ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages varied from ten to sixteen.

On 3rd August a thirteen-year-old boy, James Mair, was out fishing in a small boat with a sixty-nine-year-old fisherman off Portknockie, Banffshire.

The fisherman fell overboard, and the boy, with great difficulty and at great risk of overturning the boat, seized him ajid managed to drag him aboard again.

Besides the wrist-watch, the Institution awarded him a pound and sent him a letter of appreciation.

On 5th August, at Beaumaris, Anglesey, a man and two women were fishing from a dinghy moored off the pier. They were run down and sunk by a motor launch, and all three were in the water. The man was picked up by the launch. A fourteen-year-old boy, Anthony G. Jeune, the son of a B* life-boatman, was in a boat by the pier. He saw the accident, rowed out at once, and held up the two women until a man came up in a boat, and with his help, got the two womeii on board. Besides the wrist-watch" the Institution awarded Anthony Jeune one pound and sent him a letter of appreciation. The man who helped him was awarded ten shillings.

On 1st September, at Carradale, Argyllshire, two men, two boys and a girl were out in a small sailing boat.

It struck a basking shark and was swamped. One man and one of the boys were washed away and drowned.

The other man had also been thrown into the sea. His daughter, Jessica Brown, aged ten, and Donald Macdonald were left in the waterlogged boat, and showed great coolness and courage.

Jessica Brown seized her father's head and kept it above water until other boats came out to the rescue. Un- fortunately her father could not be revived. Besides the wrist-watches awarded to Jessica Brown and DonaldMacdonald, the Institution awarded one pound to the four men who came out to the rescue.

On 5th September, at Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, as reported in the ' last issue of The Life-boat, a sailing dinghy with two men aboard was blown off the land in a gale, with a rough, confused sea running, and was carried towards the tide race off Porth- dinllaen Head. Bobby Griffiths, six- teen years old, put off at once in a small motor boat, and got a line on board the dinghy, which was rapidly filling. His boat was not powerful enough to make any headway against the gale, but he kept the dinghy in tow until a motor launch arrived and brought both boats into harbour.

Besides the wrist-watch, the Institution awarded him one pound and sent him a letter of appreciation. A letter of thanks and 10/- were sent to the man who went out in the motor launch..