The Life-Boat Launch: The National Life-Boat Institution has now become one of those societies whose necessity was as universally recognised as that for the maintenance of hospitals or any other public means for the perseveration of life and health. … Fashionable Cheltenham, obliged to launch its boat upon an artificial lake in the centre of a pleasure garden, had done its work nobly; and now Gloucester, which might have taken the lead, follows suit with more than equal ardour … (discussion of lifeboat) … Streamers waved from the yards and masts of the vessels in the two docks; several boats were upon the water; and the rowing club had manned their graceful eight and four-oar. The crew of the “eight” consisted of A. S. Helps, E. Cookson, C. N. Buchanan, P. New, B. H. Sheppard, J. M. Buchanan, W. A. Jones, P. W. Sparling (stroke), F. Butt (coxn.). The “four” was manned by W. Pinsent, I. Holland, B. Edwards, and F. Edwards (stroke), H. Hunt (coxn.).
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