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TtkgrapMc Addras: " LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, LONDON." Telephone: No. 2964 ("QERRARD EXCHANGE.") APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1903) the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £76,143 on its Life-boat Establishments.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION DURING 1903.

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 28 Vessels and Boats saved by them and 186 persons landed from vessels in distress and lightships Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &e Amount of Rewards granted during the Year ....

Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals Decorations Binocular Glasses Aneroid Barometers Votes of Thanks on Vellum . .

Certificates of Service ....

Total 4 2 5 10 26 9 56 «. d.

672 137 9,931 15 5 709 £9,931 16 5 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 in 1824 (to 31st Dec., 1903), is 44,361. The rewards and recognitions granted by the Institution in the same period comprise 99 Gold Medals and Clasps, 1,204 Silver Medals and Clasps, 68 Decorations, 360 Binocular Glasses, 16 Telescopes, 69 Aneroid Barometers, 1,762 Votes of Thanks, inscribed on vellum and framed, 168 Certificates of Service framed, and £242,004 in money.

The Committee earnestly appeal to the British Public for Funds to enable them to maintain their 286 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-boatmen, 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 BO proud, may not have to be curtailed.

Annual Subscriptions and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 20, CHABING CROSS ROAD, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. COUTTS AND Co., 440, Strand; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—1st November, 1904..