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The Life-Boat THE LIFE-BOAT, OE JOUKNAL OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT [PRICE 6i>. VOL. IV.—No. 40.] APEIL IST, 1861. ISSUED QOAETEELT. At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of Maritfh, 1861;, Vice-Admiral the Eight Honourable the Earl of HARDWICKE in the Chair, The following Keport of the Committee was read:— ANNUAL REPORT. the gratuitous preparation of the draft of the Charter of Incorporation the Institution is FOB several successive years the Committee indebted to Messrs. CLAYTON and SON, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- of Lancaster Place, Strand, its Honorary TUTION have, happily, been.able to report its Solicitors, to whom the Committee tender steady progress, and its advancement iri their best thanks. public favour. Year by year the field of Another important and interesting cha- its operations has extended—its life-saving racteristic of the past year is, that no less fleet has been added to—and the greater in than fourteen new life-boats have been pre- proportion to the number of wrecks on our sented to the Institution during that period coasts have been the number of lives that by philanthropic individuals.' have been saved from premature death A detailed list of those noble gifts is' through its instrumentality. given in the Financial Statement, but .the For the continued success by which their Committee cannot refrain from' alluding to efforts have been crowned the Committee one of" them of an especially interesting' desire to acknowledge their deep gratitede character, it being a presentation by two to the Almighty; and they tender their English ladies, in memory of a departed' thanks to those persons whose liberality has' sister. This life-boat,' which' is stationed'at' supplied; them with the means that have- Llandudno, in' North Wales, has been appro- been instrumental in effecting the same. priately named at their request the Sisters" The most important fact in the history of Memorial. the Institution during the past year is, that The Committee have the satfefactfpn to' of its incorporation by Royal' Charter, which, state, that HER MAJESTY THE' QtrEEtfj whb' in their last Annual Reportj the Committee since 1837 has been the' kind Patroness' of* intimated it was proposed to obtain. By the Society, has, in appreciation' of tn^'infr- that important document the Institution portant and national character of • the Work now stands on a solid and endnrmg • basis: of the Institution, become an Annual'Sub- it has assumed a1 greater national' import- scriber of'50L to its funds. ance- and it will reap other' contingedt advantages, such; for instance, as that • of The proceedings of the Institution during) 1 being legally entitled, by the-1 bequests1 of the- past year will be related under the deceased persons,1 to possess- landed'property several heads^ as follows:— to"the extent of 2,0007: per annum. For Life-boats.—During the past year the In^ LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL. — VOL. IV.—No. 378 ANNUAL REPORT. [APBIL 1,1861. stitution has placed 17 new life-boats on the number were rescued during the destructive coast, viz.: at Thurso, Buckie, Banff, and gale of the 9th and 10th of February. North Berwick, in Scotland. At New- Nineteen of these were saved by the biggin, Winterton, Walmer, Dungeness, Carnsore life-boat from the barque Guyana, Brooke, and Grange (Isle of Wight); New- of Glasgow. The cost (300/.) of this life- quay, Penarth, Porthcawl, Llandudno, and boat and transporting-carriage was pre- Silloth, iu England and Wales; and at Port- sented to the Institution as a Thank-offering, rush and Tyrella, in Ireland. by a lady whose life was saved from Others are in course of construction for drowning by H. A. HAMILTON, Esq., of Bal- Tynemouth, Whitby, Selsey, St. Ives, briggan, on board whose yacht she was Llanddwyn, Southport, Irvine, and Camp- when the accident happened. beltown. The Institution's life-saving fleet now con- Life-boat Carnages.—New life-boat car- sists of no less than 110 life-boats, nearly the riages have been built during the past year whole of which are comparatively new, 100 for the life-boats at Thurso, Buckie, Banff, of them having been built within the past ten North Berwick, Saltburn, Filey, Winter- years, all are in good repair, and in readi- ton, Walmer, Brooke, Grange, Newquay, ness for instantaneous service. Penarth, Llandudno, Dungeness, Portrush, The life-boats of the Institution have and Tyrella. Others are in course of con- undergone their usual periodical exercise, struction for various stations. often in the roughest surfs; and they con- Boathouses.—New boat-houses have been tinue to maintain their high character for erected during the past twelve months at safety and efficiency. Ayr, Thurso, Buckie, Banff, St. Andrew's, With the exception of those on the coasts North Berwick, Saltburn, Brooke, Grange, of Norfolk and Suffolk, and one or two Newquay, Penarth, Porthcawl, Llandudno, others, they have all been inspected and Silloth, Portrush, and Tyrella. taken afloat by the Inspector of the Society, Captain WARD, K.N., during the past Barometers.—The Committee have taken twelve months. steps to provide the life-boat stations of the They have in the same period been di- Institution, wherever desirable, with standard rectly instrumental in saving two hundred and Barometers, properly fitted up, and the daily ten lives from thirty-four shipwrecks, and indications of which will be registered on have, on forty-six other occasions, gone off a chart or diagram by the side of the in- to vessels in apparent danger, or which have strument. It seems probable that with shown signals of distress, but which have such powers placed in their hands, the ultimately got out of danger, or whose crews calamities now endured by our fishermen have not needed to be taken off. The whole and coasters may, in many instances, be of these valuable services have been per- avoided. A good Barometer in a public formed without the loss of a single life situation may warn them in time what amongst those who have manned them. weather to expect; and they may thus be On numerous other occasions the crews of frequently able to avoid exposing themselves life-boats have assembled in stormy weather to the terrible consequences of storms, so and kept watch during the night when dis- often at present proving fatal to them. The asters have been expected. Committee have received much valuable Although not strictly within the limit of assistance from Kear-Admiral FiTZ-Roy, this Report, which extends only to the termi- F.R.S., and JAMES GLAISHEE, Esq., F.R.S., nation of the year 1860, the Committee feel of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in that it will be gratifying to the supporters carrying out this important undertaking. of the Institution to know, that since the Mr. GLAISHER kindly verifies, by the 1st of January last, the life-boats of the Greenwich standard, each Barometer sup- Society have saved no fewer than one hundred plied to the Institution, which greatly en- and sixty-two persons, seventy-eight of which hances the value of the instrument, and APBIL 1, 1861.J ANNUAL EEPOBT. 379 makes it the standard of the neighbour- Lyme Regis. About eight o'clock at night hood in which it is situated. the alarm was given that a vessel was in distress in the offing. It was pitchy dark; Shipwrecks and Loss of Life.—Notwith- indeed the intense darkness, the strong gale, standing the almost unparalleled stormy and the heavy surf on shore, were enough, character tof the year 1860, the number of said the Mayor of the town, to appal any shipwrecks attended with loss of life was men entering the life-boat. After some considerably below the average, and, happily, short delay, however, the boat was manned there was no wholesale sacrifice of human by a gallant crew—her coxswain, THOMAS Kfe as in the cases of the Pomona and Royal BRADLEY, being early at his post. Tar- Charter in the previous year, when upwards barrels were lighted up on shore, and the of 800 persons perished from these two ships boat proceeded on her mission of mercy. alone. The total number of wrecks on the So truly awful was the night, that nearly coasts of the United Kingdom during the every one on shore believed she would never year I860 was 1379; the average of the return again. However, after battling with last seven years being 1184, whilst the total the fury of the storm, and after an absence loss of lives in 1860 was 536, the average of about an hour and a half, the life-boat did for the last seven years being 800. return, laden with the shipwrecked crew On the contemplation of so great a sacri- of three men of the smack Elizabeth Ann fice of human life the thought will arise, of Lyme Regis. The inhabitants of the Are there no means available, hitherto un- town were perfectly amazed at the life-boat's tried, which might lessen its amount in performances, and the daring behaviour of future years? — Is the country doing its her skilful coxswain and crew. duty to that part of its seafaring population The total number of 'persons saved from who man our merchant ships, and especially shipwreck from the establishment of the those, in our coasting trade ?—If these ques- Institution in 1824 to the end of the year tions cannot be replied to as satisfactorily as 1860, either by its life-boats, or for which could be wished, it is yet to be hoped that it has granted rewards, is as follows:— the yearly increasing amount of property and In the Year No.
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