The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Mr. Thomas
Chapman in the chair. There were also present
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart. ; Mr. W. H. Harton,
the Right llon. Stephen Cave, M.P. ; Mr. George
Lyall, Colonel Palmer, and Mr. John Griffith. The
minutes of the previous meeting having been read, a
reward of £6 Bs. was voted to pay the expenses of
the institution's lifeboat Civil Service stationed at
Wexford, Ireland, in putting off on the 17th ult., in
reply to signals of distress, while it was blowing
hard from the W.S.W., and saving, after much
difficulty, the crew of four men of the smack
Robert Hudson, of Arkiow, which, while making
for Wexford, with a cargo of fish, had stranded on
the south end of the Dogger Bank. This lifeboat
has already saved 40 lives from different shipwrecks.
The silver medal of the institution and a copy of its
vote on parchment were ordered to be presented to
the llon. Auberon Herbert, for putting off in the
Cromer lifeboat of the institution, when it was short-
handed, on the 26th of July last, with the view of
rescuing the crew of a vessel which was wrecked
near that place in a gale of wind and very heavy
The shipwrecked men had, however, been
rescued by means of the rocket apparatus before
the arrival of the lifeboat. The second service
clasp of the institution was also voted to Mr. Wil-
liam Cubitt, of Bacton Abbey, Norfolk, the local
hon. secretary of the National Lifeboat Institution,
for his gallantry on a recent occasion in saving
life on the Norfolk coast. A reward of £6
was also granted to five pilots who had put
off in a shore boat, and had saved two out of eight
persons whose boat had capsized on the Herd Sand,
at the mouth of the Tyne, in a heavy sea, on the
28th July last. A reward of £l2 was also given to
12 men for putting off and assisting to save the lives
of some of the passengers and crew of the steamer
Rose, of Glasgow, which, during a strong gale, had
become a total wreck in Brown's Bay, Ireland, on
the 16th July. A reward of £2 10s. wrs likewise
granted to four men for going out in a small boat,
in a strong wind and a heavy sea, on the 6th Aug.,
and saving the lives of two out of five persons,
whose boat had capsized on Aberystwith bar. Va-
rious other rewards were also granted to the crews
of shore boats for putting off during recent gales'
and assisting to save life from wrecks on our coasts.
A vote of condolence was ordered to be presented to
his grace, the president, on the occasion of the death
of his father, the late Duke of Northumberland. it
was reported that the institution had recently rent
new lifeboats to Stromness (Orkneys), Broughty
Ferry (Dundee), and Hunstanton) (Norfolk). The,
railway and steam packet companies had as usual
kindly conveyed the boats free of charge to their
destinations. A grand demonstration had taken
place on the 4th inst., at Hunstanton, with that
boat which is the gift to the institution of the
licensed victuallers of England. A most imposing
demonstration had also taken place at Falmouth, 011
the 29th ult., at the inauguration of the City of
Gloucester lifeboat on that station. Mr. R. Lewis,
the secretary of the institution, and Capt. Ward,
R.N., inspector of lifeboats, had assisted on the
occasion, and the whole affair was most successful.
It was decided to form a new lifeboat station a!
Portrane, on the Irish coast. It was stated that
Mrs. Burgess, of St. John's-wood, had decided to
defray the cost, amounting to £420, of the lifeboat
and carriage about to be sent by the institution to
Stonehaven, N. 8., in memory of her late husband'
During the past month a legacy of £5lO had bec°
received from the executors of the late Miss Ellen
Goodman, of Eversholt, to pay for a lifeboat, car:
riage, and gear. Also an additional moiety of £3l
12s. from the personal estate of the late Miss Martha
Bebb, of Bootham, York.
Payments amounting to upwards of £2,000 Were
ordered to be made on various lifeboat establish.:
merits. A communication was read from the Ole
valier Hebeler, the Prussian Consul-General, e%'
pressing the thanks of his Government for the
information that had been afforded him relative to
the working of the lifeboat system on the shores of
the British isles. Reports were read from the in'
spector and assistant-inspector of lifeboats to the
society on their recent visits to some of its lifeboat
stations on the coast. The proceedings then ter-
minated.

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