SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING. aii 
The Norwegian pilots are famous tor their skill, and 
energy, and daring ; but every year some are lost. In the 
fifteen years 1861-1875, 126 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 ina 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 ot shipwreck, and they have saved 69 men. 
For all of this information I am indebted to the report 
by Dr Broch. 
