Friday, 16th September, 1921.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported the death of Admiral of the Fleet, The Marquis of Milford Haven, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and of Major Sir E. F. Coates, Bt., M.I'., both Members of the Committee of Management.

Passed votes of regret and condolence.

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

ANTARCTIC SHIP "QUEST'' (part collection on hoard) . . . 11 I 3 (i THE LATE W. H. BINSKIN, Esq., of Croydon 100 W. H. CULLEN, Esq. . . . 100 " IN MEMORY OF WALT Kit VIVIAN BUTLEK, Lt., R.N." . 25 -- -- Suitably recognized the services of Mrs.

0. F. GRANTHAM, O.B.K., for valuable work at Skegness extending over many years.

Paid £40,130 16,s. 9r/. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life- Boats, Life-Boat Houses, and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Lifeboat establishments.

Voted £172 17*. 8c/. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lite-boat.

C'astletown Holyhead (Steam) Vessel.

Pleasure - boat T/ic Osprey, of Derbyhaven . . . .

Schooner Mttriait, of Padstow. Landed 4.

Life-boat.

Margate No. 2 Xevvha veil (Motor) I'orthdinllaeii (Boardingboat) 1'oolbeg St. Ives Wexfu Vessel.

Yacht Sumuritii, of Royal Yacht Squadron Sailing boat Chum, of Shorcham. Saved boat and A small boat. Landed 3.

lioat of s.s'. QuKcnii:, of Liverpool Ketch F. H. Bolt, of Bideford Ketch Anne, of Gloucester . . . .

Crab-boats St. Eloi, Susanne Yvonne, tit. Mauday, Eclair, and Turquoise, of Camaret Crab - boats Alma Marie, En Avant, and Providence, of I'aimpol Schooner Hilda, of Swansea. Landed 4.

Lives aved.

21 12 The Sennen Cove Life-boat saved the barge Slrumble, of London.

Voted £772 7*. 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. 1, Ardrossan, Beaumaris (Motor), Cambois, Caister No. 2, Cullercoats, Douglas, Fraser-FEBRUARY, 1922.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 249 burgh (Motor), Hoylake, Holy Island No. 1, Kingstown (Motor), Llandudno, Margate No. 1, Moelfre, Mumbles, North Deal, Newburgh, Newhaven (Motor), New Brighton (Steam), Palling No. 1, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Port Logan, Poolbeg, Ramsgate, Rye Harbour, Southend-on- 1 Sea, and Wexford.

The Palling No. 2, Spurn (Motor), and Winterton No. 1 Life-boats were also launched.

Granted £64 9*. to men for injury in the | Life-boat service at Blackpool, Blakeney, Cardigan, Hilbre Island, Ilfracombe, and St. Anne's.

Reported that the Sennen Cove Life-boat crew had sent a donation of £5 to the Institution out of an award received by them for salvage services rendered to the s.s.

Haliartus, on the 22nd January.

Awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to ROBERT WEDGE, Coxswain of the St. Ives Life-boat, and granted an additional monetary reward to him and to the other members of the crew in recognition of their services on the 29th July, 1921, when the Life-boat went out five times and saved forty persons from ten vessels which were in distress in St.

Ives Bay. Also directed that a Letter of Thanks be addressed to the Honorary Secretary for his active co-operation. (An account of this service appeared in the last issue of The Life-Boat.) I Reported that, in connexion with the | services of the Johnshaven Life-boat on the 21st December, 1920, when she saved seven of the crew of the Danish schooner ' Frcdensborg, H.M. the King of Denmark ! had presented the sum of fifty guineas to Mrs. Jane McBay, widow of the Lifeboat man who was drowned, and Silver Cups to the twelve surviving members of i the crew.

! 1 ! Granted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the Margate No. 2 Life-boat for a successful and arduous service on the 19th August, 1921.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to the Blliot Steam Tug Company, and awarded a gratuity to the local agent and to the crew of the tug Gauntlet for their good services to the North Deal Life-boat, on the 29th July, 1921.

Awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to THOMAS GRIFFITHS, Second Coxswain of the Cardigan Lifeboat, and granted him and a lad who assisted him the sum of £5 each for saving, at considerable personal risk, the occupant of a small boat which sank, during severe weather, on the 16th August, 1921. (An account of this service appeared in the last issue of The Life-Boat.) Voted £2 to four men for putting off from Scarborough in a motor-boat, during a northerly gale, and rescuing the four occupants of two cobles, on the 29th July, 1921. Also granted 12s. for petrol consumed.

Directed that Letters of Appreciation be sent to the crew of the sailing boat Mabel, three in number, for their prompt services in rescuing the three hands of another sailing boat, named the Kathleen, which was caught in a squall and sank in a few seconds whilst racing off Whithorn, on the 20th July.

Directed that Letters of Appreciation be sent to two men for rescuing two other men, who were in difficulties in a boat off Rhos-on-Sea, on the 28th July.

Voted £4 to two men for saving a small boat and her four occupants off Sennen Cove, on the 30th July. The boat contained the captain and crew of the schooner Edith Eleanor, which had foundered on the previous day, since which time they had been in the open boat and were exhausted.

Voted £2 5*. to three men for saving, by means of a motor boat, the four hands of the yacht Induna, on the 30th July. Also granted 12s. 6d. for oil fuel consumed.

Voted £1 to the owner of a motor boat who, accompanied by two men, rendered assistance to the fishing - boat David off Port Patrick, on the 2nd August, 1921.

Voted £1 10s. to two men for saving the four occupants of a yawl which was capsized in a sudden squall off Aranmore, on the 6th August, 1921.

Voted £7 to seven men who rescued ten boy Scouts who were being carried away to sea when out sailing in a small boat off South wold, on the 7th August, 1921.

Friday, 21»t October, 1921.

The Right Hon. the EABI WALDEGBAVE, P.C., in the Chair.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— £. a. d.

THE BOKNEO Co., LTD., Upcountry Staff of (don.) . . 30 - - —To be thanked.

Suitably recognized the valuable help rendered by Mrs. BUSTIN, the Mayoress of Bermondsey, in connexion with the Bermondsey Branch.Paid £29,986 14s. Id. for sundry charges i boat crew vrt o, aftev performing a service in connexion with the construction of Life- on the 20th September, refused the pro- boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and ceeds of a collection taken for their benefit, the maintenance of the various Life-boat ; and asked that the money should be placed establishments. in the Institution's contribution box.

Voted £140 4s. 6rf. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel, saved.

Barmouth . . Pleasure-boat Doris, of Barmouth . . 2 Clacton-on-Sea (Motor) Kyde . . .

Ryde . . .

Russian barquentine Esther. Stood by vessel.

Yawl Sea Bat, of St.

Helens.

Motor ketch Chione, of Ipswich. Stood by and assisted to save vessel.

Scarborough Spurn (Motor) Swanage Weymouth 16 Cobles Caroline and Water Lily, of Scarborough. Es- corted cobles into harbour and saved Sloop Paradise, of Barton. Rendered assistance.

Steam drifter Free- will, of Weymouth.

Stood by vessel.

Barge Cecilia, of London. Assisted to save vessel and Voted £237 14*. lOrf. 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 :—Angle, Ayr, Barry Dock, Caister, Holyhead (Steam), Lyrne Regis, Port Patrick, Rye Harbour, Sennen Cove, "Winterton No. 2, and Wells.

Granted £36 15s. 4rf. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Fleetwood, Walton-on-the-Naze, and Winterton.

Reported that in connexion with the services of the Fishguard Life-boat on the 3-4th December last, when she saved seven of the crew of the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, Her Majesty the Queen of Holland had presented a Gold Watch to Coxswain JOHN HOWELLS, and Silver Watches to the other members of the crew ; also a Gold Watch to WILLIAM MORGAN, of the Life-saving Apparatus. (This service was fully reported in the Annual Report for last year, and in The Life-Boat for last February.) Voted a further sum of £50 for the benefit of the men of the Ramsgate Life-boat who took part in the rescue of the Indian Chief in 1881.

Reported that a Letter of Appreciation had been sent to the Scarborough Liie- j Awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to the 22nd Coy.

Royal Engineers, Gosport (a Boys' Training Company attached to the School of Electric Lighting), in recognition of the plucky action of some of its members in saving two boys from drowning on the llth September. At about 9.45 A.M. a bugler belonging to the Company saw a small boat, with three occupants, capsized about one and a half miles off. At the time there was a strong S.W. wind, with rough, sea, squalls, and rain showers. The alarm was immediately given, and a 38-foot boat belonging to the Company was promptly launched and pulled to the rescue. All three occupants of the small boat were picked up, but unfortunately one was dead.

Had it not been for the prompt manner in 1 which the boys (all between the ages of 15 and 17), under the command of Sergt.- Major C. F. Giddy, went to the rescue, there is no doubt that the two who were saved would have been drowned. The boat in which the rescue was carried out had been presented to the Company by the Admiralty in commemoration of the fine work which it had done in saving lives from H.M.S. Gladiator in 1908.

| Voted £4 10s. to the four hands of the motor fishing-boat Excel, for saving the four hands of the schooner Jessie Sinclair, of Castletown, which was destroyed by fire on the 29th August. Also granted £1 16s. 6rf., the cost of oil fuel consumed.

Voted £1 10s. to four men for landing the four occupants of the motor boat Minnie, which stranded, during a dense fog, in Douglas Bay, on the night of the 8th September.

Voted £1 to a man belonging to Tenby, and sent Letters of Thanks to two visitors who rescued a man irom drowning on the 28th July. The ketch Honora was running to the Harbour in a strong S.E. breeze and rough sea, when one of the crew was washed overboard. In response to the shouts of his shipmates, who were unable to help him owing to their boat being swamped, the salvors at once went to the rescue, and succeeded in saving the man.

Voted £1 to two men for saving three men off Sunderland.on the 29th September.

The salvors were outside the Harbour when they saw a fishing-boat run down by a dredger which was being towed. They immediately rowed to the spot and saved three men. A fourth man had managed to scramble on board the dredger.

Friday, 18th November, 1921.

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

Suitably recognized the services of JOHN TIMPSON, Esq.* (Portsmouth) and Councillor THOMAS K. ROBERTS (Lewisham), for valuable help rendered during their Mayoralty in 1921.

Paid £26,780 4s. Id. 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 £437 5s. to pay the expenses of ths following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Caister No. 1 Motor vessel Queen Phillippa. Stood by vessel.

Clacton-on-Sea S.S. Baltic, of Chris- (Motor) tiania. Stood by vessel.

Filey . . . Ketch Winifred, of Inverness ... 8 Lowestoft Coal - hulk Crocus, of (Temporary Hull 4 Motor) Margate No: 1 Ketch Linn, of Lon- don. Landed 3.

Margate No. 2 Barge Opal, of London 2 ,, ,, Barge Arthur Relf, of London. Landed 3.

,, „ Barge T.M.P., of Rochester. Landed 2.

Southend-on- Barge Avon, of London 3 Sea Southwold . Boat of s.s. War Tamar, of London.

Saved boat and . 4 Totland Bay. Motor schooner Imogens, of Southampton . 4 ,,, ,, . Motor schooner Imogene, of Southampton . 3 Walton-on- Barge Leslie, of Bright- the Naze lingsea. Stood by (Motor) vessel.

Wells . . Fishing-boat Boy Robert, of Wells.

Escorted boat into harbour.

Wexford . Fishing-boat Mona, of (Motor) Wexford. Assisted vessel into harbour.

Wexford . . Fishing-boat St. Quin- (Motor) tin, of Wexford.

Saved boat and . 2 The Aldeburgh No. 2 Life-boat saved the schooner Trina Cecilie, of Helsingfors ; the Clacton-on-Sea (Motor) Life-boat saved the barge Mary Graham, of Rochester, and her 1 Now Sir John Timson, K.B.E.

three hands; the Lowestoft (Temporary Motor) Life-boat stood by the s.s. Pollcrea, of London ; and the Wexford (Motor) Life- boat saved the s.s. Active, of London.

Also voted £410 4s. (M. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :— Appledore, Castletown, Campbeltown No. 1 (Motor), Caister No. 1, Dunbar, Eastbourne, Lowestoft (Temporary Motor), Newburgh, Palling No. 2, Southwold, Totland Bay, and Winterton No. 2.

The St. Abbs (Motor) and Spurn (Motor) Life-boat crews also assembled.

Voted an additional reward to the crew of the Appledore Life-boat for an arduous service performed during severe weather on the 8th November.

Made a compassionate grant to a man who was injured in the Moelfre Life-boat, when on service, in August, 1918, and who has been laid up for the past two years.

Also voted £60 to his sister as compensa- tion for the expenditure of her savings, which she had used in supporting her invalid brother.

Awarded a Gold Brooch and a Record of Thanks to Mrs. MARGARET ARMSTRONG, in recognition of her services as a Life- boat helper for a period of nearly fifty years, at Cresswell, Northumberland. (A full account of these services appears on page 231 of this issue of The Life-Boat.) Voted a gratuity of £5 to ANDREW OWEN on his retirement, after being a member of the Cemaes Life-boat crew for thirty-five years and Winchman for a further fourteen years.

Voted a gratuity of £5 to EDWARD GASH, on his retirement from the Whitby Life- boat. He had been a member of the crew for many years, during part of which time he had acted as Second Coxswain and Bowman.

Voted 10s. a week to JOHN REES, Bow- man at Tenby, who had resigned on account of illness. Also voted £4 towards the funeral expenses of this man, who died at the end of two weeks.

Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institu- tion, together with a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and the sum of £5 each, to JOHN BRUCE, HUGH BRUCE, LAWRENCE BRUCE, LAWKENCE HUTCHISON, and WILLIAM IRVINE, of Scaw, Whalsay, Shetland Isles, in recognition of their gallant conduct in putting off in a fifteen-foot boat and saving the American sailing ship Marian Chilcolt, and twenty-eight persons, who were in imminent danger of being wrecked, during a strong south-easterly gale, with a very heavy sea, off the Island of Yell, on the 1st December, 1920.

Also voted £2 each to six men who manned the motor-boat Fern, which assisted the salvor's boat when she was returning. (A full account of this service appears on page 240 of this issue of The Life-Boat.) Voted 10*. to a man for saving two men whose boat capsized while they were fishing off Walton-on-the-Naze, on the 28th September, 1921.

Voted £2 5s. to three men of the s.s. Sutors for saving the two occupants of a fishingboat which capsized off Cromarty, on the 23rd September, 1921.

Also voted £3 15s. to five men who endeavoured to effect a rescue on the same occasion, and granted 6*. to cover the cost of petrol used.

Friday, 16th December, 1921.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Sir AUGUST S. T. CAYZER, Bt., a member of the Committee of Management, Paid £23,597 15*. 5d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Lifeboats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £285 14s. 6 i. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Filey . . . Four cobles of Filey.

Escorted cobles into harbour.

Gorleston No. 2 Hauxley Lowestoft .

(Temporary Motor).

Montrose No. 1.

Montrose No. 2.

Newbiggin .

Steam drifter Ocean Harvest, of Yarmouth.

Stood by vessel.

S.S. Helena, of Buckie.

Steam drifter Silverford, of Banff .

S.S. Fountains Abbey, of Leith. Stood by vessel.

Fishing-yawl River Mark, of Montrose.

Saved vssel and .

Six cobles of Newbiggin.

Escorted cobles into harbour.

Life-boat.

Scarborough Stromness (Motor) Lives Vessel. saved.

Three cobles of Scarborough.

Escorted cobles into harbour.

S.S. Keith Hall, Aberdeen .

of The Cresswell Life-boat assisted to save the s.s. Ravn, of Bergen.

Also voted £517 15s. 9d. 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, Alnmouth, Arbroath, Buckie, Caister, Campbeltown No. 1 (Motor), Cloughey, Dunbar, Falmouth, Holyhead No. 1 (Steam), Hunstanton, Johnshaven, Lowestoft (Temporary Motor), North Deal, Port Erin, Ramsgate, Sennen Cove, and Tenby.

Granted £1 10s. to a man for injury in the Life-boat service at Eastbourne.

Voted an additional reward to the crew of the Margate No. 2 Life-boat for a good service carried out during severe weather, on the 6th November.

Also directed that a Letter of Appreciation be sent to STEPHEN CLAYSON, the Coxswain, for his services on this occasion.

Voted an additional reward to FKANK DALTON, who, in the absence of both Coxswains, took charge of the Scarborough Lifeboat, on service, on the 22nd November.

Directed that Letters of Appreciation be sent to the Hauxley and Port Erin Life-boat Stations, with reference to smart launches for service on the 24th November and 26th November respectively.

Voted a gratuity of £5 to GRIFFITH WILLIAMS on his retirement after many years' connexion with the Penmon and Beaumaris Life-boat Stations.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation and the sum of £3 be sent to four men, and that £1 be awarded .to two other men, for saving two of the crew of the steam drifter Silverford, of Banff, at Lowestoft, on the 22nd November. The drifter was wrecked in collision at 5 A.M., and the two men were washed overboard by a heavy sea. The men who saved them by means of ropes from the North Extension Pier carried out the service at considerable personal risk on account of the heavy breakers washing over the pier..