Thursday, 31st August, 1939.

Paid £31,992 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Among the payments made were:— £204 15s. Sd. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Cullercoats and Rye Harbour, and the increases in accordance with the terms of the Admiralty Order as reported to the July meeting of the Committee of Management.

£9 10s. medical expenses of a man injured in the Cullercoats life-boat disaster on the 22nd April, 1939.

Thursday, 14th September, 1939.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the removal of the Headquarters of the Institution from Grosvenor Gardens to the new life-boat depot.

Appointed Captain E. S. Carver, R.D., R.N.R., superintendent of depot, to be chief inspector of life-boats during the absence on war service of Lieut.-Commander P. E.

Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., chief inspector, and of Capt. R. L. Hamer, R.N., deputy chief inspector.

Appointed Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., late chief inspector, and Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., late deputy chief inspector, to be temporary district inspectors of life-boats during the absence on war service of two of the permanent district inspectors.

Paid £24,452 Os. Id. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Among payments which have been made were:— £27017s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services; £499 11s. 6d. to pay the rewards for lifeboat launches.

(Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 193 to 203); £18 7s. 6d. for assemblies of crews, etc.; £3 4s. Od. additional rewards for services already reported; £588 9s. lid. 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, Padstow, Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St. Ives, Troon and Whitby.

£89 7s. 6d. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Blackpool, Buckie, Caister, Fethard, Moelfre, Newhaven, and Port St.

Mary.

Voted £5 on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat.

Granted £100 to Miss Abel, sister of the motor mechanic of the Cullercoats life-boat who lost his life in the disaster to the life-boat while on exercise on the 22nd April, 1939.

Voted £22 Os. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Barrow, Eyemouth, Harwich, Hastings, Herne Bay, Ilfracombe, Llandudno, Runswick, Shoreham Harbour, Swanage, Torbay, Walmer, Weymouth and Whitby shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pages 210 to 212.

Thursday, 12th October, 1939.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Produced a letter from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Dublin, promising the co-operation of the government of Eire in the maintenance of the life-boat service on the Irish coast during the war.

Paid £39,362 12s. 9d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipwaj s, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Among payments which have been made were:— £145 17s. Od. to pay the rewards for lifeboat services.

£418 8s. lid. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches.

(Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 203 to 209); £22 Is. Od. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £23 12s. 8d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Rye Harbour; £46 lls. 6d. to men for injury in the lifeboat service at Cullercoats, Hastings and Lynmouth.

£12 on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Ballycotton life-boat.

Voted £18 5s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Arklow, Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Hastings, Herne Bay, Ilfracombe, Littlehampton, Porthdinllaen, Redcar and Tenby shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pages 212 and 213..