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pilots’ widows, and 115 orphan children of pilots. The average
amount of the pensions for the pilots was kr. 198, for the widows,
kr. 68 and for the children, kr. 39; and the total amount of the
annual pensions paid to these persons was kr. 111,147.
All merchant vessels of at least 30 [1] register tons’ burden,
coming from or leaving for ports outside Norway [2] are subject
to compulsory pilotage, or rather, since the year 1869, must pay
a pilot’s fee. Vessels, carrying on fishing or other similar industries
in the open sea, are also subject to compulsory pilotage, unless
they be under 130 ton’s burden.
The number of pilotings of vessels, subject to pilotage,
performed in 1897, was 17,410, and the aggregate amount of pilotage
fees was about kr. 615,000. Of this amount, the pilots themselves
retained about kr. 490,000, while about kr. 42,600 went to the
master-pilots [3], and about kr. 85,000 to the relief fund for
pilots, which also received about kr. 13,000 from vessels which,
although subject to compulsory pilotage fees, did not employ a
pilot. Some vessels not subject to compulsory pilotage also employ
pilots, and in the year 1897, our pilots made an income of about
kr. 70,000 from this source.
The Norwegian pilots are renowned for their ability, and the
courage and devotion to duty displayed by them in the performance
of their often arduous and dangerous task. Almost every year
several of them lose their lives on the sea, either in the service,
or while engaged in fishing. In the course of the years 1890—97,
19 Norwegian pilots have lost their lives at sea, 11 while engaged
in the service, and 8 while engaged in other work.
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