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

FOUNDED IN 1824.

Supported 'by Voluntary Contributions.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS«Majesty THE QUEEN.

VICE-PATRONS.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT, K.G.

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, K.G.

PRESIDENT. VICE-ADMIRAL HIS GRACE ALGERNON DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.H.S.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

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

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.R.S., V.P., Deputy Chairman.

Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.

Rear-Admiral C. K. D. BETHDNE, C.B.

General BLANSHARD, C.B.

ALEXANDER BOETEFEUR, Esq.

Captain Sir GEORGE BROKE, Bart., R.N., V.P.

Rear-Admiral P. BOLLOCK.

Lord HENRY OHOLMONDELEY.

ee-AdmtoraA BERTIE C.CiOft.

WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., P.R.S.

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

Captain GEORGE DAVISS, R.N.

Commander C. R. EGERTON, R.N.

MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.

Captain W. H. HALL, R.N., C.B., P.R.S.' Captain G. A. HALSTED, R.N., Secretary to Lloyd's.

Commander J. C. HEASLOP, R.N.

Commodore EDEN, R.N., C.B., Comptroller - General of Coast Guard.

Vice-Admiral Sir THOMAS HERBERT, K.C.B.

William H. HAKTON, Esq.

Captain A. JERNINGHAM, R.N.

Captain W. H. KENNEDY, B.N., Deputy Comp.-Gen. Coast Guard.

Commander J. S. LEAN, R.N.

GEORGE LYALL, Esq., M.P.

Rear- Admiral McHARDY.

Rear-Admiral FiTz-Roy.

Captain OMMARNEY, R.N.

Lord ALFRED H.PAGET, M.P.

Major GEORGE PALMER.

JAMES PEAKE, Esq., Assistant Master Shipwright In H.M.'s Dockvard, Woolwich.

The Very Rev. the Hon. GEO. PELLEW, Dean of Norwich.

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Captain ROBERTSON, H.N., Surveyor-General to the Board of Trade.

Sir R. CHARLES ROWLEY, Bart.

Captain A. P. RYDER, R.N.

Vice-Admiral R. SAUMAHEZ, K.L.

Captain SHEPHAKD, V.P.

Hear-Admiral GORDON, Deputy-Master of the Trinity House.

Rear-Admiral The Marquis TOWNSHEND.

Captain SULIVAN, H.N., C.B., Board of Trade.

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

Rear-Admiral Sir BALDWIN W. WALKEK, Bart., K.C.B., Surveyor of the Navy.

Captain WASHINGTON, R.N., P.R.S., V.P., Hydrographer of the Admiralty.

Captain J. R. WARD, R.N.

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

TRUSTEES.

THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., V.P. [ THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.R.S., V.P.

BANKERS—MeMrs. WILLIS, PERCIVAL, and Co., Lombard Street TREASURER—HENRY WILLIS, Esq.

HON. ARCHITECT—C.H.COOKE, Esq.

LIFE-BOAT INSPECTOR-Captaln J. H. WARD, H.N.

AUDITOR—G. C. BEGBIE, Esq.

SECRETARY—RICHARD LEWIS.

The Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution would earnestly call the attention of the Public to the great exertions which the Society has recently made and is now making to provide efficient Life-boats on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom. To supply these Life-boats, together with Transporting-carriages and Boat-houses for some of them, has involved an expenditure of upwards of 60001.

The establishment of Life-boats at other places has since been undertaken by the Committee.

- During 1857, three hundred and ninety-eight persons were rescued by Life-boats from Shipwrecks on our coasts, a large proportion of whom were saved by the Life-boats of this Institution.

This Important work can only be continued by the aid of a generous Public. The rescue of Shipwrecked persons from drowning is a work of mercy and humanity, which so manifestly claims the sympathy of all classes of persons in this Maritime and Commercial Country, that the Committee feel assured that the present urgent demands on the Institution need only be known to insure for it the liberal support of the Community at large.

The, Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional Contributions :— £. s. d.

McKerrell, William, Esq., for a doublebanked life-boat - - - - (2nd Donation) 180 0 0 A Friend, per Admiral Hargood, for a single-banked life-boat _ _ _ (5th Donation) 150 0 0 Brown, E. K., Esq., Hampstead _ - (Annual) 1 1 0 Buxton, Charles, Esq., M.P. — — (2nd Donation) 31 10 0 Chapman, Thomas, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy- Chairman _ _ _ _ _ _ (2nd Donation) 10 10 0 Clowes, Edmund, Esq., Temple — — (Donation) 20 0 0 Currie, William, Esq., Cornhill - - (Donation) 20 0 0 Douglas,J.Stoddart,Esq.,ChelstonPark(Donation) 10 0 0 Drlnkwater, Miss - - - - -(Donation) 2 0 0 Ellice, Wm., Esq., Upper Brook-street (Donation) 10 Francis, William, Esq., Exeter - _ (Donation) Giflard, Miss, Parker's Well - - _ (Donation) Guineas, W. Grattan, Esq., Dublin - (Annual) Hack, Miss, Torquay - - _ _ (2nd Donation) Hall, Mrs. Marshall _ _ _ - -(Donation) Hamilton, Dr., R.N. _ _ _ _ _ (Annual) Horton, —, Esq. _ - _ _ - - (Donation) 0 0 0 10 0 i 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 £. s. d.

Coles, Mrs., a Chest of Plate, sold for _ - _ loo 9 10 Hardinge, Capt. E., H.N. - - - (Donation) Hardinge, Col. R . _ _ _ _ _ (Donation) Letchworth, Thomas,Esq.., Exeter _ [(Donation) Lloyd, Mrs., Aston _ _ _ _ _ (Donation) Macleod, Captain, R.N. - _ _ _ (Annual) Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. - -. _ (4th Donation) 10 0 Miles, William, Esq., Exeter _ _ (Annual) 1 l Murray, John, Esq , Albemarle-street (Donation) M. S., Hythe - - _ - _ • _ _ (Annual) 1 1 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 - . 5 5 0 Musgrave, Sir James, Bart. _ _ (2nd Donation) 20 0 0 Peurt, H. B., Esq., and Miss Peurt _ (Donation) 2 0 0 Philllmore, Captain, Brighton _ _ (Donation) 10 10 0 Presbyter, Kesteveusis - - - - (Donation) ~ - - resyer, esveuss 200 Smith, W. H., Esq., Fleet-street _ (2nd Donation) 5 0 0 Stevens, Thomas, Esq., Plymouth _ (Annual) 1 1 0 Various small Sums under £ 1 _ _ _ _ _ 246 Warden, Captain, R.N. - - - (3rd Donation) 10 0 0 White, Rev., Glyd - - - - -(Donation) 2 0 0 Wishaw, W. Esq., Winchester-buildings (Donation) 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. WILI.IS, PERCIVAI,, and Co., 76 Lombard Street, Bankers to the Institution ; Messrs. HERRIES, FARQUHAR, and Co., 16 St.

James's Street; Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand; LONDON and COUNTS BANK, 21 Lombard Street; by all the London and Country Bankers; by the several Metropolitan Army and Navy Agents; and by the Secretary at the Office of the Institution, 14 JOHN STREET, ADELPBI, London.