Friday, 19th November, 1920.

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

Co-opted Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir George G. Goodwin, K.C.B., and the Chairman of Lloyds (ex officio) Members of the Committee of Management.

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

Mr. WM. BYROM . . (donation) 50 - WHITE STAR LINE, being a portion of the contributions made by passengers on their steamers . 50 - - —To be thanked.

Specially recognised the services of Mr.

ROBERT LEES, who has held the post of Honorary Secretary of the Wicklow Branch for the past twenty years.

Also suitably recognised the services of Miss CALDEB, of Kirkintilloch, Mrs. MARR, of Lenzie, and Mrs. WALLACE, of Ayr, for valuable help in their respective districts.

Paid £28,912 13s. for sundry charges in con- nexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the main- tenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £474 9s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Cresswell . . Steam trawler C.S.D., of North Shields ... 8 Dover (Steam) H.M. tug St. Olaves.

Stood by vessel.

• Dover (Steam) Pishing - boat Mary, of Dover 1 Hasborough . S.S. Masnedsimd, of Sun- derland. Stood by vessel.

Lyme Regis . Motor ketch Sheila Mar- garet, of Southampton.

Stood by and assisted vessel.

Margate No. 2 Barge Flower of Essex, of Harwich. Stood by vessel.

Mumbles . . Schooner Isafjord, of Kopervik. Landed 2.

Newbiggin . Tug Gretewhecl. Landed 3.

Scarborough . Motor fishing - cobles Sceptre, Gloria, and Geoffrey, of Scar- borough. Stood by and escorted boats to harbour.

Skateraw . . Steam trawler Chamber- lain, of Granton.

Stood by vessel.

Walton-on-the- Ketch Lothair, of Kye . 4 Naze (Motor) Weymouth . Tender to H.M.S. War- spite. Stood by vessel.

The Anglo Life-boat assisted the ex-German submarine V. 3 into harbour; Cromer and Palling No. 2 Life-boats stood by and assisted to save the s.s. Inverawe, of Leith ; Lowestoft Life-boat stood by and assisted to save the smack Uncle Dick, of Rye; Padstow No. 2 Life-boat and Padstow Steam Tug assisted the motor schooner Twee Ambt, of Rotterdam, into harbour; Palling No. 2 Life-boat stood by and assisted the s.s. Masnedsund, of Sun- derland; Ramsgate Life-boat assisted and stood by the sailing vessel Duquesne, of Nantes; and Rhoscolyn Life-boat saved the yacht Undine and her crew of two hands.

Voted £895 9s. lOd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:—Boulmer, Brixham, Campbeltown No. 1 (Motor), Donna Nook, Duubar, Flamborough No. 1, Gorleston No. 1, Gorleston No. 2, Holy Island No. 2, Johns- haven, Lowestoft, Margate No. 2, Palling No. 2, Peterhead No. 1, Plymouth, Rhoscolyn, Seaton Carew, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness (Motor), Sennen Cove, St. Mary's (Motor), Torquay, Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor), and Weymouth.

The St. Mary's (Motor) Life-boat conveyed a sick man to Penzance from the Scilly Islands.

Granted £10 to a man for injury in the Life-boat service at Ilfracombe.

Decided to send a special Letter of Appre- ciation to the Honorary Secretary at Skateraw, commending the action of all concerned in the service launch of the Life-boat, on the night of the 21st October.

Also decided to send a Letter of Appreciation to the Weymouth Station, commending the zeal and efficiency displayed by the Coxswain and Crew on the occasion of a service launch on the 5th October.

Voted an additional monetary reward, and sent a Letter of Appreciation to the Crew and Helpers at Cresswell, in recognition of an arduous service on the night of the 21st October.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution in- scribed on Vellum to Commander GEOFFREY H. FBEYBEBO, O.B.E., R.N., King's Harbour Master at Plymouth, and to Mr. W. J.

WILLIAMS and Mr. J. HARVEY, Coxswain and Leading Stoker respectively, of the King's Harbour Master's steam launch, and granted monetary rewards to the crews of the steam launch and H.M. tug Hover, for their services in helping the Plymouth Life-boat on the occasion of the rescue of seventeen of the crew of the barquentine 7vonne, on the 3rd October.

Awarded an Aneroid Barometer, bearing a suitable inscription, to JAMES COEEMAN, and granted him and three other men the sum of £3 each for saving the motor boat Aubrey, which, with two occupants, had drifted into a perilous position on some rocks near Hastings on the 30th September. The rescue was carried out at night, and was attended with considerable risk by reason of the dangerous position of the motor boat, rough sea, and a strong S.W. breeze.

Voted £3 to the owners of two cobles, which were engaged to stand by a trawler, when she stranded during a dense fog, on the 8th October at Staithes.

Voted £3 to JOHN BARBEARY for saving a small boat and her two occupants at Ilfracombe, on the 27th October. Also granted £1 2s. 9d.

to two men who put off in a motor boat to help. At 7.30 P.M. a boat containing two amateur fishermen was seen to be in difficulties ofi Capstan Point, and Barbeary scrambled over the rocks and managed to board her. He succeeded in bringing into safety the boat and her two occupants, who were completely exhausted.

Friday, 17th December, 1920.

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

Reported the death of Mr. ROBERT BIHKBECK, who had been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1884, and a Vice-President since 1915.

Passed a vote of regret and condolence.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution:— ANONYMOUS (Donation) . . . £50 - - Suitably recognised the services of Mrs.

Grainger for valuable work, extending over many years, in connexion with the Bradford Branch.

Paid £18,964 18s. 9d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £564 11s. 9rf. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services:— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Aberystwyth . . Ex-cruiser Amethyst.

Landed 1.

Gloughey . . . S.S. Scarpa, of Newcastle . . . . 3 0 C a m p b e l t o w n Ketch Margaret No. 1 (Motor) Murray, of Ayr.

Landed 2.

Cresswell . . . Trawler Cassandra, of Hull. Stood by vessel.

Eastbourne No. 2 Lighter Creterampart, of London. Stood by vessel.

Fishguard . . Motor s c h o o n e r (Motor) Hermina, of Rotterdam 7 Greencastle . . C a n a d i a n drifter C.D. 37. Stood by vessel.

Holyhead No. 1 . Schooner Kate, of - (Steam) London. Landed 5.

Margate No. 2 . Motor ketch Garthloch, of Stockton. I Stood by vessel. | Life-boat.

Moelfre Newbiggin Newhaven (Motor) Newhaven (Motor) New Quay (Card.) Spurn (Motor) Whitby (Motor) .

Lives Vessel. saved.

Schooner Bidsie and Bell, of Barrow.

Landed 6.

Eleven fishing-cobles, of Newbiggin. Escorted boats to harbour.

Trawler Fancy, of Rye. Stood by, vessel.

Lighter Creterampart, of London. Stood by vessel.

Ex-cruiser Amethyst.

Landed 7.

The Bull Light-vessel.

Rendered assistance.

Schooner Cap Palos, of Vancouver . . 16 The Fraserburgh and Peterhead Motor Lifeboats assisted to save the trawler Brucklay, of Aberdeen, and her crew of nine hands.

The Holyhead Steam Life-boat rendered assistance to the schooner Kate, of London.

Voted £942 14s. 2d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Aberystwyth, Bridlington, Donaghadee (Motor), Dover (Steam), Dunbar, Flamborough Nos. 1 and 2, Fishguard (Motor), Fraserburgh (Motor), Mevagissey, Newburgh, North Berwick, North Deal, North Sunderland, Palling No. 2, Penlee, Ramsgate, Rhoscolyn, Sennen Cove, Stromness (Motor), Southwold, Wells, Whitby No. 1, and Winterton Nos. 1 and 2.

Granted £35 17s. &d. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Blakeney and Eyemouth.

Voted the Gold Medal of the Institution to JOHN HOWELLS, Coxswain of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat; the Silver Medal of the Institution to THOMAS 0. DAVIES, Second Coxswain, R. E. SIMPSON, Motor Mechanic, and T. HOLMES, Life-boat man; the Bronze Medal of the Institution to all the other members of the crew, and an additional monetary reward to each man, in recognition of an exceptionally gallant service when the Fishguard Life-boat rescued seven men from the motor schooner Hermina, of Rotterdam, which was totally wrecked, in a strong N. gale and tremendously heavy sea, on the night of the 3rd-4th December, 1920.

Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the Eastbourne No. 2 Life-boat for an arduous service on the 14th November, 1920.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution, inscribed on Vellum, to RICHARD EGLON, Coxswain of the Whitby Motor Life-boat, together with an additional monetary reward to him and to each of the crew, in recognition of their meritorious services in saving sixteen men from the schooner Cap Palos, of Vancouver, during severe weather, on the 15th November, 1920. Reported that tho Khoscolyu (Anglesey) Life-boat was capsized on the 3rd December, after launching to the assistance of tho s.s. Timbo, of Whitby. A whole N.W. by N.

gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy sea, and, unfortunately, Coxswain OWEN OWENS, WILLIAM THOMAS, EVAN HUGHES, RiCHAED HUGHES, and OWEN JONES lost their lives.

Granted weekly pensions to the widows of OWEN OWENS and OWES JONES ; gave additional monetary rewards to each member of the crew; also sent a Letter of Thanks, together with a monetary reward to the pilots who gave valuable help at Llancldwyn, where the Life-boat was beached after the accident.

Directed that a letter he sent to the Clovelly Life-boat crew expressing the Committee's appreciation of their generous action in launching to assist their fellow fishermen, on the 18th November, and refusing any reward.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be sent to KICHABD PAYNE, Coxswain of the Newhaven Motor Life-boat, in recognition of the good judgment he displayed on the occasion of a service launch on the 15th November.

Directed that a Letter be sent to the crew of the Cloughey Life-boat .expressing the Committee's appreciation of the rescue of thirty persons from the s.s. Scarpa on the 18th November. Also specially commending the services of Acting Coxswain ANDREW YOUNG.

Directed that a Letter be sent to Newburgh commending the Life-boat Crew and Helpers for their efforts to render assistance to a distressed vessel on the night of the 18th November.

Voted £7 17s. 6d. -to seven men for putting off from Campbeltown in a motor boat, during a whole W.N.W. gale, and landing a man from the ketch Margaret Murray, on the 15th November. Earlier in the day the Life-boat had brought ashore the other two members of the crew, but at about 2 p.m. the remaining man, fearing that his anchor would not hold, put up signals of distress, in answer to which the men put off to his aid.

Voted £5 to five men for putting off from Port Isaac in a motor boat, 011 the 1st November, in response to signals of distress.

Before they could reach the casualty, the Institution's Tug Helen Peele was able to render the necessary assistance..