Thursday, 16th April, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., followed by the HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the chair.

Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to H.M. The King for his gracious consent to accord his patronage to the Institution.

Reported the death of Dr. Leonard Gow, who had been a vice-president of the In- stitution since 1930.

Resolved that the deputy chairman be asked to represent the Institution at the International Life-boat Conference in Sweden, in July, 1936.

Co-opted Mr. A. C. Reed, M.P., a member of the committee of management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ g_ Lloyd's collection . . . 1,490 3 0 Miss Harman . . . 500 0 0 The late Mrs. Eliza Butler, dona- tion from executors . . 100 0 0 Anonymous . . . 50 0 0 Mr. W. E. K. Gulland . 50 0 0 Mr. Alan C. Harris . . 35 0 0 Paid £28,318 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £266 17s. 6(J. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £94 17s. 9d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 123-127) ; £24 7s. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £53 on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Padstow and Rye Harbour ; £1 10s. to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Peel.

Voted £8 on account of special rewards to the crew of Rosslare Harbour life-boat.

(An account of this service appears on page 123).

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of James Dearman, late coxswain of the Hythe life-boat, in view of her poor circumstances, and granted £10 towards the funeral expenses.

Decided that the special weekly allowance now being paid to W. E. Haylett, ex-second coxswain of the Caister life-boat, who was compelled to retire owing to serious illness due to exposure in the life-boat service, be continued until April, 1937.

Voted £18 2s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Eyemouth, New Brighton and Southend- on-Sea shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pp. 140-141.

Thursday, 21st May, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the death of Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., who had been a member of the committee of management from 1921 to February, 1936, and a vice-president of the Institution since 1933, and resolved that an expression of sympathy be conveyed to Lady Cameron.

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

" Anonymous T.A.". . . 250 0 0 Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., from collections taken on board the Company's vessels. 77 0 0 The British Broadcasting Cor- poration . . . 21 0 0 Paid £14,302 17s. 6 J. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life- boat stations.

Included in the above were:— £302 4s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £79 3s. Sd. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 127-135) :— £3 for the assembly of a crew ; £58 19s. 6d. for services previously re- ported ; £19 2s. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Eastbourne and Rye Harbour ; £19 3s. 3d. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Caister and Sheringham.

Voted £19 18s. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Aith, Salcombe and Stromness life-boats.(Accounts of these launches appear on pages 122, 132 and 128 respectively).

Voted the sum of £5 towards the expenses of the illness of Thomas Benn, ex-coxswain of the Maryport life-boat.

Voted the sum of £5 to A. J. Able, ex-head launcher at Wells, in view of his straitened circumstances.

Reported that the French Government had awarded medals and diplomas to the crew of the Torbay motor life-boat for their gallant rescue of the captain of the trawler Satanicle on the 30th December, 1935.

(A full account of this service appeared in The Life-boat for March, 1936.) Voted £4 7s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the shoreboat services at Lowestoft, Newhaven, and Portrush, accounts of which appear on page 141.

Thursday, 11th June, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.

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

Union-Castle motor-vessel War- wick Castle, proceeds of an auction of a cigarette-tin en- graved by the captain . 43 5 0 Paid £24,139 5s. 2d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including re- wards for services, payments for the construc- tion of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £92 Is. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £159 17s. 9d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 135-137) ; £8 2s. 6d. for assemblies of crews, etc. ; £2 14s. for a service previously reported ; £313 2s. 2d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Aldeburgh, Caister, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, The Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, Pad- stow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrew's, Troon, Whitby and Wells ; £40 12s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven and Walmer.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of John Garnett, at one time bowman of the Harwich steam life-boat, in view of her straitened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Nathaniel G. Childs, ex-life-boatman at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in view of his straitened circumstances.

Voted £10 2s. to pay the rewards for shoreboat services at Clovelly, Portrush, and Port Stewart, accounts of which appear on pages 141-142.

Thursday, 9th July, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Received with regret the resignation from the committee of management of Lt.-Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D.

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

Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society . . . 3,500 0 0 Independent Order of Oddfellows —Manchester Unity Friendly Society . . . . 52 10 0 Anonymous . . . 50 0 0 Court of Assistants of the Drapers' Company . . . 50 0 0 Mr. W. E. C. Atkinson . 50 0 0 Paid £29,802 18s. 2d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, Me-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £44 15s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £100 12s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 137-139) ; £5 14s. for the assembly of a crew ; £40 2s. 4d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Padstow and Rye Harbour ; £13 to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Caister.

Decided to grant a weekly allowance of 10s. for twelve months to Mrs. Ellen Stephens, in supplement of the annuity which she is receiving under the Padstow life-boat Disaster Fund of 1900, in view of her straitened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to the widow of ex-second coxswain W. E. Haylett, of Caister. Coxswain Haylett, who had retired owing to illness due to exposure in the life-boat service, had been in receipt of an allowance from the Institution.

Voted £12 16s. to pay the rewards for shoreboat services at Beer, Cullercoats, Felixstowe, Ilfracombe, New Brighton, Port Stewart, Rousay, and Scarborough, accounts of which appear on pages 142-143..