ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

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SfCIttarj—CHARLES DIBDIH, ESQ., F.R.G.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that daring the past year (1888) the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £63,270 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland. During the same period it granted rewards for saying 800 persons 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 WOBK or THE INSTITUTION DURISO 1888.

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

26 Vessels saved by them 626 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c 174 Amount of Bewards granted during the Year 6,166 - - Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals or Silver Clasps . . 15 Binocular Glasses 22 Votes of Thanks on Vellum. . . 29 ... ...

Total . . . . 66 800 £6,166 - - The Committee desire to acknowledge with gratitude the liberal support which they have received from the British Public daring past years,—a support which has enabled them to establish their present great Life-saving Fleet of 293 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 34,356: for which services 97 Gold Medals, 1016 Silver Medals and Silver Clasps, 171 Binocular Glasses, 16 Telescopes, and £105,428 have been given as Bewards.

Annual Svbseriptiont and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STREKT, A DELPHI, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand; Messrs. HEKKIK, FABQUHAB, and Co, 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. HOABE, 37 Fleet Street, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—August 1st, 1889..