LIFEBOAT SERVICE
3300 SAVED FROM SEA FINE WARTIME RECORD (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 24. Broadcasting in the “week’s good cause” on behalf of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Sir Godfrey Baring stated that since the outbreak of the war, the sea services had rescued over 3300 lives from the sea. “Though the lifeboats are doing in war even more than in peace a great national work, the institution, with the help of the British people is paying for the whole of that work,” he said. They had spent in rewards and other payments to the crews about £IOO,OOO since the war began. The evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk cost them £BOOO and the institution refused to let the Government pay any part of that sum.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 25 February 1941, Page 7
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130LIFEBOAT SERVICE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 25 February 1941, Page 7
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