s life in endeavouring to save the lives of others from
shipwreck, has left a father and mother unprovided for, and to
inform you that my Lords have this day forwarded to the Receiver of
Wreck, at Hull, an order for the amount of five pounds (L5) to be
paid to the parents of the deceased.

I am, Sir,
John Ellerthorpe, Esq., Your obedient servant,
Humber Dock Gates, Hull. JAMES BOOTH.

[Sidenote: HIS APPEAL TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.]

In December, of the same year, he made a similar appeal to the Board of
Trade, on behalf of some Hull seamen, and received the following
answer:--

Board of Trade, Whitehall,
_4th February, 1864_.

Sir,--I am instructed by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
16th December last, calling their Lordships' attention to the
services rendered on the 4th December, by some fishermen of Hull,
to the crew of the schooner 'John Thomas,' of Carnarvon, and I am
to inform you in reply, that my Lords have presented the sum of
five pounds (L5) to be divided amongst the crew of the 'Washer,' as
a mark of their appreciation of their gallant conduct, and ten
pounds (L10) to the owners of the smack as compensation for loss of
time, &c.

The Receiver of Wreck has received instructions to pay the
above-mentioned sums to the parties in question.

I am, Sir,
John Ellerthorpe, Esq., Your obedient Servant,
Humber Dock Gates, J. H. FARRER.
Kingston-upon-Hull.

The following letter explains itself:--

Humber Lock Gate, Hull.
_February 17th, 1863._

_To the Secretary of the Royal Humane Society._

Sir,--I take the liberty of addressing you in consequence of an
accident having occurred, last week, in the Lock Pit of the Humber
Dock Gates, of this town. A man fell from a steamer going out of
the Dock, whom I followed into the water in the hope of being able
to save his life; but although he was not more than a minute and a
half in the water, and he spoke to me when I had hold of