LIFEBOAT TRAGEDY
NO TRACE OF ST IVES CREW MEN WHO SAVED MANY LIVES. FAMILIES TO BE PENSIONED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 23. The Penlee lifeboat has returned, no trace having been found of the seven men in the St Ives lifeboat. The Lifeboat Association announces that the families of those drowned will be pensioned. The crew was commanded by a sixty-three-year-old coxswain, Thomas Cocking, whose crew in fifteen months saved sixty-six lives. Those drowned include Cooking's son and son-in-law and also two brothers named Barber.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 6
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91LIFEBOAT TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 6
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