Thursday, 10th October, 1907.

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 recommendations 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.—Girvan, Ayr, Ardrossan, Irvine, Port Patrick, Southend, Campbeltown, Stornoway, Nairn, Lossiemouth, Buckie, Banff and Macdufl.

Eastern District.—Bridlington Quay, Flamborough (two boats), Scarborough, Runswick, Saltburn, Redcar, Seaton Carew, Whitburn, Hartlepool (two boats) and Sunderland (three boats).

Western District.—Sennen Cove, Penzance, Hayle, St. Ives, Polkerris, Falmouth, Mevagissey, Looe and Weston-super-Mare.

Irish District.—Skerries, Howth, Poolbeg, Wicklow, Arklow, Cahore, Courtown, Greenore, Giles Quay and Blackrock.

Deep regret was expressed at the death of Admiral THOMAS LE HUNTE WARD, C.B., who had for a long period been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution and it was decided to send a letter conveying the sincere sympathy of the Committee of Management to Mrs. WARD.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting :— Miss ELIZA WILKINSON, for a £ s. d.

William Henry Wilkinson Lifeboat 1,000 - - "M. E. A." 25-- - Proceeds of concert on Clacton-on- Sea Pier, in aid of Claoton-on-Sea Branch, per the Coast Develop- j ment Corporation, Limited . . 23 19 2 [ Collected on board the S.S. Bruxellesville, per Messrs. ELDER, DEMPSTER & Co 5 18 5 Chapel Offertory Fund, of girls of Christ's Hospital, Hertford, per Mr. J . J . B . SHARPS . . . . 5 2 6 Ancient Order of Foresters, Court " Fountain of Friendship," 52634, collected at a church parade, per Mr. H. T. BEADLE, Snodland, Kent 4 10 - Readers of The Christian, per Messrs. MORGAN & SCOTT (additional) 3 10 - —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies:— The late Mrs. ELLEN ASHTON, of Walton-le-Dale, Preston, for a William and Ellen Ashton Lifeboat for the West Coast of England, Scotland, and Wales; anywhere within 100 miles north or south of Preston . . . . 1,000 - - Ditto, for general purposes . 2,000 - - The late Mr. HENRY Fox, of Clapham, for a Life-boat to be named the Emily Fox, and placed on the coast of Kent, as near Dover as possible 1,849 7 9 The late Mrs. HELEN GBUNDY, of Bury 1,000 - - The late Mrs. ISABELLA BLYTH MARTIN, of Newport, Fife . . 450 - - The late Mr. SAMUEL LEWIS, of Cork Street, W. (additional) . 400 - - The late Mr. J. L. TOOLE, of Brighton 180 - - Voted the best thanks of the Committee of Management to Mr. ROYSTON WALKEB, of Halifax, in recognition of his valuable services for twenty years as Treasurer and Honorary Collector to the Halifax Branch of the Institution, which office he had just resigned, owing to ill health.

Reported the transmission to its Station of the Port Logan new Life-boat.

Paid 8,269Z. for sundry charges in connection with various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 621. 8s. &d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Ballycotton Lives saved.

Yacht Cyane, of Cork, assisted to save yacht and 2 Caister No. 2 . Schooner Zwaantje Cornelia, of Groningen, stood by vessel.

Rhyl . . . Yacht Biiby, of Liverpool 2 Yarmouth. . Lugger Twilight, of Inverness 6 The Dungeness No. 1 Life-boat also assisted to save the S.S. Cambric, of Hull.

Also voted 356/. 10s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, &c., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Caister No. 1, Clacton - on - Sea, Cromer, Dunbar, Fenit, Giles Quay, Gorleston No. 1, Holyhead (Steam), Hope Cove, Margate No. 2, Palling No. 2, Peterhead and Winterton No. 2.

Ordered a special letter of thanks to be senl to Mr. DOWNING, Fishery Inspector under the Congested Districts Board, and voted the sun of 121. to twelve men for their prompt and very valuable services in saving the lives ol twenty-seven persons from a boat which capsized in Mynich Bay, Go. Galway, in a rough sea on the 18th July. A party of thirtyfive persons were in the boat when the accident occurred, and unfortunately eight were drowned before help reached them. Two ol the salvors, sergeants in the Royal Irish Constabulary, rendered very efficient help in restoring the apparently drowned, and their admirable services were brought to the notice of the Constabulary authorities.

Voted 10s. to two men for their promptness in rescuing two men whose boat capsized and sank in Stromness Bay, in a strong westerly breeze, on the 29th August.

Also 11. is. to six men for putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons oi the ship Dart, of Arbroath, which was totally wrecked on the Plough Seat, Holy Island, in moderate weather, on the 16th September.

Also 11. 10s. to six men for assisting the fishing boat Trio, of North Sunderland, which lost her mast during a strong S.S.E. gale on the 5th September, when six miles from harbour.

Thursday, 14th November, 1907.

Sir EDWAKD BIBKBECK, 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 recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his recent visits to Newhaven.

Also the report of the Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his visits to the Moelfre and Stonehaven Life-boat Stations.

Also the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations:— Northern District.—Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Newburgh, Port Erroll, Eyemouth, Ackergill, Wick, Huna, Thurso, Longhope, Stromness, Johnshaven, Gourdon, Hauxley, Boulmer and Alnmouth.

Eastern District.—Redcar, Seaton Snook, Whitby (two boats), Upgang, Whitburn, Sunderland (three boats), Saltburn and Robin Hood's Bay.

Southern District. — Atherfield, Brooke, Brighstone Grange, Poole, Swanage, St.

Helier, St. Peter Port, Weymouth, Southendon- Sea, Brighton and Newhaven.

Western District. — New Quay (Cornwall), Cadgwith.Porthoustock, Coverack, The Lizard, Mullion, Porthleven, Port Isaac, Padstow (two boats and a tug), Rhoscolyn, Bull Bay, Rhosneigir, Moelfre, Cemlyn and Penmon.

Irish District. — Groomsport, Culdafl, Greencastle, Aranmore, Portrush, Cloughey and Feint (Tralee Bay).

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting : — Covent Garden Life-boat Fund, per £ s. d.

Mr. GEORGE MONRO (additional) 57 1 5 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Co-operative Society, Limited (additional) . 25 - - Collected in Hadnall Church, Salop, per the Rev. BROOKE C. MORTIMER, M .A ....... 8 3 9 Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Victorious, per the Rev. H. M. HARVEY, R.N. 5 - - Harvest thanksgiving services at Aldringham and Thorpe, per Mr. F. GARRETT ..... 4 1 8 — To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies : — The late Mrs. EMILY MOOBE, of £ s. d- Slough ....... 2,000 - - The late Mrs. LEWIS- HILL, of Grosvenor Square, W.,on account of the endowment of Ada Lewis Life - boat at Newbiggin and Samuel Lewis Life-boat at Skegness ........ 1,250 - - The late Mr. HENRY FINLAY, of Highbury, for the Life-boat to be named the Henry Finlay, for the south-west or north-west of Scotland ....... 1,000 - - The late Miss MARIAN CHARRINGTON, of Englefield Green . . . 800 - - The late Mr. JOSEPH DUXBURY, of Accrington ....... 500 - - The late Miss M. L. JACKSON, of Bath ......... 270 - - The late Mr. EDWIN CLEPHAN, of Leicester ....... 100 - - The late Mr. EDMUND LYTHGOE, of Melbourne (on account) . . . 99 9 11 The late Mr. EDWARD ROBERTS, of Pwllheli (per Pwllheli Branch) . 45 3 - The late Miss LYDIA ANN FRY, of Eltham ........ 45 - - The late Mrs. HANNAH MELLOR, of South Shields 5 - - Reported the transmission to their Stations of the new Life-boats for Ackergill, Cemaes, Ferryside and New Quay (Cardigan).

Paid 6,416Z. for sundry charges in connection with various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 2171. Us. 5d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Life-boat.

Alnmouth . .

Fethard . .

Folkestone.

Margate No. 1.

Montrose No. 1 Penzanoe .

St. Ives. . .

Teignmouth .

Whitby No. 1 .

Vessel.

Lives saved.

S.S. Ina Mactavish, of Glasgow . . . .

Ketch P. M. Wilcox, of Aberystwith .

Schooner Bird of Freedom, of Shoreham.

Eendered assistance.

Sprit sail barge George and Jehu. Stood by barge.

S.S. Condor, of Bergen.

Eendered assistance.

S.S. Ellesmere, of Manchester.

Took a doctor to ship.

Ketch Susan Elisabeth, of St. Ives . . . .

Telnvija, of Schooner Riga Three fishing cobles of Whitby. Stood by cobles.

The Brixham Life-boat assisted to save the ketch J. B. Charcot, of Boulogne, and her crew of six, and the Pakefield Life-boat assisted to save the lugger Maggie May, of Lowestoft, and her crew of eight.

Also voted 8081. 6s. Qd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches or assemblies of crews, with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress: — Brixham, Cadgwith, Caister Nos. 1 and 2, Cemaes, Cemlyn, Clacton-on-Sea, Dover, Dunbar, Exmouth, Eyemouth, Fenit, Formby, Hope Cove, Ilfracombe, Kessingland No. 1, Killough, Newcastle (Co. Down), Newhaven, Palling No. 2, Penzance, Plymouth, Point of Ayr, Port Erin, St. Anne's No. 1, Skateraw, Teignmouth, Tenby, Weymouth, Winterton No. 2 and Yarmouth.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to JAMES LAMING, Coxswain Superintendent of the Kingsdowne Life-boat, in recognition of his long and gallant services in the Life-boat, extending over a period of forty-one years.

Voted an aneroid barometer, mounted on a shield and bearing a suitable inscription, to Mr. T. F. DA VIES, Honorary Secretary of the Pakefield Branch, and to Mr. E. W. FULLEB, for their services in wading into the sea up to their armpits in a rough surf, in order to get communication and assist the fishing lugger Maggie May, of Lowestoft, which stranded about 150 yards from the beach at Pakefield, on the 1st November.

Voted 12Z. to six men for putting off in a boat from Mousehole, Penzance, and at great risk saving five persons from the ketch Baltic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, wrecked on St. Clement's Isle, in a strong S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 1st November.

Also 11. to a man for putting off in a dinghy from a small steam yacht and saving, at some risk, two of three persons from a pleasure boat which capsized near Puffin Island, in a north-westerly breeze and short, choppy sea, on the 20th August.

Thursday, 12th December, 1907.

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 recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his recent visit to Newhaven.

Also the report of the Deputy Chief Inspector on his visit to the Gorleston Life-boat Station.

Also the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations:— Northern District.—Buckhaven, Dunbar, Skateraw, Stonehaven, Arbroath and Montrose (two boats).

Eastern District.—Flamborough (two boats), Scarborough, Bridlington Quay, Runswick, Staithes, Donna Nook, Mablethorpe, Sutton, Skegness, Grimsby, Withernsea and Hornsea.

Southern District.—Margate (two boats), Broadstairs, North Deal, Kingsdowne, Walmer, Folkestone, Hastings, Eastbourne (two boats), Southsea, Hayling Island, Selsey, Littlehampton, Worthing, Exmouth, Brixham, Torquay, Yealm River and Plymouth.

Western District.—Porthdinllaen, Abersoch, Criccieth, Pwllheli, Point of Ayr, Rhyl, Llanddulas, Holyhead (two boats), Llandudno, Cemaes, Ferryside, Littlehaven and St. David's.

Irish District. — Courtmacsherry, Ballycotton, Youghal, Queenstown, Helvick Head, Fethard, Tramore, Dunmore East, Courtown, Wexford, Rosslare Harbour, Kilmore and Kingstown (two boats).

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the last meeting:— Co-operative Union, Limited, further towards cost of Ackergill Life-boat, the Co-operator No. 3 208 - 3 Ancient Order of Foresters (annual subscription) 172 - - Independent Order of Oddfellows (annual subscription) . . . . SO - - Donation 5 18 6 Collected on board the S.S. Caledonia, per Capt. W. BAXTEB . 50 - - —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies:— The late Mr. HARRY LEWIS SALTARN, of Lyndhurst (on account) . 6,000 - - The late Mrs. LEWIS-HILL, of Grosvenor Square, further on account of the endowment of the Ada Lewis Life-boat, at Newbiggin and the Samuel Lewis Life-boat at Skegness . . . 2,000 - - The late Miss CAROLINE EVEBARD, of Salisbury, for the Blakeney new Life-boat, the Caroline . 1,500 - - The late Mr. ALEXANDER HOWE, W. S. of Edinburgh (to Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Branch) 500 - - The late Mr.j I SAMUEL LEWIS, of Cork Street, W. (additional) . 300 - - The late Mr. EDMUND LYTHGOE, of Melbourne (additional) . . . 249 1 3 The late Mrs. EMMA MARIA COOKE, of Bridgwater 103 - - The late Mr. WILLIAM HARDING, oi Brighton 100 - - The late Mra.MABY JANE DBIELBMA, of Eastbam, Chester (per Port of Liverpool Branch) . . . . 100 - - The late Mr. JOSEPH DUXBURY, o£ Accrington (interest) . . . . 20 - - The late Miss SABAH SIMPSON, of Lancaster 10 - - Voted the best thanks of the Committee to Mrs. J. A. POMEROY, in recognition of her very long and valuable services, extending over seventeen years, as honorary secretary of tQe Enniskillen Branch of the Institution, which office she had resigned on account of her removal from the neighbourhood.

Reported the transmission to its Station of the Hasborough new Life-boat.

Paid 2,627Z. for sundry charges in connection with various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 3601. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Barmouth . . Fishing boat Flora, of P-wllheli, Rendered assistance.

Bridlington Coble Boys' Own, of Quay Hull. Saved coble and 3 Griccieth . . Schooner Owen Morris, of Portmadoc . . . 6 Dungeness No.l S.S. Bayard, of Christiania.

Stood by vessel.

Dungeness No.l Steam trawler Perseverance, of Boulogne . 11 Flamboro' No.l Fishing cobles, of |Flamboro'.

Stood by cobles.

Gorleston No. 2 Coal lighter Lizette, of Yarmouth . . . . i Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Gorleston No. 3 Steam drifter Glenmoor, (Steam) of Aberdeen. Stood by vessel.

Greencastle . Schooner Emily, of Runcorn 5 Hartlepool Steam fishing boat No. 3 Ranter, of Nor.th Shields 5 Holyhead No. 1 Brigantine Benita, of (Steam) Whitehaven. Landed 5.

Newbiggin . . Coble Thistle, of Newbiggin.

Stood by coble.

Point of Ayr . Fishing boat Myosotis, of Liverpool . . . . 3 Scarborough . Coble Swanland Hall, of Scarborough. Attended coble.

Seaton Carew . Brigantine Primrose, of Calmar 6 Walmer . . Boats Orchid and Little Dick, of Walmer.

Rendered assistance.

The Margate No. 2 Life-boat saved the ketch Susie, of Littlehampton, and 3. Ramsgate Life-boat stood by the barque Forfarsnire, of Glasgow. Runswick Life-boat rendered assistance to the S.S. Sardinian, oi Ixmdon; and Winterton Nos. 1 and 2 Life-boats assisted to save the S.S. Terra, of Glasgow, and 22.

Also voted 595Z. 8s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches or assemblies of crews, with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Brooke, Caister No. 1, Cemlyn, Courtown, Dunbar, Dungeness No. 2, Exmouth, Folkestone, Gorleston Nos. 1 and 2, Hartlepool No. 3, Holyhead Nos. 1 and 2, Hoylake, Ilfracombe, Kessingland No. 1, Margate No. 2, Pakefield, Plymouth, Port Logan, Rhyl, Southend-on-Sea, Whitby No. 1 and Yarmouth.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to Mr. W. J. BUBDEN, honorary secretary of the Teigmnouth Branch, and to GEORGE RICE, Coxswain superintendent of the Life-boat, for their gallant and arduous services on the occasion of the wreck of the schooner Tehwija, of Riga, off Exmouth, on the 10th October last, when the crew of eight persons were all saved.

Also granted an additional pecuniary reward to the Coxswains and each of the crew.

Also voted 31. to four men for rescuing at some risk four men from the steam drifter Scotia, of North Shields, -which had been in collision and foundered off Lowestoft, in a strong S.8.E. breeze and very heavy sea off Lowestoft, on the 22nd November, 1907.

Also 41. to four men for saving at considerable risk to themselves five men from the fishing boat Mary, of Newbiggin, which stranded near the south pier at Amble, in a very heavy ground swell. The boat used was damaged, and the cost of repair, amounting to ten shillings, was also allowed the salvors.