea on the sands. The men put off in a small sailing boat. They found that the barge had lost her own boat and was becoming swamped. With difficulty, and at some risk, they took off the two. men from the barge and brought, them ashore. They were engaged on the rescue for some three hours.-—Rewards, £2.

ROSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.

—Just after eight in the evening of the 13th September a man swam ashore from the boat Alice T.,'oi Wexford. She had been out on a pleasure trip and had' been swamped on the outlying shoals. The man reported that he was one of three on board her, and that the other two were missing. The Motor Life-boat was away undergoing annual overhaul, and Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, Honorary Secre- tary of the Life-boat Station, Coxswain James Wickham, Mr. J. T. Wickham, Assistant Motor Mechanic, and three other members of the Wickham family at once put out in Coxswain Wickhain's own motor boat, Tern, taking a small boat in tow. For over three hours they carefully searched the sandbanks, but could find no trace of the missing men.

A special* letter of thanks was sent..