For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.

Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress made by a speed-boat two miles E.S.E. of Start Point. The speed-boat was on passage from Dart- mouth to Plymouth, with two people on board. Her engine had gone wrong and she had anchored. Then a strong, squally N.W. breeze had sprung up, the sea had become rough, and the speed-boat was in danger of drifting ashore. The distress signals which Miss Trout saw had been made by saturating the cushions with petrol and lighting them. Miss Trout col- lected a crew of four men and launched her motor fishing boat. At some risk this boat took the speed-boat in tow and brought it to an anchorage off the beach. The service took about two hours.—Rewards, £2 10s., and a letter of thanks to Miss Trout.

Kerry Head, County Kerry.—Early in the evening of the 22nd May a man and his son went lobster fishing close under Kerry Head, in a canoe made of tarred canvas over a wooden frame. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing against the flood tide. It caused a rough, confused sea. The canoe was capsized and the man and his son were thrown into the sea. The man had on oilskins and heavy boots and was a poor swimmer, but his son got to him with a floating oar, which kept him up. Two men about a mile away in another canoe saw them in the water, and went to their help. In the strong breeze blowing and the confusion it was a very difficult and a risky task to rescue them with a canvas canoe, but the two men succeeded in getting them both on board, and brought them ashore.—Rewards, £2.

Whinnyfold, Aberdeen.—On the 21st June the motor coble Teal, of Port Erroll, was out salmon fishing with a crew of three. A moderate south breeze was blowing with a heavy swell and the coble was driven on to a dangerous reef of rocks at the Scaurs of Cruden. There was broken water among the rocks, but the three men succeeded in scrambling on to them.

The motor fishing boat Golden Rule, with a crew of six, went alongside the rocks and, at considerable risk, rescued the men, and saved their coble.—• Rewards, £6.

Hoylake, Cheshire.—On the night of the 25th June a moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with squalls and rain, and a moderate sea was running. The yacht Walrus got out of control during a heavy squall, when about two miles north of Hilbre Island, and began to drift seawards. She was seen by the keeper of Hilbre Island, who is also the life-boat shore-signalman, and at his request three men put out in the auxiliary motor fishing boat Queen Alexandra. They saved the Walrus and her crew of two, towing her back to Hoylake. The service took two hours.—Rewards, £1 10s., 6s. for fuel used, and 3s. to the life-boat coxswain who stood by in case the life-boat was wanted.

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—About 4.30 P.M. on the 27th June three men who were fishing in a 14-foot boat near the north perch, in the entrance to Wexford harbour, saw a sailing boat, about six hundred yards off, capsize. A fresh N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The men at once hauled in their net and, sailing towards the boat, found a man and a six-year-old boy in the water. With some difficulty they rescued them and landed them at Wexford quay.— Rewards, £1 17s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. for fuel used. Skegness, Lincolnshire.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the evening of the 4th July a small sailing boat, with two young men on board, was seen to be in diffi- culties one and a half miles south of Skegness Pier. A strong breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The old Coverack life-boat Grace Darling, con- verted into a motor pleasure boat, was anchored close to the shore, and, manned by the life-boat coxswain, second coxswain and four other men, promptly put out. She found the sailing boat on the point of foundering.

She wa nearly full of water, her rudder and rowlocks were broken, and her sail gone. The two young men were trying, unsuccessfully, to use the oars as paddles. They were rescued and taken to Skegness.—Rewards, £3, and 2*. 6d. for fuel consumed.

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the evening of the 6th July the local motor fishing coble White Lady, with two men on board, had trouble with her engine about two miles off Sunder- land. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, and the coble was carried out to sea. The men made signals of distress, and the life-boat coxswain and two other men put off in a motor traw- ler. They overtook the White Lady about five miles off shore, and towed her back. The service took one and a half hours.—Rewards, £1 17s. 6d., and 5s. for fuel consumed.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5 P.M. on the 20th July six men put off in a small -boat from Westcliff to go aboard the barge-yacht Chatham, which was anchored about three hundred yards off the foreshore. The weather was very squally and the sea rough. When the boat had gone about half-way she capsized, throwing the men into the water. Four other men, in three boats, went at once to the rescue and got the six men on board, and landed them at Chalkwell.—Rewards, £3.

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 10.25 P.M.

on the 31st July a man and a woman in a small rowing boat got into diffi- culties in a strong tide, with a light breeze blowing, but the sea was calm.

Another rowing boat went to their help, but she also found the tide too much for her, and both boats were carried out to sea. Mr. Hector Porter, the son of a member of the local life- boat committee, went to the rescue in his outboard motor boat, with a life- boatman, and towed in the two boats.

—Rewards, 7s. 6d. to the life-boatman, and a letter of thanks to Mr. Hector Porter.

Caister, Norfolk.—On theevening of the 7th August flames were seen coming from the speed-boat Lady Gertrude, which was about three-quarters of a mile off the beach. A moderate E.N.E.

breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea.

Six men put off in a pulling boat to the rescue. By then the Lady Gertrude had burnt to the water's edge and foundered, and the one man on board her had taken to a small dinghy. The rescuers found him exhausted and brought him and the dinghy ashore.

The service took two and a half hours altogether.—Rewards, £3 15*.

Appledore, Devon.—On the evening of the llth August the life-boat coxswain received a message from the lighthouse- keeper that a small boat was in diffi- culties near Pulleys Buoy. A north wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat coxswain and bowman put off at 9.20 P.M. in a pulling boat. They found two boys in a motor boat which had broken down, took the boat in tow, and arrived back at Appledore at 10.40 P.M.—Rewards, £1.

Herne Bay, Kent.—On the 12th August Mr. Frank Holness put out single- handed in a rowing boat and rescued three persons from the motor yacht Merlin.—Reward, £2, together with a letter of appreciation.

(For a full account of this rescue see p. 555.) Fort Erin, Isle of Man.—On the even- ing of the 15th August, Mr. T. A. Coole, honorary secretary of the life-boat station, learned that a small boat, with a man and a woman on board, had been seen to be in difficulties and drifting through Calf Sound. A light S.W.

wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.

Mr. Coole obtained the services of a motor boat and three men, and put off in search. The motor boat cruised round the rocks until dark, but was unable to find the boat, and put back to Port Erin, after having been out for two hours. After further enquiries had been made the motor life-boat was launched, and eventually rescued the couple from a rock on the west side of the Calf of Man, where their boat had stranded.—Rewards, £l 10*. to the three men, 3s. for fuel used, and a letter of thanks to Mr. Coole.

(An account of the life-boat service appears on p. 559.) Padstow, Cornwall.—At 8 P.M. on the 19th August the coastguard telephoned that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Tregudda Gorge, and was in such a position that he could only be rescued from the sea. The honorary secretary of the life-boat station arranged for a boat manned by four men, accompanied by a doctor, to go to the spot. They found that another boat had made the rescue, and that the man had climbed to, not fallen to, his difficult position.

—Rewards, £2, with 5s. for fuel used ; and a letter of thanks to Dr. C. A.

Shirvell.

Padstow, Cornwall.—At midday on the 20th August the coastguard reported that four visitors in a hired sailing boat, which they could not handle, were getting into danger near the rocks in Hell Bay. The weather was fine.

The honorary secretary of the life-boat station despatched the motor mechanic in the life-boat's boarding boat. He came up with the sailing boat when she was only ten feet from the rocks on a lee shore, and brought her back to harbour.—Reward. A letter of thanks to the mechanic, Mr. J. H.

Rokahr.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the even- ing of the 22nd August three bathers got into difficulties about one hundred and fifty yards off shore. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. An ex-life-boatman, sixty-nine years of age, Mr. Ernest Frost, who was about two hundred and fifty yards away in a small boat, rowed at once to the rescue. At some risk, and with great difficulty, he got the three into the boat and took them ashore. Two of the men were very exhausted and one appeared to be dead, but all were revived and taken to hospital.—Rewards, 15*.

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At about 6 P.M. on the 24th August a small rowing boat, with two visitors, a man and a woman, was seen by the harbour- master to be in difficulties and drifting away. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a very choppy sea, and the tide was ebbing. At the harbour- master's request a boatman put out in a motor boat, accompanied by two visitors. At some risk thejj» rescued the two people, and brought them ashore.—Rewards, 12*. 6d., and 2*. 6d.

for fuel used, to the boatman, and letters of thanks to Mr. J. A. Scholfield and Major A. Hartley.

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At about I P.M. on the 24th August the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, Alder- man C. E. Tatham, was informed that a large vessel seemed to be in a position of some danger. With the life-boat's coxswain and two other men, he put out in a motor boat. The weather was fair, but hazy, with a light northerly breeze. Alderman Tatham found the steamer Johannes Maersk, of Kalundborg, at anchor in shallow water, but not in need of help, and waiting for the next high water to proceed to Preston.—Rewards, 15*.

to the coxswain and two other men, 10*. for use of the boat, and the Institution's thanks to Alderman Tatham.

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 24th August the harbour- master received a telephone message that a man bathing was in danger of drowning, and that there was too much swell for the safety boat for the rescue of bathers to be sent out to him. A strong ebb tide was running. The speed-boat Velocity, with three men, was despatched from the lighthouse pier, and reached the mai:. within one minute of the message being received.

She was in great danger of being swamped, but succeeded in rescuing the man.—Rewards, £2 5*.

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At about 4.15 P.M. on the 25th August a small sailing boat with two visitors on board, a man and a woman, capsized two miles south of Castle Hill. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea. Two men put out in a motor boat and at some risk rescued the man and woman. They were out about an hour.—Rewards, £l 5s., and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

Poole, Dorset.—Shortly before 1 A.M.

on the 17th September, during a strong S.W. gale, with a very rough sea, the Poole life-boat was launched in response to flares from the yacht Foxhound, of Poole. She was at anchor near Stokes Buoy, Wareham Channel, in Poole har- bour, but had lost two anchors and was drifting. The life-boat was unable to get alongside and went aground. Six men put off in a rowing boat and at some risk rescued the crew of two of the yacht. They were engaged in the work of rescue for about four hours.— Rewards, £9.

Margate, Kent.—At about 3.15 P.M. on the 29th September, during a whole N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, the engine of the motor boat Betty II, of Margate, failed, and she began to drift towards the rocks off Margate. The life-boat was already away on service and the honorary secretary sent out the pilot boat Thanet Queen, but owing to shallow water she was not able to get alongside.

The life-boat, which had now returned, rescued the crew of two of the Betty II.

—Rewards, to the pilot boat, £l 17*. 6d.

(For an account of the life-boat service, and the rewards to her crew, see p. 569.) Margate, Kent.—Four young people put out on the morning of the 15th September in a motor boat, but the engine failed and they were carried out to sea. A strong offshore breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The cargo steamer Houdene picked up the boat, towed her to the Gore and then handed her over to the care of the Whitstable barge Kathleen. In the meantime four men had put off from Margate in a motor boat. They took over the disabled boat from the Kathleen, landed the four men at Mar- gate and towed the boat to Westgate.—- Granted 5s. 4d., the cost of the fuel used.

Swanage, Dorset.—During the after- noon of the 19th August a canoe with two boys on board capsized in the tide race off St. Aldhelm's Head. A young man, Mr. John Lawrence, with whom they were staying, at once swam out to their help. A fisherman who was out in his motor boat picked up Mr.

Lawrence, and then tried to save the two boys. One he saved, but the other was drowned. Mr. Lawrence showed great courage in going in to the help of his friends.- -Rewards, A framed letter of thanks to Mr. John Lawrence, and 12s. 6d. to the boatman, with 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.—On the 26th August, Mrs. G. B. Bond, of The Gugh, rescued two bathers single-handed, at great risk to herself.—-Reward, The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.

(For a full account of this service see p. 555.).