The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institute was held at its house,
John-street, Adelphi, Captain Sir Edward Perrott, Bart.,
vice-president, in the chair, There were also present Ad-
miral Sir George Sartorius, W. H. Harton, Esq., Colonel
Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex, John Griffith, Esq., Admi-
ral Bullock, Captain De St. Croix, and Richard Lewis,
Esq., secretary of the institution.

A payment of £7 108. 6d. was ordered to be made to de.
fray the expenses of the Southport lifeboat, belonging to the
society, in rescuing the master's wife and child and twelve
of the crew of the barque St. Lawrence, of Liverpool, which,
during a gale of wind and heavy surf, had stranded on the
Salthouse Sandbank, on the Lancashire coast, on the 20th
ult. The captain and three of the crew refused to leave the
vessel, and the Lytham lifeboat, which also belongs to the
institution, afterwards put eff with the view of saving them,
but they remained firm in their determination not to quit
the ship, and the lifeboat returned to the shore. In the
course of the night they left the ship in their own boat, and
had a narrow escape of their lives. The institution also
voted £8 to pay the expenses of the lifeboat. The Lytham
lifeboat went off again, and ultimately succeeded in bring-
ing the vessel into port, much to the satisfaction of the
owner, who witnessed the persevering and gallant exertions
of the lifeboat's crew, to whom he made a very handsome
present. Both lifeboats behaved admirably on these occa-
sions. The cost of the Southport lifeboat was the gift to the
society of James Knowles, Esq., of Bagley Bank, and that
of the Lytham lifeboat, of Thomas Clayton, Esq , of Wake-
field.

Rewards amounting to £2l were also granted to the crews
of the Walmer and Holyhead lifeboats of the institution,
for putting of in reply to signals of distress from vessels,
but when their services were not ultimately required.
A reward of £2 was also granted to two fishermen for
putting off and saving the lives of four men, who, whilst re-
cently making for the shore off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight,
were capsized from their boat during blowing weather.

A reward was also voted to a boat's crew of four men for
putting off and rescuing three out of six persons who had
been capsized from their boat off Kiloven, in Carlingfozd
Lough. Two ladies and ono gentleman had unfortunately
perished on the occasion before assistance could reach them
from the shore.
A reward was likewise voted to a boat's crew for going
off and saving the lives of two sailors belonging to a Nor-
wegian vessel lying in the Downs. The men who had beenon shore, were returning to their ship in a small boat,
e ,tnwen.
they were overtaken by a sudden squall, which capeizZitely
Some Deal boatmen observing the accident intalec:roing
launched their boat and succeeded in saving th° dr°
men. crews of
Various other rewardo were also voted to th°
shore boats for saving life from different roe
wtheksin. stitution'a
°le Admiral Wash..
A resolution was passed expressive
had materially
deep sympathy with the widow of the IBLity. The gallant
ingten, F.R.S., hydrographer to the Mal:
Ord rendered irup0r-
........ meboats ready
admiral had, during a long series of r
tant services to the lifeboat eau
of Northumberland,
assisted, in conjunction with Dukethe
boat inotitution in,
wad Teignmoutb.
in resuscitating the National Id? ,,_,,1 ~, , 1851.
It was also stated that the
to be sent to Eastbourne, Swansea
(Devon).
the
late milborne
It was reported that
d left the so • Williams,, sq., of
ins-u:Auurrlow,
~ clety a legacy of £5O.
Whitechurch, Somerset, 0
rector of }typo
The Rev. R. S. Sutton,
6c1., as a thank , near Hurst Green,
had sent the society X
ndent harvest ank offering from his
for the sba vest a the present year.
congregation
sq. of Begbreke H
Michael Stee,,,,lP titution ahp House, had likewise for-
warded to the ;
minting to 1,.. eral donation of £lOO.
raPients ginooo having been made on vari-
t establishments, the
Proceedings closed.
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