The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-02 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Association.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was hel
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thos. Chapman,
Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also
present—Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral HA
C. 8., F.R.S., Alexander Boetefuer, Esq., Capt. De
St. Croix, Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P., W. H • liar'
ton, Esq., and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £26 was voted to the crew of the
Whitby lifeboat of the institution, for putting off
twice during the past few weeks through a very
heavy sea, and saving 15 persons, including the cap-
tain's wife and a lad, 12 years of age, from the screw
steamer Ocean Queen, of Newcastle, and 19 persons
from the barque Maria Somes, of London, both of
which vessels were wrecked on the rocks off Whitby.
A reward of £5 was also voted to the crew of the life-
boat of the institution stationed at Rosslao, Co. Wet'
ford, for going off and rescuing the crew of six men
from the lugger Peep-o'day, of Wexford, which
was totally wrecked during a strong wind
from E.N.E. on the Dogger Bank, off that
place, on the 21st of April. A reward of £4los.
was likewise granted to the crew of the institution's
lifeboat of Fowey, Cornwall, for putting off and re-
maining alongside the Hanoverian galliot Einbracht,
which was in distress on a lee shore in St. Austell
Bay, during a very strong wind from the &E., en
April N. A reward of £4 was also voted to the
crew of the institution's lifeboatstationedat Moelfre,
Anglesey, for going out and saving a man from a
ship's boat which had been carried far out to sea
during a strong wind at Redwharf Bay, on the 16th
ult. The boat had drifted a distance of five miles
from the shore when she was fortunately overtaken
by the lifeboat. Rewards amounting to £35 78•
were also granted to the crews of the lifeboats of
the institution at Pembrey, Llanelly, Cemlyn, Port-
rush, Cahore, and Scarborough for different services
during the past month. Various other rewards were
also voted to the crews of shore boats and others for
saving life from shipwreck on the coast of the United
Kingdom. A contribution of £2O had been received
from Miss -Florence Nightingale, and, in sending it/
she expressed her highest admiration of the objects
of the Lifeboat Institution, and of the heroes, as she
termed them, who are ever ready to man its life'
boats. Payments amounting to upward of £2,000
were made during the past two months on the life'
boat establishments of the institution. The institu-
tion had recently sent new lifeboats to Sunderland
and Dunbar. The cost of the Sunderland boat had
been raised in the town and county of Derby 131
T. Roe, Esq., the mayor ; William Peat, Beg"'
and other friends. A new lifeboat and trans Port:
ing carriage had also been sent, during the Pas"
month, to Holy Island, Northumberland. The
boat was called the Grace Darling, after the
heroine of that name. The institution had likewise
sent a new lifeboat to New Quay, Cornwall, to rf;
place one previously there, which had become tin',„
for service. The several railway companies had,
usual, readily given free conveyances over thelf,
lines to their respective stations. It was reported
that the inspector and assistant-inspector were Pr'
suing their annual visits to the lifeboats of th
society on the Irish and Scotch coasts. A rePe;
was read from the inspector of lifeboats on Op
comparative trials which had recently been made at
Cherbourg with three lifeboats. One of the 1301
was built in London, under the superintendence
the institution, for the Paris Shipwreck Societl ;
the two others were the invention of French persons'
and were built at Havre. The English lifeboat/
which is the result of great experience, had the ael
vantage. A letter was read from a benevolent ladift
expressing her desire to give the institution the eclt
of a lifeboat, to be called the Admiral Fitzroy
was stated that the late William Hollins, °
Over Wallop, near Southampton, had left the in-
stitution a legacy of £5OO Consols. It was reported
that the subscribers to the Dundee People's Jolot
had, through the proprietor of that journal, W•
Latto, Esq., contributed £BOO to pay the cost 0'
the two new lifeboats, and transporting carriages'
which the institution is about to station at Peter
head and Arbroath. Many of the subscribers tl
the fund are fishermen residing on the east coast 6)
Scotland. The Rev. E. S. Corrie has also forward°,,
,
to the institution £2 155., being the sum collected
for it by an invalid boy, from his friends visltieg
him. He is confined entirely to his couch, but e
takes great interest in the welfare of the societY
The proceeedings then terminated.