THURSDAY, 12th October, 1911.

The Right Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, Wreck and Reward and Organisation Sub-Committees, and ordered their recommendations to be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Stations:— Northern District.—Stromness, Longhope, Stronsay, Fraserburgh, Newburgh, Storno- way, Thurso, Huna, Ackergill and Wick.

Eastern District.-—Gorleston (two boats).

Southern District.—Bembridge, Southsea, Shoreham, Coverack, Porthoustock, Cadgwith, The Lizard, Porthleven, Falmouth, Polkerris, Mevagissey and Looe.

Western District. — Bude, Newlyn and Penzance.

Irish District.—Howth, Kingstown, Pool- beg, Courtown and Cahore.

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

Mrs. E. A. STREATFEILD, balance of cost of a Life-boat to be named Hugh Taylor, and stationed at Yarmouth 100 - - Mr. A. M. SINGER (to make up his annual subscription to 251.) . 20 - - Mrs. WALSH (annual subscription) 10 10 - CHRIST'S HOSPITAL GIRLS' SCHOOL —Collected in Chapel (per Mr.

W. E. MACLEAN, Stewmd) . . 6 9 11 Mr. F. S.-ISAAC (annual subscrip- tion) 55- —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies :—• The Misses JEMIMA LAURA and JANE CATHERINE OWEN, of Car- narvon, for a Life-boat to be stationed on the North Coast of Wales, and named John and Catherine Owen 1,200 - - The late Mr. THOMAS DAVIES, of Bootle 450 - - The late Mr. EDWARD BOWEN, of Forest Hill 50 - - The late Mr. JOHN WINDSOR, of Ipswich 7 19 - The late Mr. GEORGE HARVEY, of Great Oakley 5 - - Voted the best thanks of the Institution to Dr. B. Julyan George and the Bev. W. W.

Whistler, in recognition of their long and valuable services as Honorary Secretaries of the Port Isaac and Ongar Branches of the Institution, which offices they had just resigned.

Reported the despatch to her Station of the Dunmore East new Life-boat.

Paid 4.959Z. for sundry charges in connexion with various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 338Z. 19s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— lives life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Barmouth . Smack Dobell, of Car- narvon, saved boat and. 2 Bembridge . Ketch Energy, of Glou- cester 3 Clovally . . Ketch Dew-i-wyn, of Bide- ford 3 Courtown . Schooner Violet, of Ark- low. Landed 3.

Gorleston S.S. Elsie, of Hull. Stood No. 1 by vessel.

Hilbre Island Bar Light-vessel. Ren- dered assistance.

Margate No.2 Schooner Celestina, of Portsmouth .... Lives Life-boat. Vessel. ' saved.

Montrose Fishing-boat Golden Lilie, No. 1 of Wick 8 Southend- Barge Audacious, of Col- on-Sea Chester ..... 2 Southwold Punt Boy Arthur, of Kes- No. 1 singland. Saved boat and 2 Walton-on- Barge Peace, of Col- Naze Chester 3 Yarmouth . Smack Boy Ben, of Lowestoft. Stood by vessel.

The Ramsgate Life-boat stood by the barge Envoy, of Dover, and the Southend-on-Sea Life-boat assisted to save the ketch Invicta and 3.

Also voted 3881. 18s. 5d. to pay the expenses of assemblies of crews or launches of the following Life-boats, with the view of assist- ing vessels in distress:—Aldeburgh No. 2, Arbroath, Broadstairs, Formby, Gorleston No. 1, Harwich Nos. 1 and 2, Hilbre Island, Hoylake, Margate No. 2, New Brighton No. 1, Penmon, St. Davids, Southend-on-Sea, Walmer, Walton-on-Naze, Withernsea and Yarmouth.

Voted 401., with an expression of the Committee's sympathy, to the daughter of Peter Swankie, late bowman of the Arbroath Life-boat, who was accidentally killed when the Life-boat was called out for service on the 24th September.

Also 141. 12s. 6d. to a man injured in the Life-boat service at Lowestoft.

Voted 21. to a man for putting off in a boat in a whole gale and very heavy sea, and at great risk rescuing three persons, whose boat had been capsized off Gwbert, near Cardigan, on the 29th July.

Voted 21. to the Master and 11. 10s. each to the four hands of a fishing-boat for saving, at great risk, the fishing-boat Maid and her crew of five hands, in a strong S.S.W. gale and rough sea, on the 29th August. The Maid was returning to Portnahaven Harbour, Islay, and when still two and a half miles off was dismasted and partially wrecked, and when saved was in imminent danger of being driven on to a sandbank.

Voted 10s. to two men for putting off in a small boat and, at moderate risk, saving two persons whose boat was in danger of being capsized, when crossing the Bar at Looe, Cornwall, in a rough sea, on the 10th Sep- tember. Also 11. to five other men who put out in another boat for the same purpose and rendered assistance.

THURSDAY, 9th November, 1911.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

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

Read the reports of the Deputy Chief Inspector on his visits to the Wick and Campbeltown Stations.

Also the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations:— Northern District.—Kirkcudbright, Bal- cary, Whitehaven, Maryport, Whithorn, Port Patrick, Port Logan, Ballantrae, Girvan, Troon, Ardrossan, and Stonehaven.

Eastern District. —Pakefield, Southwold (two boats), Lowestoft (two boats), Kessing- land (two boats), Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes, Runswick, Saltburn, Redcar, Teesmouth, Upgang,-Whitby (two boats), Seaton Carew, and Hartlepool (three boats).

Southern District.—Brighton, Bye Harbour, Eastbourne (two boats), Hastings, Newhaven, Worthing, Selsey, Littlehampton, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, and Southend-ou-Sea.

Western District. — Criccieth, Pwllheli, Abersoch, Porthdinllaen, Padstow (two boats and a steam tug), and Port Isaac.

Irish District.—Wicklow, Newcastle, Wex- ford, Fethard, Rosslare Harbour, Ballycotton, Youghal, Blackpool, St. Anne's, Lytham, and Fleetwood.

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

Miss NINA BUMANN, for a Life-boat to be named Mary Theresa Boileau, in accordance with the wishes of the late Miss Mary Georgina Boileau 700 - - Mr. B. McWniHTER 100 - - E.M.I.N 50 - - Do. (additional) . . . . 50 - - Proceeds of Concert on Clacton- on-Sea Pier in aid of the Clacton-on-Sea Branch (per the Coast Development Corporation, Ltd.) 20 8 3 Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Collection in Chapel (per Major A. F. Sillem, Churchwarden) . 6 4 10 Aldringham Church, Offertories at Harvest Festival (per the Rev. T. W. Sedgwick) 5 10 8 —To be severally thanked.

Also the receipt of the following legacies:— The late Mrs. SUSANNAH LOVE, of Harrogate 1,260 - - The late Miss ELIZA JANE BOBBS, of Lincoln 5 - - Voted the best thanks ,of the Institution to Mr. W. D. Fagg, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the Folkestone Branch, which office he had just resigned.

Paid 4,4311. for sundry charges in connexion with various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 234Z. 12s. llrf. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Arklow . . Schooner Cliampion of the Seas, of Ardrossan . . 3 Harwich . Barge Antje, of London . 3 (Steam) Lizard . . Ship Hausy, o£ Fredrik- stad 3 Llandudno . Schooner Jane and Ann, of Carnarvon. Rendered assistance.

Newbiggin . S.S. Karuma, of Ham- burg. Stood by vessel.

Ramsey . . Ketch X.L., of Castle- town. Landed 4.

Wexford . . Ketch Mabel, of Bideford 4 Withernsea . A Fishing-boat .... 3 j The Newlyn Life-boat assisted to save the I S.S. Hammershus, of Nexo, and the Walmer ; Life-boat assisted to save the barge Birthday, of London, and 3 lives.

Also voted 1.014Z. 12s. 6d. to pay the expenses of assemblies of crews or launches of the following Life-boats, with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Aldeburgh i No. 2, Ardrossan, Berwick-on-Tweed, Brid- j lington Quay, Brighton, Campbeltown, Castle- town, Cardigan, Cloughey, Dungeness Nos. 1 and 2, Eyemouth, Gorleston No. 2, Gourdon, j Greencastle, Harwich No. 1, Hilbre Island, i Hunstanton, Irvine, Kingsdowne, Lowestoft No. 2, Llanddulas, Lyme Regis, New Brighton j No. 1, North Deal, Padstow No. 1, Palling j No. 2, Penmon, Penzance, Port Eynon, ; Queenstown, Rhoscolyn, Bye Harbour, Selsey, i Southend-on-Sea, Southsea, Southwold No. 1, j Spurn, Tenby, Winterton Nos. 1 and 2, and Youghal. j Committee increased, by 101., the grant j made to the daughter of P. Swankie, late Bowman of the Arbroath Life-boat, and granted a further sum of 10Z. to a partly dependent grand-daughter.

Voted 11.10s. to a man injured in the Life- boat service at Cardigan.

Granted an additional reward to the crew of the Wexford Life-boat for -a very meritori- ous service resulting in four persons being saved from the ketch Mabel, of Bideford.

Voted 2L to eight men for saving at slight risk a man from a small motor-boat, which had broken down and was in difficulties in Peel Bay, in a fairly rough sea on 14th Septem- ber.

Voted 4/. 10s. to the Coxswain of the Hoy- lake Life-boat and two other men for putting oft in a boat and rescuing three persons from the boat Montpelier, of Liverpool, which was dismasted in the Bock Channel on 21st October.

A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea, and the salvors incurred moderate risk.

Also 31.15s. to five men, for putting off in a boat in an E.S.E. gale and moderately rough sea, and rescuing five persons from the French ketch Pedah Soar, which was on fire off Mullion Cove, on llth October.

THURSDAY, 14th December, 1911.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, Wreck and Reward, Organisation, and Qualifications Sub-Com- mittees.

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

Also the reports of the Deputy Chief In- spector on his visits to the Campbeltown and Southend Cantyre Stations.

Also the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Life-boat Stations:— Northern District.—St. Abb's, Fraserburgh, Banff and Macduff, Buckie, Cromarty, Lossie- mouth, Ayr, Irvine, Balcary, Boulmer, Aln- mouth, Hauxley and Eyemouth.

Eastern District.—Sunderland (four boats) and Whitburn.

Southern District.—Atherfield, Brighstone Grange, Brooke, Totland Bay, Harwich (two boats), Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the- Naze.

Western District.—Holy head (two boats), Llandudno, Rhyl, Llanddulas, Barmouth, Aberdovey, Aberystwith, New Quay (Cardigan), Cardigan, Fishguard, Moelfre, Rhosneigir, Point of Ayr, Bhoscolyn, Penmon, Cemlyn, Cemaes and Bull Bay.

Irish District.—New Brighton (two boats), Hilbre Island, Hoylake, Formby, Southport, Killough, Garrickfergus, Donaghadee, Cloughey, Groomsport, Aranmore, Portrush and Piel (Barrow).

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

THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS (MANCHESTER UNITY), annual subscription, 501.: dona- tion, 31. Is 53 1 - Mrs. EDMUND HARVEY . . . . 26 5 - Hadnall Church Collection (per the Bev. Brooke G. Mortimer, M.A.,) 893 The MARQUIS DOUBO (annual subscription) 5 - - Proceeds of Concert at Gosfield, Essex, in aid of East Anglian Life-boats (per Mrs. Lowe) . . 4 - - The BISHOP OP LONDON . . . .22- —To be severally thanked.

Voted the best thanks of the Institution to Alderman John Gumming in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Treasurer of the Plymouth Branch, which office he had just resigned.

Reported the despatch to their stations of the Boulmer, Criccieth and Withernsea new Life-boats.

Paid 3,2422. for sundry charges in connexion with various Life-boat e Voted 7501. 7s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Angle Ballycotton.

(Steam) Barry Dock .

Boulmer.

Broughty Ferry Clacton-on- Sea Cromer .

Lives Vessel. saved.

Two boats. Saved boat and S.S. Tadorna, of Cork. .

S.S. Amisia, of Bremen.

Stood by vessel.

Steam trawler Wild Rose, of N. Shields. Landed 1.

S.S. OlausHorn,oiLubeok.

Stood by vessel.

Barge Jumbo, of London.

Stood by vessel.

Ship Walkure, of Ham- burg. Rendered assist- ance.

Donaghadee.

Groomsport.

Holyhead .

.(Steam) Holyhead (Steam) Holyhead .

(Steam) Hythe S.S. May, of Belfast.

Rendered assistance.

Schooner Mary, of Glasgow 5 Schooner Kinnaird, of Liverpool 4 Schooner Lizzie Ellen, of Cardigan 5 Schooner Elwood, of Dub- lin. Landed 4.

Barge Amy, of London . 2 Montrose No.i2 S.S. Leelite, of Aberdeen . 1' Newbiggin . Fishing cobles of Newbiggin.

Stood by vessels.

Newbiggin . Pour cobles of Newbiggin.

Stood by cobles.

Newburgh . Trawler Bass Hock, of Leith 9 Newhaven . Schooner Sarah and Mary.

Assisted to save vessel and 4 Padstow Schooner Island Maid, of • No. 1 Belfast ..... 5 Padstow Brigantine Angele, of No. 1 Brest 1 Palling No. 1 Schooner Arctums, of Riga 7 Palling No. 2 Ship Walkiire, of Ham- burg. Stood by vessel.

Port Logan . Schooner Glide, of Belfast 3 Port St.Mary Ketch Alexandra, of Chester. Rendered as- sistance.

Ramsey . . Ketch Faithful, of Ramsey.

Landed 3.

St. Anne's . S.S. Rosalcen, of Cardiff . 11 Tynemouth . Barque Trosvik, of Brevik.

Stood by vessel.

Whitby No.2 S.S. Vostizza, of Andros.

Stood by vessel.

Youghal. . Ketch Queen, of Gloucester 4 Gresswell Life-boat rendered assistance to steam trawler Upton Castle, of North Shields; Donaghadee Life-boat saved schooner Mary, of Glasgow; Hauxley Life-boat assisted to save steam trawler Rhodesia, of North Shields; North Sunderland Life-boat assisted to save the steam trawler Lothian, of Granton, and 8; Holyhead (steam) Life-boat assisted to save schooner Kinnaird, of Liverpool, also assisted to save schooner Elwood, of Dublin; and Ramsgate Life-boat assisted to save schooner Hannah Ransom, of Southampton, and 4.

Also voted 1,449Z. 8s. 3d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Appledore No. 1, Aldeburgh No. 2, Ayr, Ballycotton, Barry Dock, Blackpool, Boulmer, Buckhaven, Cadgwith, Caister No. 1, Carrickfergus, Clacton-on-Sea, Cromer, Donna Nook, Dover, Dunbar, Eastbourne No. 2, Exmouth, Flam- borough Nos. 1 and 2, Formby, Gourdon, Hoy- lake, Kessingland No.1, Lytham, Margate Nos.

1 and 2, Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, Newquay (Corn.), New Romney, North Deal, North Sunderland, Padstow No. 1, Palling No. 2, Plymouth, Port Enroll, Port St. Mary, Rye Harbour, Sidmouth, Southend-on-Sea, Southport, Sunderland (Motor), Sunderland (N. Dock), Tenby, Walmer, Walton-on-Naze, Whithorn, Wicklow, Winterton No. 2, and Withernsea.

Voted the Silver Medal to W. H. BAKER, Coxswain, and the thanks of the Institution on vellum, with an additional monetary grant, to him and to each of the volunteer crew who put off in the Padstow No. 1 Life- boat, on 12th November, and saved the master of the Angele, of Brest, which was wrecked on the Doom Bar in a strong W.N.W. gale and heavy sea.

Voted the Silver Medal to RICHARD HARDING, Coxswain of the Ballycotton Life- boat ; the thanks of the Institution on vellum and a binocular glass to the Rev. E. P. DUNCAN, Honorary Secretary; and a binocular glass to Mr. P. Driscoll, a member of the Local Committee, for going out as volunteers in the Life-boat on 15th November, and assisting to save nine of the crew of the S.S. Tadorna, of Cork.

Voted the Silver Medal and 51. to ANDREW STEVENSON, and the thanks of the Institution engrossed on vellum and SI. to DONALD FERGUSON, for very gallantly wading into the heavy surf on 4th November, and saving five of the crew of the barque Ocean, of Mariehaven, which was totally wrecked in a N.W. gale at Kilchieran, Islay.

Awarded a binocular glass suitably inscribed, together with 21., to B. R. JEFFERS, Principal Keeper at Straw Island Lighthouse, Galway Bay, for entering the surf and, at considerable risk, saving the crew of nine hands from the steam trawler Hector, which was wrecked in a heavy westerly gale on 5th November. Had it not been for the timely aid given by Jefiers most of the men would have perished, as they were in an exhausted condition.

Voted 11.10s. to a man for saving the crew of six hands of the S.S. Horatio in Southampton Water, on 13th November. The vessel caught fire and the crew abandoned her in one of the ship's boats. The boat was swamped, and the sailor, hearing the men's cries for help, proceeded to their assistance and, at some risk, saved them.

Voted the thanks of the Institution en- grossed on vellum to Mr. JAMES EDMUNDS, and 31. to R. GOULD, for putting off in a boat and, at very considerable risk, saving three of four persons whose boat had been capsized, in a smart westerly breeze and lumpy sea off Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, on 25th August.