It seems that it was to do with the Amble again.
Berwickshire News, 2 Feb 1926:
"The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has decided to present its thanks inscribed on vellum to 35 women of Boulmer who helped to bring out the Boulmer lifeboat for launching during the December gales. They were called out early in the morning of Dec 20. A severe blizzard was blowing with rain, snow and hail. So severe was it that the horse with the cart containing stores, refused to face it, and a motor had to be used. But the launchers, of whom more than half were woman, struggled in the teeth of the blizzard, and dragged the lifeboat, weighing 3 1/2 tons, for a mile and a quarter. Meanwhile Alnmouth lifeboat had been launched, and Boulmer stood by until she had returned in safety, the launchers being on duty from three in the morning until 9."
And the Hartlepool Mail of 15 April reported the presentation at Caxton Hall, Westminster, saying, "The village of Boulmer has 150 population....provided a launching party of 61; and a life saving crew of 27....Thus four fifths of the entire population were engaged in the effort to rescue the crew of the stranded Newcastle ship Amble..."
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