For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.

VICE-PATRON.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

PRESIDENT.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. Lord Privy Seal.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

His Grace the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY. F.R.S. i THOMAS CHAPMAN. Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of Lloyd's His Grace the DUKE of ARGYLL, K.T..F.R.S. Register.

The Most Noble the MARQUIS of CHOLMONDELEY. ! EDWARD BIRKBECK. Esq.. M.P.

The Right Hon. the EARL of LEICESTER, K..G. I Colonel TALBOT CLIFTON.

The Right Hon. LORD HATHERLEY, F.R.S., Late Lord Chan- cellor of England.

The Right Hon. LORD ROBARTES.

The Right Hon. Sir STEPHEN CAVE, G.C.B.

Admiral Sir GEORGE. BROKE-MIDDLETON, Bart., C'.B.

Capt. NICHOLAS DE ST. Croix, H.C.S.

W. H. HARTOK, Esq.

GEORGE LTALL, Esq., late Governor of the Bank of England.

T. B. POTTER, Esq., M.P.

ROBERT WHITWORTH, Ksq.

Sir EDWARD 8. L. PERROTT, Bart.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

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

GEORGE LYALL. Esq., V.P Deputy Chairman.

Rear-Admiral HRH. The DUKE OF EDINBURGH, E.G., EUGENE P. NOEL, Esq.

Sir FRANCIS BOYD ODTHAK, Bart.

Lord ALFRED H. PAGET.

Colonel GEORGE PALMER.

GEORGE PALMER, 1 Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves.

TheMAR JUIBOt jHULMONUF.LKI, V.F.

The Right Hon. Sir STEPHEN OAVE, G.C.B., 7-P.

L. T. CAVE, Esq., P.R.G.S.

Sir WILLIAM BV CLAYTON. Bart. The EARL PERCY, M.P.

Colonel PITZ-ROT CLAYTON. ! Sir EDWARD G. L. PKRROTT, Bart., V.P.

Admiral Sir RICHARD COLLINSON, K.C.B., Deputy Master of Vice-Admiral AUGUSTUS PHILLIMORE.

the Trinity House The Hon. 1'. C. AGAR-ROBARTES, M.P.

Colonel the Hon. O. F. CRICHTON. I Admiral A. P. AYDER, Commander-ln-Chlef at Portsmouth.

Capt. NICHOLAS DE STE. CROIX. H.C.S., V.P. (Admiralty. ( Admiral of the Fleet Sir GEUKOE K. SARTOBIUSI, K.U.B.

Admiral Sir J. WALTER TARLRTON, K.O.B.

Major-Generai TULLOK, R.A..G.B.

The Right Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE.

Capt. F. J. O. EVASS, R.N., C.B., F.R.S., Hydrographer to the The Right Bon. G. J. G08CHKN, M.F.

JOHN GRIFFITH, Esq.

WILLIAM H. HARTON, Esq., V.P. Vice-Admiral J. R. WARD.

The Right Hon. JOHN GELLIBRAND HUBBARP, M.P. j T. M. WEOUELIN, Esq.

Admiral J. B. B. MCHABUY. I TRUSTEES.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.R.S., V.P. GEORGE LTALL, Esq, V.P. The Right Hon. Sir STEPHEN CAVE, G.C B., FJ".

BANKERS—Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 69 Strand. TREASURER—HUGH LIKDSAT AKTBOBUS, Esq.

SECRETARY—RICHARD LEWIS, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrlster-at-L»w.

CHIEF LIFE-BOAT IITSPECTOR—Vice-Admlral J. R.WABD.

DISTRICT LIFE-BOAT INSPECTORS.

Captain the Hon H. W. CHETWTN: Commander ST. VINCENT KEPEAN D, R.N.—London. I Commander C. LAPRIMAUDAYE, H.N.—Bristol, s, R.N.—Hull. ! Lieutenant H. A. MONTEITH, R.N .—Edinburgh.

Lien tenant H. T. G. TLPPIKG, JI.JJ.—Dublin.

HON. ARCHITECT—C.H.COOKE, Esq., F.S.A, HON. SOLICITORS—Messrs. CLAYTON, SONS, andFARGUs.

AUDITOR—SAMUEL LOVELOCK, Esq., Public Accountant, F.I.A.L.

The object of this Institution, as declared in its title, and in its Charter of Incorporation, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the Coasts of the United Kingdom.

The chief means by which the Society hopes to carry this object into effect ore :— To build, station, and maintain in repair. Life-boats of the most perfect description; to furnish them with all necessary Appurtenances, Including Houses to preserve them in, and Carriages for their conveyance to the spots where their Services are called for and rnrtber, to provide, through the instrumentality of Local Committees, for their proper .Management and the occasional Exercise of their Crews.

To confer Honorary Rewards In the form of Medals and Votes of Thanks, and also to make liberal grants of money to all persons who, at the risk of then- own lives, save, or attempt to save, those of others on board vessels wrecked, or in distress, upon any part of the Coasts of the United Kingdom.

As an Index of the necessity for the provision of such a machinery as the above, It may be stated that the average loss of lives from shipwreck annually on the shores of the United Kingdom is MO.