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Twenty-Four Hours In the Life-Boat Service

THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.

Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued Persons landed Vessels saved Vessels helped Services rendered Aberystwyth | 1 Fishing boats Kathleen 6 2 -_ 2 Rescued 2 Clarice — — — — — Gave help Pen-cw — — — Escorted vessel Barmouth 1 Fishing boat Westmai4i 5 2 — — — Rescued 2 Barrow 2 Fishing boats Rosalie 2 6 1 „. Saved boat Sea Urchin and rescued 6 2 — — — 1 Gave help Beaumaris 1 Yacht Gypsy 4 1 — Rescued I Bembridge 4 Yacht Gardenia 1 2 — — — Rescued 2 Yacht Falcon 5 4 — 1 — Saved yacht and rescued 4 Steamer Maria 3 — — — — None Yacht Colin Archer 6 4 — i i . — . Saved yacht i 1 ; and rescued 4 Blackpool 1 Fishing boat 4 | — — None Coverack 1 Yacht Moyana T — — None Donaghadee 1 Motor boat 2 i — — — None Dover 3 Yacht Crevetre 3 : — — 1 — Saved yacht Yacht Straight Flush 2 | 4 — 1 — Saved yacht and rescued 4 Yachts Sonia, Madame Pompadour and Tawi 3 10 ! — — — Rescued 10 Dungeness 3 Yacht Right Royal 11 — — — — None Yacht Crevetle 4 — — — — None S.S. Teesviood 4 9 — — Rescued 9 and landed a body Exmouth 1 Reported flares 8 - — — — None Falmouth 1 Yacht Crean 4 — 6 — — Landed 6 Fowey 2 Reported flares 2 . . — — — None Yacht Fairwood 2 — — — I Gave help Hartlepool 1 Yacht Giselle 1 — — — 1 Gave help Hoylake 1 Yachts Crusader, Portia, and Matthew Walker 4 7 — — — Rescued 7 Lytham 1 Small boat 3 — — — — None Mallaig 1 Fishing boat Betty 4 — • — — — None Margate 1 S.S. Tecswood and small boat 7 — j 6 — 1 Escorted boat and landed 6 Moclfre 1 Yacht Leader 13 3 1 Saved boat and rescued 3 New Brighton 1 Yachts Duke Belle and Troelodi'le 5 5 — | 1 Saved yacht and rescued 5 Newhaven 1 Yacht Ben's Choice 8 __ „ None New Quay 1 Yacht Sabrina 61 — 1 — Saved yacht and rescued 1 Plymouth [ Yacht Isonda 3 4 — 1 Saved yacht and rescued 4 Porlpatrick 1 H.M. launch M.L.D. 2593 16 — • — — 1 Stood by Rosslare Harbour 1 Yacht Nellie 3 1 ! ~ 1 i — Saved yacht and rescued 1 St. Ives 1 French fishing boat } Abousmor Camaret 6 — None St. Peter Port 1 Yacht Knola 2 4 i Rescued 4 balcombe 1 Dinghy 2 — — — None Selsey 2 Yachts Bloodhound, 10 18 ' — 1 Saved a yacht Coima and Maaslust and rescued 18 Yacht Bloodhound 2 : — : — Gave help Shoreham Harbour 2 M.V. Solent Swan 6 : — — — — None M.V. Solent Swan 9 None Skegness 1 Yacht Vagabond 9 2 ~— 1 — Saved yacht and rescued 2 Southend-on-Sea 3 Raft 1 2 — : — . None Fishing vessel Navigator 2 — . None Yacht Ocean Breaker 26 — 1 Saved yacht and rescued 6 Swanage 1 Yacht Omega 4 4 i — , Rescued 4 Torbay 2 Tanker Mobilfuel 11 I — ' — — — None Reported rockets — i — l — — — None Walton 1 Reported flares 9 . None Wells 1 Yacht El/ena 2 5 i Saved yacht and rescued 5 Weymouth 1 S.S. Triton 3 — — None Yarmouth 1 Yacht Nave and S.S. Aliki 3 3 — — — Rescued 3 Assemblies Lizard Yacht Afoyana — St. Ives French fishing boat Abousmor Camaret — — — — — 52 243 107 1? 14 7 •.