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An Irish Coxswain and Honorary Secretary

Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, and Mr. R. H. Mahony, the Ballycotton honorary secretary.

Patrick Sliney has been coxswain since 1922, after serving for eleven years as second coxswain—38 years as an officer of the life-boat—and has won for gallantry the Institution's thanks on vellum and its bronze, silver and gold medals. Mr. Mahony has been honorary secretary since 1931 and has been awarded the Institution's binoculars and inscribed aneroid barometer..

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