April Meeting.

Selsey, Sussex.—On the 8th April two men in a fishing-boat rescued the crew of two of another fishing-boat which had capsized—Rewards £2; and 2s. 6d. for fuel used. (For full account see page 334).

May Meeting.

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 6.50 P.M. on the 15th April, Coxswain Mur- field, with three other men, put off in his motor fishing boat, the Noel II, in a thick fog, as the coastguard had reported that, during a lift of the fog, they had seen a coble about a mile E.N.E. of the coastguard station flying a signal of distress. The wind was very light and the sea smooth. The men found the motor fishing coble Mayflower, of Whitby, in difficulties, as her crab-pot ropes had fouled the propeller and stopped the engine. Her crew were unable to reach the ropes to cut them away. The men in the Noel II cut the ropes and towed the coble back to Whitby harbour.—Rewards, £1 10s., and 4s. for fuel used.

Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 6 A.M. on the 19th October, 1936, three canoes, about 24 feet long, narrow in the beam, and made of canvas over wood, each with three men on board, put to sea to haul their fishing nets. They had to go through a dangerous channel to get to their nets, but it was safely negotiated.

Conditions were bad and worsening, and by the time the canoes were ready to return a moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing, with an exceptionally rough and broken sea, and showers of rain.

The first canoe got safely through the channel, but a very big sea struck the second, carrying it on to the rocks and throwing the three men into the water.

The first canoe turned back and rescued one man, another man clung to the submerged rocks, and the third was being washed towards the open sea, clinging to a canvas buoy and entangled in fishing nets.

The men in the third canoe, which was still outside the channel, seven or eight hundred yards away, rowed with all speed into the channel and rescued the man who was being washed towards the sea. The canoe then wentand rescued the man who was clinging to the rocks. He was injured and exhausted, and could not have lived much longer.

It was reported that the sea was so rough and broken at the point where the first man was rescued that no boat of the kind used by Quilty fishermen could have lived in it, unless most skilfully handled, and the men on board the third canoe ran great risk.— Rewards, £7 10s. (men in the first canoe 10s. each and men in the third canoe £2 each).

Thomas Boyle, who was in command of the third canoe, was awarded the bronze medal, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and £6 (including a sum for damage to boat) in March, 1928, for his share in the rescue of three men marooned on an island, and a silver watch, £2, a letter of thanks and £3 for damage to his boat, in May, 1934, for his share in the rescue of a crew of three men from a capsized canoe.

Padstow, Cornwall.—On the night of the 24th April the fishing boat Aileen, of Padstow, was disabled by a broken petrol pipe. She was seen by a man on shore, who reported to the life-boat coxswain. As the weather was fine and calm, the life-boat boarding boat went out, manned by the permanent life-boat mechanic and the man who had reported the boat to be in difficul- ties. The Aileen was brought into Padstow.—Rewards, 5s.

June Meeting.

Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — Shortly after noon on the 23rd May five boys put to sea in the hired pleasure rowing ' boat Jeanette. A moderate, squally, S.W. breeze sprang up, with a moderate sea, and the boys tried to get back.

Their efforts were unsuccessful, and the boat was driven out to sea. A fisher- man saw it, and, with his son, put off at 1.30 P.M. in his motor yawl. They picked the boat up two miles E.N.E.

from Dunbar harbour, and towed it back to harbour.—Rewards, 10s., and Is. 6d. for fuel used.

July Meeting.

Leith, Midlothian. — At about noon on the 23rd May the'yacht Kingfisher, of Granton, capsized in the Firth of Forth off Hound Point, about a mile east of Forth Bridge, and her crew of four, all Edinburgh University students, were thrown into the water. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing against the flowing tide, and the sea was rough.

A motor pilot boat with a boatman and a pilot on board, going off to an inward- bound steamer, saw the men in the water and went to their help. Two of them were hauled on board, but the others were entangled in the yacht's running-gear and it was difficult to reach them. One was seized with a boat-hook and dragged in, but the other sank and was not seen again. The rescued men were in a critical condition, but were revived by artificial respiration on shore.—Rewards, £l.

The pilot returned his award as a donation to the funds of the Institution.

Clovelly, Devon.—During the even- ing of the 9th June four men who were on the rocks about a quarter of a mile west of Clovelly pier were cut off by the tide. The life-boat shore-signalman was told, and he put out in a 12-feet rowing boat. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a fairly rough sea.

The signalman backed in to the rocks, which were awash by this time, and rescued the four men.—Rewards, 7s. 6d.

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7 P.M. on the 13th June the East Pier watchman reported that a canoe with one man on board had capsized about five hundred yards outside the harbour. The wind was light and the sea smooth. A speed- boat, manned by the life-boat assistant motor mechanic and three other men, put out, rescued the man and towed the canoe into harbour.—Rewards, £1.

New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd June the life-boat coxswain received a message from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank. As the weather was fine and the sea smooth, he and the whole- time motor mechanic put out in the motor boarding dinghy and found the vessel to be the Girl Pat, of Grimsby, with a crew of five on board. She was in no danger, however, and after the coxswain had advised her skipper about laying out an anchor, the boarding dinghy made for home, arriving at 6.45 AJM.—Rewards, 10s..