British Lifeboats Helped 348 Crews Last Year
LONDON— The crews of British lifeboats have registered 1936 as the busiest year in the 113 years of their busy history. Never before have there been as many as 466 launches in one year — an average of nine a week. Even the three summer months of J'une, July, and August saw 98 launches. Lifeboats saved, or . helped to save, 48 vessels, and stood by, escorted, or helped to safety, some 300 more. During the year the Royal National Lifeboat Institution gave rewards for tho rescue of nearly 500 persons, the great majority of these being by lifeboats. The outstanding rescue of the year was by the Ballycottin lifeboat off the coast of County Cork in southern Ireland. After being out 'in a heavy sea for 63 hours all of the crew of the Daunt Rock Lightship were brought saf ely ashore. This was in a gale which drove the spray over the lantern of the lighthouse which is 196 feet above sea leveL There are now 168 lifeboats around the coast of- Great Britain, of' which 131 are motorboats, and 37 pulling and sailing. By the end of 1937 a further 11 motor lifeboats ' will have been put into commission.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 18
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