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

Crail, Fifeshire.—The trawler Jane Rosst, of Aberdeen, struck the Harvey Rocfe off Crail, while bound in ballast fronl Aberdeen to Methil in a thick fog Son the 14th September. A mode- rate,1 easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was moderate. The Anstruther life-boat was called out, but a motor boat from Crail manned by three men arrived first, and at slight risk rescued the nine men of the crew of the trawler.

—Rewards, £1 10s., and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

Machri, Isle of Arran.—Five visitors to Machri, three of whom were women, put out at 3 P.M. on the 6th September in a 12-feet rowing boat. At 6.45 P.M. the coastguards were informed that the boat had been blown out to sea, and could not be seen. A strong S.E. breeze increasing towards a gale was blowing and the sea was rough.

The Campbeltown motor life-boat was launched and went in search. Mean- while the woman from whom the boat had been hired had got the use of an 18-feet rowing boat with an out- board motor from Dugarie, and manned by four men, this boat had put off. It found the missing boat, but owing to the increasing wind and sea both boats became waterlogged and their occu- pants exhausted. At 7 P.M., when they were about a mile and a half east of Carradale, they were found by the motor fishing boat Perseverance, of Campbeltown, in great difficulties. The weather was too bad for it to be possible for ithe Perseverance to take the nine people on board at once, but she towed the two boats towards the Arran coast until smoother water was reached.

Those in the two boats who were most exhausted were then got on board the Perseverance, and all were landed at Pirnmill, Arran, at about 8.15 P.M.— Rewards to the boat from Dugarie, £2 10s.

Queenstown, Co. Cork.—During a sailing race on the afternoon of the 22nd September, in Cork Lower Harbour, three out of the five boats competing retired owing to a strong N.W. by N.

breeze. Of the two boats remaining in the race one, the Crimson Dawn, was capsized in a squall, and the other, the Paula, tried to rescue her crew, but was unable to do so, as her sails split.

Five men put off in a 23-feet rowing boat, and raced for half a mile to the rescue. They succeeded in saving the crew of four of the capsized yacht.— Rewards, £3 2s. 6d.

Kyle, Ross-shire.—At about 5 P.M. on the 6th October the Danish sailing yacht Sif, which was on a world cruise with a crew of three, was at anchor eighty yards from the rocks at Kyle Akin. A moderate to fresh southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the yacht was in danger of drag- ging her anchor and going ashore. At some risk to themselves four men manned a 45-feet motor fishing boat and put out. They anchored near the yacht, got a tow-rope to her and succeeded in bringing her into shelter.

—Rewards, £4, and 5s. for fuel used.

Goole, Yorkshire.—On the 12th Oc- tober the motor vessel Eddie, of Hull, was bound for Selby with a cargo of sugar beet. At 8.30 P.M., when opposite the entrance to Goole Docks, she touched the bottom while manoeuvring to pick up a pilot, was rolled over by the tide, filled and sank. The night was very dark, and the tide was running very strongly. Four men and the wife of the master, with two dogs, were aboard the Eddie. They managed to cling to the hull and shouted for help.

In response two men put off in a 12-feet boat and rowed with great difficulty across the swiftly running river. All five, and the dogs, were rescued, but the small boat was then overloaded.

Meanwhile an outward-bound Dutch vessel had launched a boat and she took two of the rescued on board. All were then landed at the Victoria Pier.— Rewards, £l 5s. to the two men who manned the first boat.

Acker gill, Caithness-shire. — While making for Wick at 2 A.M. on the 25th October the fishing boat Northward, of Wick, was disabled by the failure of her engine. She drifted and eventually anchored in Sinclair Bay, near Acker- gill, where, after daybreak, she was seen by the ex-coxswain of the Acker- gill life-boat. As the weather was fine, it was decided that it was not necessary to launch the Wick life-boat, but that a boat should put off from Ackergill.

The ex-coxswain, with three other men, went out in his own motor boat. Two of the Northward's crew of five and the boat's nets were brought ashore.

Shortly afterwards the weather got worse and the rescuers put out again and, at some risk to themselves of being swamped, brought ashore the remaining three members of the North- ward's crew.—Rewards, £3, and 5s. for fuel used.

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 19th November the coast- guard reported a steamer ashore near the Perch Rock Battery. The weather was calm, with a thick fog. The second coxswain and chief motor mechanic put off in the motor boarding boat, and found the vessel to be the Cromarty, ashore on the Rip Rap Bank.

As the captain had already summoned tugs by wireless, the men returned and informed the Mersey Docks and Har- bour Board of the exact position of the vessel.—Reward, 5s.

Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire.—Two men who had been down the river to gather cockles on the 25th November lost their way in the darkness as they were returning. Their small boat was caught in a cross current and grounded on the south training wall. At about 6 P.M. they made flares which were seen from Lytham by Mr. G. Margerison, Commodore of the Motor Boat Club.

He put off in a motor boat with the assistant motor mechanic of the life- boat, found the two men, and rescued them from their dangerous position.—• Rewards, letters of thanks to Mr. G.

Margerison and to Mechanic J. Parkin- son; also 2s. 6d. for fuel used..