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would be of no use; but he told them that even if the boat 
did founder, and there was no chance of their lives being 
saved, it would give them time to offer up a prayer to 
Almighty God, and he believed that many of them did 
take life-belts with them; whether they put them on he 
could not say. There was no doubt they were fearless 
enough, but they feared the chaff much more than actual 
danger. 
Mr. TAMLIN said one of the great means of saving life 
at sea would be to support compulsory pilotage throughout 
the kingdom. At ports where compulsory pilotage was in 
existence, the pilots were in turn always at sea, no matter 
what the weather was, and hence they were on the spot 
ready to give assistance to ships in difficulty. 
Mr. ROGER MOORE said, asa member of the British Town 
Council, he might mention that attention had lately been 
drawn to compulsory pilotage in the Bristol Channel. He 
had been elected a member of the sub-committee to deal 
with the question, and the belief of the majority of those 
mixed up with the seafaring population was, that if the 
compulsory district were limited to between the Homes 
and Kingroad, it would increase the dangers of the channel, 
and consequently the loss of life and property. 
(The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.) 
The CHAIRMAN said the last subject on the agenda was 
the question of fishing-vessels’ lights. He thought really 
it had better be postponed as there was not time to con- 
sider it. He should be obliged to speak at considerable 
length upon it, because it was a question which he had gone 
into from the very commencement. 
Mr. LIGGINS suggested that the Conference might be 
adjourned to some future day when the subject might be 
further discussed. He knew the Society of Arts had a 
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