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Reward Returned

Two men serving in the merchant navy took the places of two absent men in the Maryport life-boat when she put out in a gale to search for an aeroplane. They were given the same rewards as the life-boatmen, nineteen shillings each. One of them at once sent a pound to the Institution saying: "As I am a fisherman I do not know the day, when I might be glad of the life-boat. As I know how much the life-boats, have done and still doing, towards us 'all"..