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Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats

CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .

(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels . .

(4) Commercial fishing vessels (5) Powered pleasure craft . .

(6) Sailing pleasure craft (7) Manually propelled pleasure craft (8) Aircraft (9) Hovercraft, hydrofoils or other amphibious craft (10) Boring rigs . .

(11) Conveyance of sick or injured people and/or doctors (12) Relief of lightvessels, etc. . .

(13) People stranded or who have fallen off cliffs (14) Bathers, skin divers and water skiers, etc.

(15) Animals (16) Unidentified distress signals (17) Miscellaneous, not fitting into any of the above categories TOTALS: Services No.

1 46 34 232 206 179 56 19 1 1 90 5 51 30 2 90 60 1103 Percentage of Total •1% 4-2% 3-1% 21-1% 18-5% 16-3% 5-1% 1-7% •1% •1% 8-2% •4% 4-6% 2-7% •2% 8-1% 5-5% 100% Lives saved No.

— 31 14 170 201 129 30 — 5 — 12 — 16 6 — — 30 644 Percentage of Total — 4-9% 2-2% 26-4% 31-2% 20-0% 4-6% — •8% — 2-0% — 2-4% •9% — — 4-6% 100%.