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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Coast Guard user fee repealed!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:38:25 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Timothy Smith writes:
-
- Every time I have heard a senior coast guard official speak at a
- mostly Navy function he/she has started by pointing out that the
- Coast Guard is the oldest armed service in the country.
-
- This is the crux of the matter and, to my mind, a problem. They are indeed
- an armed service. One of the few things I like about Jollie Olde Englande
- is that they have a thing called the RNLI, the Royal National (NOT Naval)
- Lifeboat Institution, whose function it is to provide assistance for ships
- in danger at sea. It used to be chiefly manned by fisherfolk, &c., with
- a few professionals to keep the boats in order. This may now be modified.
- Basically, it is seagoing folk looking after their own, with some charitable
- assistance from the Public and some government funding. Coxn. Blogg of the
- Cromer (Norfolk) Lifeboat used to rent deckchairs out on the beach at
- Cromer and, i dare say, would make a bit of business out of being the
- most decorated for bravery coxn in the business.
-
- Capn Fido
- FELIX
- Port of Redwood city
-