MOTOR PLEASURE-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Torbay, Devon.—At 6.43 in the evening of the 7th of April, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that a motor pleasure boat had broken down three miles off Berry Head and was making signals of distress. A light south-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. The motor life-boat George Shee was launched at 7.5 with a crew of five, and found the motor boat Nyria, of Torquay, with a crew of two and six passengers. She was cruising between Torquay and Dartmouth. The life-boat towed her to Torquay arriving at 9.0 that evening.

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