Appledore, Devon.—During the evening of the 16th March Croyde coastguard reported that a vessel between Morte Point and Lundy Island was burning flares. A moderate and increasing south breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The vessel was the motor fishing boat Kenilworth Castle, of Ilfracombe, which had left Appledore for Ilfracombe earlier in the evening with two men on board. Her engine had broken down and, having no sails or oars on board, she was drifting, helpless. The motor life-boat V.C.S.

was launched at 8.2 P.M. and found her four miles N.N.E. of Baggy Point.

She towed her into Ilfracombe, arriving at 11.35 P.M., and it was decided that the life-boat should not return to Appledore immediately, as she had damaged her steering-gear. She was taken back to her station on the 19th.

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