THE LIFE-BOAT,

OR

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (ISSUED QTJABTEBLY.)

r PRTCB 3d. VOL. VLTL—No. 85.] AUGUST IST, 1872. LWith Illustrations.

SWIMMING. the rules of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the Eestoration of the IT is now some seventeen years since we Apparently Drowned are found in- felt it our duty to call the attention of the \ valuable. public to the lamentable disuse into which ; Accordingly, when persons who cannot the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since swim find themselves in deep water, that period great advances have been they are usually drowned; and this made in teaching this important accom- lamentable result naturally follows the plishment, which belongs alike to all improper use they make of their limbs. classes of the community. ' The cause of this misapplication of the There is hardly a county throughout limbs by man, when immersed in deep the 'British isles which has not either water, is owing to the totally different rivers or brooks large enough to enable mode in which the limbs are made use of the Art of Swimming to be efficiently and in walking and running on land, to that rapidly taught. During the summer in which they should be exercised in months, most distressing accidents are of water. constant occurrence, and particularly so Again, sea-water being heavier than on large rivers, like the Thames and the that of rivers, is best calculated to support Mersey, which on warm days are often man in swimming; and those persons crowded with amateur boatmen. Swim- who are specifically heavier than river- ming, which is by no means difficult of water, may be sustained in a floating posi- acquisition, when once mastered, is never tion in sea-water. afterwards forgotten. Every one must | It may be observed that man, being so have observed that a large number of nearly of the same specific gravity as animals transmit themselves from place , water, and air being 1,000 times lighter, to place by swimming; and when taking ; a few cubic inches of air in a bag are a view of the variety of forms presented i sufficient to keep up one who cannot swim by the locomotive organs of these animals, • permanently on its surface. As air retained we perceive that they perform their move- : in a bag cannot in all cases be perma- ments in various ways. nently depended on, the NATIONAL LIFE- All those animals which constantly, BOAT INSTITUTION sanctions only cork- breathe the air—especially man and the i jackets—which each man of the crews of higher orders, must float on the surface j its Life-boats is required to wear before while swimming. They die of suffocation j he goes afloat in the boat. These cork- when water chokes up the air-tubes of jackets have an average buoyant or sus- the lungs. This is called drowning; and j taining power of 25 Ibs.; in other words when persons are found in that condition, j they possess sufficient buoyancy to support

THE LIFE-BOAT JOCENAL.—VOL. VIII.—No. 85. 336 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872. a man, with his clothes on, under the most , proper use. The smaller of our rivers are perilous circumstances. i used in a happy-go-lucky fashion by It is somewhat astonishing, not with- t swimmers who fancy they have found out standing the large number of persons I a corner where they can exercise their art who are annually drowned in our rivers unperceived, or by crowds of boys whose arising from inability to swim, that manifold voices, heard at a long distance, measures are not enforced by the local give warning to all wayfarers. But our authorities to compel watermen and others larger rivers are frequently guarded by a who let out boats, to keep constantly in f series of boards announcing that the direst them some such simple method as cork penalties of the law will visit the in- floats for sustaining the body in the. water , cautious lad who strips himself and dashes if only for a few minutes. i into the water; so that the English lover Swimming should form part of the : of swimming is driven to choose between physical education of our youth of both the police-court and deep water. It is sexes; not only with a view to cleanliness, true that, in many quarters, the natural but also to the increase of health and wish on the part of the bather to escape strength, as well as to provide a sufficient observation has been considered sufficient guard against subsequent accidents. to keep our rivers secure. It is, therefore, with considerable satis- Any one familiar with our larger rivers faction that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT IN- knows that out of their beds are formed STITUTION observes that, at some places in a series of islets, on which tall sedges, connection with our large rivers, Public | willows, and wild flowersgro w abundantly. Meetings have recently been held to con- i The small channels between these islets and sider the project of placing thereat large : the mainland are for the most part shel- Public Floating Baths for Swimmers. tered by this vegetation; and accordingly, We are far behind many other countries, on fine summer days, the swimmers pull up as has been well observed by The Da/ily to these creeks, anchor their boats, throw News, in the matter of public baths; ; their clothes on to the bank, and jump partly, we are inclined to hope, from the : into the water. This would be all very fact that the English people use a good well but for the fact that a swimmer is deal of cold water at home. But there are sometimes a creature of impulse, and when millions amongst us who are unacquainted he is going through some favourite per- with the morning ' tub' or the shower- formance—say that of lying on his back, bath; and on a summer's day the numbers i with one leg in the air and one arm round of men and boys who manage to obtain his head, while he propels himself with surreptitious baths by diving into half- | the other arm and leg—he may suddenly hidden pools and creeks in our rivers offer i find himself shooting out from the en- ample testimony to the use that these trance of the creek into the main stream. streams might be turned to, if only the | There are generally boats on the stream. proper facilities were placed on their j The boats sometimes contain young ladies; banks. Then there are thousands amongst and then the alarmed swimmer, discovering us who find in the splashing of a house- his whereabouts, wishes that he had the bath no tolerable equivalent for the brisk ; dexterity of a dolphin, and could suddenly exercise of a good swim, and who look at i dive and hide his troubled visage in the a river, particularly on a warm July day, abyss. with a longing which sometimes is de- When the Swimming Baths come into veloped into a hatred of those innocent ! use, many modifications will be needed in parties of loungers whose presence along order to suit various requirements; but the banks renders a plunge impossible. it will be found that, in the neighbour- It is really an odd thing that the oppor- | hood of great cities like London, anything tunities for bathing offered by our large that hits the popular fancy will certainly streams have never been turned to their i be remunerative. Besides the great water AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 337

enclosures, such as those on the Seine and | to be a matter of personal pride with our the Moldau, which are exclusively devoted youths and young men to be able to swim; to the use of the confident swimmer, we ' and if the mere ability to keep afloat for ought to have a series of private baths, | five minutes, or to strike across twenty such as those familiar to the Ehine— yards of stream, were more common, we wooden boxes, as it were, let down into [ should have far fewer of those fatal acci- i! the river, which rushes through them. A dents which erery year mark our boating '! rope attached to the side gives the victim ' annals. It is not necessary that a young of a first plunge an ample sense of safety, man should be an expert swimmer; but the while he enjoys, at the same time that he simple fact of supporting oneself in the knows he is in the river, the privacy of a water for a few minutes—an accomplish- bath-room. It would also be a great boon ment which any person in ordinary health to timid swimmers, or persons learning to can learn by a few hours' practice—often swim, if one of the swimming-baths were ' means the rescue from a premature death. constructed with a board some five feet Feats of swimming seldom save lives. below the surface of the river, an arrange- ! When a man is shipwrecked in mid-ocean, ment which has been found serviceable in ! the ability to keep himself afloat for a the excellently-appointed public baths of considerable time certainly multiplies the Prague. When we come down the Thames chance of his being picked up, but the from Richmond, however, and get to the chance is small all through. On the other neighbourhood of London, the condition , hand, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- of the water itself becomes an important \ TION has every year to lament a number matter for consideration. The proposal to of deaths on our coasts which need never filter the water of the swimming-bath have occurred, if the victims of such through sand can only be applied, of ] catastrophes had been able to swim even course, to an enclosed tank; but perhaps a dozen or twenty yards. the joyous sense of abandonment expe- rienced by the swimmer who plunges into the clear waters of the Seine just under- HINTS TO BATHERS.—The Eoyal Humane neath the houses of Paris, may be judi- Society lias issued the following notice:—Avoid ciously bartered, when we come to London, bathing within two hours after a meal, or when for a half-assured conviction that the exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause; or water is fairly clean. Fortunately the when the body is cooling after perspiration; or Thames is becoming purer every year; altogether in the open air if, after having been a and when once our towns and villages short time in the water, there is a sense of chilli- have been finally coaxed or threatened ness with numbness of the hands and feet; but into carrying their drainage elsewhere, bathe when the body is warm, provided no time is lost in getting into the water. Avoid chilling the the bathers may then not be much worse body lay sitting or standing undressed on the banks off than the swimmer who dips into the or in boats after having been in the water. Avoid Seine under the bridges of Paris. With remaining too long in the water; leave the water public baths placed along the banks of a immediately there is the slightest feeling of chilli- stream, all the unpleasant circumstances ness. The vigorous and strong may bathe early in connected with furtive and uncomfortable ; the morning on an empty stomach. The young, river-bathing disappear; and a series of j and those who are weak, had better bathe two or such buildings would at once contribute three hours after a meal; the best time for such is from two to three hours after breakfast. Those to public decency, considerably affect the •who are subject to attacks of giddiness or faint- cleanliness and health of the population, ness,- and those who suffer from palpitation and and provide a pleasant and inexpensive other sense of discomfort at the heart, should means of recreation and amusement. not bathe without first consulting their medical In each of these baths, too, we hope to adviser. find a teacher of swimming established, with a strong clientele of pupils. It ought 338 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872.

THE DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT ZUE RETTUNG SCHIFFBRUCHIGER. OB, GERMAN SOCIETY FOB SAVING LIVES FROM SHIPWRECK. As the means provided in other countries tion to render assistance to shipwrecked for saving lives from shipwreck cannot seamen. These associations extended their fail to be interesting to a large number operations, independently, to the districts of our readers, we have much satisfac- in their own immediate neighbourhoods tion in placing before them the following until the 29th May, 1865, when, at a account of the Society which has under- meeting held at Kiel, most of them united taken that important duty on the coast themselves in one corporation, adopted of Germany. We have been kindly fur- statutes, and elected as their President, nished with the necessary information for three years, H. H. MEIER, Esq., a dis- by Captain H. STEENGHAFE, its able and tinguished merchant and ship-owner of active Inspector of Life-boats, who has Bremen, well known as the founder and recently been on a visit to this country, Chairman of the North German Lloyd on behalf of his Society, to make himself Steam Ship Company. acquainted with all the means provided It was then enacted as a statute that on our own coasts for the rescue of ship- the residence of the President should be wrecked persons, and with the system the seat, or " head-quarters," of the So- of management and machinery of the ciety; and the choice therefore fell on NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. Bremen, where it still continues, through Although the constitution of the Ger- the re-election of Mr. MEIER. man Society is somewhat different from All the German private societies have that of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- now united, and form the Deutsche Gesell- TUTION, yet, like the latter, it is main- schaft zur Settling Schifbruchiger — the tained solely by voluntary contributions, " German Society for Saving Lives from which makes it still further an object of Shipwreck"—providing the whole extent interest to us. of the German coast with both Life-boat Up to the year 1861, there were on and Rocket Stations. the German coast no other arrangements The Society at present possesses 44 for saving lives from shipwreck than a Life-boats and 32 Rocket Stations on the few Life-boat and Mortar Stations, esta- shores of the North Sea and Baltic. blished and maintained by the Govern- There are also 15 Life-boats on the ment at the entrance of the most frequented coast of Germany belonging to the Go- ports. vernment. Subsequently several private societies The total number of life-saving stations were formed in the principal sea-ports of on the German coast is 76, at some of the North Sea and Baltic, for the purpose which there are both rockets and a mor- of providing other dangerous parts of the tar, besides one or more Life-boats. We coast with means to enable the popula- append a list of those stations:—

LIFE-BOAT, ROCKET, AND MORTAR STATIONS ON THE GERMAN COASTS.

No. STATION. LIFE-SAYIXG APPARATUS.

NORTH SEA. 1 Island of Borkum, West side Life-boat. 2 East side 3 Juist, West side . 4 „ East side Life boat and Rocket Apparatus. 5 Norderney, West side 6 East side Life boat. 7 „ Baltrum 8 „ Langeoge . 9 Spiekeroge 10 „ Wangeroge 11 Norddeich .... 12 Neuharrlingersiel. . 13 Carolinensiel ... AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 339

LIFE-BOAT, ROCKET, AND MORTAR STATIONS ON THE GERMAN COASTS— font.

No. STATIOX. LIFE SAVING APPARATUS. |

NORTH SEA — continued. 1 14 Life-boat. 15 16 17 » 18 ? 19 ' i 20 » .] 21 Light Vessel No. 2, Mouth of the Elbe . ] 22 2 L fe-boats. I i 23 Neufeld . ... i 24 25 Light Vessel, Mouth of the Eider . > 26 Sttderho'ft j 27 28 Island of Amrum, Stenodde .... j 29 „ „ Kniephaven 30 „ Sylt, Kantum Rocket Apparatus. 31 » )) 32 » > ?

BALTIC. 33 Life-boat ami Rockets. 34 Island of Poel Life-boat. ! 35 2 Life-boats and Rockets. 36 , , , , Rockets and Mortar. 37 Rockets. 38 Life-boat and Rockets. 39 Life-boat. 40 Island of Hiddens-Oe, Klostcr .... Life-boat and Rockets. 41 „ Rugen, Putgarden .... j j i 5 42 Rockets. 43 „ „ Neu-Mukrau .... » 1 44 „ n GChren 45 Swinemunde 3 Life-boats, 2 Rocket and 2 Mortar Apparatus. 46 Life-boat. j 47 Mortar. | 48 < 49 Hoff Rockets" . ! 50 Life-boat and Rockets. 51 Life-boat, Rockets, and Mortar. 52 Rockets. 53 Jershdft 54 2 Life-boats, Rockets, and Mortar. 55 Life-boat. 56 Life-boat, Rockets, and Mortar. 57 Life-boat and Rockets. 58 Rockets. 59 60 Hela . . . " j 61 3 Life-boats, Rockets, and Mortar. : 62 Neufahr Life-boat. j 63 Rockets. 1 64 Mortar. j 65 Rockets. j 66 67 Life-boat and Rockets. j 68 Pillau . . . 4 Life-boats, Rockets, and 2 Mortars. j 69 Life-boat and Rockets.

70 J > J 3 71 Rockets. 72 73 Life-boat and Rockets. ; 74 2 Life-boats, Rockets, and 2 Mortars. 75 Life-boat and Mortar. 76 Rockets. 340 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1,1872.

The following Table shows the number seen that no year has passed without of lives saved from English vessels be- saving the crews of at least two English tween the years 1866 and 1871 by the vessels, giving a total of 164 lives saved Life-boats and life-saving apparatus on from 16 vessels in those six years:— the coast of Germany, by which it will be

SERVICES RENDERED AT THE GERMAN LIFE-BOAT STATIONS TO ENGLISH SHIPWRECKED CREWS FROM 1866 TO 1871.

Ho. OP BY WHAT MEANS LIVES DATE. DISTRICT. STATIOK. VESSEL. RESCUED. SAVED.

1866 Feb. 10 i Coast of Ostfrieslaud Juist . . . Steamer Excelsior Life-boat .... 15 „ Aug. 7 Mouth of the Weser Bremerhaven Brig Clyde . . . 7 „ Oct. 16 Mouth of the Elbe . Cuxhaven Brig Aaetphi . . 9 „ Nov. 9 • Coast of Konigsberg Pillau . . Steamer Ajax . . 23 „ Nov. 10 ; Mouth of the Elbe . Cuxhaven Stmr. Enrlde Grey 19 „ Dec. 12 Coast of Dantzig Stutthof . Brig IduKa . . . Mor :ar Apparatus 9 1867 April 5 Coast of Ko'nigsbergj Pillau . . Schooner Rankeiler 6 „ Nov. 20 Coast of Dantzig . . Neufahrwas 56 Brig Greta. . . . Life joat .... 8 1868 Oct. 25 Mouth of the Elbe . Cuxhaven Brig Warwick . . 5 „ Nov. 3 Coast of Ostfriesland Norderney Brig Elizabeth . . 7 1869 Feb. 27 Mouth of the Elbe . Cuxhaven Brig Danlzig . . 10 „ Sept. 3 Coast of Dantzig . Neufahnvasse Schooner Standard 5 1870 Nov. 1 Mouth of the Elbe . Duhnen . 1 Steamer Lanoma . 7 „ Nov. 1 Cuxhaven 7 ', Nov. 7 Coast of Ko'uigsberg Pillau. . Schooner Jfaori . fi 1871 March 2 Coast of O&tfrieslaud Borkum . Stmr..AoAn Vtmghun 16 „ Sept. 25 » !) )> •! Brig Asia . . . .1 5 Total lives saved . 164 1 The Annual Meeting of the Institution having been in more frequent communi- is held in one of the seaports, always on cation with this Institution, and having the 29th of May, the day of its founda- been guided to a great extent by its ex- tion. This assembly decides on all mat- perience in deciding on. the character of ters of importance, both pecuniary and its own Life-boats and its system of ma- practical. His Majesty the EMPEEOE OF nagement, &c. In now giving an account GERMANY is the protector or patron of the of the life-saving society of its great rival, Society. Its stations are all visited at Germany, we venture to express a h'ope least once in each year by the Inspector, that their rivalship in future shall be in who informs us that they have great such works as these, and in the desire difficulties to encounter on many parts of to excel in the arts and sciences, in the their coasts where wrecks frequently occur, refinements and embellishments of life, on account of the country being thinly and in the moral virtues, which ennoble, populated, whilst long sands often stretch exalt, and benefit mankind, rather than for miles into the sea, and the beaches and in the rivalry of the sword. shore are frequently so soft and bad, and We hope, in future numbers of this horse-power so difficult to be obtained, Journal, to give accounts of others of the that it is indispensable to have the Life- principal foreign life-saving associations. boats and their transporting-carriages of In 'the meantime we hold out the right the lightest possible construction, and hand of fellowship to the "German So- therefore smaller than they would other- ciety for Saving Lives from Shipwreck," wise wish them to be. The boatmen, and thanking it for the good services of however, are hardy, and even women its Life-boats and apparatus, and of the have sometimes helped to make up the hardy boatmen who work them, to the crew of a Life-boat when a sufficient crews of English vessels in their distress: number of men could not be obtained. we can assure them that their establish- We have hitherto in this Journal more ments and their good work will always be frequently and especially referred to the looked on with interest by the NATIONAL Life-boat Society of France than to those LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION of Great Britain. of other foreign countries, that Society ACGDST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 341

ADDITIONAL STATIONS AND NEW LIFE-BOATS. been provided from the legacy received by the Institution from the late Mrs. HARRIOT BICHARDSON, of Greenwich, and the testatrix having requested that a Life-boat might be named the William and Harriot, this boat bears accordingly that designation. A new and commodious house was built for the reception of the Life-boat, which was sent to its station in January, 1871. It was taken by the London and North-Western and Glasgow and South-Western Eailways to Girvan—the latter Company kindly giving it a free conveyance. On reaching Girvan, it was met by its crew, who had come over to fetch the boat, which was then sailed by them to its station, the carriage being sent by land. The crew were pleased with the way in which the boat behaved. On the 1st February the Life-boat was drawn in procession through the village, prior to being launched with the usual ceremonies, in the presence of a consider- able number of persons, every one appear- ing anxious to show how much the gift of the boat was appreciated.

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—The crew of the Life-boat, stationed at this place a few years since, represented to the Institution, that, while they had every confidence in their boat for all in-shore work, and, under many circumstances, would not hesitate to go off in it to wrecks on the Goodwin Sands, they nevertheless considered it was not large enough for service on those Sands in certain winds, and they therefore declined to work it on such occasions. To meet their wishes, and it being highly important BALLANTHAE, N.B.—On the application that these dangerous sandbanks should of the local residents, a Life-boat station be adequately guarded by eificient Life- lias been established at Ballantrae, a small boats, the Institution has accordingly pro- village on the coast of Ayrshire, where vided for the station, in lieu of the Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three previous boat, a very fine Life-boat, 36 having occurred there, with loss of life, feet long by 9 feet wide, and pulling during the latter part of 1869. Sufficient 12 oars. This boat was towed to its fishermen being resident in the neighbour- station free by one of the vessels of the hood, a 33 feet 10-oared Life-boat has General Steam Navigation Company, the 342 THE LITE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872. old boat being granted a free conveyance j Steam Ship Company. It is named the back to London over the line of the Christopher Ludlow, in memory of a de- South-Eastern Railway Company. It had ceased gentleman, whose executors had only been a few days on its station when paid over a large sum to the funds of the Institution. it was called out on service, and did good work by saving 7 men from the wrecked ; NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—The old Life- barque Richard and Harriet, of Hull. j boat on this station has been replaced I by a new and larger one, 32 feet long, GREENCASTLE, NEAR LONDONDERRY.— 7J feet wide, rowing 10 oars double- On the recommendation of the Local banked, and provided with a transporting- carriage, for which a new and commodious Committee, a larger Life-boat has been house has been erected, on ground granted provided for Greencastle than the one to the Institution, at a nominal rent, by previously stationed there, as so many the Corporation of New Romney. The large emigrant ships are constantly leav- whole expense of the new Life-boat estab- ing the Port of Londonderry, and should lishment was presented to the Institution accidents happen to them at the entrance by Mrs. HATTON, in memory of her late of Lough Foyle, where the boat is placed, husband, after whom the boat is named a larger boat was considered necessary. the Doctor Hatton. In July, 1871, the boat was conveyed by road on its carriage The new boat, which is 33 feet long and to Belvedere in Kent, the residence of the rows 10 oars, was taken to Liverpool by donor; and after having been exhibited railway, and then conveyed free to its there was sent on to Ashford, by the South- station on board one of the steamers of Eastern Eailway, the Company granting Messrs. JOHNSON, GRAINGER, and Co., of it a free conveyance, and bringing back Liverpool, who also brought back the the old boat and carriage on similar old boat to the Mersey on similar liberal liberal terms. The first launch of the terms. new Life-boat at its station took place on the 4th August, on the occasion of DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFOED. The the local Annual Regatta. Prior to the Life-boat stationed at Dungarvan some launch, the Inspector of Life-boats, Capt. years since had performed several good J. R. WARD, R.N., handed over the boat to the charge of the Local Committee, the services, but on the occasion of a vessel gift being duly acknowledged by the Vicar being stranded in the neighbourhood of of New Romney, the Rev. R. SMITH, B.D., the Life-boat station in January, 1871, the who expressed the hearty thanks of -the boat, notwithstanding three gallant at- inhabitants to the Institution and the tempts on the part of the crew, failed to benevolent donor for the fine boat com- reach the wreck until the weather had mitted to their charge. The Life-boat somewhat moderated. The Local Com- was then named by Miss COBB, who, mittee, and the master and owner of the having dashed a bottle of wine against the boat's side, said, "I name this boat ship, considered that the failure was not the Doctor Hatton, and may God prosper attributable to any fault on the part of it." Afterwards, the boat was success- the crew—who did their utmost on the fully launched and put through various occasion—but that it was caused by want evolutions. Mr. A. ANDERSEN, the Govern- of power in the boat, which only pulled ment Superintendent of Life-boats on the 6 oars single banked. When the station Coasts of Denmark, who had come to was formed it was not practicable to place England to obtain from the Institution and the Board of Trade information 011 there a larger boat, but now sufficient the Life-boat work and the Rocket and men to work one being obtainable, a Mortar Life-saving Apparatus, attended 32-feet boat, rowing 10 oars, double to see the launch of the Life-boat, and banked, and furnished with a trans- the Rocket Apparatus worked by the porting-carriage, has been provided, and Coast Guard, with all of which he was has given much satisfaction to the crew. much gratified. It was taken free to Cork by the Cork AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 343

A SHIPWRECK. THE LIFE-BOAT SEEVIOE. [WE have extracted the following account stroke of theirs, was a pleasant sight to any eyes; but what must it have been to those in peril, of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from clinging to rope and spar, and drenched with an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, spray, who saw in them the helping-hand of by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, Heaven! This had happened many times, and it was fated to happen again that very day. published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL. News came from the watch-towers, that far-out The incidents detailed in it have been at sea—miles off—there was a large vessel scud- accurately drawn; and we might name ding bare-poled before the wind, with signals of distress. We brought our telescope to bear; almost with certainty where they oc- and through the flying foam, and, as it seemed, curred on the West Coast of England a on the horizon's verge, we could just discern her. winter or two ago. We are often satisfied She looked like a huge log, and, though more experienced eyes had remarked her reversed with giving the bare facts of a noble life- ensign, we could see no flag at all. Without one boat service, and leave others, as in the ck of colour to relieve its wretched aspect, and present instance, to elaborate on them Zlost without shape, this floating object floun- dered on apace, more and more out to sea; for faithfully.] the wind, though still blowing fiercely—and far too much for life-boat practice—had changed its " The pilchards, as has been said, were safely course, till at last we could see her no longer. housed ; but had the shoal arrived but a few daya We were told she was then seven miles off the later, not a fish would have been taken. The soft land. It was the great distance from the shore, calm summer days came suddenly to an end, and and not the fury of the sea, which for a time •winds arose, and the waves with them. I never deterred the crew of the Saveall from pulling out heard such wind. The first night of it,I thought the after her. She was scudding almost as fast as " Look-out" must have been carried bodily away, the life-boat itself could sail, and they might not and become an inland residence. It began by a come up with her—even if they did so at all— few angry nourishes of trumpets—the summons to till she was a score of miles away. Then, how surrender; and then, when we didn't, the assault. should they return in the teeth of such a wind as The whole force of that north-wester was formed, this ? It was not to be expected, even of Cornish as it were, into a storming-party, and threw itself seamen, that they should run so desperate a hazard. en masse, not upon Boddlecombe, as it seemed, but " But there WM one in the place who had, on upon our dwelling. Its onslaught was so terrific occasion, shown himself as brave a man as ever that o»e could not imagine it had any superfluous pulled an oar, though that was not his calling. energy to bestow elsewhere. It did not ebb and This was the clergyman. In many a riskful flow, as the winds within our experience had been rescue on t&at coast he had greatly distinguished wont to do. It never paused to take breath, but himself; and his purse, though not a full one, was having once fallen upon us, continued to heave always open when the poor had need. A rich and push till the house rocked to its foundations. man, »f generous but mistaken feeling, might Those lines of the poet occurred to me in which have gone down to the pier-head—where the crew the seaman expresses his wonder how the lands- were standing with their sou'-westers and cork man can endure the storms which bring falling jackets on, but despairing of the ship on account chimneys and house-tops upon his head; yet even of the great distance—and offered five pounds a then I shuddered at what the raging ocean must man to whomsoever wouW venture. But life-boat be like, and how much more terrible it must be to men do not sell their liy-es in that fashion. It be out yonder than in my rocking bed. Nothing may be noticed that they wUi often not put out to could be seen of the sea, for both moon and stars sea after mere property—that is, when a ship is were hidden; but the roar of it was beyond known to be deserted—though, in much stormier measure appalling, and the spray was poured weather, they will do «o to save human life. It is upon our windows—high as we stood —in floods. not gain which tempts them, though God forbid \OVL might have thought they were being cleaned that they should lack such inadequate rewards as by a garden-engine. Notwithstanding the fre- man can gjye them. Nor are they so blind to quent thought, ' Come, this must be the worst of peril, but that the remembrance of wife and little it,' the storm yet increased in strength, and also ones, dependent on their toil for daily bread, will in literal violence. Besides the broadside rush of sometimes make them pause. The thought of those it, its sharpshooters rattled and volleyed through to-day, and of the weary miles of hostile wind and every creek and cranny, and swore in the most sea that must needs intervene between them and horrible manner through the closed doors. home, and would possibly cut them off from it for " The Boddlecombe life-boat lived in an edifice ever, compelled them to be prudent: they were expressly built for her accommodation; and when not afraid-of the sea, not they; but they mis- she took the air, was drawn on wheels by four trusted their own powers of endurance, as well horses, so that she could be launched from any they might. Still, they felt for the poor souls out part of the coast as wind permitted. She was a yonder driving to their doom, and passed their gaily-painted affair; but she had done excellent telescopes from hand to hand, and growled their work, and all Boddlecombe—nay, all England - discontent—divinest pity. was justly proud of her. Of no war-ship' could " I was on the pier myself, when down the parson more nobler annals have been written than those came, with his grave resolute face, and asked the of the little Satteall; and she was manned by as men to go. He made no speech—platform oratory brave a crew as ever put to sea from an English is quite unknown at Boddlecombe—but addressed harbour. To see them in their uniforms of blue to each singly a few earnest words. There was no and white, or clothed in waterproof, with hats to attempt to moderate the peril—far from that, but match, cleaving the seas with that long even he all the more insisted on the duty. He asked it,

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too,just as though it were a personal favour; and pendent on them for such a service; the quickest not a man denied him—no, not one. The nearest eyes, the strongest arms, the coolest heads, must approach to a refusal was an irresolute scratching alone be chosen. of the head, or an ' I suppose I must.' His hardest i "' What! would you take our WILLIE from us task was to persuade the women to let the men go; ' —our only bairn ?' cried one old woman. for you can't pick out your single men, or those "' It is for God's own work,' said the parson, who have no ' ties'—no old or young folks de- ! gravely,' and you will never repent his going.'

" But I could see that he spoke like a man under up drift wood, I had often spoken with, and the sense of a great responsibility; one who felt he had told me that their WILLIE maintained that at his door, if WILLIE was drowned, she would both him and the ' old woman ;' but now he lay the death of her son. The father, a weather- said nothing, and only pressed his lips tight to- beaten old sailor, by name MICHAEL STCIRT, whose gether when the brave young fellow, with his age incapacitated him from doing any work smiling handsome face, answered: ' Well, Par- beyond pottering about the shore and picking son, I'll go!' AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 345

" There were nine of them in all, stalwart and been there all night. There was not a sail in well-looking men, and with a certain stamp of sight—not one: all ships near shore had put to nobility in their faces (but without pride), which sea, or sought the nearest haven, when the first the consciousness of a great enterprise had set landward gale had set in, and they did not now there. There was a gripe of the hand for their care to venture out in such a sea as was still male friends, and a kiss for their wives and running. 'Still it was not such very dirty mothers; but now that it was settled that the weather,' said MICHAEL ; but his old wife shook boat should go, the women forbore to hang about her head. She knew that no boat could return to them, or melt those hearts which had such urgent Boddlecombe in the teeth of such a wind, and she need to be strong and unmelting. Scarcely a knew that he knew it. The men were very silent, moment wag now let slip. The life-boat was sweeping the horizon with their glasses. One of brought down to the harbour at the gallop, and them offered his telescope to MICHAEL, but the the crew stepped in. High as the waves were, old fellow declined to take it. ' Man, I couldna there was no difficulty in leaving port. With an ! hold it,' said he. His poor limbs were all of a upright oar for sail, they would have scudded fast ; tremble. The gallant crew of the Saveall had before the wind; but speed was now their chief never been so long away from home. object, and with all the canvas set that the boat "But sad as it was to watch the anxiety of could bear, she flew out into the open amid three those who had fathers, husbands, sons, on board ringing cheers. They had not gone thirty yards the life-boat, the clergyman was the man we before we lost sight of them. The little Saveatt pitied most. It was true his flesh-and-blood were was quite hidden by the great green mountains of not in peril, though the men who were so were the sea. almost as dear to him, for he loved his people; "It was curious to mark what a change this but it was under his advice, nay, at his earnest absence and peril of its heroes—for they were I entreaty, that they had started on that dangerous such in truth—effected in Boddlecombe. All day errand, and it was plain he felt it bitterly. All long, notwithstanding the bitter wind, the women day long he remained upon the cliff-top among hung about the harbour or sought the cliff-top, | his flock. He did not spare himself the sight of with their babes at their breast, or bringing such their distress, though it wounded him so keenly. work as they could into the open air. Even the And Oiey on their part—even the women, who field-labourers, so soon as they were free to do so, sat with their little ones under the lee of the came down to watch for their absent brothers. watch-tower, and every now and then burst into Not a jest was anywhere heard. All the men's uncontrollable grief—forbore to reproach him. talk was about the admirable qualities of the They felt his heart was bleeding for them—at the little Saveall, and of the gallant deeds which Bod- worst he had but made a mistake, yet one which dlecombe sailors had of old effected. I found all his life, they knew right well, he would old MICHAEL STDRT sitting under the shelter of a bitterly rue. rock on the north headland, disinclined for speech "Even WILLIE'S mother, perceiving him afar on any subject; while his wife, who sat by his off among the crowd, only murmured : ' Ah, but side, spoke never a word. She had lifted up her he should ha' let me keep my WILLIE !' And voice against her WILLIE'S departure, but she had MICHAEL, who was a just man, replied: ' And not been heeded, and there was nothing more yet parson would ha' taken his place himself; to be said—nothing remained but to watch and to yes, and would do it now for any one of them, no pray. matter in what risk they stood.' "' We have always had good parsons here,' said "'Yes,' said his wife; 'but parson's sure of MICHAEL, ' though none better than this one; and heaven, and some of them—though not ourWiLLiE, the best oar as our life-boat ever had —though it God bless him, for he's an angel whether he's dead was not the Saveatt then—was a parson's son. or alive—is not so fit to die.' RICHARD MEADE was the young feller's.name; " She was thinking, I suppose, of some social and as strong and fine-made a lad he was as our misdeeds which some of the crew might have WILLIE. Nothing daunted him on sea or shore. committed—with which public scandal had been His father was very poor, not much richer than at one time busy—though it would never surely some of ourselves, and he could not afford to send be whispered of again. him to college and such-like. He lived here—the "' I should think this must pay for all,' said I, boy did—all his days, until he was a grown man, involuntarily. ' To lose one's life in such a cause and not a soul in the place but liked Dare-devil as this should take a man straight to heaven.' I Dick; and when he went away- at eighteen on spoke my honest thought, and not only to comfort board of some Plymouth ship bound for the other her. But the old woman gave a reproving glance; side of the world, as second mate, we were all it was evident the impulsive heterodoxy of Pall sorry to lose him." Mall was not acceptable to her. She was a " That morrow was one of the darkest days that genuine good and humble-hearted creature, and Boddlecombe had ever known; the Saveatt had there were many like her at Boddlecombe. It not returned, and the wind, which had in no was made plain that day that the minister who degree abated, still continued contrary. A few had 'a hundred a year and his meat' was no biscuits, two bottles of water, and one of brandy, idler, any more than the clergyman, and that were all the provisions the men had taken with neither had worked in vain. them. It was not usual to put food on board of i " Night fell and morning dawned upon a sor- life-boats, but then it was not usual to go out so i rowful and almost despairing people. Nine men, far. Suppose they had missed the ship, and could j and those of their best and bravest, were a great not make head against the gale on their return, loss in such a town : they were connected by ties what would they do for food ? We seemed to see of blood and marriage with no small portion of them toiling at their oars in vain, and growing the population, and they were known personally weaker at every stroke; their sails, we knew, to every one in the place—even to ourselves. We would have been worse than useless. There was were scheming, as everybody else who had any- never much work going on in the little town, but thing to bestow was doing, as to what best could on this day there seemed to be none. I found : be done for those whom this calamity had ren- MICHAEL and his wife sitting in the same spot ; dered widows and orphans, before we went out on they had occupied on the preceding evening; to the cliff-top as usual that morning, we felt so look at them you would have thought they had certain that all was over with the gallant Saveall. 346 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872.

And so felt everybody that we found there. The ship, bound for the far west. Three boats full of wind had not changed a point, though perhaps the people had been launched in safety, but the fourth sea was a trifle less violent. It was just forty- | had been stove in alongside, and all that were in eight hours from the time that the life-boat had ! her had gone to the bottomibefore the eyes of the left the harbour, when a sudden shout was heard i rest. This had so terrified the women, that they from the town. i had refused to leave the ship; and, indeed, in such " ' By Heaven, they've come!' cried the coast- a sea it was most hazardous to get them and the guard lieutenant, a very excellent fellow, whom i children over the side. The captain was still on severe illness had alone incapacitated from being board. He had been urged to save himself with amongst them; he had always been hopeful about the others, but, while wishing them God-speed to their ' making some other port,' and had done his land, and giving them his best advice at parting, best to keep up our spirits. But this was too he had announced his determination to stick to sanguine a view to be taken. The shout was not | the ship. ' It shall never be said that I left repeated, and, indeed, how the few people left in ; women and children to go down.' he said; ' it is the town could have made themselves heard so far | no use for you to stay, men, but I am the captain.' at first, is still a marvel to me. But presently we " Some male passengers, husbands and fathers, saw a man upon a pony galloping out towards us, also remained with their people, and when the followed by a crowd of boys, and having in bis i life-boat came up with the vessel, these were seen hand a piece of white paper. on deck, sheltering the women and children as "' They're come!' reiterated the lieutenant joy- well as they could, and trying to comfort them. fully. ' I knew they'd come—never say die, men. There are degrees of delight, so I suppose those It's a messenger to say they've come to port.' poor creatures must have been even more pleased " And so it proved. That blessed Boddlecombe to see their preservers, than we were to welcome telegraph had been of use at last, and brought us them home. They were all drenched to the skin, the glad tidings. Nor have I ever seen folks so but, fortunately, thanks to the captain's care, had happy—or half so grateful, though they had various no lack of food, and had even some to spare; ways of showing it. CLEMENTINA, and the girls, which was well indeed, for our men were in sore with FOLJAHBE, for instance, shed tears for twenty need of it, and, without it, could certainly never minutes; and I had the exquisite pleasure of run- have reached land. So that the captain of the ning down to the rock where old Michael and bis ship did save his passengers' lives by standing by wife were, as usual, sitting withdrawn from the them. They had scarcely got all on board the rest of the crowd, to tell them that their Willie Saveall, which was a difficult and tedious matter had touched land. to effect, when the wreck went down. "' God be praised for all His mercies," cried the " Then all that night, and all next day, and fer old man. But his wife covered her face with her into the second night, they toiled against wind hands, and thanked Him in silence. and sea, and at last made the land. " The Saveall, fast as she flew before the wind, " The Saveall was sent round by steamer a day had not come up with the distressed vessel until she or two after, but the crew arrived at Boddlecome, was nearly twenty miles from land, and found her by road, late that afternoon. in the saddest plight. She was a large passenger " Ton may imagine how we welcomed them!'

SHIPWEECKED FISHEEMEN AND MAEINEES' EOYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of this excellent The CHAIRMAN, after having remarked upon Society was held at the Cannon Street Hotel, the importance of the Society, and commended on the 15th May last. In the absence of the Presi- its objects to the public, called upon the Secretary, dent, His Grace the DL'KE OF MABLBOBOUGH, FRANCIS LEAN, Esq., R.N., to read the Report, the Chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. ARTHUR which was of a very satisfactory tenor. DUNCOMBE. It stated that in the last twenty-seven years the AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 347 income of the Society had increased 500/. per GATE, Esq., per HESRY COMPIGSE, Esq., 70/. cent., and that the relief afforded to the objects of (annual). Several Legacies had also been an- the Charity—viz.,shipwrecked persons and widows : iiounced during the past year. and orphans of our merchant seamen had increased j In the Report the Committee referred to the 1,0001. per cent. During the past year the Society I efforts of the Society in granting rewards for had relieved 5,004 shipwrecked persons, natives j saving life on the high seas and on the coasts of and foreigners of thirteen different nations, and I the British Colonies, and drew attention to the 4,294 Widows and Orphans of Fishermen and I Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Institu- Mariners, making a total since the formation of tion, established through the medium of the the Society, in 1839, of 213,035. 47,917 Mariners i Society at Belvedere-on-Thames, for the reception voluntarily subscribe 3s. each per annum to the of destitute aged Merchant Seamen. Society, and its income last year had been 28,3651. The Report also drew attention to the little in connection with which certain large donors were quarterly periodical of the Society called The mentioned—viz., HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY Shipwrecked Mariner, and concluded by stating THE'QUEEN, 25/. (annual); Mrs. CHOLMLEX, 100/.; | that 9,298 persons suffering from the perils of the The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, 50/.; CHARLES BAKING j deep during the past year, through the bless- YOUNG, ESQ., 1001.; DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G., I ing of God and the benevolence of the supporters 501.; H.D.Y. (2nd donation), 1,000^.; WILLIAM I of the Society, had their sufferings materially STUART, Esq., V.P., 5.000/.; " Lloyd's Kegister I alleviated. of British and Foreign Shipping Society," 105A; Various resolutions having been moved and JOHN CLARK, Esq. (Dundee), 50/.; Mrs. DANBY ! seconded, the Meeting separated after the usual VERNON HARCOURT, 50/.; Worshipful Company of vote of thanks to the Chairman. Goldsmiths, 50/., and Trustees of WILLIAM THORN-

SERVICES OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—(continued).

SEATON CAEEW, DURHAM.—The schooner | and was taken to Middlesborough in tow Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of a steamer. of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the BANFF, N.B!—On the 20th April the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind brig Trioner, of Arendal, was seen with a from the E.N.E. was blowing at the time. signal of distress flying during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy The Life-boat Charlotte proceeded to her, and 2 of the crew got into the boat, the sea. She evidently was trying to make rest refusing to leave the ship then. At Macduff harbour, but was in great danger. low water 4 more walked on shore, Accordingly the Life-boat was launched, leaving the master and mate on board. and proceeded to the vessel, which, being On the flood-tide making, she began to in a waterlogged state, failed to make the fill with water, when the 2 men left in harbour, went on the rocks, and became a their own boat at great risk of their lives, ! total wreck. Happily the Life-boat was and got on board a steamer. Afterwards enabled to- save the vessel's crew of 9 men. the vessel, which had neither cargo nor j ISLE or \VHITHORN, N.B.—During a gale ballast on board, drifted into deep water, of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale 348 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872. of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in I promoted. He used this word promoted advisedly, | for all that he did was to scatter the seed, which, a disabled state at some distance from the I falling on a good and fruitful soil, the means land, off the south end of the Isle of necessary for providing the Augusta Life-boat Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat I were speedily obtained, and already the boat had done the noble work of saving 13 lives. He Charley Peek "was at once launched, and thanked them heartily for what they did on that proceeded through a heavy sea to the occasion, and he might tell them of a fact of rescue of the shipwrecked crew, this being which probably they were not aware. When Lady DARTMOUTH and he had completed the twenty- her first service. The smack had been , fifth year of their married life—a day generally seriously damaged by the breaking adrift ! known as the 'silver wedding'—on the 9th of June last year, one of the most gratifying things of her main-boom, and had sunk in deep connected with that day, besides the congratula- water. Her own small boat was likewise tions of their friends, was a telegram which they stove, and all hope of saving their lives received from St. David's, announcing the fact had been given up by her crew of 3 men, that the Augusta had saved four lives." when the Life-boat appeared on the scene LYNMOUTH, NOBTH DEVON.—The Life- and conveyed them safely to the shore. boat Henry, stationed at this place, per- The service is reported to have been a formed her first errand of mercy on the very creditable one to all concerned. The 28th June. It appears that a boat for inhabitants of the small port had enthu- the use of the packet agent there had siastically and gratuitously assisted to been brought over in tow of the Ilfra- launch the Life-boat, which was promptly combe steamer, and was cast off, as wished, done, and the ready and able crew who abreast of Lynmouth, in charge of a man manned her reported in high terms of her named WILLIAM GKOVES. It was low- behaviour on the occasion. water at the time, and the sea had risen BHYL, NOETH WALES.—The schooner so much that the boat could not make the Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was shore then, and she therefore' came to an seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on anchor, and rode safely until the wind the evening of the 2nd June, with a and sea rose with so much rapidity that signal of distress flying. The tubular the boat dragged her anchor, and it was Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as evident the man on board was in great practicable to her assistance, and many of peril. As no ordinary boat could go to her crew having been put on board the his aid, 'the wind then blowing quite a vessel, which was in a sinking state, and gale and the sea running very high, the having worked hard at the pumps, they Life-boat was got out, and although fewer were successful in bringing the schooner people were about than usual, she was and her crew safely into the harbour. taken to the beach, manned, and launched The weather was squally, and the sea in a quarter of an hour. She behaved rough at the time. admirably in -the surf, and was soon, instrumental in saving the man, who had ST. DAVID'S.—On the 5th June, the given up all hope of his life, for he did schooner Mersey, of Liverpool, went on not see the Life-boat coming to his aid the South Bishop Rock and sank. Signals I until she was quite near him. of distress were made by the light- "WEST WITTEEING, CHICHESTEB HAE- keepers, whereupon the Life-boat Augusta BOUE.—The brig Hope, of Portsmouth, proceeded out, and brought the vessel's while at anchor about two miles from the crew of 4 men safely ashore. This Life- mouth of this harbour, in a dismantled boat was presented to the Institution by state, was observed to hoist signals of dis- the Earl of Dartmouth and his tenantry, tress, during a very high wind from the and this was the third time she had been S.W., and in a heavy sea. The Life-boat the means of saving life. Undaunted went off to her, and remained On the occasion of the Earl of DART- alongside until the weather moderated, MOUTH'S son, Viscount LEWISHAM, coming when the vessel was towed into Ports- of age, reference was made at the festivities mouth Harbour by a steamer. to this Life-boat, in an Address presented to his Lordship, when Lord Dartmouth BUDE, COBNWALL.—On the morning of made the following remarks concerning the 8th July, a boat was observed about the gift of the boat and its services:— four miles from the shore at Bude, with " They had alluded to the Life-boat he had a signal flying. She tacked about several AUGUST 1,1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 349 times, as if intending to make Bude. The WHITEHAVEN, CUMBERLAND.—A vessel crew assembled, and the Elizabeth Moore was observed off Whitehaven on the night Garden Life-boat was launched. The of the 20th August, with signals of distress breakers were quick and dangerous, with | flying, while a very strong wind was blowing a ground sea on. Twice the Life-boat was from the W.S.W., and the sea was running beaten back by the seas; the heart of one ; high. The Life-boat Elizabeth was imme- of the crew failed him; he declined to ; diately launched to her aid, and remained make any further attempt, and was put . by her until she was taken in tow by a ashore. However, his place was readily steam-tug, and brought into Whitehaven. supplied, and, after nearly an hour's labour, '• She proved to be the schooner Intrepid, of success attended the men's perseverance,! and from Liverpool in ballast. A very and the craft was reached. She proved to | severe gale from the S.W. was also expe- be the Hattie, a yacht belonging to Mr. rienced at this place on the 14th November. ABEL TILLETT, of Norwich, who was on The smack Demitian Lass, belonging to board with 2 men. The Hattie had been the Isle of Skye, and bound from Euncorn coming round from Falmouth since the with a cargo of salt, had to be aban- 3rd July, and had left Port Isaac that doned by her crew of 4 men, who took morning, when she drifted into the bay, to their small boat when about half a and it was feared she could not weather mile away from the harbour. Seeing their Hartland or Padstow Points. Mr. TILLETT perilous position, the Life-boat Elizabeth and the two men were transferred to the was promptly launched to their assistance, Life-boat, and the yacht was taken in tow and brought them safely ashore amid the for Bude, and all reached the shore in enthusiastic cheers of the large crowds safety. The Life-boat behaved admirably, who had assembled on the piers. The and gave great satisfaction, and the service smack's boat was swamped by the heavy was highly spoken of. seas just as the men had been taken from it into the Life-boat. SALCOMBE, DEVON.—During a strong wind and heavy sea, on the 18th August, the Life-boat Rescue was taken afloat for exercise. While she was out the SUMMAKT OP THE Kingsbridge Packet steamer left that har- bour, bound for Plymouth, and shortly MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. after passing the Salcombe Mewstone the THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAP- machinery of the steamer gave way, MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. when she became disabled, and rapidly Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous drifted to leeward in the direction of the Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- rocks. The Life-boat at once went to spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sun-Com- mittees. her assistance, and eventually the steamer Decided that the expression of the deep sym- got into harbour, and on entering the pathy of the Committee be conveyed to HER smooth water, she was enabled to use her ! MAJESTY THE QUEEN, and their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS OP WALES on the occasion engines and go to Kingsbridge for repairs. of the alarming illness of the PKINCE OF WALES, and of gratification at the satisfactory progress ABKLOW, IRELAND.—OH the 4th August, i His Royal Highness was then making towards during a fresh wind from the N.W., the . recovery. Read and approved the Report of Captain Arklow Life-boat saved the crew of 5 men ; DAVID ROBERTSON, R.N., the Assistant-Inspector of the brigantine Jane, of Barmouth, i of Life-boats to the Institution, on his recent visits which had stranded on Jack's Hole Bank. | to Ballywalter, Groomsport, Portrush, Greencastte, Londonderry, Howth, Greystones, Drogheda, The boat afterwards proceeded out again Rash, and Lambay. to another brigantine, the Eoscius, of Bel- [The special Contributions and Legacies re- fast, which had also gone on the Arklow ' ceived by the Institution during the month of December are given in the Annual Report, pub- Sandbank. On reaching the vessel she | lished on the 1st May, 1872.] was found to be abandoned, her crew ' Produced extracts from the following Wills con- having landed at Wicklow. The Life- j taining Legacies to the Society:— The late ROBERT PEARSON, Esq, of Neweastle- boat returned to shore for additional help, upon-Tyne Part of residue. and ultimately, after prolonged exertions, j The late Miss HARRIET BAKER, of Stutton, Suffolk (duty free) 100J. the brigantine, having been lightened of Ordered that various works be carried out at the some of her cargo of pig-iron, was taken Greystones, Drogheda, and Newcastle (Dundrum) safely into Kingstown Harbour. Life-boat stations, at an expense of 2111. 15s. 350 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872.

Read and approved of the Annual Financial ance to a distressed vessel; but that her services Statement of the Institution to the 31st December, were not called into active requisition. 1871, and ordered the same and the account books Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on to be sent to the Auditor, for the usual yearly Vellum, to Mr. SAMUEL PHILP, boatman in HER audit. MAJESTY'S Coastguard at Bude, Cornwall, in ac- Decided that the sympathy of the Committee be knowledgment of his meritorious services on the expressed to the Family of the late Capt. OLIVER occasion of the Life-boat on that station rescuing DAVEY, of Bude, on his lamented death. He had the yacht Haitie, of Cromer, and her crew of 3 for many years past zealously assisted in the men, on the 8th July, 1871. management of that Life-boat station. Also 11. 10s. to the crew of the Gorleston private Also that the thanks of the Institution, inscribed Life-boat Refuge, for saving from a boat the crew on Vellum, be presented to ROBERT WYNNE JONES, of 6 men of the schooner Irene, of Whitby, which Esq., M.R.C.S., of Beaumaris, in acknowledgment had been wrecked on the Cross Sand, near Great of his most valuable co-operation during the period j Yarmouth, during a gale from N.N.E., on the 4th he occupied the office of Treasurer and Honorary j December. The crew of the Refvge also brought Secretary of the Anglesey branch of the Society. ashore 7 men belonging to the schooner Princess Head letter from Mr. J. W. BARCLAY, of Aber- Victoria, of Aberdeen. deen, of the 9th December, calling attention to his Also 4l. 5s. to JOSEPH DOBSON and 13 other men plan of Life-boat carriage.— To be acknowledged. for rescuing 13 men from the iron steam-packet Ordered the volumes of The Life-boat Jonrnal Minister, of Lubeck, which had stranded at Grain- to be sent to the United States Congressional thorpe Haven during a N.E. gale on the 30th Library, and to the Smithsonian Institution, N ovember. Washington, United States. Also 41. to a shoreboat's crew belonging to Wex- Also that some thousand copies of the portable ford, for bringing safely ashore 1 man from the edition of the Instructions for Restoring the brigantine Thermetis, of Liverpool, which during Apparently Drowned, issued by the NATIONAL a strong gale from the S.W. became a total wreck LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTIOS, be placed at the disposal on the Blackwater Bank, on the 17th December. of R. B. FOKBES, Esq., of Boston, U.S., the Chair- Also 31. to 6 Filey fishermen for putting off in a man of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, for coble and saving 7 men from a boat belonging to distribution amongst American boatmen and the schooner Louisa, of Rye, which had foundered others. off Filey Brigg, during a very heavy gale from the Paid 1,6997. 19*. 2J. for sundry charges on N.E., on the 1st December. various Life-boat establishments. Also II. 10s. to MICHAEL HAHTNEY, and 11. to Voted 162/. 14s. to pay the expenses of various another man, for putting off in a fishing canoe and Life-boats of the Institution in going off during savings men from another boat which had cap- heavy gales of wind, and saving the crews, con- sized in Brandon Bay, on the Irish coast, during a sisting of 100 persons, of the following wrecked strong S.W. breeze, on the 27th October. vessels:— Also 21. to five Coast-guardmen for going off in Schooner Samuel and Ann, of Great a boat and rescuing 2 men from the ketch Ttco Yarmouth 4 men saved Brothers, of Dover, which was wrecked near Dandy Musselburgh, of Lowestoft .11 „ Broadstairs, during a strong gale from S.W. by Barque Robina, of North Shields .17 „ W., on the 20th December, Barque India, of Shields ... 16 „ Barque Albert, of Bremen ... 21 „ Brig Wanderer, of Maryport . . 10 „ Thursday, 1st February. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Schooner S. B., of Bayonne . 7 „ Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Greek brig Calamidas .... 11 „ Smack Charles Philip 3 and vessel. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous In addition the two Yarmouth Life-boats and the Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- Aldborough Life-boat had rendered the following spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- services :— i mittees. Read letters from the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR Brig Azela, of Blyth ... Vessel, and 8 men THE HOME DEPARTMENT, and from General Sir saved. \ WILLIAM KNOLLYS, K.C.B., thanking the Insti- Brig Champion, of Shoreham . Vessel, and 8 men tution, on behalf of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN and saved. I their KOYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS Schooner Rose, of Ipswich. . Vessel, and 4 men ' OF WALES, for the expression of sympathy on the saved. occasion of the recent illness and subsequent [The particulars of these various Life-boat ser- recovery of H.R.H. the PRINCE OF WALES. vices will be found detailed in the last Annual Read and approved the report of Capt. J. R. Report of the Institution.] WARD, R.N., the Inspector of Life-boats to the Voted also "I. 8s. to pay the expenses of the i Institution, on his recent visits to Liverpool, New Gorleston Life-boat in putting off on the 1st Jan. Brighton, Southport, Blackpool, Piel, and White- and saving the crew of 5 men from the schooner haven. Sibyl, of Yarmouth, which had gone on the North , Reported that Mrs. HARRIOTT FORTEATH, of Sand, Gorleston during a fresh wind and in a high 1 Bunny Park, Nottingham, had presented the sum sea. I of 680/. to the Society, to defray the cost of a Voted 141/. 4s. 9d. to pay the expenses of the i Life-boat, to be named after herself. Life-boats stationed at Filey, Thorpeness, Yar- ; Decided that Mrs. Forteath be thanked for her mouth, Winterton, Southport, Kingsdown, Cahore, ' munificent gift, and that the present Whitby Silloth, Broadstairs, Walmer, Kingsgate, Margate, No. 2 Life-boat be replaced by another boat, to be and Tenby, in either assembling the crews or named the Harriott -Forteotfr. putting off in reply to signals of distress from I Also that, on the recommendation of the In- other vessels, which subsequently got out of their spector of Life-boats, a new Life-boat be sent to dangerous positions without the assistance of the j Porthcawl, South Wales, in place of the present Life-boats. ; boat at that place; and that the station be ap- Reported that the Ramsgate Life-boat had also propriated to Miss J. E. CHAFVN GKOVE, of Zeals been launched with the view of rendering assist- Wilts, who had just given the Society the munifi- ATOTOST 1,1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 351 cent sum of G80i,,to defray the coat of a Life-boat, Also the services of the Abersoch Life-boat, in to be named the Cltafyn Grove. putting off while it was blowing a heavy gale Reported also the receipt of a further contri- from S.W. to N.W. on the 5th January, and bution of SOI. from the Misses HAU-AM and Mrs after much difficulty saving, in conjunction with MARGARET BIRT, the donors of the Selsey Life- a bteamer, the ship Ireland, of Liverpool, which boat, the interest of which amount they wished to had been abandoned by her crew, and which was be applied yearly towards the support of their i in a dismasted condition off Pencilan. The ship Life-boat.— To be thanked, and the annual interest 1 would assuredly have gone on the rocks had not to be appropriated accordingly. the Life-boat men boarded her just in time. [The other special Contributions and Legacies j Also the services of the Brooke Life-boat, in received during the month of January are given going off in a heavy ground sea, and rendering in the Annual Report, published on the 1st May important assistance to a Norwegian vessel, last.] which was in distress off Brooke, on the llth Produced extracts from the following Wills , January. containing Legacies to the Institution:— ! Also the services of the Lytham Life-boat, in £. putting off during a strong breeze from the W., The late Mrs. L. C. HUTCIIINSON, of Lan- and remaining for some time alongside the caster (Reversionary) 1.000 schooner Venus, of Preston, which had stranded The late WILLIAM COSENS, Esq., of Dawlish on the Horse Bank, on the Lancashire Coast. (duty free) 200 I Also the services of the Theddlethorpe Life- The late Mr. JOHN LEWIS, of Bath (Rever- \ boat, in going out during stormy "weather on the sionary) 20 15th November to the assistance of the schooner Voted the thanks of the Institution to'J. S. Excel, of Goole, on the Lincolnshire Coast. On BCRRELL, Esq., of Lancaster, in" acknowledgment arriving alongside, the crew of the Life-boat of his kind co-operation during the period he I found that the vessel was in a sinking state. occupied the office of honorary secretary of that ! They took the captain's wife and 3 children into Branch of the Society. the boat, and then assisted to get the vessel out Also to the Aberdeen, Leith, and Clyde Shipping of her dangerous condition. Company, for so kindly granting a free convey- '< Voted 132t 2s. to pay the expenses of the Life- ance on board one of their steamers to the Thurso : boats stationed at Ballywalter, Soutbport, Donna old Life-boat and carriage, between Scrabster Nook, Carmarthen Bay, Buddon Ness, BrougMy and Granton. Ferry, Chichester Harbour, Isle of Whithorn, Aber- Reported that SAMUEL LOVELOCK, Esq., the soch, and Portmadoc, in either assembling the Auditor, had examined the accounts of the crews, or putting off in reply to signals of dis- ImrtiteiJon for the past year, and bad found the tress from various vessels which did not sub- same correct. sequently require the services of the Life-boats. Paid 1,2001.6s. 3d. for sundry charges on various Reported also that the crews of the Caister, Life-boat establishments. Girvan, Anstruther, and Ardmore Life-boats had Voted 71. 3s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the either assembled or put off with the view of rendering assistance to different distressed vessels, Maryport Life-boat, in putting off during a fresh ; gale from W.S.'W. on the 4th June, and saving but that their services v>ere not ultimately te- the crew of 3 men of the schooner Cygnet, of ' quired. Workington, which was wrecked near the North Voted 15?. to 10 men who put off in a boat, and Pier, Maryport. saved 2 officers, who were the only survivors from Also 15/. \\». 6rf. to pay the expenses of the the wreck of the steamer Delaware, of Liverpool, Porthoustock Life-boat, in going off during a strong when she was lost off the Scilly Islands, during a S.S.W. wind and rescuing 5 of the crew from a i very heavy gale from W.N.W., on the 20th boat belonging to the barque Cabinet, of New- | December. castle, which became. a total wreck on the Mana- Also 101. to the crew of a Shetland fishing- cles Rocks, on the llth January. ! boat for putting off and saving 3 other fishermen, Also 32/. 15s. to pay the expenses of the Courtown 1 whose boat had been driven on the rocks of an Life-boat, in going out 3 times during a S.S.W. j uninhabited island near Whalsay, Shetland, during gale on the 13th Jan., and bringing safely ashore j a violent snow-storm on the 16th November. The 23 persons from the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S., I 3 men would certainly have perished from ex- which had stranded near Courtown.Harbour. I posure had not the others gone to their aid. Also 11. 4t. to pay the expenses of the Holy head Also 71. 10s. to 15 Aldborough men for putting Life-boat, in putting off. while it was blowing a off in a boat, and bringing safely ashore 10 men heavy gale from W. by N., and saving the crew from a boat belonging to the barque Guiding Star, of 6 men of the brigantine Form, of Liverpool, of Hull, which was wrecked near Orforduess which was in distress in the outer roads, Holy- during a S.S.W. gale on the ]8th January. head, on the 13th January. Also 5i. to 10 Filey fishermen for going off in Also 191. 10*. to pay the expenses of the Blyth a coble and rescuing 4 men from the schooner Life-boat, in going off, during a heavy gale from Treaty, of Goole, which had stranded on Filey W.S.W. on the 13th January, and rescuing 8 men Brigg during a gale from the south on the llth from the brigantine Lothian, of that port, which January. had stranded near the Seaton Sea Bocks. Also 51. to 16 Mundesley men for putting off in Also 71. 13s. to pay the expenses of the Lizard a boat, and bringing safely ashore the crew of Life-boat, in going out on the 10th January, and 6 men of the brig Mirza, of Seaham, who had putting a pilot on board a steam-tug, which had reached the Hasborough light-ship by means of in tow a ship and a dismantled schooner. The their own boat when the brig was wrecked, during vessels were then taken to Falmouth by the tug. squally weather, on the \ 4th January. Reported that the Yarmouth large Life-boat Also 31. to 3 men for going off in a boat, and had put off on the 2nd and 4th January, and had saving 1 man from a Coastguard boat which had rendered important services to the barque Ellen, capsized between Skeenaghan and Barr's Point, of Llanelly, and brig Marie, of Colchester, both on the Irish coast, during a gale from the south, of which were in distress in Yarmouth Roads. on the 21st December. With the aid of the Life-boat both the vessels were got safely into Harbour. 352 THE LIFE-BOAT. [AUGUST 1, 1872.

Thursday, 7th March: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., ment Inspector of the Life-boats on the Danish F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. coast, of the 3lst January, containing an account of the progress made by that Society. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous It had now twenty-three Stations provided with Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- both Life-boats and Rocket life-saving apparatus, spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Corn- ' besides three with Life-boats, and thirteen with mittees. Rocket apparatus only; and in twelve months no Read letter from Colonel the Hon. W. J. COL- less than 140 lives were saved from different Ship- viLijj, of the 6th February, stating that Captain wrecks by the aid of those appliances, in addition His Royal Highness the DUKE OP EDINBURGH, to 240 lives saved by other means.— To be K.G., R.N., had most kindly consented to take thanked. the Chair at the forthcoming Annual Meeting of j Read letter from the Russian Vice-Consul at the Institution, on the 8th April. ' Hull, of the 13th February, stating that the mer- Decided that His Royal Highness be specially ; chants of Riga proposed to establish a Life-boat thanked through Colonel COLVILLE. ' Institution at that port.— To be acknowledged. Also read letter from the LOKD MATOK of Decided that the thanks of the Institution be London, of the 1st March, stating that he had presented to J. G. SOCTAR, Esq., and Mr. THOMAS great pleasure in placing the Egyptian Hall, in EVANS, for their kind services during the period the Mansion House, at the disposal of the Insti- they respectively occupied the office of Honorary tution for the occasion.— To be thanked. Secretary of the Stonehaven and Nenquay (Car- Approved of a Draft of the Annual Report diganshire) Branch of the Society. to be submitted to the Meeting. Paid 2,561/. 14s. for sundry charges on various On the motion of the MARQUisof CHOLMONDELEY, Life-boat Establishments. the Gold Medal of the Institution was unani- | Voted 41. \2s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the St. mously voted to Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., Andrews' Life-boat in putting on, during a gale V.P., in acknowledgment of the very important from the S.E., and rendering assistance to the services which he had rendered to the Institution schooner Oal, of Sandness, Norway, which was in for more than twenty years as the Chairman of a distressed condition near the West Sands, St. its Preparatory Committees. Andrews, on the 23rd January. Read and approved the Report of the Inspector Also \3l. 4». to pay the expenses of the Filey of Life-boats to the Institution on his recent visits Life-boat in going out, while it was blowing a gale to Silloth, Sunderland, Tynemouth, and Liver- from S.S.E. on the 5th February, and saving the pool. crew of a men from the schooner Starling, of Yar- Also the Report of the Assistant-Inspector of mouth, which had gone ashore near Filey. Life-boats on his recent visits to the Stafford- Also reported that the same Life-boat had gone shire Potteries Branch'of the Institution, and to off, during a strong wind on the 12th February, Rhoscolyn, Rhosncigir, Holyhead, Penmon, Rhyl, and put on board their vessels the crews of two Llandulas, Eastbourne, Hastings, Winchelsea, yawls, the Admiral Mitford and the Thomas and Kye, Dungeness, and Dover. Alary, of Filey, which were in danger of being [The special contributions and legacies received driven on shore. during the month of February are given in the Voted 147J. 7s. Gd. to pay the expenses of the Annual Report published on the 1st May last.] Life-boats stationed at Lowestoft, Pakefield, Produced extracts from the following wills con- Brooke, Eastbourne, Braunton, Appledoie, Dua- taining legacies to the Institution:— dalk, Theddlethorpe, Coister, Walmer, Kings- £. s. d. downe, Blyth, and Howth, in either assembling The late Mrs. FRANCES FITCH, of Bath j the crews or putting off in reply to signals of dis- (duty free) 500 0 0 tress from various vessels which did not ulti- The late Miss MARIA KNIGHT, of Ha- | mately require the services of the Life-boats. them, Leicester 100 0 0 j Reported that the crew of the Ramsgate Life- The late Mrs. SUSANNAH WALPOLE, of , boat had twice put off, and that the crew of the Southtown, Suffolk (to the Great '• Newbiggin Life-boat had assembled with the view Yarmouth Branch) 19 19 0 , of rendering assistance to different vessels, but Reported the transmission to their Stations of , that their services were not ultimately needed. the Howth, Sunderland No. 4, and Tynemouth | Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on No. 2 Life-boats and Carriages. ; Vellum, to Captain CROFT, Master of the S.S. The Howth Life-boat and Carriage had been j Cormorant, of Cork ; 31. to Mr. J. H. MILLER, his taken from London to Dublin on board one of j chief officer, and 21. each to 3 other men, in ac- the British and Irish Steam-Packet Company's j knowledgment of the services of the four last- vessels free of charge, and the Company had also i named men in putting off in a boat belonging to most kindly brought back the old Boat and Car- j the steamer and saving 7 men from the ship Ire- riage free.— To be thanked. | land, of Liverpool, which was in a very dangerous Ordered that various works be carried out at j position to the W.S.W. of the Smalls' Lighthouse, the Ballycotton, Porthcawl, and Salcombe Life- i on the 1st January. boat Stations, at an expense of 2672. Also 101. to 7 men forming the crew of the pilot Decided, on the recommendation of the Inspector j boat Pride, of Greencastle, for putting off and of Life-boats, to replace the present Life-boat at rescuing the crew of 3 men of the chasse maree Scarborough by a new 35 feet boat, and to appro- | Netvry, of Newry, which had gone on the rocks on priate the same to the Warwickshire Freemasons' I Blockhouse Island, during a gale from (he S.E.,on Life-boat Fund, which had mainly been collected the 9th February. through the kind exertions of Lord LEIGH, Cap- Also 21. to 4 men for going off in two boats and tain J. P. SALT, and other friends. towing safely ashore a boat belonging to the smack Also that the Life-boat .be named the Lady Majestas, of Bideford, containing 3 men, when Leigh. that vessel was wrecked off Bucks, North Devon, Read letter from Dr. EDDY, of Eccleston Square, during a strong S.W. gale, on the 3rd January. of the 7th February, calling attention to a Life-boat which had been invented by Captain J. MOODY.— To be acknowledged. Read letter from Mr, A. ANDERSEN, the Govern- AUGUST 1, 1872.] THE LIFE-BOAT. 353

Thursday, 4th April: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., i wreck, having been nearly capsized by two very F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. ' heavy seas, and been driven to leeward. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Voted 161. to pay the expenses of the Caister Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- surf Life'boat in going out while it was blowing a spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- fresh wind from the east, on the 22nd March, and mittees. rescuing the crew of 6 men of the brig^rfc, of West Also the Report of the Inspector of Life-boats Hartlepool, which had gone on the Barber Sand. on his recent visits to the Life-boat stations at Also 20?. to pay the expenses of the Yarmouth Porthcawl, St. David's, Fishguard, Ferryside, surf Life-boat in putting off and saving 8 men Solve, Cardigan, Tenby, Milford, and Newquay. from the brig Viscount Lambton, of Rochester, Also the Report of the Assistant-Inspector of which had gone ashore on Yarmouth Beach on Life-boats on his recent visits to Deal, Walmer, the 22nd March. Kingsdowne, Ramsgate, Kingagate, Broadstairs, Also 201. 5s. to pay the expenses of the Fowey Margate, Kimeridge, Chapman's Pool, Poole, Life-boat in going out during a heavy gale and in Brooke, Brigbstone Grange, Newport (Isle of a rough sea, on the 27th March, and rescuing the Wight), Bembridge, Hayling Island, Selsey, West crew of 4 men from the Dutch schooner Oom-o, Wittering, and Worthing. which became a total wreck in St. Austell Bay. Decided, on the recommendation of the In- The crew of the Life-boat are reported to have spectors of Life-boats, to form a Life-boat behaved with much gallantry on the occasion. station at Rhosneigir, Anglesey, and to appro- Also 12?. 4s. to pay the expenses of the priate to it the munificent gift of 680i. from Kessingland No. 2 Life-boat in putting off, during squally weather, and bringing safely ashore 2 men Mrs. LIKOHAM, of Lower Norwood, to defray the from the barque Exe, of Exeter, which was in a cost of a Life-boat establishment, the boat to be distressed condition near Lowestoft on the 28th named the Thomas Linaham. March. Also decided to name the new Life-boat which Also the thanks of the Institution, inscribed was about to be placed at the south of the Boyne, on vellum, to the Rev. HUGH WILSON, Honorary near Drogheda, the John Butter Charley, the late Secretary of its Bally waiter Branch, together with HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLET, Esq., of Eaton 51. to 4 other men, in acknowledgment of their Place, West, having bequeathed a legacy of 600?. services in saving 3 men whose boat had capsized to the Institution to place a Life-boat on the coast off Ballywater, Co. Down, during stormy weather bearing that name. on the 13th March. Two of the endangered men Reported that the following Legacies had been were saved by a boat which put off manned by 3 bequeathed to the Society:— men; and the other one was rescued through the The late Mrs. JAKE Lrox, of Knightsbridge £. prompt exertions of Mr. WILSON, who took one of (free of duty) 500 his horses, had it attached to a cart, and with his The late JOHN HOWEM., Esq., of Cadogan man took it into the sea, and fortunately succeeded Place (free of duty) 200 in dragging the drowning man from tiie sea into The late Miss ELEANOR GOVEB, of St. the cart, when he was brought ashore in safety. George's Road, Pimlico 100 Also to 9 men forming the crews of the [The other special Contributions and Legacies pjlt* rla Lightning and Conqueror, of Green- received during the month of March are given in castle,' for rescuing 3 out of 4 men from the fishing- boat Eliza, which was capsized off Gortgowan, on Decided that Jthe thanks of the Institution be the Irish Coast> on the 3rd January, presented to M. BEVERIDGE, Esq., late Collector ~~~^ of Her Majesty's Customs at Troon, N.B., for his I Monday, 8th April.—The Annual General kind services daring the period he occupied the i Meeting of the friends and supporters of the office of Honorary Secretary of that Branch of | ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at the Egyptian Hall, in the Read letter from Mr. JOHN CAMPBELL, of Mansion House, with the kind permission of the Glasgow, of the 7th March, calling attention to Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR OF LONDON ; Capt. his plan of Steam Life-boat.— To oe acknowledged. H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., Reported the transmission to their stations of in the Chair. the Whitby No. 2 and Porthcawl Life-boats and His ROYAL HIGHNESS having opened the Meet- carriages. ing with some suitable observations on the great The Whitby Steam Shipping Company had and national character of the operations of the kindly given a free conveyance to the latter boat Institution, its officers for the current year were on board their steamer Captain Coot, from London, chosen. to its station.— To be thanked. Mr. LEWIS, the Secretary, then read the Annual Paid 1,181?. 19». lOd. for sundry charges on Report. various Life-boat Establishments. The Meeting was then addressed by Admiral of Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and. , thme Flee.EUJCItI Sionr v^j^mu*GEORGE* SARTOMBS^.ainvmua, K..C.B.LX.\^..U. :; Ueaij-bcm-- its thanks, inscribed on vellum, to Mr. DANIEL Admiral Sir JOHN D. HAY, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S.; READING, master of the Ramsgate Harbour Steam ' The Right Honourable Sir SILLS JOHN GIBBONS, Tug, in acknowledgment of his general gallant , Bart., Lord Mayor of London; Sir JOHN BENNETT, services in aiding to save life from wrecks on the ; F.R.A.S., Sheriff of London and Middlesex; Goodwin Sands. \ Capt. Sir JAMES D. H. ELPHVNSTONE, Bart. ,M.P.; Also the special thanks of the Institution to Captain the Lord GARLIES, M.P.; Sir THOMAS Capt. JAMES ELYARD, together with a reward of EDWARDS Moss, Bart.; the Rev. G. F. PBESCOTT, 11?. to th« crew of the Broadstairs Life-boat, for : M.A.; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.; putting off during a fresh gale and in a very ! Sir EDWARD G. L. PERROTT, Bart., V.P.; and heavy sea, on the 19th March, and saving 1 of the \ Vice-Admiral Sir W. H, HAM-, K.C.B., F.R.S. crew of the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which ' Various Resolutions were moved, seconded, and had stranded on the Goodwin Sands. j carried unanimously, pledging the Meeting to The Ramsgate Life-boat and Harbour Steam ! renewed exertions on behalf of the benevolent Tug also went off to the assistance of the vessel, ! and national objects of the Institution, and saved seven of her crew; the Broadstairs i The Report and Resolutions will be found in boat, which had arrived first at the scene of the [ the May number of the Life-boat Journal. Royal National Life-Boat Institution, SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

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List of the Two Hundred and. Thirty-three Life-Boat Stations under the Management of the Institution. ENGLAND. I South Devon — Sidmoiith —Exmouth— SCOTLAND. , Teignmonth—Brixham—Salcombe—Plymouth Kirk(mdbright^-Kirkcudbright NortJnnn-berland-Beryick-on-Tweed- , CornwaU _ Looe _ Foirey - Meyagiswy J - Holy Island (two boat.)—North Snnderlaiid—, portloe_Falmouth_po.tholJ8tock_^d ith Wigtonshire—Whithorn—Port Logan BonlraH^-Alnmouth — Hauslej—Isewbiggm—, _Lji,art_Mnmon _ Porthleven — Pemance— Ayrshire — Ballantrae — Girvan—Ayr — Blyth (two boatsj-Cnllerooats-lyiieinouth;^,,^ Cove_^ ivM_Hayle-New Qmy- Troon—Irvine—Ardrossan (two boats) _ ' Padstow—Port Isaac—Bode Isle of Arran—Kildonan Argyllshire—Campbeltown—Sonthend Caithness-shire—Thnrso Lvniaouth Yorkshire — Middlesborougb — Redcar — Orkney Islands—Stromneas ftaltburu—Runswick—Cpgang—\Vhitby (two Somerset—Burnham Elginshire—Lossiemouth boats) — Scarborough — Filey — Flamborohgh Cheshire—New Brighton—do. Tubular Banffshire—Buckle—Banff (two boate)—Bridlington—Hornaea—Witheru- Lancashire— Southport—Lytham—Black- Aberdeenshire—Fraserburgh—Peterhead pool—Fleetwood—Piel Kincardineshire—Stonehaven Iiincoln — Cleethorpes — Donna Nook — Forfar—Montrose (two boats)—Arbroath— Theddlethorpe—Sutton—Chapel—Skegnesa Cumberland — Whitehaven —Maryport— Silloth Buddon Ness and Bronghty Ferry (Dundee) Norfolk—Hnnstanton—Wells—Blakeney— Fifeshire—St Andrews—Anatrnther Pheringham—Cromer — Mundesley— Bacton— Isle of Man—Ramsey—Douglas — Castle- Hasborough—Palling (two boats)—Winterton— towu Haddingtonshire — North Berwick — Dniibar Caister (two boats}—Yarmouth (two boats) WALES. Suffolk — Gorleston — Gorton — Lowestoft — Penarth—Portheawl IRELAND. land (two boats) — South wold (two boats)— Co. Londonderry—Greencastle Thorpeness—Aid borough Carmarthenshire — Pembrey — Carmar- Antrim—Portrush Kentt — Margate—Kingsgate—BroadstalrsMargate—Kingsgate—Broadstali — —™ *"' 1 Down—Groomsport—Pallywalter—Tyrella Ramsgate-North Deal-Walnier-Kingsdowne Pembrokeshire-Tenby-MMord-Solva -Newcastle (Duudmm Bay) J iTS^er-Dungeness _ __ -S*' ^L^^Ti ^^l Louth—Dundalk—DroghedLouth-Dundalk-Drogh, a (two boats) Sussex — Rye — WInchelsea — Hastings— I Cardiganshire — Cardigan — Newquay — Dublin — Skerries — Howth — Poolfceg — Eastbourne—Newhaven—Brighton—Shoreham Aberystwith Kingstown —Worthing—Selsey—Chiehester Harbour | Merionethshire—Aberdovey—Barmonth WicklOW—Greystones—Wicklow— Arhlow Hampshire—Hayling Island I Carnarvonshire— Porfmadoc—Aberaoch Wexford—Conrtown — Cahore— Wexford ' Isle of Wight—Bembridge — Brighstone —Porthdiullaen—Orme's Head (two boats)—Carnsore—Duncannon Orange—Brooke I Anglesey — Llanddwyu — Rhosneigir — — 1 ,,,„-_ ------i Waterford — Tramore—Dungarvan—Ard- Alderney—St. Anne Rhoscolyn — Holy head — Oemlyn —Bull Bay— more Moelf re—Pen moil Guernsey—St. Samson's Cork—Youglial—Ballycotton — Qneenstown Dorset—Poole—Chapman's Pool — Kime- Denbighshire—Llanddulas —Courtmacsherry ridge—Weymonlh—Lyme liegU Flintshire—Rhyl (Tubular) Kerry—Valentia Total, 233 Life-Boats. The Life-toots of the Institution were instrumental, in 1871, in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels:— Adelaide, scbr.. of Malahide. Equestrian, ketch, of Port Gor- Meyiran, batque, of St. John's, i St. Thomas'* Packet, of Blyth— Albert, barque, of Bremen 21 don—saved vessel and crew . 4 N.B.—rendered assistance. I assisted to save vessel and... 6 Albion, barque, of Rostock 10 Fleetwood, a man overtaken by Morning Star, brig, of Dublin., 8 Storm, barque, of Cardiff—re- Albion, schooner, of Beaumaris tbetideat 1 Mtmelburgh, dandy, of Lowea- mained by vessel. —saved vessel and crew .... 3 Flora, brig, of Poole 6 toft 11 Stranger, schooner, of New- Alexandra, s.s., of London 23 Franct*, schooner, of Cardigan Kigretta, brigantine, of New foundland 3 Angora, schooner, of Bangor— —paved vessel and crew .... 4 York 7 Temperance Star, Margaret, nnsloop-•--, -o f- ™Cley—saved —remained by vessel. remained by vessel. —assisted to save vessel and 16 vessel and crew 2 P-fitish Queen, brig, of London. 7 Hop* man & Skye fishing-boats 11 Pannlippo, schr., of Ramsey .. 3 Trioner, brig, of Arendal 8 (lulamitlas, Greek brig 11 How th—dredging-barge 4 Pierre Desirte, echr., of St Va- TppJion, brig, of Tvedeatrand, Cornsew, schooner, of Hayle... 4 Iditn, barque, of Bergen 16 ; lerie—saved vessel and crew Norway—saved vessel and .. 8 Cassandra, barque, of Liver- India, barque, of Shields 16 Pomona, brigantine, of Dun- Yule of Conway, smack, of pool 21 Intrepid, schooner, of Liverpool dalk—saved vessel and crew 6 j anmaria s Champion, brig, of Shoreham— I —rendered assistance. Queen, brigantine, of YougLal . Valiant, brig, of Jersey 7 saved vesel and crew 8 I Isabella Heron, brigantine, of ' K.B., schooner, of Bayonne ... Venus, schooner, of Preston— CJinrJes Philip, smack—assisted Blyth—saved vessel and crew 6 Rapid, schooner, of Preston— remained alongside. to save vessel and ere' June, brigantine, of Barmouth 5 saved vessel and crew Wanderer, brig, of Maryport... 10 2 Jane Ktigour, barque, of Lon- Jleyina, brig, of London Whhby fishing-coblea 18 Cornhitt, brigaatine, of Dnn- Richard ntid Harriet, barqne .. 7 • William, brigantine, of Lon- garvan 3 Jeimc <7oZotn/>«,'brig, of St. Malo 7 Eivtr Kilh, ship, of Liverpool— donderry 5 Courier, schooner, of Lei-wick— Juliffee, schooner, of Preston .. 4 ! rendered assistance. William, schooner, of Liverpool rendered assistance. Kingdridge Packet, steamer— Robina, barque, of North Shields 17 —saved vessel and crew S Cynthia, schr., of Montrose.... 2 rendered assistance. Bad**, brigantine, of Belfast Windsor, brig, of Lynn 6 Cyrus, brigantine, of Rye 9 Lasty Hunftey, brigantine, of *ved vessel. Zoe, biiganline, of Duudalk— Dania, Danish schooner 6 Maryport 4 j Rote, schooner, of Ipswich— remained by vessel. Demitian Lose, smack, of the Lark, smack, of Wexford 2 raved vessel and crew 4 IsleofSkye 4 J-auncffton, barque, of Shields. 14 Samuel and Ann, schooner, of Total lives saved by Life- Dispatch, schooner, of Whitby . 3 Litcie Antoinette, schooner, of Great Yarmouth 4 boats, in 1871, in addition to EeJto, brigantine. of Maldon... 6 Nantes 5 Sarah, brig, of 8nnd«rland .... 6 31 vessels 668 Echo, lugger, of Lowestoft— Lynmonth packet-boat 1 Scarborough fishing-cobles— During the same period saved vessel, Margaret, brigantine, of Lan- assisted four boats. the Institution granted re- Eleanor, schooner, of Newqnay caster 26 Sta, barque, of Montrose—as- wards for saving Lives by —assisted to save vessel and 4 Major, schooner, of Lynn 4 , sisted to save vessel. fishing and other boats .... 224 fflun, schooner, of Pwllheli— Jtfortn. ship, of Dunedin 19 Sort, Austrian brig—assisted to rendered assistance. Martha, barque, of Arendal... 16 save vessel. Elizabeth and Cicely, brig, of Mary, schooner, of Shields.... 4 S*. F«y«», schoone/, of Aberysfc- Guernsey 8 j Mersey, schooner, of Liverpool. 4 \ with—remained by vessel. THE CoMmrrra OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1871) the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT iHsrmrnoN expended £21,653 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in addition to having contributed to the saving of 883 persons from various Shipwrecks on our Coasts, for which services it granted 19 Silver Medals and Votes of Thanks on Vellum, and pecuniary rewards to the amount of £2,303. The number of Lives saved either by the Llfe-boata of the Society, or by special exertioni, for which it has granted Rewards, since Its formation, is 20,966; for which Services 91 Gold Medals, 829 Silver Medals, and £37,661 in cash have bean paid In Rewards. The expense of a Life-boat, its equipment, transporting-carriage, and boat-house, averages £660, in addition to £50 a-year needed to keep the establishment in a state of efficiency. Donations and Annual Subscriptions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Wrujs, PEHCTTAL, and Co., 76 Lombard Street; by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, RICHABD LEWIS, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STBEET, ADELPHI, London, W.C.—August 1st, 1872.