The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

PILMAKATION OP LIFE 7101. LIBIPWRICE.

Yesterday a meeting of the Royal National Life-
boat Institution was held, at its horste, John-street, Adelphi,
Taoatu CRAPIUM, Baq., F.R.8., in the chair. There were
alao preeent—Admiral etr Thomas Herbert, Admiral
Cater, Lord Henry Cholmandelay, Admiral Baumann, ILL.,
Admiral Bullock, Admiral APHanly, Alexander Hoeteleur,
Esq., Captain Lambert Ponca, W. H. Harlon, Esq. Mon-
tague Hors, Frq., Capetian W. H. Hall, 8.N., C. 8., *.R.8.,
Captain Hemlop, RN. Oa_pteln Robestems, R.N., ogre, *:
mtto the Board of Trade, Captain Ryder, BIC old
Ward, inspector of lifeboats to the wear.
Mr. Law's, the seorentry, haying read the minutes of the
previous iseating,
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A reward of 61. 10s., la addition to about 201. collected
locally, wee voted to the eeew.„..___,of the instituti n's lifeboat,
stationed at Youghal, is ei their gallan
mew t
sorrow in rescuing, thwingiiTgaie 07 wiad, the
listing of fourteen ern, of the Norwegian barque Cleiates,
which we.wrecked on Tribal bar on the Bth ult. Imme-
diately on observing the prams position of the ship two
Plethora and the lifeboat put to sea, but the two
forever, after proceeding outside the harbour, bad to retire,
as no boat crept the lifeboat cord have lived in such a sea
as now broke over the bar. The vowel all this time wee
sulking, sad every sea rolled over her and painful anxiety
woe depicted ma seer two thrower spectator, who crowded
the rib to wear the fate el the poor crew of the 111-Wed
vessel. Orkney end nobly did the lifeboat new gradually
approach re dm* no way caw innaihr, which wee
speedily Yr Ire .of the peer sailors on
booed the arid were to be saved, mid the Yoveglal lifeboat.
men determined to ire than, sr pariah in the attempt.
Nothing could now equal etre of suspense sad Intense
anxiety of the as eery lament the lifeboat dis-
appeared in the trough the sea, again to rise an its summit.
At length they ore nester ; and now it was that the poor
crew crowded on the bowsprit of their vassal, and beheld the
noble fellows struggling me their deliverance. A rope was
suspended for the -bowsprit, and as each wave drove the
lifeboat beneath tt, me poor fellow woe let down, and thus
one by one were 14 lives saved. They then pulled back to the
harbour, where over 2,000 of the Inhabitants welcomed
their tremor end the poor fellows who thus esoaped a
watery grave. This Beat lifeboat had only • few months
since been stationed at Yougttal by the above institution.
She ia like all the new life boats at the society, on the plan
of Kr. James Peak., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich,
and wee built by the Marrs. Parr, of Limehouse.
The Taub, lifeboat, which Wasp to the National Lire.
Rost Society, hid also on the some da prorated valuable
smoke to a ship in distress off Idled. She proved to
be the barque Bella Donna, of Bristol, and was seen, when it
wee blowing bird, to have a signal of distress flying. No
opts boat would dare to venture oat to her assistance ; but
the Tenby lifeboat immediately proceeded out, remained by
her some time, and afterwards piloted her through the chan-
nel. The shipowners seat the lifekost's crew 101. for their
timely and valuable searees.
The Lowestoft lifeboat, which is in connexion with the
above society, had a few days since rescued the crew, con.
airing of six men, of the brig Oawy, which in a gale of wind
went on the Beach-fiat, near the Corr Sands. The ship
had been previously boarded by a yawl's crew, who, however,
were only too glad to come ashore in the lifeboat.
A reward of 41. was likewise greeted to four men for
boat,
considerablef risk
red oQ of of. aco
ng . tit%
night a few weeks since. On hearing the mite of the poor
fellows the boat was promptly launched, and at considerable
they were eared, the vessel be nearly under water
ing
at Clime, and the tide flowing rapidly.
A reward of 21. 10e. was also voted to two women and a
men who had launched a boat, and rescued, at some risk of
life, a man and boy who had been copier boa their boat in
the sound which separates Yell from Unst, on the coast of
Shetland. The generous and intrepid conduct of the two
women is the more worthy of notioe, as they were, with their
aged father, the mesas of a portion of a boat's mew
last year in the same sound, w en some of the stoutest
hearted fishermen were druid to venture out, owing to the
state of the weather. For that courageous service they were
presented with the silver medal of the institution, and 21.
rod

A tweed of If. 10s. wee also voted to three men for put-
ting off In a boat during blowing weather, and rescuing the
mew of eight men from the French schooner Topaz., which
was wrecked on Pen Towyn Bands, Carmarthen Bay, on the
9th ult.

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A reward of 141. 10a. wee likewise voted to the Arklow
lifeboat's crew, for putting off during • gale of wind to the
rescue of the mew of s WNW which wee seen on Arklow
beak. They had, however, been previously taken off by •
smack which was cruising about. There was a tremendous
sea running at the time, and no other boat would venture
out; but the lifeboat, it was said, behaved nobly, end proved
herself equal to any sea. This lifeboat was only recently
sent by the institution to this station, and she is like all itz
new slaw of lifeboats made to 'elf-right if upset.
A reward of 61. 10e. was also granted to the crew of the
institution's lifeboat at Wicklow, for putting off with a view
of rendering aselstanos to • ship in distress.
The meeting expressed much sympathy for the families of
the three gentlemen amateurs who had been unfortunately
thrown out of the Southwold lifeboat and drowned, on
Saturday last. The lifeboat on that station does not, like the
new class of lifeboats of the institution, possess the important
quality of self-righting if upset, the boatmen at Southwold
having rejected a self-righting lifeboat in favour of their
present one. The crew of the lifeboat had, according to the
strict rule of the society, their life-belts on, but the unfor-
tunate deceased had declined to put them on.
The society decided to station • Bret-class lifeboat at
Freserburgh, on the north-east coast of Scotland, a benevo-
lent gentleman having offered to make a present of the coat
of a lifeboat to the institution for that oosat.
A new lifeboat had just been sent by the society to Ard-
more; and it was amid that it had now seventy blithest.
under its management, to maintain which in a state of
thorough ellaiency involved • large annual outlay.
The yearly accounts of the institution were laid at the
table as audited by the usual paid auditor of the society, Mr.
=tpublic accountant, from which it a that the
ee of the institution for lifeboats, osnlegas, end boat-
houses, were upwards of 3,000/.
Grants amounting to 201. having been voted in aid of the
Seamen's lifeboats at Sunderland and Margate, and the
annual meeting of the institution having been fixed to be
held at the London Tavern the week after next, the proceed-
ings closed.