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 daring the past year (1888) the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £53,270 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland. During the same period it granted rewards for saying 800 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 1888.

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

25 Vessels saved by them 626 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, So. 174 Amount of Rewards granted during the Year 6,166 9 - Honorary Rewards:—-Silver Medals or Silver Clasps . . 15 ... ...

Binocular Glasses 22 Votes of Thanks on Vellum. . . 29 ...

Total . . . . 66 800 £6,166 9 - 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 893 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 34,043: for which services 97 Gold Medals 10H Silver Medals or Silver Clasps, 161 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, and £102,926 have been given as Rewards.

Annual Subscription and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STREET, ADELPHI, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand; Messrs. HEEBIES, FARQUHAR, and Co., 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. HOABE, 87 Fleet Street, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—February, 1889..