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Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Inshore Rescue Boats

600 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.

— 3 3 34 237 343 146 14 2 — 15 — 128 122 — 26 105 *1178 Percentage of Total — •2 •2 2-9 20-2 29-2 12-4 1-2 •2 — 1-3 — 10-9 10-4 — 2-1 8-8 100-0 Lives Saved No.

— — — 13 142 212 56 — — 2 — 46 27 — — 8 *506 Percentage of Total — — — 2-4 28-1% 42-0% 11-1% — — '4% — 9-1% 5'3% — — 1-6 100-0% *—Including 35 services and 14 lives saved by four fast rescue/boarding boats..