SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K..8.

VICE PATRONESS-THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.Q.

( CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, R.N., K.G.

CHAIRMAN— His GRACE THE DUKE OF  NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.

d(mitmatt— -SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., V.P. Jtyotg-fiJiairmBR — Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.r.

CHARLES DQDIH, ESQ., F.E.Q.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1895) the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £58,503 on its 298 Life-boat Establishment*.

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4 6 GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION DURING 1895.

£ 533 176 Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 36 Vessels saved by them ........

Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c ..... .

10,434 Amount of Rewards granted during the Tear 10 13 2 89 10 74 Honorary Rewards : — Silver Medals and Clasps ...

Binocular Glasses ......

Aneroid Barometers .....

Votes of Thanks on Vellum . . .

Certificates of Service ....

709 £10,484 4 6 Total . ...

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 39,610 ; for which services 99 Gold Medals and Clasps, 1,151 Silver Medals and Clasps, 265 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, 11 Aneroid Barometers, 1,553 Votes of Thanks, inscribed on yellnm and framed, 59 Certificates of Service framed, and £165,650 have been given as Rewards.

The Committee earnestly appeal to the British Public for Funds to enable them to maintain their 298 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 lives 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 vain, 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 Subscriptions and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DTBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STBEET, ADELFHT, London ; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS and Co., 59 Strand ; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom. — 2nd November, 1896..