The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Captain Sir Ed-
ward Perrott, Bart., M.P., in the chair. There
were also present George Lyall, Rig., M.P. ; Col,
Palmer, W. H. Herten, Esq., Admiral Ballock,
Capt. De St. Croix, and Capt. Ward, R.N., the in•
specter of lifeboats of the institution.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, rewards, amounting to £62 were voted to the
crews of the lifeboats of the institutions stationed
at Pembrey, Margate, New Brighton, Caistor, and
Arklow, for going off to vessels in reply to signals
of distress in stormy weather, but whose crews had
been saved by other means before the arrival of
the lifeboats. It was reported that the lifeboats had
on every occasion behaved very well.
The silver medal of the institution, and a copy of
its vote on parchment, were voted to Miss Le Geyt,
a resident of Bath, in acknowledgment of her noble
and courageous conduct in rescuing two lads from
drowning at Lyme Regis, on the 4th ult. Miss Le
Geyt had been a visitor at Lyme Regis for some few
weeks, and on the day in question was out rowing
in a small boat in company with a lady friend. The
two lads were out playing at the extremity of the
outer pier, and by some means unfortunately, fell into
the sea. Upon seeing the accident Miss Le Geyt
immediately rowed at much risk through the broken
water to their rescue, and throwing an oar to one
of the toys, and holding the other lad in her arms
until further assistance came, she fortunately was
the means of saving'them both from a watery grave.
A reward of £2 was also voted to a boat's crew for
putting off and saving 3 out of 5 of the crew of a
fishing boat which had capsized in a heavy gale
near Clogher Head, Louth Harbour, on the 11th of
June last. Two men were unfortunately drowned
on the occasion.

A reward was likewise granted to four men for
putting off in a shore boat and rescuing, at consi-
derable risk of life, eight persons from a fishing boat
which had struck on a sunken rock during stormy
weather off North Roe, Shetland, on
the 24th of
May last.
A reward of L 3 was also voted to several fisher-
men for saving six Coastguardsmen whose boat Was
capsized off Ferriter's Cove, Dingle, county Kerry,
on the sth of July last. . _

Various other rewards were also granted to the
crews of shore boats and others for saving life from
different wrecks on the coast of the United King-
dom,

Payments, amounting to £l,BOO, were
made at
various lifeboat establishments, and several lifeboat
houses were ordered to be built on various parts of
the coast. _ _

The meeting decided to station a new lifeboat at
Caistor, near Great Yarmouth, and to appropriate
the same to Birmingham, where the residents had
collected the cost, amounting to about £450, of a
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The cost of a second boat is also being collected
amongst the members of the order.
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every hospital and barracks of the British army at
home and abroad. Some of the French ports were
having these valuable rules translated and circu-
lated on the coast, and we trust that mayors, town
commissioners, and others will, at this period of the
year, assist the institution in extensively distribut-
ing these directions on the coast, banks of rivers,
docks, and elsewhere.
The French Government had instructed Capitane
de Vaissean de la Roche Is.erandraon, of the Im-
perial navy, to visit the institution and some of its
lifeboat stations, with the view of making himself
acquainted with the mode of the operations of the
society on the coast of the United Kingdom.
Messrs. Forrestt are now building three lifeboats
for the French Government, under the superin.
tendence of the institution.

HOPE ON AN ICEBERG.—Laa week a bottle con-
taining the following note was washed ashore at Buckie,
Banffshi.e :—" Long. 7 30 west, lat. 80 33 north.—Whaler
Sardine sank, having been in collision with an iceberg.
Crew betaken to the ice. Hope some ship may soon ap-
pear, as our provisions are nearly exhausted.—Jouti WIL-
LIAMS, Captain,--J uly 30,