Ashburton Guardian in Ashburton, Canterbury

Lifeboat Institution Reports 1900 Mobile Rescue Efforts

The annual meeting noted new lifeboat stations at Sunderland Backhayes Fifeshire and Helvick Head Dungart yan Bay with fourteen more vessels added. Lifeboats launched 362 times for rescues and 1056 times for emergencies, crews assembled 65 times awaiting calls. Total lives saved in 1900 reached 856 with 690 by lifeboats, 175 by shoreboats and other means, plus 35 vessels aided. The boats also landed 43 people in perilous positions.