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Mayflower

MOTOR BOAT BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At about eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress burning flares two miles south-west by west of Newhaven, and the motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladszvood, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.8 in a strong easterly breeze and choppy sea. She found the local motor boat Mayflower, four miles south of Portobella, took her crew of two on board and towed her to Newhaven, arriving at one o'clock the following morning.-—Rewards, £9 7s. 6d..