Friday, 23rd June, 1922.

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

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

(per W. t Fortescue Barratt, Esq.), expenditure connected with Civil Service Life-boats in 1921 .... 1,996 2 7 —To be thanked.

Decided to close the Polkerris Life-boat Station, and to establish a station at Fowey.

Paid £20,015 2s. 3d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat estab- lishments.

Voted £166 Os. Sd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Appledore . . Fishing vessel Unity, (Motor) of Milford. Landed*.

Buckhaven . . Schooner Tolaelres Minde, of Thore- haven. Stood by vessel.

Life-boat.

Vessel.

Lives saved.

Cullercoats . . S.S. Scottish Maiden, oi London. Landed 3.

Scarborough . Coble Breadwinner, of Scarborough. Es- corted coble into harbour.

Scarborough . Cobles Caroline, Star of Bethlehem, and Clara, of Scarborough.

Saved three cobles and .... 6 Whitby, No. 2 . Four fishing cobles, of Whitby. Escorted cobles into harbour.

Also voted £196 8*. Id. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of Crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Blyth (Motor), Caister, Cromer, Douglas, Dunbar, Portrush, Rhos- colyn, Sheringham, Stornoway, Wexford (Motor), and Whitby (Motor).

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.

Voted £23 12s. to men for injury in the Life- boat Service at Aldeburgh, Eastbourne, North Deal, and Southport.

Voted £5 to five men for saving two men whose fishing boat, Bessie, was capsized, off Kessingland, during a strong N.W. breeze on the 8th May. Also voted 10s. to another man who assisted.

Voted £1 2s. 6d. to three men. one of them the Coxswain of the Life-boat, for searching for two boys who were reported to have been cut off by the tide off Moreton. Cheshire, on the 14th May. Also granted 2s. 6d. to another man who assisted. The rescuers made a thorough search, but no one in need of help was found.

Voted £4 10s. to six men, including the two Life-boat Coxswains, for putting off from Arbroath, on the 1st June, in a motor boat and searching all night, but without success, for a missing boat and her occupant who had gone astray in the fog. Also granted 10s. to a man for keeping a look-out, and 17s. 6rf. for paraffin used. The missing man reached safety without mishap.

Voted £1 5s. to two men for saving a man off Aranmore on the 13th May. Also granted 12s.

in compensation of an oar broken in effecting the rescue. The man was engaged in pulling moss on a rock, two miles north of Aranmore, when the rope by which his boat was moored carried away, leaving him stranded. Owing to the rising tide he was in considerable danger.

-He was seen by two giris, who summoned help, and a boat, manned by two men, put off and rescued him. Some personal risk was run by the rescuers owing to the strong S.W. breeze and a heavy sea.

Friday, 28th July, 1922.

The Hon. GEORGE COLVII.LE in the Chair.

Co-opted Commander G. C. HOLLOWAY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Com- mittee of Management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— EXORS. OF THE LATE MR. THOMAS £ S. d.

WINDSOR 1,000 - - MESSRS. FURNESS, WITHY & Co., LTD 500 - - —To be thanked.

Paid £28,068 Us. 6rf. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the main- tenance of the various Life-boat establish- ments.

Voted £84 Os. 9d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat, Vessel. saved.

Clovelly . . . Motor smack Dolphin, of Appledore. Landed 2.

Lowestoft . . Schooner Kirstine, of (Motor) Sandnes .... 6 Newcastle, co. A fishing boat of Kil- Down. lough. Saved boat and 1 Spurn (Motor) . A small rowing boat . 3 Torquay . . Yacht Amaryllis, of London. Stood by vessel.

Worthing . . Motor launch Luetngra The Brixham Motor Life-boat saved the yacht Amaryllis, of London, and her crew of ten ; and the Aberystwyth Life-boat assisted to save the s.s. Hamilton, of Stranraer.

Voted £254 lls. 6rf. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of Crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Brooke, Cadgwith, Cftister, Donaghadee (Motor), Exmouth, Johnshaven, Penlee, Ramsgate, St. Mary's (Motor), and Totland Bay.

Granted £20 2s. 6rf. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Cardigan, Ilfraconibe, and Newbiggin.

Voted the Thanks of the Institution, in- scribed on Vellum, to JAMES LETHBRIDGE, Coxswain of the St. Mary's (Scilly Islands) Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his fine sea- manship and endurance during a long and arduous attempt to render aid to the s.s, Oon- cordia, of Genoa, which was in distress off the Wolf lighthouse on the 8th July, 1922.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be addressed to the Crew and motor mechanic, accompanied by a special monetary reward.

Also directed that Letters of Thanks be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, Dr.

W. B. ADDISON, Miss KNOWLES, postmistress, and Mr. R. D. BELL, wireless operator.

Further, that the attention of the General Post Office be called to the good work of Miss Knowles and Mr. Bell.

Voted an additional monetary reward to the Crew of the Penlee Life-boat, and sent a Letter of Appreciation to the Coxswain, FRANK BLEWETT, in recognition of a meritorious launch for service on the 8th July.

Voted an additional monetary reward to the crew of the Totland Bay Life-boat in recog- nition of an arduous service launch on the 9th July.

Also directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. H. MARFLEET, and his son, for their assistance on this occa- sion.

Voted £1 10s. to three men, one of them the Coxswain of the Life-boat, for rendering assist- ance to eight persons in a motor boat, of which the engine had broken down, at Mont- rose on the 10th June. Also granted 5s. to cover the cost of petrol used.

Voted 13*. to a man for saving the three occupants of a small boat who got into diffi- culties in a strong breeze off Tenby on the 4th July. Also granted 2s. for petrol con- sumed.

Voted £2 to four men for saving three persons at Ilfracombe on the 8th July. While out on a pleasure trip the boat was caught in a strong E.S.E. gale. She was carried away by it and became unmanageable. Four of the Life- boat's crew, seeing the boat's danger, put off and rescued her occupants.

Friday, 15th September, 1922.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Paid £23,767 1*. 2d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat houses and slipways, and the main- tenance of the various Life-boat establish- ments.

Voted £84 15s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Clacton-on-Sea .

(Motor) Gorleston No. 1.

Filey ...

Port Patrick (Motor) Lives saved.

Cutter The Wasp, of Bowhedge. Saved vessel and . . .11 Motor-boat Rinlo . . 11 Coble Spring Flower, of Filey. Stood by coble.

S.S. Leerdam, of Guern- sey. Stood by and assisted vessel.

Whitby (Motor). Three fishing boats, of Whitby. Stood by and rendered assist- Whitby No. 1 Fishing coble May Blossom, of Whitby.

Escorted coble into harbour.

The Porthoustock Life-boat saved the s.s. Dolphin, of Manchester, and her crew of eight.

Also voted £299 12s. 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:—Boulmer, Caister, Coverack, Hilbre Island, Holyhead No. 1 (Steam), Newhaven (Motor), New Brighton No. 2 (Steam), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Poole and Bournemouth, Ramsgate, Salcombe, St. Mary's (Motor), Swanage, and Whitby (Motor).

Granted £40 7s. 6d. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Blakeney, Cardigan, Moelfre, and Winterton.

Voted £1 10s. to three men for saving the two occupants of a small boat, which was being blown out to sea, off Weymouth, on 1st August.

Also granted 10s. for petrol consumed, and Is. to the person who brought first information of the casualty.

Voted £1 to two men for saving the only occupant of the yacht Mabel, of Warrington, at Hoylake, on 7th August. The vessel anchored off Hoylake, but as she remained there when the tide ebbed, it was thought that something was wrong. A strong E.N.E.

wind was blowing, causing a breaking sea, when the two salvors put off to the yacht.

They found the vessel with water up to her bunks, owing to a leak, and the only man on board prostrate with sea sickness. The yacht's anchors were slipped, and she was sailed into Hoylake.

Voted £1 17s. 6d. to five men for saving a man who was in great danger in a small boat at Montrose, on 8th August. Early in the morning he had gone out fishing, but was overtaken by a strong N.E. gale, which brought up a heavy sea. Being unable to cross the bar, he decided to make for Usan. While attempting this he was overtaken by the salvors in the motor fishing boat Scurdy Light, and they took him on board and landed him at Montrose.

Voted £4 10s. to six men, including the Life-boat Coxswain, for saving the occupant of a small boat which was adrift, off Walton- on-the-Naze, on 15th July, 1922, in a strong W.N.W. breeze. They picked up the boat about four miles from Walton, and found the man to be in an exhausted condition and helpless.

Voted £3 to three men for saving two boys whose boat capsized, off Hayling Island, on the 12th August, when the tide was running out very strongly, and the wind was blowing hard from S.W. The boys, who were camping at Sandy Point, saw a boat being driven out to sea, and made an effort to salve her, but they themselves were capsized by a wind squall. The Life-boat Coxswain and two other men who were fishing saw the acci- dent, and at once went to the rescue.

Voted £3 15s. to five men for saving four lives from the yacht Lady Harriet, at Llan- dudno, on the 7th August. Also granted 12s. 6d. to five other men who assisted.

During a N.E. gale the yacht was seen standing into Llandudno Bay. When she came to an anchor she was swept fore and aft by heavy seas. The salvors, among whom was the Life-boat Coxswain, manned a large rowing boat and went out. The crew of the yacht were in an exhausted condition, and were taken ashore. The yacht was salved later.

Voted £4 10s. to three men for saving three Jives from a yawl which was wrecked at Innisfree Island, co. Donegal, on the 13th July The yawl, with a cargo of provisions, was on her way from Burtonport to the Island when she was driven on to a rock in a dangerous position. A strong gale was blowing, the sea was heavy, and the tide was ebbing, boat manned by one man was the first to reach the scene, and was followed by another boat containing two men. They succeeded in saving the yawl's crew and in salving her cargo. Considerable risk was run by th rescuers owing to the rocks and the positior of the yawl.

Voted £3 to four men for saving the crew eight in number, of the s.s. Horley, of Dundee which was wrecked at North Sunderland, on the 29th August.

During foggy weather the four men, in a motor coble, were making for the fishing ground, when rockets were heard in thi direction of the Knavestone Rock. Proceeding in the direction of the signals, they foum that the vessel had stranded, and that the crew had just left her in a ship's boat. Four of the crew were taken into the coble, and the boat, with the other four, was towed to Seahouses. Later the Horley was found to be badly holed, and she eventually slipped of and sank in deep water.

Voted £2 to four men who, accompanied by Mr. W. H. Norris, Honorary Secretary of the Branch, put off in a motor launch from Weymouth to help a vessel which was on fire on the 28th August. Also paid 5s. Wd. foj paraffin used. The coastguard had reportec the vessel in distress off St. Alban's Head, but when the launch reached her she found that her services were not required.

Friday, 20th October, 1922.

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

Elected The MARQUIS OF ABERDEEN AND TEMAIH a Vice-President of the Institution.

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

ANONYMOUS 5,000 — - MRS. DIMSDALE, " In Memory of the late John Dimsdale " . 25 - - —To 1 e thanked.

Decided, as requested by H.M. Government, to take over the financial responsibility and management of the Ramsgate Life-boat, as from 31st March, 1922.

Paid £13,700 14s. Id. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the main- tenance of the various Life-boat establish- ments.

Voted £151 3*. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. saved.

Berwick-on- . Two fishing boats of Tweed. Berwick. Escorted boats into harbour.

Lives Life-boat.

Blyth (Motor) .

Vessel. saved.

Motor yacht Evadne, of Blyth. Saved vessel and 4 Caister No. 1 Steam drifter Elsay, of Wick. Stood by vessel.

Llanddulas .

Schooner Chevalier Bay- ard, of St. Malo.

Rendered assistance.

Seaham .

(Motor) Stromness .

(Motor) Tenby . . .

Boat Ellen, of Easing - ton 3 Steam trawler Cornet, of Aberdeen ... 9 Ketch Mary Jane Lewis, of Milford. Landed 2.

Also voted £215 8s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Abersoch, Brighton, Caister No. 1, Cromer, Hayling Island, Holy- head No. 1 (Steam), Newcastle (Co. Down), Palling No. 1, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Ramsgate, Ryde and Totland Bay.

Granted £27 2s. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Blackpool and St. Anne's.

Decided to send a Letter of Appreciation to the Stromness Branch, especially commending the Coxswain and Motor Mechanic, and voted an extra monetary reward to each of the crew, in recognition of a long and arduous service on the 22nd September, when the Life-boat covered a distance of 114 miles, in rough weather, in effecting the rescue of the crew, nine in number, of the steam trawler Cornet, of Aberdeen, which stranded on the Holm of Aire, Sanday, Orkney. (This service is fully described elsewhere in this issue.) Voted £14 to fourteen men, who, in three boats, saved the crew, six in number, of a naval seaplane, which fell into the sea and was wrecked, off Swanage, on the 12th Sept.

Also granted 10s. for petrol consumed. The accident occurred about half a mile N.E. of Peveril Point, during a moderate gale with a rough sea and rain. The crew clung to the seaplane until rescued, four being taken off by the motor boat Gondolier, one by the motor boat Dorothea, and one by an open fishing boat. Three of the survivors were seriously I injured, and considerable risk and difficulty j were experienced in effecting the rescue. The j seaplane eventually sank. i Voted 10s. to two men for saving two boys who were in a small boat which was adrift off Tenby, and were being carried out to sea, on the 7th September. Also granted 2s. 6d.

"or paraffin consumed.

Voted £1 10s. to three men for going out n a motor boat and saving the only occupant of a small boat which was missing from ioulmer on the 31st July. He had been carried out to sea, and was found, seven miles away, drifting and helpless, with only one oar on board. Also granted 2s. 6d. for petrol consumed.

Voted £3 10s. to four men for rendering assistance to the barge Scot, of London, which was in distress off Dungeness, on the 15th September. Also granted 5s. for petrol and oil consumed, and 7«. to the person giving the first information of the casualty. On hearing that a vessel was in distress, the salvors put off in a motor fishing boat and found the barge, eight miles west of Dungeness, leaking badly, with her decks under water. Her crew of three hands, who had lifebelts on, were, together with their personal belongings, transferred to the fishing boat. This boat stood by, and later, when a salvage tug arrived, the rescued men returned to their barge ; the tug took charge of the vessel, and the fishing boat returned to Dungeness. A strong N.N.W. wind was blowing at the time with some sea.

Voted £4 10s. to three men, members of the Life-boat crew, for saving two persons from a small rowing boat at Llandudno, on the 26th September. Also decided to send a Letter of Thanks to the piermaster at Llan- dudno for his promptness in raising the alarm.

During a strong S.E. gale, with a heavy sea, the piermaster saw a boat in difficulty off the Great Orme's Head, signalling for help. He sent a man to summon a motor boat, but as one was not available, he ordered his own boat to be launched. Before she got away, how- ever, a pulling boat, manned by the salvors, had put out and, at some risk, rescued a partially disabled soldier and his wife, who were on board the boat.