Thursday, 8th October, 1896.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recom- mendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their recent visits to the follow- ing Life-boat stations:— Northern District — Newbnrgh, Peterhead, Whitelink Bay, Fraserburgh, Port Erroll and Dornoch.

Eastern District — Lowestoft (two boats), Kessingland (three boats), Pakefield, South- wold (two boats), Dunwich, Aldeburgh, Thorpe- ness, Harwich (two boats), Margate, Hythe, Clacton-on-Sea, Walton-on-Naze and Southend.

Southern District—Hope Cove and Salcombe.

Western District—St. David's, Littlehaven, Angle, New Quay (Cornwall), Cemaes, Bull Bay, Rhosneigir, Rhoscolyn, Moelfre, Penmon, Cemlyn and Llanddulas.

Irish District—Blackpool, Fleetwood. Form- by, St. Anne's (two boats), Lytham, Hoylake, Barrow, Cloughey, Groomsport, Bally waiter and Portrush.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting:— £. s. d.

Collected on board the passenger steamer Bembridge by a dog be- longing to Mr. W. BUTLER, Steward, per H. H. FREEMAN, Esq. 5 - - Collected on board the s.s. Nith, per Capt. J. B. CROOKS .... 39- Collected on board the Eastern Monarch, per Capt. J. JONES . . 1 11 5 Offertories at West London School Chapel, per the Bev. H. J. FLYNN, D.D 372 —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies:— £. i. d.

The late WILLIAM STEVENSON, Esq., of Glasgow 900 - - The late DAVID GUILLAN, Esq., of Tayport 500 - - The late JOSEPH SNOWDEN, Esq., of Stratford 300 - - The late RICHARD PELL, Esq., of Forest Hill 20 - - Voted the thanks of the Committee to WILLIAM BOTD, Esq., F.B.8.E., in recognition of his valuable services for the long period of thirty years in which he occupied the office of Honorary Secretary of the Peterhead Branch of the Institution.

Read letter from the Agent-General for South Australia, of the 23rd September, expressing the high appreciation of his Government of the courtesy and attention shown by the Secre- tary and other Officers of the Institution to them in connection with the new Steam Life- boat for Adelaide.

Reported that a new Life-boat station had just been formed at Carrickfergus.

Also that the repairs and improvements of the Caister No. 1 Life-boat had been completed and the boat returned to its station.

Paid 3,5811. for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 189/. 17«. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services : — Life-boat.

Ramsey .

Pwllheli .

Vessel.

Cutter Grace Darling, of Ramsey. ....

Cutter Atalanta and schooner Mouse, landed six men and saved the Port Erin . .

Whitehaven .

Cardigan .

Folkestone Hoylake . .

Lowestoft No. 1 Tenby. . .

Southwold No.l cutter.

Two fishing- boats piloted into safety.

Schooner Kate, of Peel.

Rendered assistance.

Smack Christiania, of Cardigan ....

Barque Agder, of Fred- enkstadt ....

Flat Catharine, of Liver- pool ......

Ketch Sussex Belle, of London, and lugger Mystery, of Lowestoft, 1 1 saved vessels and crews The Anne and Betsy and the ACbatrots, of Aber- porth. Landed crews.

Ketch Eliza and Alice, of Goole. Remained by vessel.

Aldeburgh .

Gorleston No. 1 Schooner Aire, of Goole Dandy Endeavour, of Lowestoft. Landed The Wexford and Walmer Life-boats had also rendered assistance to the endangered schooner Eglington, of Glasgow, and the barquentine Aona.

Voted 497Z. 18s. 4d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boats in either assembling crews or putting off with the view of succouring the crews of vessels in distress : — Aldeburgh, Bembridge, Caister, Clacton, Dover, Dunge- ness, Filey, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Har- wich, Hastings, Hayle, Holyhead, Hoylake, Ilfracombe, Kingsdowne, New Bomney, North Deal, Padstow, Palling, Penarth, Port Patrick, St. Ives, Southsea, Walmer, Walton-on-the- Naze, Wells, Weymouth and Winterton.

Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Captain JOSHUA ARMITAGE, and 12. 10«. each to five other men for their good services in launching a punt, when the Hoylake Life-boat could not be got afloat on account of the horses used in drawing her re- fusing to take the water, and with much diffi-cnlty rescuing the crew of three men from the Flat Catharine, of Liverpool, which had been swamped in a strong north-westerly gale and a rough sea on the 23rd September.

Also 122. in acknowledgment of the services rendered by the Volunteer Life-boat True to the Core, at Walton-on-the-Naze, for saving the crew of six men from the barquentine Sunderland Packet, of Gravesend, which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands in a strong W.S.W. Ttind and rougb. sea on the 18th.

September.

Also 32. to JOHN JONES, coxswain of the Porthdinllaen Life-boat, and five other men for saving by means of lines the crew of one man and a boy from the smack Venture, of Carnarvon, which parted her cable and drove ashore at Porthdinllaen in a N.N.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 25th September.

THURSDAY, 12th November, 1896.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recom- mendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their recent visits to the following Life-boat stations :— Northern District.—Huna, Ackergill, Wick, Thurso, Longhope, Stromness, Stornoway, Nairn, Cresswell, Newbiggin, Blyth (two boats), Cullercoats, Tynemouth (two boats), and Boulmer.

Eastern District.—Broadstairs, Kingsgate, Whitby (two boats), Runswick, Staithes, Upgang, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough, Mley, Barmston, Bridlington Quay, Hornsea, Withemsea and Flamborough (two boats).

Southern District.—Selsey, Winchelsea, Bye, Hastings, Mevagissey, Polkerris, Looe, Ply- mouth, Yealm Biver, Torquay, Brixham, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Sidmouth.

Western District.—Llanddwyn, Llandudno, Porth Rhuffydd, Holyhead (two boats), Rhyl (two boats) and Point of Ayr.

Irish District.—Greencastle, Culdaff, Aran- more, Carrickfergus, Newcastle (Dundrum), Tyrella, Greenore, Blackrock, Kingstown, Dunmore East, Fethard, Fenit, Tramore, Dungarvan and Ballycotton.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting:— £ «. d.

E. H. E. " In Memory of a Beloved Sister" 1000 - - Mrs. NOTTINGHAM 50 - - Moiety of Sunday Collections on board the Midnight Sun during her last two cruises, per J. T. WOOLETCH PEROWNE, Esq. . . 13 1 8 —To be severlly thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies :— £ ». d.

The late Captain JOHN CALLANDER, of Curly Dow, Airth .... 1062 17 3 The late Dr. HENRY FEARNSIDE, of Bournemouth 300 - - The late G. S. LEAN, Esq., of Bath 200 - - The late GEORGE STEWART, Esq., of Dover 90 - - The late Miss MABIA BOBEBTS, of Busholme 65 8 2 The Committee expressed great regret at the death of Mr. J. S. DAWSON, who had for thirteen years been the valued Honorary Secretary of the Gorleston Branch of the Institution, and it was decided that a letter of condolence be sent to his family.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to Dr. J. V. LAVBBICK, E. T. BASS, Esq., and J. B. PIKE, Esq., in recognition of their past valuable co-operation, extending over many years, whilst acting as Honorary Secretaries of the Runswick and Staithes, Dungeness and Dawlish Branches of the Institution.

The Committee also suitably recognised the past good services of Mr. O. H. PARRY, Mr. T. EVANS, and Mi. W. CoiAASTaa as Coxswains of the Cemaes, Rhyl and Port Erin Life-boats.

Also the services of Mr. EDWARD UAMSON whilst acting as Second Coxswain of the Ex- mouth Life-boat.

Reported the transmission to its Station of the Winterton No. 1 new Life-boat.

Paid £6,466 for sundry charges in various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 2002. towards the local subscription for the benefit of the widow and two young children * of E. YOUNG, one of the crew of the Walmer Life-boat, who when the boat was alongside the s.s. Trapani, of Hamburg, which stranded on the Goodwin Sands on the 23rd October, took off his life-belt and climbed up a rope with the view of boarding the vessel, but his strength failing him he fell into the sea, and not with- standing all the efforts made to save him, was drowned, although a good swimmer.

Also 7562. 1«. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services ;— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. Saved.

Abersoch . . Twenty-two men landed from five endangered vessels.

Brancaster . Dandy Silver King, of Hale 6 Bade . . . Lugger Thyra, of Bonne 9 Caiater No. 2 . Ship Soudan, of Liver- pool 8 Cemaes . . Schooner Mersey, of Dublin 3 Cloughey . . Brigantine Brothers, of Drogheda .... 5 Eyemonth . Remained by fishing- boats.

Filey . . . Barquentine Maria Berner 10 Gorleston No. 1 Ship Soudan, of Liver- pool 27 Lynmouth . Smack Mary, of Lyn- mouth. Bend, assist.Montrose No. 1 Montrose No. 1 Newbiggin Padstow .

Pakefield . .

Penmon .

Penmon Ramsey .

St. Andrew's .

Seaton Carew.

Southend .

Tenby. . .

Wexford No. 1 Whitehaven .

Wicklow . .

Schooner Water Bird, of Liverpool ....

Barque Banldan&s, of Liverpool ....

Stood by ketch Kate Madd and a fishing- boat.

Remained by fishing- cobles.

Lugger Jules et Noe"mi .

Dandy Jolly Tar, of Lowestolt ....

11 4 12 Barque Minde, of Far- sund Flat Seftan, of Liverpool Barque Giovanni, of Lillesand ....

Assisted fishing-boats.

Dutch sloop Dince .

7 men landed from pier extension works.

Landed twenty men from several smacks.

Lugger Ocean Pearl Schooner Tom Henry, of Kirkwall ....

Schooner William and Henry, of Wicklow.

Saved vessel and crew The Aberdovey, Arbroath, Holyhead No. 1, Hunstanton, Palling and Ramsgate Life-boats had also respectively rendered the following services:— Ketch Adattdh, of Aberystwith, saved vessel; Arbroath fishing-boats, remained in attendance ; ketch Clara, of Milford, assisted to save vessel; barque Ruby, of London, saved vessel and three men; s.s. Ellington, of New- castle, and schooner Dorothy Watson, of Shields, rendered assistance.

Also 994Z. 12s. 6d. to defray the expenses of assembling the crews or launching the follow- ing Life-boats with a view of helping the crews of vessels in distress :—Aranmore, Berwick-on- Tweed, Brancaster, Broadatairs, Brighton, Bude, Caister, Carnsore, Castletown, Chapel, Clacton, Clovelly, Eyemouth, Filey, Formby, Girvan, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Holyhead, Hope Cove, Hoy lake, Hunstanton, Kessingland, Kingsdowne, Llandudno, Lowestoft, Margate, Maryport, New Brighton, North Deal, Plymouth, Point of Ayr, Port Issac, Pwllheli, Rosslare, Sheringham, Skegness, Thorpe, Walmer, Wells, Whithorn, Winterton and Youghal.

Toted the Silver Medal of the Institution and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and framed to Capt. JOHN MOBGAH, master of the Cardiff pilot boat Cardigan, and 22. each to his two assistants and an apprentice lor launching the punt belonging to their cutter during a gale of wind on the 6th October, and at much risk saving the crews, numbering &ix men, from two barges which they had previously attempted to tow into port after they had got separated from the steamer which had beeu engaged to take them to Spnin.

Also the Silver Medal and vote on vellum to JAVES McBAY, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, and II. to his father, EBWARD McBAY, Master of the fishing lugger friendship of Johnshaven, and coxswain of the Johnshaven Life-boat, and 11. each to the remainder of the crew of the lugger for their services in connection with the rescue of the crew of three men from another fishing boat, named the Speedwell, which had been .swamped at the mouth of Loch Nevis in a southerly gale and a rough sea on the 26th September. After one man had been got on board the other two men in the water had drifted away, whereupon JAMES McBAY, with his father's permission, tied a line round his waist, swam a distance of fifty yards to one of the men, who was quite exhausted and on the point of sinking, and took him to the lugger, after which he swam to the third man, and was fortunately enabled to save him in the same way.

Also 6Z. to six Tenby men for putting off twice in a boat and rescuing the crew of three men from the fishing-boat Grace Darling, and another man who had been at work on the new pier and was in danger in his boat, a fresh gale from the S.W. having sprung up accom- panied by a very heavy sea.

Also 41. 10*. to nine men who put off in two boats and rescued two men from another boat which had been capsized off Warrenpoint. on the coast of Ireland, in a strong S.E. gale and a rough sea on the 7th October.

Also 15», each to Mr. JOHN JONES, coxswain of the Porthdinllaen Life-boat, and four other men, for rescuing the crew of three men from the flat Coldwett, of Liverpool, which had sunk on the rocks at Porthdinllaen in a W.S.W. gale and a very heavy sea. They also brought a man ashore from the smack Messenger.

Also SI. 10s. to Mr. THOMAS QUICK, coxswain of the St. Ives Life-boat, and six other men, for putting off in a shore-boat and searching for a host which had been reported by telephone as drifting off Portreath on the 9th October. A like amount was awarded to the coxswain of the Hayle Life-boat and the crew of a steam- tug for conducting a search for the same boat.

Also 21. 10s. to five Filey fishermen for going out in a shore-boat and saving three men from the coble Anne, of that place, which was in a perilous position off Filey Brigg in a strong wind and a rough sea on the 9th October.

Also 11. 15s. to three men who, on observing that a boat had been capsized off Donagaadee, Ireland, during a strong gale and a rough sea, at once proceeded out in a boat and were suc- cessful in saving a man who had been thrown out of the boat into the water.

Also II. 10s. to three men who put off from Deal in two boats and saved a lady and gentle- man from a skiff which had been capsized in a rough sea on the 17th August.

Also 11. to two men who were instrumental in rescuing two other men whose boat had been upset between Rathmalleu and Ind Fort,on the Irish coast, in a strong S.W. wind and rough sea on the 10th September. THURSDAY, 10th December, 1896.

Colonel FiTzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- Committees, and ordered that their recom- mendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the Deputy Chief In- spector of Lite-boats on his recent visits to Liverpool, Button, and Rhos (Colwyn Bay).

Also the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their recent visit* to the following stations:— Northern District—Holy Island (two boats), Hamburgh Castle, North Sunderland, Aln- mouth, Hauxley, South end (Cantyre), Troon, Campbeltown and Kildonan.

Eastern District — Grimsby, Mablethorpe, Donna Nook, Button, Skegness, Chapel, Blakeney, Wells, Brancaster, Hunstanton, Sheringham and Cromer.

Southern District—Newhaven, Eastbourne, Worthing, Littlehampton, Southsea and Hay- ling Island.

Western District — Pwllheli, Abersoch, St. Agnes, St. Mary's, Hew Quay (.Cornwall), Port Isaac, Padstow, Bude, St. Ives and Hayl*.

Irish District—Youghal, Queenstown (two boats) and Courtmacsherry.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting :— £. t. d.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity), in aid of the support of their Life - boat at Grimsby (annual subscription, 501.; donation, Ul. It. 6d.) . . 61 7 6 Mrs. M. C. BEBGER 50 - - Collected in Hadnall Church, galop, on Sunday, 1st November, per the Rev. BROOKE 0. MORTIMER, M.A. 10 10 - —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies:— £. ». d.

The late Mrs. ISABELLA HAXTON, of Kirkcaldy, to provide a Life-boat, to be named the Isabella, and placed on tne COB8t of Fife • • 200° - - The late GEORGE LEVY, Esq., of Wood Green, for a Life-boat to be named the George and Margaret 1000 - - The late E. S. DOVE, Esq., of Kilsby, Nottingham .... 422 2 6 The late Mrs. JANE BEATTIE, of Hastings 300 - - The late THOMAS HEWETSON, Esq., of Staverton, Devon .... 105 - - The late Mrs. E. M. A. LOCKYER, of Holloway 20 - - The late Mrs. ISABELLA CASSADY, of Dumfries 20 - - Voted the thanks of the Committee to Mrs. GOING and the Rey. E. L. H. TEW, M.A., in acknowledgment of their long and valuable co-operation whilst acting respectively as Honorary Secretaries of the Cambridge and Hornsea Branches of the Institution.

The Committee also specially recognised the good services of Mr. WILLIAM HOOKE and Mr. ALEXANDER DOTHIE during the long period in which they acted as Coxswains of the Blakeney and Port Erroll Life-boats.

Decided that a new Life-boat Station be formed at Rhos (Colwyn Bay), and that when that station is formed the Llanddtilas Life-boat station be discontinued.

Also that the Bamburgh Castle Life-boat Station be discontinued.

Reported the transmission to its station of the brixham new Life-boat.

Also that the Mablethorpe Life-boat had been altered, fitted with modern improvements and returned to its station.

Paid 6.745Z. for sundry charges on various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 127Z. 12«. 6 i to defray the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Life-boat.

Brixham . . Remained by fishing- bouts.

Gorleston . . Remained by s.s. Pro- pitious, of Sunderland, and landed 47 men.

Holyhead. . Schooner Tltomai, of Liverpool. Assisted to save vessel and crew . 3 Hope Cove . S.S. Slesk, of Odessa . 43 New Brighton Remained by brigantine Emma Ivee, of Dublin.

St.Agnes, Scilly Schooner Ocean Bette, of Beaumaris .... 3 St. Ives . . Ketch Atktlon, of Jersey 3 Swansea . . Skiff Jane, of Swansea . 1 Walton-on-the- Schooner Lord Londei- Naze borough, of Guernsey.

Assisted to save vessel and crew .... 7 Whitby . . Remained by distressed fishing-cobles.

Worthing . . Barque Ophir, of Arendal 2 The Abersoch, Clacton and Great Yarmouth Life-boats also rendered the following services: —Barque Amalia, of Gottenburg, rendered essistance; Barquentine Golgotha, of Riga, saved vessel and crew, ten; s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, remained by vessel.

Voted also 8671. 3s. 8d. to pay the expenses of assembling the crews or launching to the assistance of vessels in distress the following Life-boats:—Aldehurgh, Bude, Clacton, Donna Nook, Dover, Drogheda Nos. 1 and 2, Dunbar, Dungeness No. 1, Exmouth, Falmouth, Formby, Gorleston No. 1, Great Yarmouth, Harwich, Hasborough, Hoylake, Margate, New Roinney, North Berwick, Palling Nos. 1 and 2, Peter- head, Runswick, St. Mary's, Scilly, Salcombe, Slioreham, Southend, Whitelink Bay and Winterton No. 2.

The Committee specially recognized the valu- able assistance rendered by the Honorary Secretary of the Tenby Branch, J. G. LOOK, Esq., M.R.C.S., J.P., on the occasion of the recent launches of the Life-boat on service.

Voted 101. to the crew of the private Life- boat at Sheringbam, Norfolk, in ucknowledg- rnent of their services in rescuing: fourteen men from the stranded s.s. Commodore, of Newcastle, in a moderate gale from the N.N.E. and a rough sea on the 7th November.

Also 91. to the crew of the yawl Paragon, of Winterton, for saving the crew of six men from the schooner Florence, of Plymouth, which wag totally wrecked on the Cross Sand off the coast of Norfolk during a gale from the S.E.

and a heavy sea on the 14th November.

Also 4Z. to the two coxswains of the Crail Life-boat and five other men for putting off in a boat and saving the crew of two men of the sunken pilot yawl Mary Thompson, of New- haven, in a strong north-east wind and a moderate sea on the 29th October Also 15». to three men who put off in a small boat from a barque and rescued the coxswain of the St. Anne's Life-boat, who, while fishing with his son, had been pulled overboard as he was shooting his net off Lytham on the 16th November.