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Sunshine, of Bridgwater

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.2 P.M. on the 3rd December, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor ketch anchored in the harbour was flying a signal of distress. A whole N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 2.20 P.M. and found that the ketch was the Sunshine, of Bridgwater, with a crew of four. She was bound from Bridgwater to Dublin with a cargo ofbricks, and had been anchored in the harbour for some time with engine trouble. The tide was exceptionally low, and as the Sunshine was bumping heavily on the bottom and was in danger of being holed, the life-boat took off her crew. With some difficulty she landed them on the Great Western Railway quay, and then, as the weather was too bad to permit of her being rehoused, anchored under the lee of the north breakwater. By 7.40 P.M. the weather had moderated and the lifeboat was rehoused.—Rewards, £9 2,?..