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., V.P., Chairman.

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

Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B.

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

General BLANSHARD, C.B.

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

Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY, M.P.

Rear-Admiral BERTIE C. CATOR.

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

Vice-Admiral Sir DEANS DUNDAS, K.C.B.

Captain GEORGE DAVIES, R.N.

Captain STEPHENSON ELLERBY, Trinity House.

Commander FRANCIS W. ELLIS, R.N.

MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.

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

Capt. W. H. HALL, R.N., C.B., H.M.S. Blenheim.

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

Commander J. C. HEASLOP, R.N.

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

EDWARD HUBBY, Esq.

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

Captain A. JERNINGHAM, R.N.

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

Coast Guard.

Captain J. B. B. MCHABDY, R.N.

Captain OMMANNEY, R.N.

Lord ALFRED H. PAGBT, M.P.

Major PALMER.

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

Captain LAMBERT PERROTT.

JOHN DISTON POWLES, Esq.

Captain C. R. PEESTON.

Rear-Admiral R. SAIIMAREZ, K.L.

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

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

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

Captain Sir BALDWIN W. WALKER, H.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 WILSON, Esq., V.P.

H. S. H. WOLLASTON, Esq. Commander J. S. LEAN, R.N.

GEORGE LYALL, Esq.

BANKERS—Messrs. WILIJS, PERCIVAL, & Co., Lombard Street.

TREASURER—HENRY WILLIS, Esq. AUDITOR—G. C. BEGBIE, Esq.

SECRETARY—Mr. RICHARD LEWIS.

LIFE-BOAT INSPECTOR—Commander J. R. WARD, R.N.

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—many of whom might have been saved had more ample 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 Life-boats, Life-boat-carriages, and Life-boat-houses, amount to 1500Z.

During the past month the Committee have granted upwards of 1501., besides honorary distinctions, to, meritorious parties, in testimony of their laudable exertions in rescuing by the Life-boats in connection with the Institution, shore boats, and other means, more than 220 persons, who were cast away from the recent calamitous shipwrecks on the coast.

To enable the Committee, therefore, to prosecute with undiminished vigour their hitherto successful exertions in so benevolent a cause as the " Preservation of Life from Shipwreck," the generous cooperation of the public is/earnestly solicited.

The Committee grateftilly acknowledge the following additional Contributions:— £. i. d.

, (3rd Donation) 5 0 0 (2nd Donation) 5 5 0 • . (Donation) . . (Annual) . (Donation) . . (Donation) . (Donation; . (Donation) . (Donation) (Annual) 1 0 £. I. d.

Linton, Colonel (Donation) 5 0 0 Mitchell, W. R., Esq., Camberwell (Donation) 1010 0 Pepys, John, Esq. . . . . . (Donation) 21 0 0 " ' ling, Miss Sara, Hull . . . Annual) I 1 - Sparrow, James, Esq., Hull • . (Donation) 10 10 0 Talbot, J. H., Esq., High Sheriff, Wexford (Don.) 2 0 0 Watkins, The Rev. H. G. . . . (Donation) 5 5 0 tation) 0 10 o Wodehouse, Mrs., Norwich .

Wollaston, Lieutenant 1. N. .

Various small donations . .

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(Annual) 0 S o . . . . 1 5 0 Ellesmere, The Earl of ...

De Saumarez, The Rev. Lord A. E. A Bristol Merchants' Society .

Colling, Joseph, Esq. . .

Drinkald, Joshua, Esq. . .

Grove, Captain, R.N. . . .

Herring, Robert, Ksq., Croraer Hill, Mrs., East Sheen . . .

Johnston,.John, Esq., Ryde 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 COUNTY BANK, 21 Lombard Street; by the several Metropolitan Army and Navy Agents; and at the House of the Institution, 14 John Street, Adelphi, London.

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