ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS 

PATRONESS HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN

VICE PATRONESS — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

VICE PATRONS His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

ADMIRAL H.R.H. GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.

PRESIDENT ADMIRAL H.R.H. GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.

CHAIRMAN EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., M.P., V.P.

Deputy-Chairman— Colonel FitZ-Roy CLAYTON, T.P.

Secretary— Charles Dibdin, ESQ., F.R.G.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1887) the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £64,757 -on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period it contributed to the saving of 572 persona from various Shipwrecks on our Coasts. Every winter that comes and goes has its black record of wrecks, and its terrible list of lost lives, the average loss of lives from Shipwreck annually, on the shores of the United Kingdom, being 700.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION DURING 1887.

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to £. «. d.

10 Vessels saved by them 868 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &e 204 Amount of Rewards granted during the Year 8,345 Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals and Clasps ... 10 ... .

Binocular Glasses 45 Votes of Thanks on Vellum. . . 22 2 6 Total .... 77 672 £3,345 2 6 The Committee desire to acknowledge, with gratitude, the liberal support which they have received from the British Public during past years,—a support which has enabled them to establish their present great Life-saving Fleet of 291 boats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain the Life-boats in a thoroughly efficient state, and their crews practised in the management of their boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent Annual Income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to continue to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a Work, The number of Lives saved either-by the Life-boats of the Society, or by special exertions, for which it has granted rewards since its formation, is 83,243 : for which services 97 Gold Medals, 1007 Silver Medals or Silver Clasps, 139 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, aid £96,760 have been given as Rewards.

Annual Subscriptions and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STBEET, A DELPHI, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand; Messrs. HERRIES, FABQUHAB, and Co., 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. HOARE, 87 Fleet Street, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—.May 1st, 1888.