GREAT SERVICE.
ROYAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 27. The recent disaster to the lifeboat at Rye, in which 17 lives were lost, was recalled by a question put by Commander Kehworthy in the House of Commons to-day as to the position of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Sir Philip Cunliff e-Lister replied that, subject to the, provisions of the Mercantile Shipping Act, the institution had always* had full responsibility for providing "and maintaining a lifeboat service on the coasts of the British Isles.
Sir Philip did not think there was any reason for seeking to take away from the institution the great public services wdiich it had discharged faithfully and well since it was founded in 1824.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution maintains 212 lifeboats, including 63 motor lifeboats, on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The total number of lives it has saved is 60,955, of -which 456 were saved in 1925. The institution’s income in 1926 was £152,570 and its expenditure £234,967.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1928, Page 5
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