FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.

Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness." Reverse.—Three sailors in a Life-boat,—one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves on a fragment of the wreck. " W. Wyon, Mint." Inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." The following is a LIST of the SILVER MEDALS voted by the Committee of this- Institution, since the 1st January, 1870, to persons whose humane and intrepid exertions in saving Life from Shipwreck on our Coasts have been deemed sufficiently conspicuous to merit that honourable distinction. The number of Medals granted by the Institution up to the present time is as follows :— Gold Medals 90 Silver Medals .. . . . . . .822 Total 912

AMIS, Mr. EDWARD, Coxswain of the Palling (Norfolk) Life-boat.

BANYARD, Mr. JOHN, Chief Officer H.M. Coast- guard, Hornsea, Yorkshire.

CVRNOW, Mr. PAUL, Coxswain of the St. Ive's Life-boat.

CUMMINS, Mr. JOHN, Coxswain of the Arklow Life-boat. 

FISH, Mr. CHARLES, Coxswain of the Ramsgate Life-boat. 

GRANT, Mr. WILLIAM, Coxswain of the Margate Life-boat.

HILLS, Mr. WILLIAM, Chief Boatman, H.M. Coastguard; late Coxswain of Padstow Life- boat (Second Service Clasp).

JARMAN, Mr. ISAAC, late Coxswain of Ramsgate Life-boat (Second Service Clasp).

MITCHELL, Mr. CHARLES, Fisherman of Port Isaac, Cornwall (second Service clasp~).

ROBERTSON, Capt. DAVID, R.N., Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats to the Institution.

SCOTT, Mr. GEORGE R., Boatswain of tho ship Beethoven, of St. John's, N.B.

STUGGINS, Mr. WILLIAM, Second Coxswain of Teignmouth Life-boat.

THOMAS, Mr. RICHARD J., Coxswain of New Brighton Life-boat.

WILLIAMS, Rev. OWEN LLOYD, Hon. Sec. of the Abersoch and Porthdiullaen Branch of the Institution. Name not previously inserted.