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Cullercoats Disaster Fund

THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was closed on 24th October and trustees were appointed, two of them being the present Mayor and the borough treasurer of Tyne- mouth. The fund then amounted to £2,100 17s. 6d., and it was expected that another £10 would be added to it when all the collecting boxes had come in..