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STATISTICS OF LIFE-BOATS AND FISHING-BOATS. 311 
COASTS OF SCOTLAND. 
Station, and name of Designer. No.of No. of By whom established, build, material, 
and Builder. Men. _ Boats. and arrangements. 
Berwick, Peake.........+++ — IL. 1 Life-boat Institution ; cost, £156. 
District of Leitham, 
Eyemouth Fishing Sta.2117 F. 579 Usual Fishing-boat. 
St. Andrews .......-....... — L. 1 Good. 
Anstruther District ...... 2099 — 
Fishing Stations ......... —  F. 500 Fishing-boat. 
Dundee si...........00+ 00000 — iL. 2 Good. 
Arbroath .....ssseseeeeeees — L. 1 
Mam Grace: ...5..---00000005 — L. 1 
Stonehaven ..........-..+. — UL. 1 
Aberdeen .....0s.se0csec0e — L. 1 
Peterhead District ...... 2091 F. 656 Usual Aberdeen boat. 
37 Fishing Stations ...... 140 — 
Fraserburgh District...... 1467 F. 439 The Fraserburgh boat. 
7 Fishing Stations ...... 
Banff District ............ 2853 F. 776 Usual Buckie boat. 
12 Fishing Stations ...... 
Kingshorn to Lyster Dis. 3802 F. 1049 
Wick District ..........4 3227 F. 853 
Orkney Isles.......... eee 2471 F. 608 Small Fishing-boat. 
Shetland Isles ............ 3162 F. 665 Do. Norway yaw]. 
Stornoway & Broom Dis. 4298 F. 988 
Shielding & Skye Dis.... 3674 F. 1058 
(OO ee ees 3189 F. 1062 
Rothsay and Greenock... 3524 F. 1193 Short sloop. 
Ardrossan, Peake ......... — L. 1 Local Committee. 
MPIMCS ps ycew ed soneeshinte -. — L 1 Old. 
Petey sirius 0 904 «ad pSsinad — tL. 1 Old and bad. 
Isle of Man .........20000. 2372 F. 487 
During 1856, further inquiries were prosecuted through circulars sent to 
different parts of the coast, giving the particulars of the life-boats more in 
detail, in which every assistance was afforded by the Royal National Life- 
Boat Institution, and by the Marine department of the Board of Trade, so 
‘far as the examination of the official returns made to the Board as to the 
condition of life-boats on the coast, and the other information now annually 
published of wrecks and casualties an the coasts of the United Kingdom. 
__ This is a most valuable and useful document, comprising a statement of 
the number of lives lost and saved, the amount granted out of the Mer- 
- cantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, and contributions 
towards the maintenance of life-boats ; the former being £1384, and the latter 
£962 last year. There is also a précis of the special inquiries instituted into 
the causes of wrecks and casualties, abstracts of the whole being given in 
twenty-five tables, affording a comparative and statistical record of wrecks 
* and casualties, further elucidated by the Wreck Chart now published annually, 
copies of which may be had from the Queen’s printers, and are republished 
in the ‘ Lifeboat Journal’ of the National Life-Boat Institution, to which I 
would earnestly recommend all interested to become subscribers. 
It will be observed by the Wreck Chart, that there are few wrecks on the 
coast of Scotland; and although there are only eleven life-boats, Scotland is 
provided with as good means of saving life as any part of the United Kingdom, 
_ seeing that by the report of the Edinburgh Board of Fisheries, December 1854, 
_ there were stationed on the coasts of Scotland, Shetland, Orkney, and Isle of 
Man, 10,891 fishing-boats, manned by 40,359 fishermen, hundreds of which 
could be readily converted into efficient life-boats, with experienced crews. 
