The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-01 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT EXPENSE'S AND SERVICES

During the year which has just closed, the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution has expended £6,258 ls,
on the following lifeboat establishments :—New-
biggin, Northumberland; Salturn and Filey, York-
shire ; Caistor, Norfolk ; Aldborough, Suffolk;
Margate and Werner, Kent ; Selsey, West Sussex;
Grange and Brook, Isle of Wight ; Penzance,
St. Ives, and Newquay, Cornwall; Penarth, Gla-
morganshire ; Llandwynn, Anglesey; Llandudno,
Carnarvonshire ; Southport and Lytham, Lan-
cashire; Silloth, Cumberland; Ayr and Irvine,
Ayrshire ; Kantyre, Argylesbire ; Buekie and
Banff, Banffshire ; St. Andrew's, Fifeshire ;
North Berwick, Haddingtonshire ; Portrush.
County Antrim; Tyrella, Dundrum Bay, County
Down. This institution has also expended
on the repairs, stores, alterations, &c., of its nume-
rous lifeboats, £3,632 195.; and £1,550 for exercis-
ing the crews of its lifeboats, making altogether a
total of £11,441. During the past year the life-
boats of the institution have been instrumental in
rescuing the crews of the following wrecked ves-
sels :—Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose, 1 ;
schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone, 6; brig Pallas,
of Shields, 3 ; ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow, 9;
r:rnack John Bull, of Yarmouth, 5; schooner Cathe-
rine, of Newry, 4; barque Niagara, of Shields,
11 ; a barge of Teignmouth, 2 ; brig George and
James, of London, 8 ; brig Zephyr, of Whitby,
6 ; coble Honor of Cullurcoats, 3 ; schooner Eliza,
of North Shields, 7; barque Oberon, of Liver-
pool, 15; brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, 9;
smack Wonder, of Teignmouth, 2; brig Scotia, of
Sunderland, 6 • sloop Three Brothers, of Goole,
5; sloop Charlotte of Woodbridge, 5; brig Ann,
of Blyth, 8 ; sloop Elope, of Dublin, 3 ; scooner
Druid, of Aberystwith, 5; barque Vermont of
Halifax, United States, 16 ; schooner, William
Keith, of Carnarvon, 2; brig Flying Fish, of
Whitby, 5 ; smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis,
3; steam dredge at Newhaven, 9 ; schooner Ad-
miral Hood, of Rochester, 6; schooner Susan and
Isabella, Dundee, 5 ; schooner Rose, Lynn, 3 ; brig
Pro droma, of Stockton, 11 ; brig Eliza, of Middles-
borough, 7 ; brigantine Freia, 6; brigantine Diana,
7; *brig Gloucester, of South Shields, 7 ; total, 210.
For these and other lifeboat services the institution
has voted £904 Bs. 4d. as rewards. It has also
granted rewards amounting to £203 4s. for
saving 245 shipwrecked persons by shore boats
and other means, making a total of 455 persons
says d from a watery grave ' • a most satisfactory
resu It, and clearly showing how much has been
accomplished by the well-directed efforts which
the National Lifeboat Institution has brought to
beat on this humane cause. This great and national
work has, however, only been accomplished by the
sock ty incurring liabilities to the extent of £5,419.
With so sacred an object in view as the rescue of
our fellow-creatures from an appalling death by
shipwreck, it might be supposed that the Lifeboat
Institution had claims which would come home
to the heart of every one in this great maritime
co antry. Such it may be hoped will be the case
as its operations become more generally known,
and thus an abundant harvest, not only of popular
sync patby, but of general pecuniary support, will be
the permanent
Lifeboat Institution do not, therefore, hesitate to
solicit most earnestly the support of the community
at large in aid of the benevolent objects of the
institution. They cannot but sympathise with the
vigor ousefforts now being made by the society to
save the lives of shipwrecked crews. Their help
waa never more needed than at the present time,
when, through the extraordinary efforts the society
has made within the past few years, it has now
108 lifeboats under its management ; for the main
tenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency.
a large permanent annual income is absolutelj
needed if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
We may add that contributions in aid of the philan-
thropic and national objects of the Lifeboat Institu-
tion are received by all the London and country
bankers, and by its secretary, 14, John-street,
Adelphi.

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