For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds, was capsized by a heavy sea when about half a mile away.

A strong southerly gale was blowing and the weather was thick. The three men in the curragh were thrown into the sea. All three were entangled in their fishing nets, and one had a leg broken.

Their cries for help were heard, and three men, led by Thomas Boyle, sen., immediately launched another curragh.

At great risk, and with much difficulty, the men were rescued. While two of them were being extricated from the nets the rescuers' curragh struck and grounded on a rock. Fortunately the next wave washed it off, or all of the men would have been flung into the sea. As it was, the curragh's ribs were damaged, the canvas bottom was ripped for six feet, and it was full of water up to the thwarts when it reached the beach. Thomas Boyle already holds the Institution's bronze medal, which he won six years ago for rescuing three men marooned on Mutton Island.— Rewards : To Thomas Boyle, sen., an inscribed silver watch, a letter of thanks, and the sum of £2 ; also £3 towards the cost of repairing his curragh. To Thomas Boyle, jun., and Patrick Kelliher, the sum of £2 and a letter of thanks each.

Dumbarton.—At about 6 p.m. on the 5th May a twelve-feet sailing boat, with two men and a boy on board, was capsized in a squall of wind and dangerous sea at the junction of the River Leven with the Clyde. Mr. Eric Fairley, a lecturer at the Technical College, Dumbarton, who was on board a yacht at anchor, near Dumbarton Castle, jumped into the yacht's dinghy and went single-handed to the rescue.

At the same time another boat put off from the shore, but had to turn back.

The waves were breaking over the dinghy, and there was great danger that she would be swamped, but Mr.

Fairley succeeded in rowing three hundred yards to the upturned boat.

The boy had disappeared, but at great risk to himself Mr. Fairley succeeded in hauling on board the two men. He brought the two men ashore, but one died shortly afterwards from exposure and exhaustion.—Reward, The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Mr. Eric Fairley.

Moelfre, Anglesey.—During a thick fog a steamer, close inshore, was heard sounding her siren at about 6.30 A.M. on the llth May. -The coxswain of the life-boat, with four other men, went out in a shoreboat to investigate. He found the steamer off Moelfre Island, and informed the captain of his dangerous position. The steamer then made her way out to sea, and the boat returned.—Rewards, £1.

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Two young men visitors to Cayton Bay from Pontefract put out in a canvas canoe on the 21st May. A fresh westerly breeze carried the canoe out to sea.

The men were seen signalling for help, and the motor boat William Arthur went to the rescue. When about two miles out she saw the canoe overturned. The two men were then clinging to it, but before the motor boat could reach them one disappeared. The other was rescued. A search, in which another motor boat, the Evelyn and Margaret, joined, was made, but the other man was not found.—Rewards, £l 15s. and 6s. for fuel used.

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—S h o r 11 y after midday on the 10th June it was reported that a fisherman had seen a young man on the cliffs cut off by the tide, but that owing to the size of his boat he had been unable to go inshore. The life-boat coxswain and five other men put out in a suitable boat. A moderate southerly wind was blowing with a nasty swell, which, owing to the rocky shore, made a rescue by boat very difficult. It was impos- sible for the boat to get right in, but one of the crew, Thomas Dowse, swam ashore with a line. This he tied round the young man and himself and they were pulled clear of the rocks and into the boat.—Rewards, £2.

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — The coastguard reported at about 6 P.M. on the 17th June that the motor fishing boat Choice, of Peterhead, was in diffi- culties off the North Head. The tide was flowing with a heavy swell, and the weather was hazy with a light easterly wind. Three men put oft in a motor boat, the Needle E'ee, and found the Choice, with her crew of two, in a dangerous position on a lee shore with engine trouble. She was taken in tow and brought safely to harbour.— Rewards, £1 2s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

Port Erin, Isle of Man. — During the afternoon of the 31st May a small rowing boat was seen to be in distress about a quarter of a mile from the shore and signalling for help. A strong south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. Two men at once put off in a rowing boat and found the boat with one man on board, helpless and drifting, without oars, on the ebbing tide. With some difficulty, owing to the breaking of one of their oars, the two men towed the disabled boat safely ashore.—Rewards, 15s., and 7s. 6d. for the broken oar..