Friday, 7th July, 1916.

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

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read and confirmed the minutes oi the Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Stations:— Northern District.—Stornoway, Longhope, Stromness, Stronsay, Thurso, Hvtm, Ackergill, Wick, Lossiemouth, and Buckie Eastern District.—Cromer and Winterton.

Southern District.—Salcombe, Hope Cove, Looe, Polkerris, and Falmouth.

Western District. — Little Haven, St.

Davids, Fishguard, Cardigan, New Quay (Card.), Aberystwith, Aberdovey, Barmouth, Criccieth, Pwllheli, Abersoch, Porthdinllaen, Rhosneigir, Rhoscolyn, Cemlyn, Cemaes, Bull Bay, Moelfre, Llandudno, Llanddulas, Rhyl, and Point of Ayr.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.. Reported the receipt oi the following special contributions since the previous meeting:— £. a. d.

Mrs. ELLEN M. JENKINS (ad- ditional donation) .... 100 - - ARTHUR W. YonNa, Esq. (do- nation) 50 - - Co-operative Wholesale Society (subscription) 21 - - Newcastle-on-Tyne Trinity House (subscription) 10 10 - 3. ALLEYNE CAMPBELL, Esq. (do- nation)- 10 - - Miss Dow (subscription) ... 10 - - The Rt. Hon. LORD NEWLANDS (subscription) ...... 10 - - Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., proportion of amount collected on White Star Steamers (col- lection) 10 - - Miss FELIX SMITH (subscription and special donation) ... 10 - - Miss SUSAN STAVELY (donation) 10 - - C. E. SWAN, Esq. (subscription) . 10 - - A. J. .TURNER, Esq., M.B. (do- nation) . 10 - - —To be severally thanked.

Specially recognized the good services, ex- tending over many years, of Mr. W. J. OLIVES and Mr. J. Y. LOCKHARD, Hon. Secretaries of the Sunderland and Kirkcaldy Branches respectively.

Paid £10,380 10s. 9d. for sundry charges in connection with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £54 19s. lOd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives lift-boat. Vessel. saved.

Eastbourne A boat ...... 1 No. 2 North stood by vessel.

Sunderland Clacton-on-Sea Life-boat rescued three per- sons and saved a vessel; also assisted to save the s.s. GorUz, of Bilbao, and twenty-four persons; Southend-on-Sea rendered assistance to the schooner Francis and Jane, of Harwich.

Also voted £4 2s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the Dungeness No. 1 Life-boat, no service having been rendered.

Voted £66 16s. id. to men injured in the Life-boat services at Kingstown, Port Eynon, and Walton-on-the-Naze.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, together with the sum of £10, to ROBERT LEMON, in recognition of his very gallant services in attempting to save the crew of the s.s. Corsewell, of Glasgow, which was wrecked at Barmouth on the 9th April. Lemon, who is a professional diver, was engaged in salving another vessel in the vicinity and, on observing the vessel in distress, put off in his motor boat with two local men. After the boat had . proceeded a short distance, these men insisted i upon returning ashore. Lemon then went ofE alone and succeeded in getting alongside the Corsewell, but a heavy sea broke over the boat, breaking the rope which had been made fast. The boat filled and her engines stopped, but fortunately Lemon was able to get on to another wreck, where he remained until rescued by the Portrush Life-boat. As a result of his brave action, Lemon lost his boat and gear, and a fund was opened locally to recoup him for his. loss, and the amount contributed by the Institution was sent to this fund.

Voted £1 to four men for putting off in a boat and, at slight risk, saving two men whose boat was capsized oft Aranmore on the 3rd June, Voted £1 10s. to W. STEPHEN, Coxswain of the Montrose Life-boat, and 15s. to each of three other men for their services in putting off in a motor boat and saving one of the occupants of an aeroplane which had fallen into the sea about one mile north of Montrose on the 17th June. When the boat reached the spot it was found that the man, who was strapped to the aeroplane, had had his leg broken and was helpless. Stephen therefore jumped into the water, got him clear of the aeroplane and assisted him towards the motor boat, -when they were both lifted on board. The other occupant of the machine, although injured in the fall, managed to swim ashore.

Friday, 28th July, 1916.

Sir GODFREY BASING, Bart., M.P., V.P., in. the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Stations:— Northern District.—Banff, Fraserbrugh, Peterhead, Port Erroll, Newburgh, and Stonehaven.

Southern District.—St. Peter Port.

Western District.—Clovelly, Ilfracombe, Lynmouth, Minehead, Watchet, Burnham, Weston-super-Mare, Barry Dock, Mumbles, Ferryside, Tenby and Angle.

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

THE THORNGATE TRUSTEES . . 80 - - —To be thanked.

Paid £7,459 18s. Wd. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

i Voted £70 is. lOd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Filey . . . S.S. Alfa, of Copen- hagen 16 Gorleston No. 1. S.S. Seaconnel, of Phila- delphia .... 28 Lowestoft . . S.S. Kara, of London.

Landed 21.

North Deal . S.S. Marques di Urquijo, of Bilbao. Stood by vessel.

Gorleston No. 1 Life-boat assisted to save s.s. La France, of Kragero, and 16 persons.

Also voted £78 9s. 2d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Caister No. 1, Eastbourne No. 2, Gorleston No. 1, New- haven (Motor), Polkerris.

Awarded the Thanks of the Institution on vellum to WALTER STOCK, in recognition of his meritorious services in rescuing, single-handed and at great risk, eight of the crew of the s.s. Astrologer, of Leith, which struck a mine and immediately sank off Lowestoft, on the 26th June.

Ordered a letter of thanks to be sent to JOHN BROWN, pilot, for his services on the 12th July, in rescuing one of the crew of the pilot boat lolanthe, of Bristol, who was knocked overboard when assisting to hoist the sail. The boat was being towed out of Ilfracombe Harbour by Brown when the accident occurred. Brown incurred no risk, but his promptitude probably saved the man.

Friday, 8th September, 1916.

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

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Stations:— Northern District. — Berwick-on-Tweed, Gourdon, Johnshaven, Montrose, Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, St. Andrews, Grail, An- struther, Buckhaven, North Berwick, Dunbar, Skateraw, St. Abbs, Eyemouth, and Stornoway.

Eastern District.—Aldeburgh.

Southern District.—Margate, Ramsgate, North Deal, Kingsdowne, Folkestone, Hythe, Weymouth and St. Helier.

Western District.—Penzance, Penlee, Sen- nen Cove, St. Mary's, St. Agnes, St. Ives, Hayle, Padstow, Port Isaac, Bude, Appledore, Holyhead and Beaumaris.

Irish District.—Courtown, Cahore, Wexford, Rosslare Harbour and Kilmore.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits te the Branches in their respective areas.

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

S. C. KIRBY, Esq. (new donation) 20 - - EDWARD MACBEAN, Esq., F.R.G.S.

(new donation) 10 10 - THE MARCHIONESS OP BRISTOL (new donation) 5 - - —To be severally thanked.

Paid £10,999 11s. Zd. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £98 6s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. , Vessel. saved.

Cromer . . S.S.-Mitcham ... 22 Dunbar . . . Rendered Saltburn Wexford assistance.

A Government vessel.

Stood by vessel.

Motor ketch Heather Belle, of Barnstaple . 3 . . Assisted Wexford vessel.

Eastbourne No. 2 Life-boat assisted s.s. 1 China, and Palling No. 1 Life-boat saved s.s. Carolus, of Gothenburg.

Also voted £162 9s. 9d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assem- blies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Aldeburgh No. 1, Cadgwith, Cromer, Fleetwood, Gorle- ston No. 2, Groomsport, Hauxley, Holy Island No. 2, The Lizard, North Deal and Palling No. 1.

Reported that the American Cross of Honour had been awarded to Major H. BURTON, B.E., Honorary Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat, his name having been submitted by the Institution to the Board of Directors as a recipient for the honour. The Cross is bestowed biennially upon the person who, in the opinion of the Committee of Management of the Institu- tion, has rendered the most heroic service in life-saving during the previous two years, and Major Burton's conduct on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla, off Whitby, on the 30th October, 1914, was deemed worthy of the Cross.

Voted an additional reward to the crew and helpers of the Cromer Life-boat for a very good service to the s.s. Mitcham, of London, on the 30th August. The service was performed in an easterly gale and very heavy sea, and to effect the launch of the boat it was necessary for the launchers to go into the water up to their waists.

Voted £24 15s. to men injured in the Life- boat Service at Blackpool and Lowestoft.

Voted £4 10s. to three men for putting off in a canoe and saving three persons whose boat was capsized in a sudden squall in Greatman's Bay, Co. Galway, on the 13th June. When the salvors reached the drowning men, they found that it was im- possible to take them on board on account of the frailty of the canoe. One of the salvors, therefore, supported them in the water and by skilful management the canoe was got ashore.

Friday, 13th October, 1916.

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

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Stations:— Northern District.—Holy Island Nos. 1 and 2, North Sunderland, Boulmer, Alnmouth, Hauxley, Cresswell, and Newbiggin.

Southern District. — Walton-on-the-Naze, Bembridge, Brooke, Totland Bay, and Swanage.

Western District.—Fishguard.

Irish District.—Poolbeg, Wicklow, Arklow, Cahore, Dunmore East, Tramore, Helvick Head, Youghal, Ballycotton, Queenstown, Courtmacsherry, and Fenit.

Reported that Mr. 3. H. BURTON, Chairman of the Anglesey Branch, had inspected the Bull Bay Station.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

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

The Executors and Trustees of ARCHIBALD Nicor, MACSICOLL (deceased) (donation) . . . 100 - - Anonymous (new donation) . 50 - - The LADY LAURA RIDDING (new donation) 5 - - —To be severally thanked.

Recognized the valued co-operation of Mr. J. R. BARKER at Rugby.

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

Decided to close the Cahore (Co. Wexford) Life-boat Station.

Paid £9,698 5s. 4cJ. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £163 15s. 3d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-bout services:— Lives life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Caister No. 1 . A vessel. Stood by vessel.

Donaghadee . S.S.Cliffmore, of Belfast.

Stood by vessel.

Holy head No. 1 Schooner Janie, of Pad- (Steam) stow 4 Holy Island S.S. Cydonia, of North No. 1 Shields. Rendered assistance and saved . 29 Ilfracombe . Schooner Mary Orr, of Glasgow .... 4 Lives Life-boat Vessel. saved Newbiggin . S.S. Bella, of Sweden.

Stood by vessel.

Newbiggin . S.S. T.J.B., of Stock- holm. Assisted vessel.

Padstow No. 2 Trawler Endeavour, of Ramsgate .... 3 Peterhead Schooner Annie, of No. 2 Shields. Rendered assistance.

Wexford . . Steam Tug Egad, of Liverpool. Stood T y vessel.

North Sunderland Life-boat assisted to save a vessel.

Also voted £176 18s. 8(2. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress : — Dunbar, Flamborough No. 1, Groomsport, Holy Island No. 1, Palling No. 1, Penlee, Peterhead No. 2, St. Abbs (Motor), St. Davids, Scarborough, Stromness, Teesmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Whitburn.

Voted £2 10s. to four men for putting off in a boat and saving four persona from the sailing-boat Ju-Ju, which was drifting out to sea in an unmanageable and sinking condition, off Youghal, on the 5th September. When the salvors reached the boat she was leaking badly, and had it not been for their timely assistance, she would undoubtedly have been lost and the occupants drowned.

Voted £7 to fourteen members of the Gorleston Life-boat crew for putting off in a yawl on the 11th September, and saving two men from the shrimper Curlew, of Yarmouth, which grounded while going into harbour.

The boat commenced to fill with water quickly, and the men were in imminent danger when rescued by the salvors.

Voted £1 to the Coxswain and Second Coxswain of the Walton-on-the-Naze Life- boat for putting off in a small boat on the 13th September and saving two persons from the dinghy Minnie, which was in difficulties off Walton.

Granted 5s. to a man for putting off in a boat and picking up a boy who had fallen overboard from a boat when entering Ilfra- combe Harbour at about 10 P.M. on the 14th August.

Voted £3 to four men for putting off in a boat and rescuing one of two persons off Abersoch on the 26th September. Unfortu- nately one of the occupants of the boat was drowned before the salvors could reach her.

When they were returning ashore from the rescue their own boat was capsized, but happily they succeeded in getting ashore in safety.

Voted £1 2s. 6d. to three men for putting off in a boat at North Sunderland and assist- ing twelve men in two boats belongmg to the Swedish ship Bengula. The men were seen making for the harbour after their vessel had been shelled by a German submarine many hours previously, and the salvors took the boats in tow and brought them into harbour.

Thursday, 2nd November, 1916.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bart., M.P., in the Chair.

Special Meeting in connexion with the Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster on the 27th October.

Passed a vote of deep sympathy with the relatives of the men who lost their lives, and decided to refer the question of the Institution's contribution to the local fund to the Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.

Friday 10th November, 1916.

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

Read and confirmed the minutes of the two previous meetings.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that their recommendations be carried into effect.

Read the reports of the District Inspectors on their visits to the following Stations:— Eastern District:— Staithes, Runswick, Upgang, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough, Hunstanton, Brancaster, Blakeney, Sheringham, Cromer, and Caister.

Southern District:—Southend-on-Sea and Poole.

Irish District:— Portrush, Groomsport, Donaghadee, Cloughey, Newcastle (Dun.), Greenore, Blackrock, Clogher Head, Drogheda, Skerries, Howth, Kingstown, Aranmore, and Greencastle.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

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

ROWLAND LOWE, Esq., of Michigan, U.S.A. (new donation) . . . 30 - - —To be thanked.

Suitably recognized the services of Mr.

WILLIAM ASTLE RYAN, who after twenty-two years' service as Hon. Secretary, had retired owing to the closing of the station.

Reported the dispatch to her station of the new Rye Harbour Life-boat.

Paid £8,169 6s. id. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 326Z. 5s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Abersoch . . . A vessel. Stood by vessel.

A boat of a vessel . 6 Lite-boat.

Arbroath .

Cullercoats .

I j Eastbourne No. 2 i I Longhope i Montrose No. 1 .

Newcastle (Co.

Down) Newhaven (Motor) N. Sunderland .

Padstow No. 2 .

Poole . . . .

Port St. Mary .

lares Vessel. saved.

Fishing-boats of Arbroath.

Stood by fishing-boats.

S.S. Sjovik, of Sweden.

Stood by vessel.

S.S. Alauniaot Liverpool and a Patrol boat 8 Schooner Fulton, of Marstal. Stood by vessel.

Eight fishing-vessels.

Remained in attendance.

S.S. Plasma, of Glasgow . . . 8 S.S. Alaunm, of Liverpool 6 Also landed 20.

S.S. Tredegar Hall, of London. Stood by vessel.

Ketch Arethusa, of Lowestoft . . . 3 A vessel . . . . 7 Fishing-boat Maud . 2 Gorleston No. 1 Life-boat rendered assistance to the s.s. John 0' Scott, of Newcastle; Kingsdowne Life-boat saved barge Aimer, of London, and 2 lives; Peterhead No. 2 Lifeboat assisted to save a trawler; Ramsgate Life-boat saved barge Circe, of London, and 3 lives.

Voted £476 12s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Barry Dock, Brighton, Brixham, Bude, Cloughey, Cromer, Donaghadee, Gorleston No. 1, Hoylake, New Brighton (Steam), Newhaven (Motor), North Deal and Kingsdowne, North Deal, Palling, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Porthleven, Rhoscolyn, Rosslare Harbour, Shoreham, Southend-on-Sea, Swanage, The Mumbles.

Voted £2,163 to the Fund being raised locally for the benefit of the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives in the Salcombe Life-boat disaster on the 27th October, £75 having been already forwarded for their immediate necessities. The money to be allocated as indicated by the Committee of Management.

Accorded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed to DR. COCK, the Chairman, and to MB. C. E. TUBNEB, the Hon. Secretary of the Branch, for their valuable help on this sad occasion.

Decided to cordially thank Mr. and Mrs. MICHELMORE, of Kickham, who took charge of the two survivors, and to recognize their kindness in a suitable manner.

Voted £13 5s. to be divided among persons who rendered valuable assistance on this occasion.Awarded the Silver Medal of the Institution, together with an additional monetary reward, to the Coxswain of the Peterhead Motor Life- boat in recognition of his services in saving seventy-lour persons from the s.s. Kiev, of Odessa, on the 28th October. Also voted an additional monetary reward to each of the members of the crew.

Ordered a Special Letter of Thanks to be sent to Mr. S. H. EASTERBROOK, and awarded him art Aneroid Barometer mounted on a shield, in recognition of his services in going into the water with a line attached to him, and, with the assistance of another man, saving one of the crew of the ketch Girl Edith, which was wrecked at Corlyn's Head, Torquay, on the 27th October.

Ordered a Special Letter of Thanks to be sent to Mr. J. A. GARDINER, Hon. Secretary of the Campbeltown Branch of the Institution, and to Mr. WILLIAM SMALL, Senior, Assistant Surveyor of Motors, for their services in putting off in a boat and rendering assistance to the schooner Mary Anne Mandall, in a strong southerly gale and a very heavy sea.

Also voted £5 to five men who manned the skiff in which they put off; and awarded £5 to the crew of a patrol boat which towed the skiff on this occasion.

Voted £2 10s. to the master and crew of the tug George Je-wson, for saving the crew of three hands of the fishing-boat Defender, of Yarmouth, which had had her sails blown away, and was dragging her anchors, in a strong S.S.E. breeze and a heavy sea. ! Voted £3 to three men for saving, at con- siderable risk, three men from the ketch Susannah, which sank off the dock entrance i at Cardiff, in a S.S.E. gale, on the 27th October.

It was only after repeated efforts that the sailors succeeded in rescuing the men, who had taken to the rigging.

Friday, 8th December, 1916.

ROBERT BIRKBBCK, Esq., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting. : Bead and confirmed the minutes of the ! Building, General Purposes, and Wreck and ) Reward Sub-Committees, and ordered that ! their recommendations be carried into effect, j Bead the reports of the District Inspectors | on their visits to the following Life-boat j Stations:— Eastern District.—Filey, Mamborough, Bridlington, Hornsea, Easington, Spurn, Grimsby, Donna Nook, Mablethorpe, and Southern District.—Worthing.

Irish District.—Hilbre Island, Hoylake, j New Brighton, Formby, Lytham, St. Anne's, j Blackpool, Fleetwood, Ramsey, Douglas, | Castletown, Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Peel.

Presented the reports of the District Organizing Secretaries on their visits to the Branches in their respective areas.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions since the previous meeting :— Gift from the Estate of E. J.WiLLIAMS, late of Salcombe, to be devoted to the replacing of the Life-boat at Salcombe . . . 1,000 - - Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Ltd. (special donation) . 210 - - B. & W. HAWTHORN, LESLIE & Co., LTD. (new annual subscription) 20 - - —To be severally thanked.

Paid £3,745 13s. Wd. for sundry charges in connexion with the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted 727Z. 10*. lid. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Angle (Bes.) . Ketch New Design, of Bridgwater ... 3 Ketch Foam, of Bide- ford 3 Clogher Head . Fishing - boat Fairy Bank, of Kilkeel, As- sisted to save vessel and 4 Crail ... A vessel 10 Falmouth . . A vessel 19 Filey . . . Twenty - one fishing- cobles of Piley. Stood by cobles.

Coble Marguerite, of Filey 3 Gourdon . . Schooner Zwaluw, of Zerneuzen. Stood by vessel.

Gorleston No. 1 A vessel 5 A barge 3 A barge 3 Holy Island Barque Jolani, of Ahus 14 No. 2.

Hunstanton . Took a doctor to a vessel.

Ilfracombe. . Three herring - boats, Dora, Beatrice Mary and Victoria. Saved three boats and . . 6 Kingsdowne . S.S. Sibiria, of New York 52 Moelfre. . . A small boat of s.s.

Mona, of Liverpool . 8 Montrose No. 2. Schooner Heistad, of Norway .... 7 Schooner H. C. Grube, of Marstal .... 6 Newbiggin. . Thirteen cobles. Re- mained in attendance.

Newquay Fishing-boat Owen, of (Card.) Newquay.

North Deal . S.S. Val Salice, of Genoa. Rendered as- sistance .... 30 Schooner Mary Wat- kinson, of Barrow . 5 Life-boat.

North Deal .

Skerries . .

St. Agnes (Soilly) Sunderland Lives Vesesl. saved.

S.S. Petra, of Bergen.

Assisted to save vessel.

Schooner Village Belle, of Dublin . . . . 4 S.S. Sola, of Stavanger 13 S.S. Prince Town. Stood by vessel.

The Mumbles . Sailing - vessel Jeune France. Landed 7.

Tynemouth . S.S. Besaheim, of Christiana 118 S.S. Muristan, of Swansea 16 Weymouth . Barque Gladys, of Bristol.

Landed 20.

Barque Celticbum, of Greenock. Landed 28.

Whitby No. 1 . Steam Trawler Eagle, of Grimsby. Landed 9.

North Deal Life-boat saved barge Trojan, of Grays, and rescued two; Ramsgate Life-boat saved seven lives from the schooner Girl of the Period, of Faversham; also assisted to save s.s. Petra, of Bergen; and Whitby No. 2 Life-boat assisted to save steam trawler Eagle, of Grimsby.

Also voted £808 4s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with the view of assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Arbroath, Barry Dock, Beaumaris (Motor), Boulmer, Brighton, Brixham, Broughty Perry (Motor), Cloughey, Donaghadee (Motor), Dunbar, Exmouth, Falmouth, Gorleston No. 2, Hunstanton, Ilfracombe, Kingsdowne, Lowestoft, Montrose No. 2, Newcastle (Co. Down), Newhaven (Motor), North Deal, Palling No. 2, Plymouth, Port Erin, Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rosslare Harbour, Selsey, Shoreham, Skegness, St. Agnes (Scilly), St. Andrews, St. Mary's (Scilly), St. Peter Port, The Lizard, The Mumbles, Teignmouth, Tenby, Totland Bay, Walton-on-the-Naze, Wexford, and Winterton No. 2.

Voted £71 14s. 9 2. to defray the funeral expenses *f some of the men who lost their lives in the Salcombe Life-boat disaster on the 27th October.

Voted £3 10s. to seven men for saving four of the crew of the s.s. Tridonia, which was totally wrecked in Oxwich Bay, near Port Eynon, on the 30th October.

Voted additional rewards in recognition of their arduous services to the crews of the Brixham, Exmouth and Teignmouth Lifeboats, and sent letters expressing appreciation, of the efforts made by the crews of the two latter boats.

Voted the Silver Medal to the Coxswain, and the Thanks of the Institution on vellum to the Second Coxswain of the Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat, together with an extra monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, for their services to the barque Jolani, of Ahus, on the 18th November. The service was performed on a very dark night in an E.S.E. hurricane and a very heavy sea, and resulted in 14 lives being saved.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to the Coxswain and to the Second Coxswain of the North Deal (Reserve) Boat, and an additional monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, in recognition of their persistent efforts in face of great danger, to rescue the crew of the s.s. Sibiria, of New York, which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands in very bad weather on the 20th November.

Also voted the Silver Medal to the Coxswain of the Ramsgate boat in recognition of the strenuous efforts made by that crew on the same occasion.

Also the Silver Medal to the Coxswain, and the Thanks of the Institution on vellum to the Second Coxswain of the Kingsdowne Lifeboat, and an additional monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, for rescuing the crew of the above vessel.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to the Coxswain and Second Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, together with an additional monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, in recognition of their services in rescuing the crew of thirty hands of the s.s. Val Salice, which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 19-20th November.

Voted the Silver Second Service Clasp of the Institution to the Coxswain and to the Second Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life - boat, together with an additional monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, for their gallant services in rescuing, on the 21st November, sixteen of the crew of the s.s. Muristan, which was wrecked off Blyth on the 19th November in a strong easterly gale and a very heavy sea.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to the Coxswain and Second Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat, together with an additional monetary reward to them and to each of the crew, for their services in rescuing 118 persons from the s.s. Bessheim, of Christiania, which was wrecked in a whole easterly gale and a very heavy sea, on the 19th November.

Voted an Aneroid Barometer mounted on a shield and bearing a suitable inscription to Mr. ROBERT HASTINGS, in recognition of his services in volunteering and going out in the Newcastle (Co. Down) Life-boat on the occasion of the rescue of the crew of the s.s. Plasma on the 27th October.

Voted £3 to four men at Llandudn* for saving three men from a boat which was in distress in a moderate gale and a choppy sea on the 15th November.

Voted £2 10s. to five men of the pilot boat Stork for saving four of the crew of the ketch Sabine, of Treguier, which stranded in a rough sea at Guernsey on the 27th October.