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AKLES DlBDIH, ESQ., F.R.O.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INI OP MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1893) the E-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £65,703 on its 308 Life-boat Establishments.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WOBK or THE INSTITUTION DURING 1893.

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 28 Vessels saved by them 428 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c 170 9,408 18 - Amount of Eewards granted during the Year Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals and Clasps ... 29 Binocular Glasses 15 Aneroid Barometer 1 Votes of Thanks on Vellum ... 63 Certificate of Service 7 Total . 105 698 £9,408 18 - The number of Lives saved either by the Life-boats of the Society, or by special exertionB for which it has granted rewards since its formation, is 38,347; for which services 98 GoW Medals and Clasps, 1,139 Silver Medals and Clasps, 244 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopea.

7 Aneroid Barometers, 1,479 Votes of Thanks, inscribed on vellum and framed, 44 Certificates of Service framed, and £144,953 have been given as Rewards.

The Committee earnestly appeal to the British Public for Funds to enable them to maintain their 308 Life-boats now on the Coast and their Crews in the most perfect state of efficiency.

This can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income. The Annual Subscriptions, Donations and Dividends are quite inadequate for the purpose. The Committee are confident that in their endeavour to provide the brave Life-boat men, who nobly hazard their live* in order that they may save others, with the best possible means for carrying on their great work, they will meet with the entire approval of the people of this the greatest maritime country in the world, and that their appeal will not be made in vaiu, so that the scope and efficiency of our great Life-saving Service, of which the Nation has always been so proud, may not have to be curtailed.

Annual Snbtcriptiong 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; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—let November, 1894..