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The Life-Boat THE LIFE-BOAT, OB JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL LZFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. VOL. IV.—No. 32.] APEIL IST, 1859. [PRICE 2D. AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 17th day of March, 1859, The Eight Hon. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee was read:— ANNUAL EEPOET. ready to be sent to Exmouth and Kilmore. All these boats are on the self-righting THE Committee of Management of the principle. The Committee continue to receive ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the most satisfactory reports of this class of on rendering their Annual Account of the life-boats, many of •which have rendered position and progress of the Society, have important services during the past year. again the gratification to report the con- One instance ias occurred of a single- tinued enlargement of the sphere of its banked self-righting boat having been upset operations; and they trust they may add, by broaching-to when running before a heavy its consequent advancement in public broken sea on her return from a wreck off favour. Dungeness. Although .this accident occurred The Institution now possesses eighty- in the middle of the night, and at some dis- one Life-boat Establishments, thoroughly tance from the land, yet the whole of the crew equipped in every way. Fifteen of these have regained their boat after she had self-righted, been added during the last twelve months. which she immediately did, and not one of Daring the past year the Committee have them was even hurt on the occasion; a been engaged in completing and reorganizing striking proof of the value of the self-right- the several life-boat stations on the Norfolk ing principle adopted by the Institution, coast, which have been transferred to their and of the efficiency of the Life-belts with management and control by the merging of which the crews of its boats are all provided, the Norfolk County Association into the In- and which they are compelled to wear when- stitution. The Tees Bay Life-boat Society ever they are on service. has also united itself with it, and its three Anxious to make the valuable properties life-boat establishments have been re- of these boats universally known, the Com- organized and re-equipped. mittee have forwarded to the Governments of foreign maritime countries, and to the Life-boots. — New life-boats have been Colonial Governments of this Empire, litho- stationed in England at Cromer, Mundesley, graphed drawings of the boats; as also of the Bacton, Winterton, Yarmouth (2 boats), transporting-carriages used with them. The Aberdovey, and Fleetwood; in Ireland—at expense of these drawings has been de- Dundalk, Carnsore, Tramore, Dnngawan, frayed, at his own desire, by His Grace and Newcastle, the last-named in lieu of a the President of the Institution. previous boat; and in Scotland—at Fraser- The satisfactory result has been that the burgh and Lossiemouth. New boats are also builders to the Society have been ordered LIFE-BOAT JODBWAI,.—Tol. IV.—No. 32. * 134 ANNUAL REPORT. [APRIL 1,1859. to construct life-boats by the Governments Shipwrecks.—The number of shipwrecks of Russia, Prussia, and Portugal, and by- on the coasts of the United Kingdom some of our own Colonial Governments; during the past year has been nearly the and this Committee have in every case been same as that of the previous year, 1170 in requested to superintend their construction. all, but they have been differently dis- Some of these boats have already arrived at tributed ; a much smaller proportion than their destination, and given much satisfaction. usual having occurred on the East Coast of The life-boats of the Institution have been England, owing to the more general pre- instrumental in saving one hundred and ten valence of westerly winds. Fortunately, persons during the past year. They have they have been attended, comparatively, also been off on 29 occasions to the assist- with little loss of life. ance of vessels showing signals of distress, The total number of lives saved from but the crews of which have eventually been shipwreck on our coasts during the past enabled to remain on board them, or have year, as stated in the Official Return of the been brought ashore by their own or other Board of Trade, is as follows:— boats. Although some of these services By life-boats 206 have been of the most arduous and danger- By luggers, coastguard Louts, and ous character, it will be gratifying to the smalTcraft 719 By assistance from shore with ropes, contributors to the Institution to learn that mortar apparatus, &c 210 they have been performed without the loss By ships' own boats, and steam-vessels 391 of a single life. By individual eiertion of a merito- rious character ..... 26 Carnages.—New life-boat carriages -have Total .... 1,555 been built during the past year for Fraser- burgh, Berwick, Boulmer, Alnmouth, Whit- Although by these returns a much larger burn, Hornsea, Cromer, Mundesley, Bacton, number of lives are represented as having Winterton, Yarmouth, Camber, Bideford, been saved by ordinary boats, ships' boats, Aberdovey, Groomsport, Newcastle, Carn- &c., than by life-boats, yet it must be borne in sore, Tramore, Dungarvan, Ardmore, and mind that the majority of such services have Ballycotton. Further experience has sug- been performed under circumstances of little gested improvements -in the construction of or no danger; whereas the life-boats aro, for these important adjuncts to a life-boat, which the most part, only called into requisition the Committee have not failed to adopt. when the sea is too heavy and the wind too high for an ordinary boat to venture out. Boat-houses.—New houses have been The number of lives lost during the same erected at Fraserburgh, Whitburn, Bacton, period is stated by the Return to have been Winterton, Yarmouth, Penmon, Aberdovey, 343. It is admitted that this number is still G roomsport, Newcastle, Tramore, and Ard- very large, but when it is remembered that more; whilst others are in course of con- the average loss of life from shipwrecks in struction at Redcar, Fleetwood, Exmouth, past years, on the coasts of the British Isles, Lossiemouth, and Dungarvan. • has been 800, the result of the strenuous exertions which have been made in this Local Committees.—The Committee have humane work by the Institution and other again to acknowledge the important and bodies is very gratifying, and calls for much cordial assistance which they continue to thankfulness. Great credit is also un- receive from their several Branch Commit- questionably due to the Board of Trade. In tees ; without whose zealous co-operation in addition to co-operating cordially with the superintending their several life-boat estab- Society, it has brought to a state of con- lishments, and in collecting local pecuniary siderable perfection the life-preserving appa- aid, the Institution would be unable to ratus around the coasts, and, empowered maintain in an efficient state its now extensive by the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, machinery for saving lives from shipwreck. has no doubt been enabled to lessen the APBIL 1,1859.} ANNUAL REPORT. 135 number of fatal accidents at sea. It should, directly or indirectly aided in. the good however, be remembered that the weather work. of the past year has been comparatively pro- Rewards.—The cases which the Com- pitious, and that future years may possibly mittee have considered entitled to rewards again show an increased amount of loss oi will be found detailed in the Appendix. life. It has been reported to the Com- The lives of 427 persons wrecked on the mittee, by Coastguard Officers and Lloyd's coasts of the British Isles have been rescued Agents, that upwards of sixty additional life- during the past year, through the Instru- boats are required on the coasts. It may mentality of the life-boats of the Society be reasonably anticipated, when the means and of shore-boats; for which services for saving life on our shores have been rewards have been granted by this Society. thoroughly completed, that few lives will be It will be seen that one gold medal, 23 lost from disasters at sea that could possibly silver medals, 37 other honorary distinctions, be saved by human skill and exertion, though and Q52L have been voted in acknowledg- occasional shipwrecks with loss of life will ment of these gallant exertions. occur, notwithstanding every precaution for The Committee have devoted the most their prevention; for it is not in man's power careful attention to this important and in- to control the fury of the storm. • teresting department of their duties. Each The total number of persons saved from individual case has been fully inquired into, shipwreck since the first establishment of through the instrumentality of the Officers the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and of Coastguard and Customs; the local for rescuing whom the Committee have Honorary Secretaries of the several Branches granted honorary and pecuniary rewards, is of the Institution; or other responsible per- shown in the followinsr list:— sons ; and each case has been thoroughly sifted and considered by a Sub-Committee, No. of Lives No. of Lives. In the Year Saved. In the Tear Saved. previous to its being recommended to the 1824 124 1842 276 General Committee. 1825 218 1843 236 1826 175 1844 193 The Committee have to acknowledge the 1827 163 1845 235 cordial and kind assistance which they con- ' 1828 301 1846 134 1829 463 1847 157 tinue to receive from the Commodore Comp- 1830 372 1848 123 troller - General, the Deputy Comptroller- 1831 287 1849 209 General, and the officers and men of the 1832 310 1850 470 1833 449 1851 230 Coastguard service generally, in obtaining 1834 214 1852 773 this valuable information, and for their 1835 364 1853 678 1836 225 1851 355 zealous co-operation in other respects.
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