rt of Fleetwood. Rising without a
moment's hesitation, he summoned John Fox, chief boatman of the Coast
Guard, and coxswain of the lifeboat, with some other men, and two of his
former crew, James Turner and John Aspingal, fishermen. The lifeboat
was once more afloat, and, towed for two hours against a strong tide and
heavy sea by the steam-tug, she at length reached the wreck, which
proved to be the schooner _Jane Roper_, of Ulverstone. Her crew,
consisting of six men, were in the rigging, crying out for aid. Captain
Wasey and his men happily succeeded in getting them all on board, and in
landing them safely at Fleetwood.

On the 19th of February, while it was blowing a heavy gale from the
north-north-west, with squalls, the schooner _Catherine_, of Newry, went
on shore, when again Captain Wasey went off in the lifeboat, and
succeeded in saving all the crew.

On 20th October 1861, the same brave officer, taking command of the
lifeboat, was instrumental in saving the lives of 16 persons from the
barque _Vermont_, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, wrecked on Barnett's Bank,
three miles from Fleetwood. For these and various other similar
services he has received several medals and clasps from the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution.

GALLANTRY OF LIEUTENANT BOYLE, RN.

Lieutenant the Hon. H.F. Boyle, RN, chief officer of the Coast Guard
at Tenby, distinguished himself in the same humane manner.

At daybreak on the 2nd of November, the smack _Bruce_, of Milford,
anchored, being totally dismasted, about three miles east of Tenby. It
was blowing a furious gale from the west-south-west, and the sea,
running very high, threatened every instant to overwhelm the smack, or
to drive her on the rocks. Lieutenant Boyle, immediately on seeing her
condition, embarked in the Tenby lifeboat, and pulled off towards the
unfortunate vessel. Her crew, three in number, were found in an almost
exhausted state, and taken into the lifeboat, which then made for the
small harbour of Saundershott, four miles distant.

On the 9th of November, at nine p.m., the commencement of a dark cold
night of that inclement season, a large brig was observed to go on shore
in Tenby Bay. The lifeboat, manned by her usual varied crew of
coastguardsmen and fishermen, under the charge of Robert Parrott, chief
boatman of the Coast Guard, who acted as coxswain of the lifeboat, at
once proceeded through a tremendous sea towards her, the wind blowing a
gale from