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to save vessel and crew, 3; bark Empress, of Prince
Edward's Island, 18; smack Active, of Selsey, saved

veisf_.,l; • Dutch schooner Talkeina Alcisitenia, as

si,ted to save vessel and crew, 8; steamer, Viking,
of Dundee, 7 ; smack ,John James, of Chester,

saved vessel and crew, 2 ; billyboy Swan, of Hull,
6 ; schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, 1 ; schooner
Elephant, of Ulverstone, 1 ; ship Frank Shaw, of
North Shields, 14 ; brigantine Cherub, of Yar•
mouth, 4; barge Ernest, of Ipswich, 4; brig Zos-
teria, of Colchester, 6; brig Lizzie, of Newport,
Monmouth, 8 ; schooner Ariel, of 'rraro, 5 ; brig
Henriette Greve, of Granton, saved vessel and
crew, 9 ; steamship Lady Flora, of Hull, remained
along-ide ; bark Drago, of Genoa; 16 ; bark High-
laud Chief, of London, 11 ; barque Tavistock,
of Plymouth, saved vessel ; schooner Pride of the
West, of Penzance, saved vessel an I crew, 6 ;
bark Columbia, of Stavanger, assisted to
save vessel and crew, 8 ; schooner H Ludy, of
Wexford, 4; brigantine Isabella, of Aberdeen, ren-
dered assistance; bark J. C. Ilowi'z, of Rostock,
8; coble Mary, of Hartlepool, 4; coble King
Fisher, of Hartlepool, assisted to save vessel and
crew, 5 ; coble William and Alice, of Hartlepool,
assisted to save vessel and crew, 5 ; sloop Amelia,
of Castletown, 2 ; steam whaler Diana, of hull,
31 ; bark Bartolomeo Comic', of Genoa, 14; Datch
brigantine Catharina, 5; brigantine Elizabeth, of
Drogheda, assisted to save vessel and crew, 7; bri-
gantine St. Areta, of Santander, 8 ; brig Wasps-run-
lock, of Sunderland, 6 ; three fishing cobles of Scar-
borough, assisted to save vessels and crews, 9 ; bark
Hannah, of Drobak, Norway, 9 ; bark Medoc, cf
Bordeaux, 17 ; brig Dawson, of Newcastle, 6 ; brig
Helsingoe, of Elsinore, 14 ; sloop Frances Mary, of
Inverkeithing, 3 ; brig Schiedam, of Middlebro', 5 ;
schooner Brenton, of Fowey, 5 ; schooner Colum-
bine, of Wexford, 5; brig John and Mary, of Shields,
9 ; brig Ravensworth, of Hartlepool, 6 ; brigantine
Gleaner, of Carnarvon, 3 ; schooner Trusty, of
Boston, 3 ; ship William Frothingharn, of New.
York, assisted to save vessel and crew, 18 ; bark
Emilie, of Swinernunde, assisted to save vessel and
crew, 14 ; bark Alma, of Malta, assisted to save
vessel' and crew, 16 ; ketch Heckler, of Cullen, 2 ;
schooner Astrea, of Konisberg, 6 ; sloop Ann Eliza-
beth, of Barnstaple, saved vessel and crew, 3 ;
brigantine Commodore, of Waterford, saved vessel
and crew, 5 ; schooner Two Sisters, of Aberystwith,
3 ; smack David, of Cardigan, 3 ; brig Supply, of
Stornoway, 7 ; schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick,
rendered assistance ; steamer Anglian, of Dublin,
rendered assistance ; schooner Adina, of London,
8 ; brig Echo, of London, 2 ; schooner Merlin, of
Llanelly, rendered assistance ; schooner Loretta, of
Bilbao, 13 ; Austrian bark Suez, 10 ; schooner
Vigilant, of Hayle, 6 ; schooner Jessie, of Liver-
pool, 5; brig Mary Young, of West Hartlepool, 8 ;
ship Providence, of Waisa, 3 ; brigantine Luther,
of Leith, 5 ; schooner Viscount Macduff, of Mac-
duff, 4 ; schooner Agatbe Scheilbert, 10 ; brig
Englishman, of Workington, 6 ; ship Coustancia,
of Stettin, assisted to save vessel and crew, 26 ;
and steamer M. E. Clarke, 12. This long list makes
a total of 832 lives rescued by the lifeboats of
the insitution front the abovementioued disasters,
in addition to 28 vessels saved from destruction.
During the same period the Lifeboat Institution
granted rewards for saving 360 lives by fishing and
other boats, snaking a grand total of 1,192 lives
saved mainly through its instrumentality. These
noble services of the lifeboats have varied much iu
character—many have been during the dark hours
of night, others have been by day ; some have
been at short distances from the shore, others on
the outlying banks far from the land. In some
cases greater danger hag been incurred than in
others. In some men have been washed over-
board from the boats, but recovered again. In-
deed, the work of saving shipwrecked persons,
even in the best appointed lifeboats, must ever be
one of danger, and no little courage and hardihood
are required on the part of those who engage in it.
By gibing their invaluable aid they perform their
full share of the duty of alleviating and reduc
ins the amount of the misery and evil pro3uced
by the storms on our coasts. It remains fur those
who cannot share the risks and exposure which
these brave n'en incur to perform their, part in this
humane work, by enabling the institution which
has undertaken to organise and superintend it to
provide the lifeboats' er:ays with every means of
safety and efficiency, and to remunerate them Lufil-
den tly, this serving as some encouragement to them
in return for the risks and labour and exposure
which they undergo. The National Lifeboat In-
stitution accordingly appeals to all humane and
geberous persons in the United Kingdom to con-
tribute from their abundance towards so good a

cause.

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