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

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 5 P.M. on the 21st August, an open out- board motor boat, with three men and three children on board, capsized off Jaywick, near Clacton. A squally W.S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. The Clacton Motor Life-boat was launched, but before she could reach the scene five men had already put out to the rescue. Three of them were in a small out-board motor boat, and the other two manned a small boat by swimming out with oars to where she was moored 150 yards from the shore. At consider- able risk to themselves they rescued the six, but one man never recovered consciousness.

The rescuers were Mr. Douglas W.

Cooper, of Chingford, Mr. Rochefort A. C. Mitchell and Mr. Cyril E. Locks, of Woodford Green, Mr. Paul Borges, of Colchester, and Mr. Henry D.

Williams, of Walthamstow. To each of them the Committee of Management sent a Letter of Appreciation and pre- sented a framed Record of Thanks.

Blackrock, Co. Louth.—On the 3rd September two men, with little experi- ence of boats, put out in a rowing boat. They got into difficulties owing to a strong and squally N.W. wind and rough sea, and were in danger of being swamped. Two other men put off in an open sailing boat and at some risk rescued them.—Rewards, £1.

Borth, Cardiganshire.—While driving along the front on the morning of the 22nd September a carrier—an R.N.R.

Seaman—saw a sailing boat in the bay.

A squally N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. A moment later he could not see her, and realised that she had capsized. Jumping from his cart, he obtained a bicycle and went for help. With two other men he put out in a boat, called Grace Darling, and pulled to the capsized boat. They found three men clinging to the keel, and took them ashore. They then put out again, and, with some difficulty, brought in the boat.—Rewards, 10s. to the carrier, and letters of thanks to him and the other two men.

Rhyl, Flintshire.—On the morning of the 1st October, during a north- easterly gale, the fishing boat Polly, of Liverpool, with one man on board, ran for shelter, but struck a sandbank 150 yards from the shore at the mouth of the River Clwyd. After two attempts the Rhyl Life-boat was launched, but so heavy were the seas that two of the crew were washed out of her. Meanwhile, close to the scene of the wreck, a small boat had been launched with three men on board.

They succeeded in getting through the breakers, at imminent risk of being swamped, and rescued the exhausted man on board the Polly, who, for twenty minutes, had been clinging to the mast with seas continually breaking over him. This was a prompt and courageous rescue, and the Committee of Management awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and £2 to each of the three rescuers, Mr.

John H. Broome, Mr. Frederick H. C.

Harrison, and Mr. Robert C. Hughes.— Rewards. £6; grant for repair of damaged boat, £2 5s.

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—A fisher- man was going up harbour at about 5 P.M. on the 28th October, when his boat was swept against the gantry at the harbour gates. He shouted for help and the Life-boat motor mechanic and another man put off in a 14-feet boat.

They secured their painter to a project- ing pier, veered down and rescued the man, at considerable risk to themselves, as the tide was running through the gates at eight knots and there was a 5-feet drop on the other side. After the rescue they had to wait three- quarters of an hour until the tide slackened sufficiently to let them get away.—Rewards, £2 ; and a Letter of Thanks to each of the rescuers.

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—Five men put off in a motor fishing boat at about 1.30 A.M. on the llth November to the help of another fishing boat. This boat, with a crew of four, had been out since the 9th, drifting about with her engine out of order. Early on the llth a strong S.E. wind got up, and as she was in danger of driving ashore the men on board let go the anchor. It did not hold, and they burnt flares for help.

The rescuers took nearly three hours to save the boat and her crew, and ran some risk as the boat had drifted so close to a lee shore.—Rewards, £2 15s. 4d.

Newquay, Cornwall.—At 5 P.M. on the 13th November information was received that a sailing boat had gone ashore on Goose Rock, two miles West of Towan Head. Mr. H. P. Thomas, the Honorary Secretary, engaged a motor boat with a crew of three men, and went out to the rescue, taking with him a small boat. The two men of the sailing boat were found on the rock, and at some risk, owing to the darkness and the rise and fall of the sea among the sunken rocks, they were rescued by means of the small boat.

—Rewards, £3 to the crew of the motor boat; also allowed 3s. 6d. for fuel used. A Letter of Thanks to Mr.

H. P. Thomas.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 17th November a fleet of twelve sprat-boats launched between 2 and 3 A.M. The wind was then light, but there was a con- siderable swell. A S.E. wind sprang up and freshened. Nine of the boats got their nets and returned, but the other three did not care to face the breaking shoals until daylight. The Life-boat Coxswain, who was one of the first ashore, put off with four other men in a large sprat-boat at about 5 A.M., as the wind was still increasing, and stood by inside the breakers while the three boats came ashore safely.—Rewards, £3 175. 6d.

Minehead, Somerset.—On the 23rd November a fishing-boat shipped a heavy sea, which stopped her engine.

She attempted to reach harbour under canvas, but did not make much head- way, as there was a heavy sea. Other fishermen put out and towed her in.— Rewards, 6,9.

Innishowen Head, Co. Donegal.—Seven pilots and boatmen from Innishowen Pilot Station put out on 26th November to the rescue of two men on board a new motor fishing boat, who had left Arklow a week before, and, as their motor had broken down, had anchored on a reef off Innishowen Head, Lough Foyle. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a heavy sea, and efforts had been made by the life-saving apparatus to reach them from the shore, but they were out of range. The wind freshened to a gale, the two men were in imminent peril, and the Motor Life-boat was summoned from Port- rush. Before she arrived, the seven men had put oat in a rowing boat.

Tne gale was blowing off shore, it was bitterly cold, and had anything gone wrong the rescuers would have been carried out to sea. They reached the fishing boat, got alongside, and took oft the two men, both exhausted, for they had had no food for twenty- four hours.—Rewards, £5 5s. to be divided equally between the men and a framed Record of Thanks to each of them, John Gillespie, Daniel McCann, George Gillespie, Michael McLaughlin, Hugh McLaughlin, George Hegarty and James Farren..