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length (two or threé each side), the netting to be made 
of strong line six inches from knot to knot, so as not 
to obstruct the sight. The cost would be very slight. 
Mr. DAvID TAMLIN (Swansea pilot) said he could not 
allow the discussion to close without calling attention to the 
want of harbour accommodation on the coast of Wales. 
Swansea was not represented there by the fishing commu- 
nity, and, therefore, he felt bound to call attention to the 
want of harbour accommodation in that locality. The 
trade had diminished, especially the oyster fisheries, but 
there were still a great many boats there, and the bay was 
entirely open to south-westerly and south-easterly winds. 
The Mumbles was a most admirable place for a harbour of 
refuge, and he believed that the last Royal Commission 
recommended that one should be constructed there, and 
nothing had been done. If the great loss of life which 
took. place had been occasioned by a want of sanitation 
there would be an immense outcry at once, but if it were 
a question of harbours of refuge it seemed to be shelved 
altogether. 
Captain READ (Deal) said he came there to point out one 
remedy for loss of life. Steamers were constantly running 
down fishing-smacks, and running one another down in all 
directions, generally for want of some means of knowing 
how a vessel approaching at an angle was steering. He 
wished to explain a means which had been adopted in the 
British Navy since June 1869, and he might say that about 
six months ago a friend of his at the Admiralty, to whom he 
spoke on the subject, said he had used the invention on 
hhis ships, and no captain in the British Navy steaming with 
two or more ships in company would ever think of moving 
without it. The object was to show the approaching smack 
which side the steamer intended to pass him, so that he 
