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Gifts from Crews

ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution £5.

***** On the 21st March, 1929, the Longhope Motor Life-boat saved the schooner J. H.

Barrow, of Lancaster, and rescued her crew of four. Salvage money was received by the Life-boat Crew, and they have given £3 14».

as a donation to the Institution.

***** On the 3rd September, 1929, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the motor launch Princess Olga, of Burnham-on-Crouch, and rescued her crew of three. The Life-boat Crew received salvage and out of this have made a donation of £1 Is. to the Institution.

***** On the 3rd November, 1929, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat rendered assistance to the s.8. Llandilo, of London, when she stranded on the Goodwin Sands. Salvage money was received by the Life-boat Crew, and they have given £2 10*. to the Institution.

On the 26th November, 1929, the Angle Life- boat Crew rescued twenty-eight survivors from the s.s. Molesey, of London, which was wrecked on the coast of Pembrokeshire. The Coxswain and Crew received donations in appreciation of their services, and gave to the Institution £1 out of the money so received.

On the 16th and the 18th March, 1930, the Walton-on-the-Naze Motor Life-boat—no other suitable boat being available—took out Lloyd's Agent and others to the s.s. Ament, of Sunderlaud, which had been wrecked on the Long Sand. The Crew gave a donation of £2 to the funds of the Institution out of the payments they received for these ser- vices.