Thursday, 15th March, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be thanked.

Paid £15,525 Is. 5d. 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 £269 16s. Qd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. I!cscu;'d.

Appledore . . Schooner Matilda, of (Motor) Wexford. Rendered assistance.

Arbroath . . The fishing fleet of Arbroath. Stood by fleet.

Ardrossan . . S.S. Orlockhead, of Belfast.

Stood by vessel.

Cresswell . . S.S. Maria, of Hamburg.

Stood by vessel.

Dungeness Xo. 1 Barque Jeanne, D'Arc, of Havre. Stood by vessel.

Holy Island . Motor fishing yawl Sarah Xo. 1 (Motor) Brigham, of Holy Island. Rendered assistance.

Motor fishing yaw-1 Nellie, of Holy Island.

Saved vessel and rescued 2 Motor fishing yawls Water Lily, Blossom, and Marquis of Lassie, of Sea Houses. Saved three vessels and rescued . . . . 11 New Brighton . S.S. Varand, of London 42 Xo. 1 (Birk e n h e a d (Motor) Newbiggin . The fishing fleet of Newbiggin. Stood by fleet.

Newburgh . . Steam trawler Isle of Wight, of Hull . . 10 Padstow Xo. 1. S.S. Taormina, of Oslo. 18 Scarborough . Coble Morning Star, of (Motor) Scarborough. Escorted coble into harbour.

The Bembridge Motor Life-boat saved the French yacht Barbara.

Also voted £609 18s. lOd. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress:— Aberdeen No. 1 (Motor), Aldeburgh No. 1, Bembridge (Motor), Broughty Ferry (Motor), Buckie (Motor), Caister, Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), Coverack, Dungeness No. 2, Flamborough No. 1, Hartlepool (Motor), Helvick Head, Johnshaven, Maryport, Moelfre, North Deal, Padstow No. 2, Padstow Tug, Peterhead No. 2 (Motor), Plymouth (Motor), Porthdinllaen (Motor), Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, Seaham (Motor), Sennen Cove (Motor), Stromness (Motor), Torbay (Motor), and Walmer.

Granted £26 to men for injury in the Lifeboat Service at Brighton, Newbiggin, Porthdinllaen, and Southwold.

Voted a Gratuity of £50 to CHARLES SANDERSON, ex-motor mechanic at Porthdinllaen, who strained his heart on the occasion of a Life-boat Service Launch and was unable to continue his employment.

Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, together with an additional monetary award, to WILLIAM JOHN BAKER, Coxswain of the Padstow Xo. 1 Lifeboat, in recognition of his gallant conduct and skilful seamanship when the Life-boat under his command rescued the crew, eighteen in number, of the S.f&Taormina, of Oslo, which stranded on the Doom Bar, Padstow, in a moderate W.N.W. gale with a heavy sea on 11th February, 1928. The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed, together with an additional monetary reward, were presented to the other members of the crew :—GEORGE H. McOwEN, Second Coxswain, JAMES W. SOPER, Bowman, PERCY BAKER, ERNEST FRENCH, THOMAS F. BRAY, JOHN GILL, SIDNEY EDMUNDS, JOHN W.

BATE, ELLIS JERMYN, WILLIAM H. GRANT, ALFRED ORCHARD, WALTER BATE. (A full account of this service appeared in The Lifeboat for last May.) Granted additional rewards to the crews of the Holy Island No. 1 and New Brighton No. 2 Motor Life-boats for arduous services on 15th February and 17th February respectively.

Granted additional rewards to the crew and helpers of the Newburgh Life-boat for an arduous service on 25th February.

Voted the Bronze Medal of the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, to THOMAS BOYLE, and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed to MICHAEL CREHAN and JOHN KELLEHER, in recognition of their gallant conduct in putting off from Quilty, Co. Clare, on 11th February, 1928, in a 24-foot canvas boat, and, at personal risk, rescuing three men who had been marooned on Mutton Island. (A full account of this service appeared in The Lifeboat for last May.) Voted £21 to fourteen men for putting off from Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay, in two motor boats and rescuing the crew, ten in number, of the steam trawler Silanion, on 25th February ; also granted 5s. each to the owners of the two boats for petrol used. The Silanion was bound for the fishing grounds with coals and ice from Grimsby, when she struck some rocks during a dense fog. She put out to sea again, but when the men in the two motor boats, who had heard her syren, reached her, they found that she was badly damaged and her skipper decided to run her ashore. The motor boats piloted her into Cruden Bay, where she was driven ashore. Her crew then took to the small boat, but as this leaked badly, they were rescued by the motor boats.

A certain amount of risk was incurred owing to the fog and the rocks in the vicinity.

Voted 10s. to the Coxswain and Bowman of the New Brighton Motor Life-boat, who, with the Chief Motor Mechanic, put off, on 22nd February, in the Life-boat's motor boarding boat when signals were heard from two steamers during calm but foggy weather. No vessel in need of aid could be found.

Thursday, 19th April, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Passed a cordial Vote of Thanks to H.R.H.

the Prince of Wales, K.G., the President, for presiding at the Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution, and for visiting various depots on Life-boat Day ; also for visiting a worker for the Institution who was a patient in the Incurable Ward of Westminster Hospital.

Reported the re-opening of the Staithes Life-boat Station.

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

H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught (Sub.) 15 0 0 Lloyd's, Members and Subscribers of, Collection . . . 1,472 11 0 The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Rothermere, P.C., through H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G 1,000 0 0 In Memory of E. D. Farmer (Donation) . . . . 500 0 0 Miss Panking (Donation) . . 50 0 0 Sir George Sutton, Bt. (Life-boat Day) (Donation) . . . 50 0 0 White Star Steamer's Charity Account (Additional Donation) 50 0 0 L. M. Torin, Esq. (Additional Donation) . . . 30 0 0 Colonel C. F. Fellows (Donation) 25 0 0 Harrow School (Donation) . . 15 0 0 To be thanked.

Paid £33,491 4s. ll(f. 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 £487 3s to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services : — Life-boat.

Bridlington Cloughey .

Donaghadee (Motor) Dunbar Filey .

Fraserburgh (Motor) Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor) Hauxley Newbiggin Palling No. 1 .

Peterhead No. 2 (Motor) Peterhead No. 2 (Motor) Runswick .

Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Scarborough .

(Motor) Lives Vessel. Rescued.

Fishing vessels Wayside Flower, Boy's Own, Premier II., Excelsior, Rosamond, and Ilex, of Bridlington. Stood by fishing vessels.

S.S. Deal, of London.

Stood by vessel.

S.S. Deal, of London. | Stood by vessel.

Fishing yawl Hero, of Dunbar. Saved yawl and rescued . . . 1 Four fishing cobles, of j Filey. Stood by : cobles.

Steam trawler Star 0} Britain, of Aberdeen.

Stood by vessel.

Barge Greenhithe, of London. Stood by vessel .

S.S. Peggy Grieve, of Grimsby. Stood by vessel.

Eleven motor fishing boats, of Newbiggin.

Stood by boats.

Smack Wave Crest, of Lowestoft. Stood by vessel.

Trawler Renaissance, of Aberdeen . . . . 7 Trawler Firsby, of Gran- ': ton. Landed 2 and stood by vessel.

Coble Florence, of Runs- ', wick. Stood by coble.

Motor fishing cobles Eaqle, Morning Star, and Golden Gate, of Scarborough. Stood ; by cobles. ' Motor fishing cobles Morning Star, Jock, and Reliance, of Scarborough.

Stood by cobles.

Motor fishing boat Dawn, of Bridlington. : Stood by boat.

Motor coble Eagle, of j Scarborough. Escorted coble into harbour.

Motor fishing cobles Ebenezer and Golden Gate, of Scarborough.

Stood by cobles.

Fishing boat Premier II., of Bridlington. V Stood by boat.

Motor fishing boat Miseltoe, of Bridlington.

Stood by boat.

Life-boat.

Stromness .

(Motor) Thurso . . .

Yarmouth .

Isle of Wight (Motor) Lives Vessel, Rescued.

Steam trawler Lord Deronport, of Hull . 6 S.S. Aase, of Hamburg. 15 Admiralty drifter Cold Snap. Rendered assistance.

The Clacton-on-Sea (Motor) Life-boat saved the yacht Coquette, of London, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of four; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor) Life-boat assisted to save the S.S. Alicia, of Libau, and rescued from shipwreck her crew, eleven in number, and saved the motor barge Ramble, of London, and rescued from shipwreck her five hands; the Humber (Motor) Life-boat rendered assistance to the steam trawler Night Hawk, of Grimsby; and the Robin Hood's Bay Life-boat stood by and rendered assistance to the S.S. Gatwick, of London.

Also voted £288 15s. 9rZ. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons on vessels in distress :—Aberdeen No. 1 (Motor), Boulmer, Caister, Coverack, Donaghadee (Motor), Eastbourne (Motor), Longhope (Motor), Margate (Motor), Port Patrick (Motor), Rosslare Harbour (Motor), Rye Harbour, Sheringham, Walton-on-the-Kaze (Motor), Wells, and Whitby No. 2.

Granted £47 6s. 8rf. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Blakeney, Brighton, Cardigan, Clacton, Moelfre, Montrose, Runswick, and Walmer.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of GRIFFITH JAMES, of Cemaes, who was in very poor circumstances. James had been a member of the Life-boat Crew for twenty years, latterly occupying the position of Bowman.

Directed that Letters of Thanks be addressed to Messrs. J. JOHNSON, Assistant Motor Mechanic, and J. ROBE, also to Mr. JOHN Cow. Skipper of the drifter Guiding Star, for their good services in bringing information to Stromness of the wreck at St. John's Head, Hoy, of the steam trawler Lord Devonport, of Hull, on 19th March, with the result that the Motor Life-boat succeeded in rescuing six of her crew. Granted £5 to Mr. J. ROBE to cover repairs to his boat, which was damaged on this occasion.

Granted additional rewards to the crew and helpers of the Cloughey Life-boat for an arduous service launch on 21st March.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be addressed to the Thurso Life-boat Crew in recognition of a long service on 16th—17th March, when the crew of fifteen of the S.S. Aase, of Hamburg, were rescued. Also sent a Letter of Thanks to Mr. Join? MILLER, Honorary Secretary, for his assistance on this occasion.

Directed that Letters of Thanks be addressed to Mr. H. B. STEPHENSON, Honorary Secretary at Boulmer, in recognition of his zealous services when the Life-boat was launched on the night of 17th March, and to Mr. LUKE, driver of the motor car used by the Honorary Secretary.

Voted £4 to two men for rescuing three men at Gweesalia, Co. Mayo, on 7th October, 1927. The three men had gone up the estuary of the Owenmore River in a small boat to get rushes. While returning their boat sprang a leak and became submerged, but did not sink, being kept afloat by the rushes which were secured to the stern. The rescuers put off, and after a pull of one and a half miles against wind and tide rescued the three men.

Voted £1 17*. 6d. to five men of the motor fishing-boat Mizpah for rescuing the two occupants of the fishing coble Lily, at Vhitby, on 10th April. Also granted 2s. fid. for petrol used to the owner of the Mizpah. When returning from fishing in a strong S.E. breeze with a rough sea, at about 9 A.M., she saw the Lihj signalling for help, went to her, and found that she was out of control owing to the loss of her sails and was being carried out to sea. The disabled coble was towed safely into Whitby.

Voted £1 to the Life-boat Second Coxswain and another man, who, with the Chief Motor Mechanic of the New Brighton Life-boat, put off in the Life-boat's motor boarding-boat, and rescued two men on 9th April. During a fresh S.E. breeze with a moderately rough sea, information was received from the Coastguard that a small boat with two men in her, but out of control, was being blown down the Bock Channel. The rescuers towed the boat to New Brighton.

Thursday, 24th May, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Sir FRANK MEYER, Bt., M.P., a member of the Committee of Management.

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

" A.W.", Additional donation . 50 0 0 Subscription . . 5 0 0 H.M. Transport Neuralia, part of charitable contributions collected on board . . . 52 7 6 To be thanked.

Paid £19,509 II*. lid. 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 £112 3s. to pay the expenses of the following Life-boat services :— Lives Life-boat. Vessel. Rescue-1.

Filey . . . Motor coble feather, of Filey. Rendered assistance.

Lite-boat.

Galway Bay (Motor) Newbiggin Newbiggin Lives Vessel. Rescued, Steam drifter John Somers, of Galway, Rendered assistance.

Motor fishing coble Our Boys, of Newbiggin.

Saved coble and rescued 4 Steam trawler Sarah, of North Shields . . 9 Peterhead No. 2 S.S. St. Sunniva, of (Motor) Aberdeen. Landed 45.

Rosslare Harbour (Motor) Southwold (Motor) Weymouth (Motor) Whitby .

(Motor) Whitby (Motor) The fishing fleet of Wexford.

Stood by fishing fleet.

Motor fishing boat Victor and Millie, of Southwold.

Saved boat and rescued . . . .

Yacht Vaktta, of Falmouth.

Stood by vessel.

Motor fishing Guide Me and Pilot Me, of Whitby. Escorted boats into harbour.

Motor fishing boats Guide Me, Pilot Me, and Remembrance, of Whitby. Stood by boats.

The Ramsgate (Motor) Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, and rescued from shipwreck her crew of four.

Also voted £213 11s. 3d. 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, Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), Cloughey, Dungeness No. 1, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor), Holyhead, Lowestoft (Motor), North Sunderland, New Brighton, St. Abbs (Motor), Swanage, Teesmouth (Motor), and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight (Motor) Lifeboat.

Granted £47 15s. to men for injury in the Life-boat Service at Ardrossan, Blackpool, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.

Voted a further sum of £100 for the benefit of the men of the Ramsgate Life-boat who took part in the rescue of the Indian Chief in 1881.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of D. L. NrsNis, who was left with a crippled daughter in very poor circumstances.

Ninnis, who was an ex-Second Coxswain of the St. Ives, Cornwall, Life-boat, had also previously served as Bowman.

Reported that the fund raised in connexion with the Stonehaven Life-boat disaster in 1874 had now been closed, owing to the death of all the dependents, and the balance of £565 15s, Sd.

forwarded to the Institution.

Decided that all Life-boat Stations which have reached, or when they reach, their centenary, should be presented with a Vellum recording the fact for exhibition in a suitable public position.

Awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed to the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, to be hung in a conspicuous position on board; a Binocular Glass, suitably inscribed to WILLIAM BREWSTER, Skipper of the Cuirass ; £6 each to four members of her crew ; £3 each to two of her crew; and £1 each to the six remaining members, in recognition of their meritorious services in rescuing four of the crew of the steam trawler Briarlyn and persevering efforts to rescue the remainder when she was wrecked at Soay, St. Kilda, on 15th February, 1928.

(A full account of this service appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat.) Awarded the Bronze Medal oi the Institution, accompanied by a copy of the Vote inscribed on Vellum and framed, to HUGH MACKAY, Senr., together with the sum of £3 and the value of a rope lost; and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and framed to WILLIAM Ross, DAVID SKINNER, JOHN PATERSON, and ANDREW SUTHERLAND, in recognition of their courageous conduct in putting off from Hilton, Ross-shire, in a motor boat, with four other men, and at great , personal risk rescuing one of the two occupants of the motor fishing boat Pearl, which was wrecked in a whole S. gale with a heavy sea at Balintore, on 26th March, 1928. (A full account of this service appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat.) Mr. GORDON CRAWFORD, of Hilton, was thanked for the assistance he gave in connexion with the inquiries into this case.

Voted £6 to four pilots for rescuing one of the two occupants of a small fishing boat off Innishowen Head Lighthouse, Greencastle, on 17th April. At about noon the small boat, when returning from lobster fishing, had been capsized by a heavy sea, and turned keel uppermost. One man was drowned, but the other managed to reach a rock to which he clung, with the seas washing over him. The accident was seen by the pilots from their look-out hut, and they launched their boat at once, but it was only with difficulty that they succeeded in rescuing the man, owing to the N.E. gale and heavy sea.

Voted £2, to include the value of stores consumed, to the crew of the motor coble Young Tom, for putting off from Bridlington in a moderate S.E. gale with a rough sea and standing by the sailing coble Bosa while she returned to harbour.