Early Career
After the loss of the first Margate surfboat, the Friend of all Nations, funds were raised by local boatmen for a replacement, to be built by the builders of the first boat, White’s of Cowes. The new boat could still be launched by four men without the need of horses. Its arrival in Margate on 6 July 1878, was attended with the traditional procession, and at her naming ceremony she was christened with the slightly altered name the Friend to all Nations.
In December 1890 she rescued 6 crewmen from the tankship Ville de Calais in a blizzard off the Nayland Rock.
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