The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

EXMOUTH LIFE-BOAT.

This boat, the cost of which was presented by
Lady Rolle to the National Lifeboat Institution,
had her quarterly exercise on Friday last, in ac-
cordance with the regulations of the institution.
Absence from home prevented Lady Rolle going
off herself in the boat. The launch of the lifeboat
from her transporting carriage was accomplished
with much ease. It took place in the presence of
Admiral Sir R Moresby, K.C.8., Captain Sir E.
Perrott, Bart., Captain Rich, R.N., and a large
concourse of people. Lieut. Agassiz, R.N., the Rev.
J. Gattey, and the secretary of the Parent Society,
went off with the crew in her. The sea on the occa-
sion was somewhat rough, and the boat's behaviour
in the water elicited the admiration on this, as on
previous occasions, of her crew. This is one of the
most complete lifeboat establishments on the whole
coast of the United Kingdom, and reflects much
credit on Lieut. Agassiz, the zealous hon. secretary
of the branch, Mr. Hawkins, chief officer of the
coastguard, and other members of the local commit-
tee. In a recent number of All the Year Round,
Dickens thus alludes incidentally, in an admirable
article on shipwrecks, to the Exmouth Lifeboat
Station :

"All hands were lost last night for want of a
lifeboat here, My son-in-law is coxswain of the
nearest lifeboat, but that's 30 miles from us. We've
lots of wrecks, but never a boat yet. There are
boats wanted, belike, in many other places where
there are only poor people ashore, though there are
none the kinder rocks and shoals at sea. We can't
set up a boat."
"A few five-pound notes," I said, " would not
have done it for you."
" Look here, sir," said Jem, "my son-in-law, he's
but a rough fishermen who knows his trade, a stout
lad, and not stupid on salt water. He gets
£8 a year for being coxswain of the lifeboat at his
place, and very proud he are for so to be. Once a
quarter he goes out with the boat's crew, men like
himself, for exercising in rough weather, and they
get their day's pay too, as is fitting. They've
a boat that'll do anything but go out walking
ashore by itself, and that lives in a home of its own
handy to the sea, ready to slip out on a wreck at a
minute's notice. What he tells me is, which is the
only learning he's got from books kep' in the boat-
house, that when the money that has been spent in
setting lifeboats up about the coast is squared
against the lives saved, there's a life for every four
pound seven and twopence. That's the sum. So,
the more five pound notes go that way, the fewer
of us will go this way ;" and he laid a wrinkled
finger on the sail.
" When, a week after the storm, I went in
search of a physician to the seaport Jem had
named, and, whilst waiting his time to return
with me when he had seen his patients on the
spot, I walked sadly by the ripple of a placid sea,
and came by accident upon the lifeboat house. It
was a neat stone building, with some show of archi-
tecture in it, with a verandah east and west shelter-
ing forms, upon which pilots and others might sit
under cover in foul weather. I had been told that,
at this town, boat-house and boat were the gift of
a lady of fortune, and it was evident that she was
one who did not give with two fingers."

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