The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi; Mr Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Capt. Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., V.P.,
Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Captain De St.
Croix, Mr W. H. Harton, Captain Warde, R.N.,
Inspector of Lifeboats to the Institution, and Mr
Richard Lewis, the Secretary. The minutes of the
previous meeting having been read, a reward of £l5
was voted to the crew of its Arklosv lifeboat for
putting off in reply to signals of distress, and ren-
dering important service to the ship Edinburgh
Castle,Trom Glasgow to Singapore, which had struck
on the bank.of Arklow on the night of the 20th ult.
The lifeboat, at the request of the captain, accom-
panied the vessel for some time, a portion of her
crew assisting in working the ship's pumps. The
captain gave the lifeboat's crew his note for £4O in
gratitude for the valuable services rendered to his
vessel by the boat. A reward of £7 10s. was also
voted to the crew of the Institution's lifeboat at
Selsey for going off and rescuing seven out of twelve
of the crew of the brig Governor Maclean, of
London, which was totally wrecked during a gale
of wind on the 0 vvers Sandbank off Selsey on the
sth ult. The remainder of the crew were taken
off by a Deal lugger. A reward of £6 10s.
was likewise granted to the crew of the lifeboat
belonging to the institution at Blackpool, for going
off and rendering important services to the French
brig St. Michael, of Havre, which had anchored in
a very dangerous position on the Crusader sands
bank during very stormy weather and in a high
sea, on the 18th ult. This was the first service
rendered by this lifeboat, and her crew spoke of her
qualities in the heavy serf, in the highest terms of
approval. It was reported that the institution's
lifeboat at Teignmouth, Devon, had rendered im-
portant services to the schooner Victoria, of that
port, which struck very heavily on the North Pole
bank at the entrance of the harbour during a gale
of wind on the night of the 3rd inst. Rewards
amounting to £2O were also granted to the crew of
the Lytham, New Brighton, Margate, and Port•
rush lifeboats, for going off in reply to signals of
distress, with the view of rescuing the crews of
various vessels in distress, but which did not ulti-
mately require the services of the boats. A reward
of .£2 was also voted to the crew of a small boat for
putting off and rescuing, at some risk of life, two
men whose boat was stove in upon some rocks near
the harbour of Lossiemouth in a heavy sea on the
26th of August. Various other rewards were also
voted to the crews of shore boats for saving life
from wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The committee expressed deep regretat the lamented
demise of Mr. Montague Gore, who had been for
many years past an active member of the committee
of management of the institution, and took the
liveliest interest in the welfare of sailors,sparing no
expense to aid their cause when needed. Payments
amounting to upwards of £2,000 were made on
various lifeboat establishments. The Horse Guards
had applied to the institution for an additional
supply of the new "Instructions for the Restoration
of the Apparently Drowned," to be circulated amongst
the several stations of the army at home and abroad.
By order of the Viceroy and the Governors of
India, these directions for the recovery of persons
apparently dead from drowning had also been ex-
tensively circulated throughout the three presi-
dencies. It was stated that the proprietors of the
Illustrated London News would give a beautiful
coloured engraving of the lifeboat of the institution
with the number of the paper on the 15th most.
Letters were read from officers of the French and
Russian imperial navies, expressing their acknowa
ledgments to the institution for the important and
valuable information they had received from it,
while in England, concerning the lifeboat stations.
The institution had sent, during the past month,
new lifeboats to Redcar, on the Yorkshire coast,
and to Cardigan. The railway companies had, as
usual, readily given the boats a free conv,:yance.
The cost of both lifeboats had been presented to the
institution by benevolent persons. A gentleman
had intimated his intention to defray, in conjunction
with his sisters, the cost, amounting to about £6OO,
for a complete lifeboat station on the Irish coast, in
memory of their late father. They had previously
defrayed the expense of a lifeboat station at Bude
Haven, on the Cornish coast, in memory of their
mother. Reports were read from the inspector and
assistant-inspector of lifeboats of the institution on
their recent visits to the lifeboat stations of the
society on the north-east coast, and on the Kent
and Sussex coasts. They had found all the stations
in admirable order. A model of the institution's

lifeboat was ordered to be placed in the Royal
School of Naval Architects about to be opened at
the South Kensington Museum. A letter was read
from the Shipwrecked Sailors' Society at Mar-
seilles, requesting the institution to order for them
a thirty feet self-righting lifeboat, which request
the committee readily complied with. The pro-
ceedings then closed.