The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-03 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday,
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Thos. Baring,
Esq., M.P., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also
present, Thos. Chapman, Esq., F.R.S. ; Admiral
W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S. ; Sir E. Perrott. Bart. ;
W. H. Harton, Esq. ; Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. ;
John Griffiths, Esq. ; Col. Palmer; George Lyell,
Esq., M.P. ; Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of life-
boats to the institution, and Richard Lewis, Esq.,
the secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, the committee expressed their deep sorrow in
having to record the lamented death of their valued
President, Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, K.G., who for so long a period had cor-
dially and unceasingly co-operated with them in
carrying out the great. and philanthropic objects of '
the institution.

A reward of £6 10s. was then voted to the crew
of the institution's lifeboat at Blakeney, Norfolk,
for putting off and rescuing 18 men from the bark
Amana, of Sutherland, which was totally wrecked
about three miles east of Blakeney Harbour on the
17th lilt. It was blowing very strong from the
N.N.W. at the time, and snowing hard. Imme-
diately after the shipwrecked men were taken off by
the lifeboat the vessel completely broke up.
A reward of £9 was also voted to the society's
lifeboat at Newcastle, Dundrum Bay, for putting off
during a strong gale of wind and saving the crew of
four men from the schooner Susan, of Dublin,which
was totally wrecked in Dundrum Bay on the 31st
January.

A reward of £l2 was likewise granted to the crew
of the Ipswich lifeboat of the institution stationed
at Thorpeness, for putting off and saving one
man from the smack Leader, of Harwich, which was
stranded in a heavy sea off Thropeness, Suffolk, on
the 4th ult.

A reward of £6 10s. was also voted to the crew of
the Mary Hartley lifeboat, belonging to the institu-
tion, at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, for going off, in
reply to signals of distress, and saving, in conjunc-
tion with a steam-tug, from a very perilous position,
the Dutch galliot Anga and her crew of four men,
during a strong easterly wind, on the Bth ult.
A reward of £9 was also granted to the crew of
the institution's Fishguard lifeboat the Sir Edward
Perrott, for putting off through a heavy sea, and
bringing safely ashore the crews, consisting of 12
men, from the schooner Albion, of Teignmouth,
and the Emma, of Barrow, which were in distress
in Fishguard Bay, on the 19th ult.
A reward of £4 was also voted to the crew of the
lifeboat of the society at North Berwick, for going
off and bringing safely ashore three pilots, who had
been exposed in a small open boat during a gale of
wind and severe frost for 28 hours. The poor fel-
lows were almost perished from cold and hunger
when taken into the lifeboat.

A reward of £l6 10s. was likewise granted to the
crew of the Blackpool lifeboat, belonging to the in-
stitution, for putting off in reply to signals of dis-
tress, and assisting to save from destruction the bark
Lexington, of Nassau, which had struck on the
Salthouse Sandbank, on the Lancashire coast, dur-
ing thick weather, on the night of the 6th ult. The
vessel's cargo of cotton was valued at £BO,OOO. The
Lytham and Southport lifeboats of the society had
also gone off to the assistance of the above-named
vessel, and rewards amounting to £l5 were voted
to the crews of those lifeboats.

The Ballycotton lifeboat of the society had also
assisted to save from destruction the brig Hants,
which was in distress during a gale of wind, off
Ballycotton on the 29th Jan.
Rewards amounting to £79 lls. 6cl. were also
voted to the crews of the institution's lifeboats at
Caister, Walmer, Tynemouth, Skegness, St. An-
drew's, Ardmore Rye, Broughty Ferry, and New-
castle, Dundrum Bay, for various services during
the stormy weather of the past month.
Voted :—The thanks of the institution, inscribed on
vellum, to Dr. Crawford Porle, honorary secretary
of its Ardmore branch; and to Mr. Thomas Coveney,
chief officer of the Coast-guard ; and also £3 10s. to
other persons—in acknowledgment of their perse-
vering exertions in wading into the sea and other-
wise assisting to rescue ten of the crew of the barque
Sextus, of Malta, which was totally wrecked during
a very heavy gale of wind at Curragh Point, Ard-
more, county Waterford, on the 29th January. The
remainder of the unfortunate crew, six in number,-
unhappily perished.
Also—The thanks of the institution, inscribed on
vellum, to Mr. Wm. Maynard,
master
o
Thos. Bates, coxswain of the lifeboat mariner
of the
societyt
at Budehaven, with to the latter, and also £1