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28-04-15, 07:12 PM
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Storm damaged rescuehouse
Here is the old local rescue house that contains the lifeboat damaged by this winters stormy weather...
The old rescue boat where the crew were volunteers who rowed out through the breakers to the ships in distress in order to save the crewmembers. Historically, Stout rescue men saved many sailors and fishermen from certain drowning. Unfortunately, the survival rate on board the lifeboat is not tremendous. In fact, quite the contrary. Many brave Danish rescue men died trying to rescue the distressed mariners along the Danish coasts. But it was never a problem to man the rescue boats in Denmark. There were long waiting lists in the boat guilds and it was considered a great honour to be a crewmember on a rescue boat.
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The pictures are either from my own collection and/or from the archives on the Bangsbo Museum in Frederikshavn in DK and/or from the Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore, DK. Dates, locations and photographers are unknown factors if they are not specifically mentioned. 
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