ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.

PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

PRESIDENT—REAR-ADMIRAL HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.

Committee of Management.

THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., Chairman, V.P.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy Chairman.

Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B.

Captain C. R. D. BETHUNE, R.N., C.B.

General BLANSHABD, C.B.

Rear-Admiral BEECHET, F.R.S., Board of Trade.

Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY, M.P.

Rear-Admiral BERTIE C. CATOR.

WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.

Vice-Admiral DEANS DONDAS, C.B.

Captain GEORGE DAVIES, R.N.

Captain STEPHENSON ELLERBY, Trinity House.

Commander FRANCIS "W. ELLIS, R.N.

MONTAGUE GOBE, Esq.

Rev. C. B. GRIBBLE, M.A.

Captain W. H. HALL, R.N., H.M.S. Blenheim.

Captain G. A. HALSTED, R.N., Secretary to Lloyd's.

Commander J. C. HEASLOP, R.N.

Captain W. H. HENDERSON, R.N., C.B., Comp.- General Coast Guard.

Rear-Admiral Sir THOMAS HERBERT, K.C.B., M.P.

Sir AUGUSTUS WM. HILLARY, Bart.

EDWARD HURRY, Esq.

Captain E. A. INGLEFIELD, R.N., F.R.S.

Captain A. JEBNIHGHAM, B./N.

Captain W. H. KENNEDY, R.N., Dep. Comp.-Gen.

Coast Guard.

Commander J. S. LEAN, R.N.

GEORGE LYALL, Esq.

Captain J. B. B. MCHARDY, R.N.

Captain OMMANNEY, R.N.

Lord ALFRED H. PAGET, M.P.

Major PALMER.

JAMES PEAKE, Esq., Assistant Master Shipwright in H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich.

Captain LAMBERT PERROTT, E.K.M.

JOHN DISTON POWLES, Esq.

Captain C. R. PRESTON.

Rear-Admiral R. SAOMAREZ, K.L.

Captain SHEPHERD, H. C. S., V.P., Deputy Master of the Trinity House.

Captain TOWNSHEND, R.N., M.P.

Colonel TCLLOB, R.A., Director of Carriage Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

Captain Sir BALDWIN W, WALKER, R.N., K.C.B., Surveyor of the Navy.

Captain WASHINGTON, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty.

Commander J. R. WARD, R.N.

ISAAC WATTS, Esq., Assist. Surveyor of the Navy.

FRANCIS WILSOS, Esq., V.P.

. H. S. H. WOLLASTON, Esq.

The Committee have to state that this is the only National Institution which has for its object the " Saving of Life from Shipwreck;" and they would earnestly call the attention of the public to the fact that, although the Life-boats of the Institution have saved 132 lives during the past year, more than 1500 persons have been lost by Shipwreck on the Coasts of the United Kingdom and adjoining Seas during the same short period—one-half of whom, it is computed, might have been saved had means been supplied to place Life-boats on the Coasts.

Great and extraordinary efforts have during the last two years been made by the Institution to provide Life-boats where most urgently required, and also to make thoroughly efficient the Life-boats already established. To accomplish this object, the funds of the Institution have not only been seriously diminished, but its present liabilities for Lifeboats, Lifeboat-carriages, and Lifeboat-nouses, amount to 15001.

To enable the Institution to prosecute with undiminished vigour its hitherto successful exertions in so benevolent a cause as the " Preservation of Life from Shipwreck," the generous co-operation of the public is earnestly solicited.

The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional Contributions:— Angerstein, John, Esq., V. p., Blackheath (Donation £.

Atty, Mis., Southwell Baring, John, Esq., Oakwood Bevan, Rev. F., Attleburgh .

Cholmondeley, Lord Henry, M P.

Ditto Cobb, F. W., Esq., Margate Donaldson, Mrs., Blandford E. F. M., per Rev. A. B. Iladen Glyn, Sir R. P., Bart. . .

Baden, Rev. A. B., Brewood Halifax, Miss, Chadacre Hall Hay, Capt. J. B., H.N., Clifton Hay, Capt. J. B. L., R.N. .

Havward, W., Esq.

. (Donation (Donation (Donation (Donation . (Annual) . (Donation) (Annual) . (Donation) (4th Donation) " ') James, Joseph, Esq., Birmingham .

£. s. d.

Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company (3rd Donation)! 05 0 Kisbee, Captain Thomas, R.N. . . (Annual) 1 1 Newsam, Fowler, Esq.

Nncella, Rev. Thomas, Glympton .

Porcher, H., Esq., Winchfleld . .

Prendergast, General Sir Jeffrey (3rd Donation) 1 1 0 (Annual) 1 1 0 10 0 0 , Reynolds, Joseph, Esq.

Roope, lAeut.-tieneTa Smith, John Henry, Esq.

(Annual) 1 1 0 (5th Donation) 5 0 0 (2nd Donation) 5 5 Tarleton, Lady (Annual) Thomond, Rear-Admiral the Marquis of.G.C.H (Donation) 5 0 Watson, Philip, Esq , Brighton . (Donation) 2 2 Weguelin, T. M., Esq., Governor of the Bank of England . . . . (Donation) 10 Donations and Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. WILLIS, PERCIVAL, and Co., 76 Lombard Street, Bankers to the Institution; Messrs. HERRIES, FARQUHAR, and Co., 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. CODTTS and Co., 59 Strand; LONDON and CODNTY BANK, 21 Lombard Street; by the several Metropolital Army and Navy Agents; and by the Secretary, Mr. RICHARD LEWIS, at the Office of the Institution, 14 John Street, Adelphi, London.

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