The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

REWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE FROM
WRECKS.

Yesterday, a meeting of the general committee of
the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck was held at the offices in the Adelphi.
Capt. S. ELLllltra in the chair. We also observed present
Cols Blan•hard, C. 8., Capt. Halsted, Capt. E.
A. Inglefield, R.N., Capt. Jerningbam, R.N., Capt.
NPRardy, R.N.. Capt. Roll, R.N., Major Palmer Capt.
Perrott, Capt. Washington, R N., and Capt. Ward,
the Impactor of Life Boat* to the institution.
Mr. Laws. (the secretary) having read the minutes of
the previous meeting, the following rewards were ordered
to he granted for saving life from :
The silver medal of the institution to be presented to Mr.
Arthur Brooks, chief boatman, and John Sims, boatman,
of the Diusgenese coast-guard station ; the thanks of the
committee on vellum to Thomas Sampson, E.g., and •
reward of 51. lOs. to several other parties, fur the valuable
assistance they had rendered to the crew and passengers of
the Derision emigrant ship, Louise Einelie, which corns on
shore at the above place during the late hurricane on the
27th December. A communication having been established
between the wreck and the shore, lines were attached to
two circular life• buoys which were un board the ship. The
men, women, and children having been then forcibly
secured to the life-buoys, were thus drawn on shore through
the surf. At this time the sea was flying over the brig's
maintopaail, which was set. Within an hour alter the
vessel came on shore the masts weal by the board, her
decks fell in, and she immediately began to break up. The I
first receding tide swept away 43 souls who were left on
boartl. The two life-buoys having by this time become
disabled and unfit fir further use, the preservation of the 39
other persons was mainly owing to the coolness and gallantry
of Mr. Brooks. Sims, the coast-guard man. had also displayed
much coutage on the occasion ; so ou account of one of the
life buoys breaking, to which was secured one of the emi-
grants, who was observed to sink, he rushed into the surf to
his rescue; eia other men then formed a chain (by joining
hand.) from the beach ; Sims, and the emigrant whom he
held hroily iu his grasp, were thus drawn together on shore.
On reaching the land he however, from eshaw.tion, be-
came inseruible. When the life buoys had become dis
abled, valuable aid was rendered by Thomas Sampson, Esq.,
who desisted with his horse in bringing a hawser over the
beach from a distance, and by means of which mail), lives
were saved. Lieut. Hopkins, R.N. was of opinion, that had
Carte'. life buoys hee used on the occasion they would aot
have broken, and that many more lives would, in all pro-
!Ability, have beer saved. Those used at t(is titre had al
hollow spate in the middle, more then an inch in diameter,
and appeared to lie only kept together by the canvas
which covered them. Mr. Carts bad pronounced them to
be cruel imitutiuns of his invention.
The thanks of tie committee, on vellum, were presented
to Mr. Hugh branch pilot, at litliosugyr, Car•
ovrironshire, and a .eward of 41. lOs. to be divided between
Wrote:land his boat's crew for saving a part of the crew,
consisting of 11 persons, of the barque Juno, of Russia,
which was wrecked in Carnarvon Bay on the 27th Decern-
lier. The @east the time was running mountains high, awl it
was entirely on aceour.t of the gallantry and perseverance
displayed by Mr. Williams and his brave men that the ship-
wrecked crew were rescued from their perilous position.
The ship's gig had pr, viously made two or three attempts to
return to the wreck, but the heavy sea had upset it, and
the two men in her had a narrow escape from being
drowned.

The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr. W.
Bridle, master of the Primrose, who was upset frein a boat
on a late occasion at Lynse Regis, in attempting logo to the
assistsnee of the crew and passengers of the emigrant barque
Heroine, when four of his e.imrades unhappily perished in
their laudable endeavours. The committee had at a pre-
vious meeting voted 291. 10s., in aid of the subscriptions
made for their widows and orphans, and for other services
rendered by other parties on the occasion.
A reward of 11. 10s. was granted t i two coast guardmen
at Carrick Hill, county Dublin, for having attempted with
their punt to rescue the crew of the brig Annie, of Work-
ington, which was wrecked near the above place on the
25th ult. The men had launched their punt under ex-
tremely dangerous circumstances, and had nearly succeeded
in reaching the wreck, when one of them was struck by a
heavy sea, disabled, and nearly washed overboard. The
shipwrecked crew were fortunately. subsequently saved by
Dennet'a rocks which had been immediately brought to
the spot through the promptitude of Captain Irwin, R.N.,
to whom the committee presented their thanks.
The sum of his. was voted to a poor man on the coast of
Donegal, in consideration of his intrepidity in rushing into
the surf to save the muter and mate of the sloop Lovely,
of Inverness, which WAS wrecked near Inniaman Island, ou
the 29th December last.

A reward of 3L was granted to a boat's crew on the
coast of Carnarvon, for rescuing the crew of nine persons
of the Russian brig Die Krone, bound from Wilmington to
Liverpool, on the 4th ult., when she went to pieces soon
after in Carnarvon Bay.
The thanks of the committee on vellum were presented
to Mr. W. Stevenson, mister of the schooner Steerwell, of
Bill Quay, in consideration of his humane and prompt con-
duct on the 26th December, in bearing down to the sada-
lance of the crew of the John White, who was observed to
have a flag of distress tlying, and to be in a sinking state on
Whitby Bar ; the vessel foundered in lees than oue hour after
her crew were taken off.

The silver medal of the institution was presented to John
Craddock, COMOlllaiioll coast guard boatman at Stouehaven,
in appreciation of his gallant services to the crew of the
screw Christiana, of Arbroath, wrecked near the above
place during a heavy gale on the 26th November last. In
order to save the new it was necessary Cu swim to a rock at
some distance Irom the main body of the rocks. This
Craddock did, followed by others, and, having succeeded in
establishing a communication with the wreck by means of
ropes, the shipwrecked men were hauled oa shore.
The thanks of the committee were also voted to Lieut.
Kennedy, R.N., chief officer of Cushendeen coast guard
station, and a reward of 31. to his boat's crew for their gal-
lant conduct on the occasion of the wreck of the schooner
Suspense, of Glasgow, on the 16th alt. There seemed every
probability of the crew perishing, when the lieutenant with
his brave men put off in his boat, against the remonstrances
of many persons on the beach. He however persevered,
and fortunately succeeded in taking the crew (four in num-
ber) off the bowsprit and in bringing them Gately on shore,
amidst the acclamations of the people ou the beach. Lieut.
Kennedy had had the silver medal of the institution pre-
sented to him for a previous act of gallantry.
It was stated that very favourable accounts continued to
be received of the new lifeboats on Mr. Peake's design, and
that that placed at North Sunderland Mad saved the lives of
some shipwrecked men on a recent occasion ; and it was
also said that the institution bad several of these boats now
building for various point. on the coast. It was reported
that the past year had been moat disastrous for shipwrecks,
and that hundreds of poor fellows had met with • watery
grave.