THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.

Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Also the Report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats of the Institution on his visits to Penmon, Aberystwith, and Penarth.

Also the reports of the five District In- spectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Stations:— 1. Weymouth, Kimeridge, Swanage, Poole, Brighstone, Brooke, and Kingsgate.

2. Looe, Fowey, Mevagissey, Portloe, Fal- mouth, Porthoustock, Cadgwith, Lizard, Mul- lion, Porthleven, and Penzance.

3. Blackrock, Giles' Quay, Drogheda (two Boats), Balbriggan, Skerries, Castletown, Doug- las (two Boats), Ramsey, Silloth, and Maryport.

4. Girvan, Kirkcudbright, Whithorn, Port Logan, Port Patrick, Ballantrae, Ayr, Troon, Irvine, and Ardrossan.

5. Hartlepool (three Boats), West Hartlepool (two Boats), Seaton Carew, Middlesborough, Redcar, Saltburn, Staithes, Runswick, Upgang, Whitby (two Boats), Filey, Scarborough, Flam- borough (two Boats), and Hornsea.

Reported the receipt of a contribution of 6001. from Mrs. SYMES, of Ballybrack, to de- fray the cost of a Life-boat, as an affectionate tribute to the memory of her late husband, Commander A. S. SYMES, E.N., the Boat to be named after him the Aaron Stark Symes.

Decided that Mrs. SYMES be thanked for her munificent gift, and that it be appropriated to the new Life-boat about to be sent by the Institution to Poolbeg, in Dublin Bay.

Reported also the receipt of the following other Special Contributions since the last meeting:— £ s. d.

Rev. W. B. KENNAWAY .... 25 0 0 COSMO ROMILLY, Esq 10 10 0 BACUP CO-OPERATIVE STOKE, LIMITED (additional) 10 0 0 Lewisham High Road Congregational Church Sunday School, per Mr. R.

HARRY 1 15 0 —To be severally thanked.

Reported that the late W. N. RUDGE, Esq., of South Audley Street, had left the Institution a Legacy of 1000Z., duty free.

Reported that the new Life-boat for Braunton, North Devon, had been forwarded to its Station, and that it was successfully inaugurated at Barnstaple on the 22nd August, in the presence of a large number of persons, the ceremony of naming the Boat being performed by Lady SUSAN FORTESCUE.

Paid 451Z. Os. 6d., for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted WOl. 17s. Od. to pay the expenses of the Rhyl No. 2, Pakefield No. 1, Rye, Caister No. 1, Looe, Fraserburgh, Cruden, and Runs- wick Life-boats, in rendering the following services::— Lives Saved.

Schooner Wittiam, of Liverpool ... 6 Brigantine Bertha, of Rye 6 Brigantine Liitu, of Aland 8 Barque Stratheden, of Dundee .... 12 Ketch Lion, of Exeter 1 Fishing-boats at Fraserburgh, and Cruden, rendered assistance.

Schooner Zipporah, of Scarborough . . 2 Staithes fishing-boat, rendered assistance.

[Brief particulars of these services are given on pages 451-2.] Voted also 118Z. 16s. Od. to pay the expenses of the Life-boats at Barmouth, Winterton, Rye, New Brighton, Wexford, J Montrose, Kessingland, Winchelsea, Banff, and Caister, in assembling their crews or putting off to the assistance of vessels which did not ultimately need their aid.

The Ramsgate and Eyemouth Life-boats had also been taken out, but their services were not eventually needed.

Read letter from the Rev. T. W. MANNING, Honorary Secretary of the Carnsore Branch, stating that the Spanish Government had awarded Silver Medals to the crew of the Carnsore Life-boat in recognition of their gal- lant services in saving the crew of the wrecked Spanish Brigantine Paquete de Terranova on the 25th September, 1875.

Voted the Silver Medal, a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, and 21., to Mr. JAMES TURNER, Chief Officer of H.M. Coastguard at Leysdown, Kent, and 22. each to four of his men, for putting off at great risk in the Coast- guard gig, and bringing safely ashore at Bishopstone—fourteen miles distant from Leys- down—the crew of six men of the steam launch Edith, of London, who had taken to their boat, the launch having sunk off Warden Point, Isle of Sheppy, during squally weather and in a heavy sea, on the 31st July.

Also 5/. to the crew of the yawl Dart, of Palling, Norfolk, for putting off and bringing ashore the crew, consisting of seven men, of the Brigantine Georges, of Dunkirk, which had been in collision with the barque Clodian, and had sunk, during a fresh W.N.W. wind and squally weather, on the llth August.

Also l. to three men for putting off in a boat from Groomsport. Co. Down, during a fresh W.N.W. gale, and rescuing two boys who while out in a fishing punt had been overtaken by the gale, and were being driven out to sea, on the 10th August.

Also II. to four men of Portrush, Co. Antrim, for putting off in a boat and bringing safely ashore another boat containing a man and three children, which was in a dangerous position off Portrush, during a strong Easterly wind on the 25th August. THURSDAY, 6th October.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees.

Also the Report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his recent visits to Pennon, Aberystwith, St. Bride's Bay, Littlehaven, Broadhaven, Goldtrop, Cardigan, and Penarth.

Also the reports of the five District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Stations:— 1. Rye and New Romney.

2. Braunton, Appledore (two Boats), Clovelly, Morte, Ilfiacombe, Lynmouth, Scilly, Sennen Cove, St. Ives, Hayle, Newquay, and Padstow.

3. Whitehaven, Seascale, Fiel, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Lytham, Southport, New Brighton (two Boats), and St. Anne's.

4. Kildonan, Stromness, Longhope, Thurso, Huna, Ackergill, Southend, and Campbeltown.

5. Bridlington, Withernsea, Wells, Blakeney, Sheringham, Cromer, Hunstanton, Brancaster, Bacton, Mundesley, Hasborough, Palling (two Boats), Winterton (two Boats), Caister (two Boats), Yarmouth (two Boats), Gorleston, and Robin Hood's Bay.

Reported the receipt of the following Special Contributions since the last meeting:— £. s. d.

The Committee of the National Fi.-heries Exhibition, Norwich . 25 0 0 W. B. MOORE, Esq., Belsize Park Gardens, per W. H. HARTON, Esq., V.P. 21 0 0 Collected on board the Allan Line S.S. Manitoban, per CAPTAIN Mc- NIOOL, additional 287 Offertory at Harby Church, Melton Mowbray, on Sunday, 4th Sept., per Rev. M. O. NORMAN, additional 1 10 0 —To be severally thanked.

Also that the following Legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— The late JOHN BURLEY, Esq., of £. s. d.

Halifax 260 0 0 The late Mr. EDWARD BAX, of Cockspur Street 109 0 0 FEBRUARY 1,1882.] THE LIFE-BOAT.

461 Reported the transmission to their Stations of the Eye, St. Anne's, Robin Hood's Bay, and Poolbeg new Life-boats.

Each Boat was successfully launched at its Station in the presence of a large number of spectators.

The South-Eastern Railway Company had kindly taken the new Life-boat to Bye, and brought back the old one to London, free of charge.

—To be thanked.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to T. B.

WILLIAMS, Junr., Esq., JOHN MORGAN, Esq., Mr.

B. HICKS, and Mr. E. D'ALTON, in acknowledg- ment of their past kind co-operation as Hono- rary Secretaries, respectively, of the St. Ives, Cardigan, Newquay (Cornwall), and Howth (Ireland) Branches of the Institution.

Bead, letter from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the 30th September, stating that a Return was being prepared for the House of Commons of all deaths by drowning, and lives saved from drowning in the United Kingdom in 1880, and requesting that the Institution would favour the department with a Return of the lives saved through its instrumentality in that period, to- gether with suggestions for the prevention of loss of life. Decided, that this information be supplied to the Home Office. (Vide,page 442.) Paid 3049Z. lls. 10d., for sundry charges on Various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 471.12«. 6d. to pay the expenses of the Hartlepool No. 3, Tyrella and Hasborough Life- boats in rendering the following services:— Lives saved.

Brigantine John Wesley, of Seaham. . . 5 Barque Gertrude, of Liverpool .... 13 S.S. Ludworth, of London 8 The Penzance and Caister No. 2 Life-boats had also rendered the following services:— Lives saved.

Barquentine Neilly, of Bridgwater, saved vessel and 6 Dandy Triton, of Yarmouth, assisted to save vessel and 6 [Detailed accounts of these Services will be found on pages 452-3.] Voted also 1271.7s. Od. to pay the expenses of the Dungarvan, Broadstairs, Deal, Claeton-on- Sea, Cadgwith, Walmer, Scarborough, Peter- head, West Hartlepool No. 1, Palling No. 1, and Hythe Lite-boats in assembling their crews or putting off in reply to signals of distress shown by vessels which did not ultimately need the aid of the Life-boats.

The Batnsgate and Lizard Life-boats had also been taken out, but their services had not eventually been required.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. W. J. CUMISKY, Hon. Secretary of the Balbriggan. co. Dublin, Branch of the Institution; the thanks of the Institution in- scribed on vellum to Mr. THOMAS BOYD, chief officer of H. M.. Coastguard at Balbriggan, and 101. to that officer and five of his men for putting off at great risk in the Coastguard Life-boat and saving five persons from the brig Endeavour, of Whitehaven, which went ashore outside Balbriggan Harbour during a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 25th August.

Also 11. 10s. to the chief officer of H. M.

Coastguard Station at Looe, Cornwall, and five of his men, for putting off in the Coastguard Life-boat and saving one man from the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which was capsized off Down- derry, during a moderate S.S.W. gale, on the 29th August.

Also 21. 10». to fora Coastguard-men and & fisherman, for putting off at great risk in the whale-boat belonging to the Downderry, Corn- wall, Coastguard Station, with the view of helping the crew of the ketch Lion.

Also 11. to two men for rescuing two women, whose boat, while returning ashore laden with seaweed, had sunk between the Black Rocks and Ballywhorisky Strand, co. Donegal, on the 8th August.

THURSDAY, 3rd November.

Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- Committees.

Reported the lamented death, on the 12th October, of GEORGE LYALL, Esq., V.P., Deputy Chairman, and Trustee of the Institution.

The Committee expressed their deep sym- pathy with Mrs. LYALL and members of her family in their heavy bereavement.

(Vide Life-boat Journal for November last, No. 122, p. 430, for a brief memoir of Mr. LYALL) The Committee unanimously elected The Bight Hon. Earl PERCY, M.P., a Trustee of the Institution.

Also the Reports of the five District Inspectors of Life-boats on their recent visits to the folio-w- ing Stations:— 1. Kingsgate, Selsey, Chichester, Hayling Island, Bembridge, Brighstone. Brooke, Guern- sey, Alderney, and Southend.

2. Port Isaac, Bude, Burnham, Rhyl (two Boats), Llanddulas, Llandudno, Holyhead, Rhos- colyn, and Rhosneigir.

3. St. Anne's, and Newcastle (Dundrum Bay).

4. Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Whitelink Bay, Banff, Buckie, Lossiemouth, Moray Firth, Cruden, and Newburgh.

5. Robin Hood's Bay, Lowestoft, Pakefield (two Boats), Kessinglaad (tyro Boats), South- wold (two Boats), Dunwich, Aldborough, Thorpe, Harwich, and Clacton-on-Sea.

Reported the receipt of the following Special Contributions since the last meeting:— £. s. d.

G. BUCKSTON BROWN, Esq., Halifax (additional) 400 0 0 CHARLES WHEELEY LEA, Esq., Worcester 100 0 0 £. s. d.

Mrs. ANNE GOMONDE, Pau (addi- tional) 20 0 0 Collected at the Railway Clearing House, per H. TURNER, Esq.

(additional) 276 Portion of Harvest Thank offering from the parish of Newton-by- Sudbury, per Rev. REGINALD SMITH (additional) 100 —To lie severally thanked.

Also that the following Legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— £. s. d.

The late JAMES N. PATERSON, Esq., of Edinburgh .... 1000 0 0 The late HENRY DODD, Esq., of Rotherfield, Sussex (duty free) 500 0 0 The late Mr. CHARLES PACKER, of Regent Street (duty free) . . 100 0 0 The late JOHN POLLARD, Esq., of Holker Cartmel, Lancaster. . 50 0 0 Decided, on the application of the local residents, and the recommendation of the In- spector of Life-boats, to form a Life-boat Station at Bamburgh, Northumberland.

Also that the thanks of the Committee be presented on their retirement to J. PATERSON, Esq., and X. SMITH, Esq., in acknowledgment of their kind co-operation as Honorary Secre- taries respectively of the Isle of Arran and Southend branches of the Institution.

Paid 2383Z. 1«. 6d. for sundry charges on various Life-boat establishments.

Toted 8981. 8s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the Douglas No. 1, Torquay, Skerries, Deal, Ramsey, Clacton, Holyhead, Ballywalter, St. Andrew's, Pembrey, Skegness, Burnham, Palling No. 1, Winterton No. 2, Tynemouth No. 1, Howth, Appledore No. 1, Moelfre, Southend (Essex), Porthdinllaen, Padstow, Kessingland No. 1, Groomsport, Portmadoc, Bembridge, Buckie, Ballycotton, Newcastle (Dundrum), Castletown, Harwich, and Brancaster Life-boats in rendering the services detailed on pages 439-40.

Voted also 223Z. 6s. to pay the expenses of the Hythe,Braunton, Giles' Quay, Banff, Horn- sea, Padstow, Pakefield No. 1, Plymouth, Poolbeg, Saltburn, Swansea, Brancaster, St.

Anne's, Donna Nook, Cresswell Montrose, Thorpe, Blackrock (Dundalk), Arbroath, Ard- more, Broughty Ferry, Moray Firth, Douglas No. 2, and Skerries Life-boats, in assembling their crews, or putting off in reply to signals of distress exhibited by vessels which did not eventually require the services of the Life- boats.

The Ramsgate Life-boat had also been taken out, but her services had not been ultimately needed.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution accompanied by a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. JOHN BROWN, coxswain of the Newbiggin Life-boat, in recognition of his long and gallant services in the Life-boat, and par- ticularly on the occasion of the rescue of the crew of four men from the SB. Northumberland, of Newcastle, during a very heavy gale, on the 14th October, : Also the Silver Medal of the Institution, and i a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr.

ROBERT LEGERTON, coxswain of the Clacton Life-boat, in recognition of his general gallant services, and particularly on the occasion of the rescue, by the Life-boat, of the crew of sixteen men of the lugger Madeleine, of Boulogne, which was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sands on the 23rd October.

Also the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, to Captain H. M. TODD, master of the s.s. Gonsett, of Sunderland, in acknowledg- ment of his valuable and prompt services in towing for several hours the Clacton Life-boat on the last-mentioned occasion, thus contri- buting, by his timely help, to the rescue of the lugger's crew.

Also 31. to five men, for putting off in a boat and saving the crew of two men from the schooner Rose, of Liverpool, which was wrecked off Holyhead daring very stormy -weather on the 14th October.

THURSDAY, 1st December.

The Chairman of the Institution in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- Committees.

The Committee unanimously elected EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., the Deputy Chair- man of the Committee of Management.

Read and approved the Report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his recent visits to Liverpool, New Brighton, York, Hartlepool, and West Hartlepool.

Also the Reports of the five District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Stations:— 1. Worthing, Shoreham, Brighton, Newhaven, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lydd, Winchelsea, Hythe, Dover, and Deal.

2. Cemlyn, Porthdinllaen, Abersoch, Cemaes, Llanddwyn, Moelfre, Bull Bay, Penmon, Port- madoc, Barmouth, Aberdovey, Newquay, Car- digan, and Fishguard (two Boats).

3. Howth, Skerries, Ardmore, Youghal, Bally- cotton, and Queenstown.

4. St. Andrews, Buddon Ness, Broughty Ferry, Arbroath, Montrose (two Boats), Gour- dow, Stonehaven, North Berwick, Anstruther, and Dunbar.

5. Cleethorpes, Skegness, Chapel, Sutton, Theddlethorpe, Donna Nook, Hartlepool (three Boats), West Hartlepool (two Boats), and Seaton Carew.

Reported the receipt of a contribution of l000 l.

from Mrs. HUGHES, of Tooting, to defray the cost of a Life-boat Establishment, the Boat to be named the "Graham-Hughes." Decided that Mrs. HUGHES be thanked for her munificent gift.

Also the receipt, through Captain RAWSON, R.N., of H.M.S. Minotaur, of 417Z. 8«. 8rf. on behalf of the Heyland Life-boat, which is to be placed at Palling, on the Norfolk coast, as a memorial of the late Lieutenant HEYLAND, R.N., who perished while nobly attempting to save a seaman who had fallen overboard from his ship.

Also the receipt of the following other Special Contributions since the last meeting :— £. t. d.

The Langham Life-boat Fund, per the Lungham Hotel Company Limited (on account) ... 223 1C 6 C. K. FLETCHER LUTWIDGE, Esq., on account of his special fund for a Life-boat to be named the Admiral Luiwidge .... 150 0 0 Independent Order of Odd Fellows (M.U.), in aid of the support of the Manchester Unity Life-boat at Cleethorpes, annual subscrip- tion 50 0 0 Offertory and Collection in Had- nall Church, Salop, on Sunday, the 6th November, per Rev. BROOKE C. MORTIMER, addi- tional 12 15 8 —To be severally thanked.

Also that the following Legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— £. t. d.

The late Miss ANN EDGELL, of Alnwick, for two Life-boats . 1000 0 0 The late Mrs. CAROLINE COLLER, of Montpelier Square ... 302 6 0 The late Admiral H. E. COFFIN, of Caversham, Oxford ... 100 0 0 The late J. LE CAPPELAIN, Esq. of Highgate (duty free) . . 100 0 0 Voted the thanks of the Committee to EGERTON ISAACSON, Esq., and WILLIAM MILBURN, Esq., in acknowledgment of their past valuable co- operation as Honorary Secretaries, respectively, of the Margate and Sunderlaud Branches of the Institution.

Paid 1715Z. Is. Sd. for sundry charges on various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 159Z. 11». 2d. to pay the expenses of the Buddonness, Dunbar, Hauxley, Douglas No. 2, Selsey, Ayr, Troon, Thurso, Peterhead, Poolbeg, Bembridge, Plymouth, and Tyne- mouth Life-boats for rendering the services detailed on page 440.

Voted 236Z. Is. 4d. to pay the expenses of the Broughty Ferry, Holy Island, Penarth, St.

Andrew's, Holyhead, Maryport, Penmon, New- haven, Kingstown, Winterton No. 2, Ramsey, Ardrossan, Caister No. 1, Hayling Island, and Llanddulas Life-boats in either assembling their crews or putting off in reply to signals of dis- tress shown by vessels which did not ultimately need the assistance of the Life-boats.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to Lieut. A. J. LINDSAY, R.A., in acknowledg- ment of his prompt and gallant conduct in volunteering his services and forming one of the crew of the Poolbeg Life-boat when that Boat put off with the view of rendering assist- ance to the crew of the ship George H. Oulton, of St. John, N.B., which had stranded on the North Bull, Clontarf, on the 22nd October.

Also the Silver Medal of the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. H. WILLIAMS, coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat, in recognition of his long and gallant services in the Life-boat, and par- ticularly at the wreck of the ship George H. Oulton, of St. John, N.B., during a heavy gale from the S.E. on the 31st October.

Also the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Mr. SAMUEL LAKE and to Mr.

C. H. WOODHOUSE, of Milford, and 21. to their boat's crew of six men, for putting ofi in a boat at considerable risk and saving a man from a coal hulk which was moored off Milford during a strong W.N.W. wind on the 14th October.

j Also 61. 10s. to ten men for saving eight j persons on the occasion of the wreck of the s.a.

Cyprian, of Liverpool, nt Rhosgor, Carnarvon- shire, during a heavy N.W. gale on the 14th October.

Also 61. to twelve men for putting off in a fishing boat and saving five of the crew of the lugger Twelve Apostles, of Auray, France, which was in distress off Bullinagoul, co. Waterford, during a S.E. gale on the 22nd October.

Also 61. to the crews of the Ardrossan Har- bour steam-tug and a shore boat, for rescuing three of the crew of the barque Annetta, of that port, which was wrecked on Horse Island during a severe gale on the 21st November.

Also 4i. 10s. to eight men for going off in a boat to the rescue of the crew of the stranded , smack Georye and Elizabeth, of Bldeford, at ; Tiberna, co. Wexford, during a moderate E.S.E.

gale on the 24th October.

Also SI. to five Coastguard men at Cloghy, co. Down, for putting off in the Coastguard whale-boat and rescuing the crew of four men from the schooner Stewarts, of Carrickfergus, which had stranded in Closhy Bay during a strong gale from the S.E. by S. on the 19th October.