The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; his Grace the
Duke of Northumberland, P.C., in the chair. There
were also present Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S.,
Admiral Sir W. H. Hall, K.C.8., Sir Edward
Perrott, Bart., W. H. llarton, Esq., Captain De
St. Croix, Colonel Fitzßoy Clayton, John Griffith,
Esq., Colonel Palmer, Captain Ward, R.N., and
Richard Lewis, Esq. The minutes of the previous
meeting having been read, the silver medal of the
institution and a copy of the vote inscribed on
vellum were granted to Captain David Robertson,
R.N., assistant inspector of lifeboats to the institu-
tion, in acknowledgment of his gallant services in
putting off in the Yarmouth and Gorleston life-
boats on the 13th and 14th ult. during an easterly
gale, and saving twelve out of thirteen persons
forming the crews of the wrecked vessels
Giovannina A, of Venice, and the Favourite, of
Arbroath. £32 ss. were also voted to pay the
expense of the two boats on these occasions,
and £2B for two other services rendered by the
same lifeboat at Yarmouth, in saving the crews
numbering fourteen men, of the wrecked schooner
St. Cyran, of Hull, and the smack Admiral, of Yar-
mouth. Rewards am ountiug to £303 17s. were also
granted to the crews of 29 other lifeboats of the
society for services during the recent storms. The
lifeboats of the institution saved altogether during
the past two months 170 persons from different dis-
tressed vessels, every one of whom would probably
have perished in the absence of the help of the
lifeboat. Various other rewards were likewise,
granted to the crews of different shore boats for
saving life from wrecks on our coasts, and pay-
ments to the amount of about £1,200 were ordered
to be made on various lifeboat establishments.
Various liberal contributions were announced as
having been received from Bradford, Reading,
Dundee, Northampton, Dublin,llenley-on-Thames,
Settle, Yardley, and other places. The legacy
and interest thereon of the late Mr. James
Davidson Shaw, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, amount-
ing to £449 18s., bad also been received. Le-
gacies had likewise been left to the society by
the late Mr. Stanton Meyrick, of Brompton ; the
late Mrs. Mary Ann 'Wood, of Bath ; and the late
Mr. R. W. Simons, of Winchester. Mr. William
Smith, of Bowden, had placed £3OO in the hands
of the Corporation of Manchester, the interest
of which was to be given in perpetuity to
the institution, in aid of the support of its
Manchester lifeboats. The British Workman
lifeboat was ordered to be stationed at Palling,
on the coast of Norfolk. A first instalment of
£450, in aid of this lifeboat establishment, has
been forwarded to this institution through Mr.
T. B. Smithies. A public meeting had been held
at Dartmouth, convened and presided over by the
Mayor, at which it was decided that a lifeboat wasnot
needed there. A new lifeboat had been recently
sent to Appledore, on the north coast of Devon.
Reports were read from Captain J. R. Ward,
R.N., the inspector of lifeboats, and from the assis-
tant inspector, on their recent visits to different
lifeboat stations 'The proceedings then tenni-
! Dated.

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