Thursday, 15th September, 1927.

Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.

Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in respect of expenditure incurred for the Civil Service Life-boats in 1926 2,436 9 3 Lloyd's, Members and Subscribers of (Collection). . . 1,467 10 - — To fte thanked.

Paid £15,118 2*. $d. 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 £225 18s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services : — lAie-boat, Vessel. Lrves Rescued.

Aberdeen No. 1 . Steam trawler Sen (Motor) Tore, of Aberdeen . 6 Clacton-on-Sea . Steam tug Sun IX, of (Motor) London. Stood by vessel.

„ Yacht Moira, of Rochford.

Saved vessel and rescued . . 2 „ A boat of WhitstaHe.

Saved boat aad rescued . . . . 1 Cullercoats . . Steam trawler Island Prince, of North Shields . . . . 9 Dunbar . . . S.S. Elder-water, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Stood by vessel.

Praserburgh , , Steam drifter Verdure, (Motor) of Fraserburgh.

Rendered assistance.

„ Steam trawler John iiupuis, of Grimsby.

Stood by vessel.

„ Steam drifter Albatross, of Fraserburgh ; Motor drifter Jeaniiie Noble, of Fraserburgh ; Steam drifter fjmblem, of Lowestoft ; Motor boat Comfort, of Fraserburgh ; Steam drifter Bwfian, of Fraserburgh. Stood by vessels.

Kiimore . . . A fishing boat of Bannow. Rendered Porthdinllaen . A fishing boat of (Motor) Porthdinllaeix . . 3 life-boat. Vessel. Lives Beaeued.

Porthoustoek. . S.S. Gwenifand, of Newport. Stood by vessel and rendered assistance.

Kobin Hood's Bay S.S. Ben Bead, of Bristol.

Stood by vessel.

Rosslare Harbour Motor -vessel Bar- (Motor) parees, of Gloucester.

OTAXHJ oy vessel.

St. Mary's, Scilly Motor fishing boat (Motor) Henrietta, ol St.

Mary's. Saved boat and rescued . « 3 Torbay (Motor) , Motor boat Pishergirl, of Teignmouth.

Landed 2.

„ S.S. Brcmksea, of S o u t h a m p t o n , Stood by vessel. Yarmouth, I.of W. Paddle Steamer Queen, (Motor) of Southampton.

Stood by vessel. i „ Sailing boat Jean, of ' Yarmouth . . . 4 : The Lowestoft (Motor) Life-boat assisted to save the Belgian motor trawler Yolande, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of four. i Also voted £307 13*. 4d. to pay the expenses i of the following Life- boat launches, assemblies j of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons j on vessels in distress : — Aberdeen No. 1 i (Motor), Aberdeen (Torry Life-saving Appa- i ratus), Bembridge (Motor), Brighton, Caister, I Clacton-o»-Sea (Motor), Coverack, Eastbourne, Falmouth, Fraserburgh (Motor), Great Yarmouth and Gorieston (Motor), Holyhead, Johnshaven, North Deal, Porthdinllaen (Motor), Ramsgate (Motor), Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, Sennen Cove (Motor), Skateraw, Southwold (Motor), and Wells.

Granted £22 to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Appledore, Cardigan, Walmer, and Winterton.

Granted a pension to the widow of Edward Kneen, Coxswain of the Port St. Mary Lifeboat, who waa accidentally killed while engaged in firing the mortar in connexion with Life-boat Day, on 6th August, 1927.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the i widow of Ben Jones, who was left in very poor circumstances. Jones had been a Lifeboatman at Ilfracombe for about 40 years.

Voted a special gratuity of £5, in addition, to a pension and a Life-boatman's Certificate, to George S. Griffiths, who was » member of the Tenby Life- boat crew for 33 years and afterwards Signalman for 22 years.

Granted an additional reward to the crew of the Clacton-on-Sea (Motor) Life-boat for two arduous services on the 22nd August.

Directed that a letter be addressed to the Chief Constable of the Aberdeenshire County Constabulary expressing appreciation of the services rendered by Constables Brooks and Eobertson, of Fraserburgh, on the occasion of the wreck of the motor yawls Robin and Lend Me on the llth August.

Addressed a letter of appreciation to Lieut. A. Smith, R.N.R., Honorary Secretary of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-boat Station, who took charge of the Life-boat on service on the 12th August when she rescued the four occupants of the sailing boat Jean; also commended the Life-boat Crew for their promptness on this occasion.

Voted a Framed Photograph of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in distress, and addressed a Letter of Thanks, to Police Inspector W. H.

Williams, and voted £1 each to four other men, and £1 each to the owners of the two motor boats used by these salvors, on the 1st June, when five persons were rescued at Southerndown.

They were visitors who had been cut oft by the tide while walking along the coast.

Information of their perilous position was telephoned to the Porthcawl Police, and Inspector Williams at once obtained two motor boats and himself went out with them.

A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy ground swell, and the rescue was attended with a certain amount of risk, one of the boats being slightly damaged.

Voted £3 to three men for rescuing a bather, who had got into difficulties, and a bathing attendant who had gone to his help, at Whitby, on the 15th August. The men were out salmon fishing when the bather shouted for help. Cutting their net, the men pulled to the rescue. Meanwhile the bathing attendant had reached the man. By the time the coble reached them the bather was unconscious and the attendant exhausted. Both were taken into the coble and artificial respiration had to be used to restore them.

Voted 10*. to the Life-boat Coxswain who, with the Chief Motor Mechanic, put off, on the 1st August, from New Brighton, in a motor boat to a vessel reported to be burning flares. It was found that the flares arose from a small fire on a boat in which men were working, and no help was required.

Voted £2 to the owner of a motor boat, and £2 to the two men of the crew for rescuing at Penzance, on the 10th August, two boys who were in an open sailing boat which had been disabled and was in danger of going on to the rocks. The motor boat which saved them was an old converted Life-boat.

Voted £2 10s. to four men who manned two motor boats which put out from Kilmore on the 23rd August to the help of a fishing boat from Bannow which had been dismasted by a squall. One of the two motor boats towed out the Kilmore Life-boat, and another motor boat also went out to the rescue. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. Of the two men on board the fishing boat one was rescued, but the other was drowned. The owner of the motor boat which towed the Life-boat has been thanked.

Thursday, 20th October, 1927.

Sir GODREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Colonel the Master of Sempill, Mr. Algernon Maudsley, C.B.E., and Mr. H.

TansJey Witt, Members of the Committee of Management.

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

H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, to " The Ladies' Life-boat Guild" (donation) 15 16 - ANONYMOUS (donation) . . . 100 - - ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS FRIENDLY SOCIETY (additional donation) 60 — - White Star Steamers' Charity Account (additional donation) 50 - - Miss A. HALL (additional donation) 60 - - Mr. GEORGE BAITDRY, M.D.

(donation) 26 5 - Mrs. GEORGE BAUDRY (donation) 26 5 - The Rt. Hon. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, O.M., M.P., for a Line-Ihrowing Gun for the Porthdinllaen Life-boat . 15 — - —To be thanked.

Paid £22,033 10s. 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 £81 6s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat.

Abersoch Appledore .

(Motor) Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor) Margate .

(Motor) Mevagissey .

Newbiggin .

Ramsgate (Motor) Vessel. Lives Rescued.

Ketch Emily Barret, of Barrow. Stood by vessel.

S.S. Copeman, of London.

Landed one injured man.

Barge Lady Maud, of London. Stood by vessel.

Boat Mary, of Margate.

Saved boat and rescued 2 Ketch Amazon, of Bideford . . . . . 2 Seven fishing cobles of Newbiggin. Stood by cobles.

Yacht Silver Hind, of Dover. Rendered assistance.

The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor) Life-boat saved the S.S. Jolly Kate, of London, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of twelve; the same Life-boat assisted to save the steam drifter Cedron, of Banff, and rescue from shipwreck her crew of nine; and the Porthdinllaen (Motor) Life-boat saved the French yacht Hose Marine and rescued from shipwreck her three occupants.

Also voted £228 9s. 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:—Brighstone Grange, Caister, Caister No. 1, Great Yarmouth, and Gorleston (Motor), Lowestoft (Motor), New Brighton No. 1, New Brighton No. 2 (Motor), North Deal, Poole and Bournemouth, Port St. Mary, Selsey and Bognor (Motor), Southend-on-Sea, Walmer, Wells, Whitby, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight (Motor).

Granted £72 lla. to men for injury in the Life-boat service at Blackpool, Blakeney, Brooke, Cardigan, Moelfre, North Deal and Sennen Cove.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of John Hughes who was old and in poor circumstances. Hughes had been a Life-boatman both at Cemaes and Moelfre.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be addressed to the Wallasey Corporation thanking them for placing their ferry steamer Snowdrop at the disposal of the New Brighton Pulling and Sailing Life-boat when she was called out for service on the 5th October.

Also granted the sum of £5 to the crew of the Snowdrop.

Granted an additional reward to the crew of the Lowestoft Motor Life-boat for an arduous service on the night of the 2nd October.

Directed that Coxswain George Craner be notified that be committed an error of judgment in not launching the Appledore Motor Life-boat when flares were reported oa the 9th September. These it transpired were from the schooner Mary Sinclair which was ashore.

Voted £10 for division among nine men for rescuing the two occupants of a small motor boat off Broadstairs, on the 25th September, in a strong westerly wind, with a heavy sea. The boat's engine had broken down and she was being carried out to sea.

While the two men were rescued, it was found impossible to save their boat, the tow-line parting twice in the heavy seas.

Voted £2 to two men for rescuing two other men who had gone out of Weymouth Harbour in a small sailing boat when it was blowing a gate and were unable to get back. When their difficulty was seen, the Superintendent of the Great Western Railway sent out one of the Company's boats which was at the mouth of the harbour. She brought the distressed boat into safety, but was herself nearly swept by the seas while returning.

Voted £1 2*. 6d. to the Life-boat Coxswain at Ardrossan and two other men for rescuing four persons, whose rowing boat was caught by a southerly wind and stranded on the 10th August..