Wednesday, 11th May, 1921.

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

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS £. s. d.

FRIENDLY SOCIETY (sub.) . 120 - - THE MINE SWEEPERS' FUND, per Mrs. ARTHUR THESIGER, O.B.E., (additional) ... 25 - - —To be thanked.

ANNUAL MEETING, COLLECTION AT 27 17 9 Suitably recognized the services of Mrs. SHIMWELL, for many years President of the Gatley District of the Manchester Branch.

Paid £17,204 2s. 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. I Voted £130 17s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Crail. . . . S.S. North Inch, of Dundee. Landed 5.

Cullercoats . . Cobles Undaunted, Queen Elizabeth and George and Bedford, of Culler- coats. Escorted cobles into har- bour.

Hythe . . . Fishing-boat Bread- winner, of Folke- stone. Stood by and assisted vessel.

Poole and Bournemouth Spurn (Motor) .

S.8. Fernande, of Ostend. Stood by vessel.

Sloop Liberty, of Hull. Saved vessel.

Also voted £107 2,?. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assem- blies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Dunbar, Fishguard (Motor), Fraserburgh (Motor), Newhaven (Motor), Ramsgate, and St.

David's (Motor).

Granted £20 17s. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Ilfracombe and St.

Anne's.

Produced a copy of the provisional scheme for the disposal of the money contributed to the Rhoscolyn Life-boat Disaster Fund.

Granted additional rewards to the crew and helpers at Crail for an arduous service performed in severe weather, on the 2nd May, 1921.

Voted £7 15s. to twelve men for saving the two hands and two passengers of a small ferry-boat which got out of control during a whole N.N.E. gale at Warrenpoint, Co. Down, on the 29th March. Also granted 17s. 6rf. to the owner of a motor boat for oil and petrol used.

Voted £3 15s. to five men for saving two children who, with their dog, were cut off by the rising tide at Ilfracombe, on the 22nd April, and who would certainly have been drowned but for the prompt action of their rescuers. Also granted 4s. to another man who assisted.

Voted £4 10s. to six men for putting off from Blackpool and saving the three occu- pants of a small boat which was in distress, on the 10th April. Also granted 10s. to another man who assisted.

Friday, 17th June, 1921.

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

Co-opted Rear Admiral Sir LIONEL HALSEY, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., and Mr. T. W. H. INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P., members of the Committee of Management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— CIVIL SERVICE LIFE - BOAT £. s. d.

FUND (per W. FORTESCUE BARRATT, Esq.), Expenditure connected with Civil Service Life-boats in 1920 . . . 2,530 8 6 " BATH " (additional) . . . 1,000 - - WHITE STAB LINE, being a por- tion of the contributions made by passengers on board their steamers 25 — — EXECUTORS or THE LATE SAMUEL ERSKINE, Esq. (balance) . 11 5 - —To be thanked.

Suitably recognized the services of the following lady and gentlemen for valuable help extending over many years :—• Mrs. WALTER BEAMISH . Coventry.

Alderman GEORGE REN- NARD Bridlington.

Mr. WM. COTTAM. . . Lincoln.

Paid £20,308 18s. 8d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life- boats, Life-boat Houses and Slip-ways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments. Voted £74 2s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat Services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Eastbourne No. 2 Motor yacht Don- avon. Stood by vessel.

Newbiggin . . Coble Isabella, of Newbiggin. Saved boat and ... 4 Walton-on-the- Steam trawler Naze (Motor) William John- son, of Hull.

Stood by vessel.

Also voted £167 4s. 2d. to pay the ex- penses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :— Eastbourne No. 2, Folkestone, Newhaven (Motor), North Deal, Totland Bay, and Winterton No. 2.

Voted £1 10*. to three men for attempting to save life, off New Quay (Cardigan), on the 11th May, 1921.

Voted £4 to four men for saving a small I boat and her two occupants, at Bridlington, on the 6th May, 1921, during a strong S.S.E. gale with a high sea. Also granted 12*. 6d. to the owner of the boat in which j the service was performed, to cover the cost I of oil used.

Voted £1 10s. to two men for saving the occupant of the small yacht Elizabeth, which was blown on the Tower of Refuge rocks in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, on the 16th September, 1920. Also gran ted 15s. for damage to the boat which was used for the rescue.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Mr. W. H. MOOBE, Assistant Har- bour Master, Douglas, and voted £1 10s. to four other men for saving the lives of three boys who were drifting in a boat without oars, at Douglas, on the 14th April.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Mr. WM. JAMES, Assistant Secretary, Runswick and Staithes Branch, and voted £3 15s. to five other men for saving the two hands of a coble which was caught in a heavy squall and foundered off Staithes, on the 29th May.

Also voted £4 10s. to nine men who put off, with a view to saving life, on the same occasion.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and the sum of £2 10s.

each to THOMAS QUIRK and JOHN KISSACK, in recognition of their very meritorious conduct in saving, at considerable personal risk, two men whose boat was swamped in a rough sea during a strong N.N.E.

breeze, off the Harbour Peel, Isle of Man, on the 4th May, 1921.* Voted £1 to two men for saving the three occupants of a small boat which was being * An account of this service is given in the paragraph "Peel, Isle of Man," in "News from the Branched." carried out to sea off Tenby, on the 1st June.

Also directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Major LATHAM, and that £1 be sent to two other men, who, with Major Latham, also put off to the rescue.

Voted £4 to four men for saving two persons who were cut off on the rocks by the tide at Ilfracombe on the 8th May.

There was a flood tide, with a strong N.W.

wind and a heavy ground swell, and con- siderable difficulty was experienced in effecting the rescue.

Voted £2 5s. to three men for going out in a motor boat to rescue three men and their boat, at Hythe, on the 2nd June.

Also granted 13s. to cover the cost of petrol and oil used. The three rescued men were a military bathing picket, and were carried out to sea by a high N.E. wind.

Friday, 22nd July, 1921.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted General Sir CHARLES MONKO, Bt., G.C.M.G., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., a member of the Committee of Management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution:— COXSWAINS AND CREW or £. s. d.

BLYTH LIFE-BOAT, from salvage money received (don.) 33 - - —To be thanked.

Paid £25,182 4s. 6eZ. 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 £101 19s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Kessingland . Fishing-boat Maria, of Southwold.

Stood by boat.

New Brighton Fishing-boat Mona . 2 No. 2 (Steam) St. Mary's S.S. Western Front, of (Scilly) (Motor) Seattle. Landed 40.

Sunderland Two fishing-boats, of (Motor) Sunderland . . 12 ,, ,, A fishing-boat,of Sun- derland. Assisted boat into harbour.

Walton-on-the- Fishing-smack Cele- Naze (Motor) nty, of Harwich.

Saved vessel and . 2 Walton-on-the- S.S. Hani IV., of Naze (Motor) Cardiff. Stood by vessel.

The Walton-on-the-Naze (Motor) Life- boat saved the barge Siola, of London, and her crew of four, and also saved the barge Toots, of London, and her two hands.

Also voted £151 19$. 6cl. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :— Aldeburgh No. 2, Berwick-on-Tweed, Culler- coats, Howth, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Ramsgate, and Winterton No. 2.

Granted £2 to a man for injury in the Life-boat service at Kessingland.

Voted an additional reward to THOMAS j VAUGHAN, who, in the absence of both Coxswains, took charge of the Howth Life-boat, on service, on the 12th June. ; i Also reported that a Letter of Thanks had been sent to Mr. B. J. NEWCOMBE, : Honorary Secretary, for going out in the ; Life-boat on this occasion.

Reported that Letters of Thanks had been sent to Capt. W. J. OLIVER, Joint Honorary Secretary, who went out in the Sunderland Life-boat on the 10th June, and ! to Mr. E. WOOLFIELD, Honorary Secretary, who went out in the Kessingland Life- boat on the 10th June.

Decided that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Dr. W. B. ADDISON, Honorary Secretary, at St. Mary's, Scilly, for going out in the Life-boat, on service, and for giving medical aid to several injured men belonging to the s.s. Western Front, of Seattle, which had caught fire and been abandoned on the 11th July, 1921.

Voted £2 10s. to four men for putting off in a boat from St. Helier, Jersey, with a view to saving life, on the 24th March, 1921.

Voted £8 to the four hands of the motor fishing-boat New Sea Flower, for saving the crew, nine in number, of the motor fishing-boat Majestic, when in a sinking condition off Peterhead, on the 29th June.

Also granted 5s. for petrol and oil used.

Voted £4 to two men, a man of sixty-eight and his grandson of seventeen, for putting off in a sailing boat in rough weather and saving the two occupants of a small boat which was being blown out to sea, off Howth Head, on the 12th June.

Voted £1 to two men. for putting off in a motor boat and bringing ashore a small pleasure-boat, containing a man and a woman, who were being blown out to sea off Shoreham, on the 2nd June. Also granted 10*. for the expenses of the motor boat used.

Voted £6 to four men for saving two fishing-boats, with seven occupants, which were being blown out to sea off South Shields, on the 11th June. Also granted 30s. as compensation for damage to the salvors' net, and a further 5s. for oil and petrol consumed.

Voted £4 to eight men for saving, or attempting to save, the five occupants of a pleasure-boat, at Swanage, on the 8th June. Also directed that a Letter of Appreciation be sent to Coxswain MASTERS, and that he be granted a further os. for petrol and oil used. The boat was reported to be dangerously near the tide race over Peveril Ledge, and the Coxswain, on learning this, promptly put off in his motor boat. In the meantime a small pleasure- boat, manned by one man, put off, as also did the Coast-guard boat, with a crew of three, but a small yacht with two hands picked up the drifting boat and took her in tow. When the motor boat reached the casualty, she towed the yacht and pleasure-boats to the shore against a strong ebb tide. The motor boat then towed the Coast-guard's boat back to her Station.