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Meetings of Committee, 1852

Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from the funds of the Institution, one- half of the cost of the boat-house, estimated at 551., on the remainder being raised in the locality.

The Rocket Sub-Committee were author-ized to construct a model cart for the conveyance of a. mortar, rocket, lines, &c.

The medal of the Institution was voted to JOSHUA CHARD, for general gallantry in saving life, and 21. to his boat's crew of four men, for bringing on shore the crew of the Brig John of Newcastle, wrecked on Thorpeness, on the 9th of December, 1851.

The sum of 51. was granted to the master and crew of the smack Aurora's Increase for rescuing the crew of the schooner Arrow, wrecked on the Long Sand, off Harwich, on the 27th of December.

Count PLATES, Minister of Marine in Sweden, was elected an Honorary Member of tie Committee.

Thursday, 5th February, 1852, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, President, in the chair.

Confirmed the minutes of the previous Electing, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.

Awarded 2L to the coxswain and If. to each of the crew of the Holyhead life-boat, for saving the lives of 43 passengers of the Jman of Wexford steamer, wrecked in Holy- head Bay on the 4th of January. And to Captain THOMAS HORSTE, Superintendent of Packets at Holyhead, the Thanks of the Com- mittee inscribed on vellum for his promptitude in employing the steam-packet Anglta to tow the Holyhead life-boat to the spot where the Town of Wexfard was wrecked.

The Thanks of the Committee on vellum were also awarded to Lieut. J. C, JOHNSTON, K.N., chief officer of the Dunbar coast-gnard' station, for his exertions in assisting to save the lives of the crew of the schooner Susan, wrecked on the Yellow Can- Point, coast of Berwick, on the 9th January, 1852. Also the silver medal of the institution to JAMES BROWN, commissioned boatman of the Dun- bar Coast-Guard station, for twice jumping into the sea and rescuing the master and one of the crew of the Susan; and the sum of 5?. to ten Coast-Guard-men of that station on the same occasion.

The Thanks of the Committee on vellum were likewise directed to be presented to Mr. BRIGHTON SILVERS, Tide-surveyor of Customs at North Yarmouth, for having assisted in saving the lives of 91 persons by means of the MANBY life-apparatus during the last 32 years; and the silver medal of the Institution to WILLIAM RAWCLIFFE, coxswain of the Southport life-boat, for having gone off in her 20 times, and been present at the saving of 70 lives during the last 17 years.

Captain JERNINGHAM was authorized to purchase rockets, lines, &c., to enable him to train the Coast-Guard gunnery instructors in their use.

GEORGE PALMEK, Esq., was elected Vice- President of the Institution, and Captain PALMER and Commander WARD, R.N., members of the Committee of Management.

The Wreck Sub-Committee reported that 120 wrecks had taken place during the month of January of the present year, or nearly 4 a-day.