The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT

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On Thursday, a meeting of this institution was
held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas
Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were
also present—Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Capt.
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral Washington,
F.R.S., hydrographer of the Admiralty ; Admiral
Cator, Colonel Palmer, Admiral MI-lardy, Admiral
Gordon, Capt. De St. Croix, and Capt. Ward, R.N.,
inspector of lifeboats to the society.
The Secretary read the minutes of the previous
meeting.

The committee offered a double reward, amount-
ing to £45, to be paid to the crew of the institu-
tion's lifeboat stationed at Caistor, on the Norfolk
coast, in admiration of their daring and persevering
services in rescuing in the night, during a fearful
gale of wind, and under the most adverse circum-
stances, the crew of seven men of the schooner
Trial, of Poole, Dorset, which was totally wrecked
on the Barber Sands. A reward of £4 10s. was
also voted to the crew of the Howth (Dublin Bay)
lifeboat for assisting to bring into port, during a
gale of wind, the schooner Liberty, of Dublin, and
her crew of four men. Payments, amounting to
£ll 45., were also made to the crews of several of
the lifeboats of the institution for putting off in re-
plies to signals of distress from vessels, which, how-
ever, had afterwards got out of danger. It fre-
quently happens that the lifeboat has to put off
often in the middle of the night on a fruitless
errand, but on such occasions it would not be safe
to hesitate for one moment. A reward of 17 was
granted to the crew of a salmon coble, of Benholm,
Scotland, for going off in a terrific gale of wind,
and through a heavy surf, to the rescue of two out
of three of the crew of a fishing-boat, which, hav-
ing shipped two heavy seas, instantly went down,
carrying with it one poor fellow, and leaving the
other two men struggling for their lives on the sur-
face. A reward of £2 10s. was also voted to the crew
of a coast-guard boat, for putting off and saving,
amidst considerable danger, four persons from the
sloop Robert, of Barrow, which, during stormy
weather, had been dismasted in Douglas Bay, Isle
Qf Man. Several other rewards for saving life from
various wrecks on different parts of the coast were
afterwards voted. A report was read from the in-
spector of lifeboats to the institution of his recent
visits to some of its lifeboats on the south coast of
Ireland, and on the Welsh coast. He found all the
stations,with few exceptions, in a state of efficiency.
A great demonstration had taken place at Ipswich
on the 29th ult., when the life boat presented by
that town to the institution was launched into the
River Orwell, amidst the acclamations of some
20,000 people. The success of that important and
humane undertaking was mainly due to Mr. Bate-
man Byng, of Ipswich. Miss S. Lechmere had pre-
sented to the institution £3OO to pay for the
Withernsea life boat and its transporting carriage.
Legacies of £lOO each had also been left to the
society by the late William Lupton, Esq., of Sal-
ford, Lancashire, and Dr. T. C. West, of Kingston-
upon-Hull:
Payments amounting to about £5OO having been
made, the proceedings terminated.