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. Hartonl
the Right lion. Stephen Cave, M.P. ; Mr. George
Lyall, Colonel Palmer, and Mr. John Griffith. The
minutes of ',he 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 ninci,ll
difficulty, the crew of four men of the smack
Robert Hudson, of Arklow, which, while maki°s
for Wexford, with a cargo of fish, had stranded oa
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 Hon. 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 ef
rescuing the crew of a vessel which was wreck°
near that place in a gale of wind and very heal
sea. The shipwrecked men had, however, bee°
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.
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
was also granted to five pilots who had Pn:
off in a shore boat, and had saved two out of
persons whose boat had capsized on the Herd San";
at the mouth of the Tyne, in a heavy sea, en th
28th July last. A reward of £l2 was also given e 3
12 men for putting off and assisting to save the livr
of some of the passengers and crew of the stearnea
Rose, of Glasgow, which, during a strong gale, °
become a total wreck in Brown's Bay, Ireland, °0
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the 16th July. A reward of £2 10s. was likewise
granted to four men for going out in a small boat'
in a strong wind and a heavy sea, on the 6th Ang''
and saving the lives of two out of five persnus'
whose boat had capsized on Aberystwith bar. 3:
rious other rewards were also granted to the cre'B3
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
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his grace, the president, on the occasion of the dealt
of his father, the late Duke of Northumberland. 't
was reported that the institution had recently °ll,
new lifeboats to Stromness (Orkneys), BrougiVe
Ferry (Dundee), and Hunstanton) (Norfolk). 1
railway and steam packet companies had as ninstlif
kindly conveyed the boats free of charge to tleeo
destinations. A grand demonstration had to'7,it
place on the 4th inst., at Hunstanton, with t;0
boat which is the gift to the institution of
licensed victuallers of England. A most inal3nsll3„o
demonstration had also taken place at Falmouth, -of
the 29th ult., at the inauguration of the Citi,s
Gloucester lifeboat on that station. Mr. R. l'esvidi
the secretary of the institution, and Capt. AV3rilio
R.N., inspector of lifeboats, had assisted ou,ta,
occasion, and the whole affair was most success'
It was decided to form a new lifeboat station at
Portrane, on the Irish coast. It was stated tn
Mrs. Burgess, of St. John's-wood, had decideao t
defray the cost, amounting to £420, of the life
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and carriage about to be sent by the institution
Stonehaven, N. 8., in memory of her late husl93ll;
During the past month a legacy of £540 had 13,,
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received from the executors of the late Miss
Goodman, of Eversholt, to pay for a lifeboat, ea,
12s. from the personal estate of the late 'j.
riage, and gear. Also an additional moietyii Marthaofi°
Bebb, of Bootham, York.
Payments amounting to upwards of £2,000 We.re,
ordered to be made on various lifeboat establish"
ments. A communication was read from the ('
valier Hebeler, the Prussian Consul-General, e'
pressing Governmentored him rel forat
et the
informationthethanksthathad obeen h
as f
fdthe working of the lifeboat system on the shores °
the British isles. Reports were read from the i°;
spector and assistant-inspector of lifeboats to i,
society on their recent visits to some of its lifeb°3
stations on the coast. The proceedings then tef'.
urinated.