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A Swedish Life-Boatwoman

All Life-boat workers, and particularly those women who help in the actual launching of Life-boats, will be interested to know that there is now in Sweden a woman who is a regular swain had a daughter who had, from the ' very earliest age, when it was possible td take her along in a boat at all, accompanied her father in all weathers both in hunting and fishing, and under his member of a Life-boat Crew—Miss Naemi Sjoberg, of Enskar. How she has become a member of the Crew is described in the 1928 Annual Report of the Swedish Life-boat Society :— " Immediately after the Station came into operation, one of the Life-boatmen left the place, and no other suitable man was obtainable. The gap was, however, filled easily enough, because the Coxexperienced guidance received a boat training which many fishermen and seamen might envy. To Miss Naemi Sjoberg, our new Life-boat comrade, we extend our welcome. Her entry into active Life-boat service has further increased the debt of gratitude which the Life-boat Society owes to women, who not only carry on a big work in the ' Lifebuoy ' [the Swedish Ladies' Life- boat Guild] and similar associations, but also take an active part in the work of rescue." We are sure that all the women launchers on our own coasts and the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild will send their good wishes to Miss Naemi Sjoberg, Life-boatwoman..