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Dunpelder

THREE MORE YACHTS HELPED Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 5th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported 'that a yacht was making flares one mile south-west by south of Billowness. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea.

The motor life-boat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 8.30 and came up with the motor yacht Dunpelder, of Leith, with four on board, four miles east- south-east of Anstruther. Her engine had broken down and the life-boat took- her in tow, and' arrived back at her station at 12.10 next morning.—• Property Salvage Case..