The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German raider.

The owners of the "Jervis Bay", the Aberdeen Commonwealth Line, have also sent a hundred guineas "in appreciation of the splendid work of the life-boat service and in commemoration of the gallant end of so many of our officers and engineers serving in H.M.S. Jervis Bay". It was the wish of the ship's company that, "should they be lost, half their fund should be given to the life-boat service. In announcing their gift the B.B.C. described it as "a fitting epilogue to an heroic story"..