NO TRACE OF MEN
VETERAN COXSWAIN
PENSIONS FOR FAMILIES
(Received January 24, noon.)
LONDON, January 23.
The Penlee lifeboat returned after finding no trace of the seven men lost from the St. Ives lifeboat.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution announces that the families of the drowned men will receive pensions.
The crew was commanded by the 63-year-old coxswain Thomas Cocking, whose crew in fifteen months had saved 66 lives. Those drowned included Cocking's son and son-in-law, .also two brothers named Barber.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 9
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81NO TRACE OF MEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 9
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