ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION APPEAL., SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Patron—His Most gracious Majesty the King,—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS, K.G.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., V.P.—COLONEL FITZROY CLAYTON, v.p.

CHARLES DIBDIN, ESQ., F.K.G.S.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1906) the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £63,490 on ita Life-boat Establishments.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION DURING 1906.

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 46 £ » d.

Vessels and Boats saved by them and 99 persons landed from vessels in distress and lightships £95 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &o 177 Amount of Rewards granted during the Year 8.392 11 5 Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals and 1 Second Service Clasp 20 Binocular Glasses 11 Aneroid Barometers 6 Votes of Thanks on Vellum . . 44 Certificates of Service . . . . 10 Total 91 772 18,392 11 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!824 (to31stDeo., 1906), is 48,211. The rewards and recognitions granted by the Institution in the same period comprise 99 Gold Medals and Clasps, 1,232 Silver Medals and Clasps, 63 Decorations, 881 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, 72 Aneroid Barometers, 1,820 Votes of Thanks, inscribed on vellum and framed, 181 Certificates of Service framed, and £265,905 in money.

The Committee of Management earnestly appeal to the British Public for Funds to enable them to maintain their 280 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 so 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, CHARRING CROSS ROAD, London, W.C.; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Conns AND Co., 440, Strand, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—February, 1907.