Thursday, 10th November, 1927.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Mr. A. MAUDSLAY, Colonel the MASTER or SEMPILL, and Mr. H. TANSLEY WITT, members of the Committee of Management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Anonymous (Donation) £30 Paid £14,609 17s. for sundry charges in connection with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted £336 13s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. Rescued.

Llandudno . Motor yacht Delphore, of Liverpool . . . 3 Moelfre . . Ketch Excel, of Poole . 2 Porthdinllaen . S.S. Matje, of Hull, and (Motor) S.S. Dunvegan, of Preston. Stood by vessels.

St. Mary's . . S.S. Isabo, of Lussin- (Motor) piccolo . . . . 4 Scarborough . Motor fishing cobles (Motor) Jock and Georgia, of Scarborough.

Escorted boats into safety.

Lives Life-boat. Vessel. Rescued.

Stromness . . Steam trawler Amethyst, (Motor) of Hull . . . . 10 The Humber . Steam trawler Bessie, (Motor) of Grimsby. Rendered assistance and landed one injured man.

Whitby . . Motor fishing boats (Motor) Faith, Mizpah, Irene, Pilot Me, and Guide Me, of Whitby. Es- * corted boats into harbour.

Whitby No. 2 . Motor fishing boat Remembrance, of Whitby.

Escorted boat into harbour.

Youghal . . S.S. Clew Bay, of Belfast.

Stood by vessel.

The Lowestoft (Motor) Life-boat assisted to save the sailing lugger Johanne Marie, of Scheveningen, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of twelve; also the St. Mary's (Motor) Life-boat saved the schooner Roscovite, of Treguier, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of eight.

Also voted £420 16s. 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 :—Beaumaris (Motor), Bembridge (Motor), Brighton and Hove, Buckle (Motor), Caister, Cromer No. 1 (Motor), Ferryside, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor), Holyhead No. 1 (Steam), Holyhead No. 2, Hoylake, The Humber (Motor), Lowestoft (Motor), Lytham, Margate (Motor), Maryport, The Mumbles (Motor), New Brighton No. 2 (Motor), St. Abbs (Motor), Sheringham, Tynemouth (Motor), and Weymouth (Motor).

Granted £7 10s. to a man for injury in the Life-boat service at Wicklow.

Granted the sum of £25 and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum to H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his prompt and intrepid conduct on 21st October, 1927, in putting off single-handed in the Life-boat, which was on fire owing to an explosion in the engine room, thus facing great risk, as there was imminent danger of the petrol tanks exploding.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to JEREMIAH LYNCH, an ex-member of the crew of the Ballycotton Life-boat. Lynch had been a Life-boatman for over forty years, and was in very poor circumstances with a wife and large family.

Directed that Letters of Appreciation be addressed to Capt. OWEN EVANS, Honorary Secretary, and to Mr. T. HOOPER, a foreman employed by the Institution's engineers, for going out in the Porthdinllaen (Motor) Lifeboat on service on the 28th-29th October; also granted an additional reward to each of the crew in view of the arduous nature of the service.

Granted additional rewards to each of the crews of the Maryport and St. Abbs (Motor) Life-boats for arduous service launches on 28th-29th October and 9th November respectively.

Decided that, in recognition of the exceptionally gallant service rendered by the Moelfre Life-boat on 28th-29th October, when three men were rescued from the ketch Excel, of Poole, in the face of the gravest danger, and on* of the Life-boat's crew and one of the three men of the ketch died from injuries and exposure, the following awards be granted: WILLIAM ROBERTS, Second Coxswain, and Captain OWEN JONES, Life-boatman, the Gold Medal of the Institution ; WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Bowman, HUQH THOMAS, RICHARD THOMAS, HUGH OWEN, HUGH LLOYD MATTHEWS, ROBERT RICHARD FRANCIS. OWEN JONES, THOMAS JONES, ROBERT OWEN, OWEN OWENS, JOHN LEWIS OWEN, and THOMAS WILLIAMS, the Bronze Medal of the Institution ; the widow of WILLIAM ROBERTS, the member of the Life-boat crew who died, the Bronze Medal of the Institution—all the Medals to be accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed; Presentation Barometers suitably inscribed, to Colonel LAWRENCE WILLIAMS, Honorary Secretary, Moelfre Station, and to Captain R. R. DAVTES, Honorary Secretary, Anglesey Branch. , Granted a pension to the widow and granddaughter of WILLIAM ROBERTS, together with a Memorial Certificate, and defrayed the funeral expenses.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Mr. and Mrs. MUSGRAVE, of the Bulkeley Arms Hotel, Beaumaris, for their hospitality to the Life-boat crew, and granted additional monetary rewards to all the men.

(A full account of this service was published hi the November issue of The Lifeboat, p. 521.) Decided that, in recognition of the fine services rendered by the St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Motor Life-boat on 27th-28th October, when four of the crew of the S.S. Isabo, of Lussin-piccolo, were rescued by the Lifeboat, and twenty-eight by shore boats, the following awards be given to the Life-boatmen : MATTHEW LETHBRIDGE, Coxswain, the Silver Medal of the Institution; JAMES THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, Second Coxswain, J. H. ROKAHR, Motor Mechanic, and Dr. W. E. IVERS, who went out in the Life-boat to give first-aid, the Bronze Medal of the Institution ; H. BARRETT, Bowman, F. HICKS, C. NANCE, CLAUDE PHILLIPS, CLARENCE PHILLIPS, E. A. Guy, V. ELLIS, W. CAMERON, and A. W. NANCE, of the Life-boat crew, and to Dr. W. B. ADDISON, Honorary Secretary, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.

Additional monetary rewards were granted to the crew.

The services rendered by the three shore boats were recognized by the following awards : CHARLES JENKINS, Silver Medal; EDWARD R. JENKINS, Bronze Medal; S. TREVELLICK JENKINS, J. JENKINS, J. E. FENDER, and S. G. JENKINS, Thanks of the Institution on Vellum—all of the boat Sunbeam ; WILLIAM E. JENKINS, Bronze Medal; SAMUEL J. PENDER, WILLIAM T. PENDER, FRANK R. JENKINS, ALFRED T. JENKINS, EDWARD R. PEARCE, NORMAN J. JENKINS, and JOHN J. JENKINS, Thanks of the Institution on Vellum—all of the boat Czar ; ERNEST JENKINS, Bronze Medal; SAMPSON JENKINS and JAMES S. JENKINS, Thanks of the Institution on Vellum—all of the boat Ivy ; all the Medals to be accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed. A Letter of Appreciation was also sent to the Agent for the Duchy of Cornwall, and a monetary award granted to the crew of the launch belonging to the Duchy.

(A full account of these services was published in the November issue of The Lifeboat, p. 516.) Directed that Letters of Thanks should be sent to Mr. JOHN WHELTON and to Messrs. R. J. and F. RUDDOCK, and granted £12 to six other men for their services, at Courtmacsherry on the 28th October, when a sand-lighter ran aground on a sandbank during a whole gale from the S.W. Also granted 12s. as compensation for two oars which were broken.

The lighter carried a crew of three who were in considerable danger, and Mr. J. Whelton and two other men put off in a two-oared boat to their help, but when they got alongside their boat capsized and they got aboard the lighter.

Meanwhile another boat, manned by Messrs. R. J. and F. Ruddock, members of the local Life-boat Committee, and four other men, went out to the sand-lighter and managed to get a rope fast to her. This rope was taken ashore and by this means the lighter was got off the sand-bank and pulled to the quay, the six men on board being rescued by these means.

Voted £1 to two men for rescuing two other men, each of whom was in a small boat, at Ramsgate, on Sunday, the 23rd October. Also granted 2s. 6d. for petrol used. The two little boats were reported to be in difficulties outside the harbour during a strong north-easterly breeze, and as it was not necessary to send out the Life-boat a motor boat put out and, without incurring any risk, brought the boats and their occupants into safety.

Voted £3 to the crews of three motor cobles for putting out from Piley in a strong N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea. on the 9th November, when the coble Thistle was missing and could not be seen from the shore. The Life-boat would have been launched but for the action of these cobles, whose services, however, were not needed as the Thistle was able to make harbour under sail.

Voted £4 to two men, father and son, for rescuing the three men of the small boat Britannic, which was swamped and capsized by an unexpectedly heavy sea, when going out lobster fishing on the 26th September, at South Uist. In response to the cries of the men in the water, only one of whom could swim, the salvors, who were also on their way out, hastened to the capsized boat and at some risk, owing to the very heavy sea inshore, rescued the men, who were clinging to the mast of their boat.

Voted £4 to four men for their efforts to save life, off Hoylake. On the afternoon of the 17th October, the motor flat Red Band, of Chester, ran into a N.W. gale with a heavy sea, while bound from Mostyu to Liverpool. Her cargo shifted and she capsized, but not before her crew of five had taken to the ship's boat.

Seeing the boat's predicament the four men put off to her aid, but their services were not required, as the endangered men were picked up by another motor flat which was in the vicinity. A letter of appreciation was addressed to the owner of the boat used, who missed going out with her through going to search for a baler.

Thursday, 15th December, 1927.

Sm GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Mr. J. Bevill Fortescue.

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

Readers of " The Quiver" (Don.) 116 4 7 1st Batt. the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Collection . . 50 17 10 Anonymous (additional donation) 50 0 0 Do. do. do. . 30 0 0 A. W. do. do. . . 25 0 0 To b» thanked.

Paid £14,756 5s. 4td. for sundry charges in connection with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establishments.

Voted £464 9s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Life-boat. Vessel. Lives Rescued.

Cromer No. 1 . S.S. Georgia, of Amster- (Motor) dam . . .15 Cromer No. 1 . Lighter Bertha, of Goole 4 (Motor) Flamborough . A fishing coble of Flam- No. 1 borough. Escorted coble into safety.

Great Yarmouth S.S. Georgia, of Amsterand Gorleston dam. Stood by vessel.

(Motor) Lowestoft . Ketch Lily of Devon, of (Motor) Lowestoft . . 3 Lowestoft . Sailing trawler Dusky (Motor) Queen, of Lowestoft.

Stood by vessel.

Newbiggin . Nine fishing cobles of Newbiggin. Stood by cobles and rendered assistance.

New Brighton . S.S. Lochmonar, of Lon- No. 2 (Motor) don. Rendered assistance, and transferred 74 to tugs.

New Brighton . S.S. Zealand and S.S.

No. 2 (Motor) Ravens Point, of Liverpool.

Stood by vessels, and rendered assistance.

Peel . . Ketch Wave, of Bridgwater . . . 2 Peterhead No. 2 S.S. Bayford, of Methil.

(Motor) Rendered assistance.

Ramsgate . S.S. Guardian, of New- (Motor) castle. Landed 9 from the North Goodwin Light vessel.

Runswick . Ten fishing boats of Staithes and Runswick.

Stood by cobles.

Scarborough . Five fishing cobles of (Motor) Scarborough. Escorted cobles into harbour.

Torbay (Motor) Six sprat boats of Torquay and Teignmouth.

Stood by boats.

Whitby No. 2 . Fishing fleet of Whitby.

Stood by fleet and rendered assistance.

The Humber (Motor) Life-boat assisted to save the schooner Ornen, of Svendborg, and to rescue from shipwreck her crew of eight.

Also voted £487 16s. 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:—Ayr, Berwick-on- Tweed, Blyth, Bridlington, Broughty Ferry (Motor), Buckhaven, Caister, Cromer No. 2, Douaghadee (Motor), Donna Nook, Dunbar, Eastbourne (Motor), Eyemouth, Hartlepool (Motor}, The Humber (Motor), Ilfraoombe, Johnshaven, Moelfre, New Brighton No. 2 (Motor), Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Port Logan, Rhoscolyn, Selsey and Bognor (Motor), Skegness, Southwold (Motor), Sunderland (Motor), Tenby (Motor), Tynemouth (Motor), and Worthing.

Granted £72 6s. 2d. to men who were injured or temporarily disabled by exposure in the Life-boat service at Broughty Ferry, Buckhaven, Moelfre, Swanage, Tenby, Wick and Winterton.

Voted a further gratuity of £10 to Richard Williams, ex-Second Coxswain of the Holyhead No. 1 Steam Life-boat, who had been compelled to retire owing to ill-health, and is in poor circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Thomas Clark, Head Launcher, at Bridlington, on his retirement, on account of old age, after 40 years' service.

Granted an additional reward to the crew of the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat for an arduous service launch on the 22nd November.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be addressed to Captain W. J. Oliver, Honorary Secretary at Sunderland, for going out in the Life-boat on service on the 16th November.

Voted a gratuity of £5 to James Bunton, Winchman, in recognition of his good services on the 21st October, when the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat caught fire.

Decided that in recognition of the exceptionally fine services of the Cromer No. 1, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Southwold Motor Life-boats on the 21st—22ud November, when these boats proceeded to the aid of the Dutch Oil-Tanker Georgia, which stranded on the Haisborough Sands in very severe weather and broke in half, the Cromer Life-boat rescuing fifteen of the crew from the fore-part, the following awards be made :—HENRY G. BLOGG, Coxswain, Cromer, Gold Second Service Clasp of the Institution ; WILLIAM G. FLEMING, Coxswain, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Silver Medal of the Institution; FKANK UPCRAFT, Coxswain, Southwold, Bronze Medal of the Institution; L. HARRISON and W. ALLEN, of the Cromer Life-boat Crew, Bronze Second Service Clasp of the Institution ; GEORGE BALLS, Second Coxswain, JOHN J. DA VIES, Senior, Bowman, R. DAVIES, Motor Mechanic, W. J. DAVIES, Assistant Motor Mechanic, J. J. DAVIES, Junior, J. W. DAVIES, H. W. DAVIES, S. HARRISON, R. BARKER and G. Cox, of the Cromer Life-boat Crew, Bronze Medal of the Institution. All the above Medals to be accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, together with an additional monetary reward.

SAMUEL B. PARKER, Second Coxswain, THOMAS C. MOHLEY, Bowman, B. J. DARBY, Motor Mechanic, N. MONSON, Assistant Motor Mechanic, L. STUBBS, R. SPUROEON, W. NEWSON, W. HIGH, W. HALFNIGHT, S. HALFNIGHT, C. WOODS, C. BENSLEY, J. FLEMING and N. CHILDS of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat Crew, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed, together with an additional monetary reward. Additional monetary rewards were also granted to the Crew of the Southwold Life-boat, and a Letter of Thanks and a gratuity to W. G. JOHNSON, a Gorleston skipper who went in the Southwold Life-boat.

Letters of Thanks for their valuable cooperation were sent to the following:—Mr. F. H. BARCLAY, Honorary Secretary, Cromer; Mr. A. H. CARTWRIGHT, and Mr. A. D. SNELL, Chairman and Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston respectively ; Major BERNARD D. HAYTON Honorary Secretary, Southwold; Mr. SYDNEY TAYLOR, Honorary Secretary, Lowestoft; Commanding Officer of H.M.S. Thanet; The MANAGER, Gorlestou Mariners' Refuge ; Captain H. F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats; and Captain E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.

(A full account of this service appears on page 4.) Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, to ALBERT SPURGEON, Coxswain of the Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, and granted additional monetary rewards to him and to the other members of the Crew in recognition of their fine services in rescuing the crew, three in number, of the Lowestoft ketch Lily of Devon, during a whole E. gale on the 21st November.

Awarded Binoculars, suitably inscribed, and Letters of Thanks to JAMES PRYAL, ex- Sergeant Royal Irish Constabulary, JOHN KELLY, Sergeant, Civic Guard, and M. J. ELLIS, Civic Guard, Letters of Thanks and £5 to seven men ; Letters of Thanks and £2 to three men ; £1 10s. each to the owners of two boats used ; and £1 10*. the charge for a motor car used, in connection with the rescue of the crew, eight in number, of the schooner Sine, of Marstal, which was wrecked at Killala, Co. Mayo, on the 6th November. The vessel, loaded with timber for Ballina, was lying in the Ross Roadstead, when a strong gale from the N.N.E. sprang up, and her anchor-cables parted. At about 5.30 P.M. signals for help were sent up, and these were observed at Killala about three miles away. In response a small 14-foot rowing boat put out with a crew of four under James Pryal. A second boat shortly afterwards put off, manned by John Kelly, M. J.

Ellis and four others, after being temporarily repaired to make her seaworthy. By this time the vessel was ashore on the West Bartha Island, and the crews of the two small boats incurred great risk in pulling to the scene of the casualty. When they arrived, the shipwrecked crew threw overboard planks with ropes attached to them, but it was not until 9 P.M. that the first boat succeeded in picking up a life-buoy, with a line attached. This line was brought ashore, and the crews of the two boats, helped by other men who had by this time arrived, manned the rope. The rope was kept taut by the weight of the men, and one by one the crew of the shipwrecked vessel slid down it. The rescued men were taken to the Civic Guard Station at Killala.

Voted £4 to JOHN MORIARTY, £3 to his school-boy son, £3 each to four other men, and £2 medical expenses of the boy, who was subsequently ill, for the rescue of six of the crew of the S.S. Qiieenie, of Liverpool, who were in distress in the ship's boat, off Dingle, Co. Kerry, on the 20th November. The boat left Dingle at about 4.30 P.M. to return to her ship, which was at anchor one and a half miles off. A heavy N.W. gale was blowing, and the boat became unmanageable and started to drift out to sea. Seeing this, John Moriarty, with his son and the four other men, put out at considerable risk, and succeeded in reaching the boat. A set of oars was transferred to her, and she was taken in tow. By this time they were three miles from the shore, and it was not until 8.15 P.M. that all returned to safety.

Voted £14 17s. to thirty Life-boatmen and helpers for rescuing, from the shore, two of the twenty-six members of the crew of the S.S.

Djerissa, of Swansea, which stranded at Cresswell on the 21st November. The remaining members of the vessel's crew were all rescued by the Coastguards. The Djerissa, bound from Emden to the Tyne in ballast, had driven ashore during a whole S.E. gale with a very heavy sea, and was so close in that it was decided to effect the rescue by means of ropes.

A line was floated ashore from the ship, and two of the Life-boat's ropes made fast to it.

This enabled a man to get ashore with another rope. A boatswain's chair was then rigged, and another man got ashore. In the meantime the Coastguard had arrived and the Coastguard Officer took charge. He and his men, together with the L&e-boat's Crew and Helpers, using the breeches buoy instead of the boatswain's chair, rescued the remaining men.

Voted £4 10s. to six men for putting off from Staithes in a motor fishing coble and standing by three other cobles, which were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing on the 7th December. Also granted 2s. Gd. to the owner of the coble for petrol used. The three boats were experiencing difficulty in making the harbour owing to the very heavy sea, and the six men put out, stood by two of them as they made harbour, and then towed in the last boat, her crew being exhausted.

Voted £2 to four men for putting off in a motor-boat on 28th November with the intention of helping the small boat Jessies which was in difficulty off Cromarty. Also granted 2s. 6d. to the owner of the boat for petrol used.

At about 1 P.M. the Coastguard reported that the boat, with a crew of two, was in danger of swamping in the whole S.W. gale which was blowing. The Life-boat Coxswain had just come in in his own motor-boat and at once put out again with the other men, but the small boat was driven rapidly in the direction of Balintore, which she reached without help.

Directed that a Letter of Thanks be sent to Captain JOHN B. VERNON and the three members of the crew of the motor-flat Fer for rescuing the five hands of the motor-flat Red Hand, of Chester, off Hoylake, on the 17th October. The Bed Hand, bound from Mostyn to Liverpool, had capsized during a N.W. gale with a heavy sea, and her crew had taken to the ship's boat. Seeing the accident the Fer manoeuvred alongside the boat, and at some risk-took off the shipwrecked men.