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 His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES K.G.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS or WALES.

ADMIRAL H.R.H. TBS Dun or EnnrscnoH, K.G.

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«|[HirmHn— Sir EDWARD BIBKBKCK, BABT., M.P., V.P. §tyaiy-f mmxn — Colonel Fnz-EoT CLATTOS, V.P.

SttrttaiJ — CHARLES DIBDIN. ESQ., F.R.G.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE oi MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1890) the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £64,890 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, the payments being largely in excess of the income of the Institution in the year. Daring the same period it granted rewards for saving 773 persons from various Shipwrecks on onr 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 660.

GENERAL SUMMARY. or THE WORK o» THE INSTITUTION DURING 1890.

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

27 Vessels saved by them 555 ...

Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, See. 218 Amount of Rewards granted during the Year ... 5,46411 4 Honorary Rewards I—Silver Medals and Clasps ... 31 ... ...

Binocular Glasses 12 Aneroid Barometer 1 Votes of Thanks on Vellum. . 49 Certificate of Service .... 1 ... ...

Total .... 94 TTJT £5,464 li~4 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 300 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 35,698 : for which services 97 Gold Medals, 1,060 Silver Medals and Clasps, 195 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, 4 Aneroid Barometers, 1,321 Votes of Thanks, inscribed on vellum and framed, 14 Certificates of Service framed, and £116,547 have been given as Rewards.

Annual Dubfcriptian* and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 11 JOHN STREET, AHELPHL, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand; Messrs. HEBKJES, FABQCEAB, and Co., 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. HOARE, 37 Fleet Street, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—August 1st, 1891.