SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING. fcii 



The Norwegian pilots are famous tor their skill, and 

 energy, and daring ; but every year some are lost. In the 

 fifteen years 1861-1875, 12(3 pilots were drowned, of which 

 98 perished in the service, and 26 at sea, but not at the 

 time so engaged. 



At several localities there are stationed life-boats and 

 safety rockets, the latter being in some places necessary, 

 the stony coast being such that no life-boat could reach 

 the shore in a storm. The annual budget for expense of 

 maintaining these stations amounts to 1700 francs. In 

 the twenty -two years subsequent to 1855, when the stations 

 were organised, safety rockets have been employed in 11 

 cases ol shipwreck, and they have saved 69 men. 



For all of this information I am indebted to the repoit 

 by Dr Broch. 



