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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7063, 24 January 1933, Page 2

The Eoya.l National Lifeboat Institute has awarded its thanks ou vellum to the women of Dungeness for the gallant part they took in helping to launch the Dungeness lifeboat on October 8. The lifeboat, one of the largest and heaviest in. the institution’s fleet, was taken out to go to the help of the barge Shamrock, of Loudon, and the launchers, among whom were many women, pushed her down the skids to the sea. So strong was the wind that a sudden gust blew the boat right off the skids on to the beach. Although wet to the skin and hardly able to keep their feet on the loose stones, the launchers got the lifeboat away at the second attempt. Tbreo men and a cat were rescued by the lifeboat.