Word: surfboat
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately to find the City of Savannah and Monarch of Bermuda in the vicinity and later the Andrea F. Luckenbach and from then on they picked up the survivors and turned them over...
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