The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-05 00:00:00

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Ye. terday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; the Right lion.
Earl Percy, P.C., president of the society, in the
chair. There were also present Thomas Chapman,
Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Lord Henry Cholmondeley, W.
H. Marton, Esq., Colonel Fitzroy Clayton, Admiral
Bullock, Alexander Boetefeur, Esq., Admiral
McHardy, and R. Lewis, Esq., secretary of the in-
stitution. The minutes of the previous meeting
having been read, a reward of £l3 10s. was voted to
the crew of the institution's lifeboat stationed at
Theddlethorpe, on the coast of Lincoln, for saving,
after repeated attempts, the crew of 16 men, a pilot,
and a passenger from the barque Centurion, which
during a heavy gale had stranded and become a total
wreck on the Rose Sand, off Saltfleet, ou the 18th
ult. A reward of £ll 10s. was also voted to pay
the expenses of the society's lifeboat stationed at
Donna Nook, on the coast of Lincoln, in going off
on the 10th ult. in a gale of wind and very heavy
sea, and rescuing the crew of four men from the
small boat of the schooner Squire, of Yarmouth,
which had become a total wreck off Donna Nook.
A reward of £7 ss. was also voted to pay the ex-
penses of the institution's lifeboat at Fowey, Corn-
wall, for putting off on the 17th ult., in reply to
signals of distress during a heavy gale of wind,
and bringing safely ashore the crew of five men
of the schooner Devonia, of Padstow, which
had anchored in Polkerris Bay. The ves-
sel, fortunately, rode out the gale, and
the men were again put on board the following day.
A reward of £l3 was also voted to the crew of the
Institution's lifeboat at St. Ives, Cornwall, for sav-
ing the crew of five men from the schooner Mary
Lewis, of Aberystwith, which had stranded and sunk
off St. Ives pier during a heavy gale of wind on the
17th ult. The Caister lifeboat of the society was
also the means of assisting to a place of safety the
Prussian schooner Louise and her crew of seven
men, which vessel was in a dangerous position
in
the Wold, off Winterton, on the 7th ult. A reward
of £7 ss. was likewise granted to pay the expenses
of the institution's lifeboat at Selsey, in putting off
during a gale of wind and bringing safely ashore
the crew of six men of the brigantine Sarah Ann,
of Jersey, which had become a total wreck off Selsey
on the 18th ult. The Holyhead lifeboat of the
society was also the means of bringing ashore four-
teen men from the stranded schooner, Nicolo, near
llolyhead, on the 30th ult. A reward of £6 was
also voted to the crew of the institution's lifeboat at
Drogheda, for saving three men from the schooner
Mary, of Dublin, which during a fresh gale had
driven on shore on the North Wall, Drogheda Bar,
on the 23d ult. A reward of £lB 13s. 6d. was also
voted to pay the expenses of the society's lifeboat at
Tramore, in rescuing the crew of ten men of the
barque Wild Horse, of Windsor, N.S., which had
stranded during a gale of wind on Tramore Beach on
the 23d ult. A reward of £l3 3s. was also granted
to pay the expenses of the institution's lifeboat
at Tyrella, in rescuing six of the crew of the sloop
William, of Painapol, which had stranded during a
fresh gale of wind in Dundrum Bay on the 23d
ult. A reward of £9 3s. was also voted to pay the
expenses of the society's lifeboat atWexford in res-
cuing, with the assistance of a steam tug, the
barque Loretto, of Liverpool, and her crew of 14
men, from a dangerous position near the Black-
water Bank, during a gale of wind on the 23d ult.
A reward of £l5 was also voted to the crew of the
Appledore lifeboat, for going out in a gale of wind
and heavy sea, and rescuing the crew of three men
from the rigging of the brig Harmony, of Bide-
ford, which had gone on the South Tail, Bideford
Bar, on the 29th ult. A reward of £2l was also
voted to pay the expenses of the institution's life-
boat at Palling, in saving the whole of the crew, six
in number, from the French schooner La Prudence,
which, during a fresh wind and heavy sea, was
wrecked off Palling on the night of the 30th ult.
Rewards amounting to £125 were also voted to pay
the expenses of the society's lifeboats at Brooke,
Poolbeg, Penzance, Plymouth, Howth, Donna
Nook, Sutton, Selsey, Pembrey, Aberystwith, and
Cromer, for various other services to distressed
vessels during the past month. A reward of
£5 ss. was also ordered to be presented to
seven men for putting off in a whale boat
belonging to the Howth Coastguard station, and
after repeated attempts saving six men from the
schooner William Henry, of Barrow, which during
a heavy gale of wind had stranded on Baldoyle
Bank on the 18th ult. Various other rewards were
also granted to the crews of different shore boats
for saving life from shipwreck. It was reported
that his Majesty the King of Denmark had granted
200 rix dollars to the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboat,
in addition to what the Board of Trade had pre-
viously given them, for the noble services which
they rendered to the crew of the Danish barque
Aurora Borealis, on the 6th January last. Her
Majesty the Queen had sent her annual subscription
of £5O to the institution, and the same was grate-
fully acknowledged. It was reported that the
lifeboat which the institution had sent to the
Paris Exhibition had attracted the special at-
tention of the Emperor and Empress of the
French. New lifeboats were about to be
sent by the institution to Falmouth, Exmouth,
and New Brighton. The cost of the lifeboat for
Falmouth had been generously contributed by the
city and county of Gloucester. Messrs. Roths-
child had liberally increased their annual subscrip-
tion to the institution to £lO 10s. An effort was
being made by the ladies in Edinburgh to raise a
sufficient sum to meet the annual expense of the
Edinburgh Working Men's Lifeboat, stationed at
Port Logan. Payments amounting to £2,200 were
ordered to be made on various lifeboat establish-
ments. The plan of the safety fishing-boat of the
institution was exciting considerable attention, and
two of the boats which had been tested on the coast
of Scotland had given great satisfaction. A report
was read from Captain David Robertson, R.N.,
the assistant inspector of lifeboats of the institution,
on his recent visits to its stations on the coasts of
Norfolk and Suffolk. The thanks of the institution
inscribed on vellum were ordered to be presented to
the Rev. Luke H. Wiseman and Thomas Smith,
Esq., for their valuable co-operation, through the
medium of the Methodist Recorder in collecting

nearly £BOO to defray the cost of the D. J. Draper
lifeboat. The proceedings then terminated.

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