ALONE FROM SALCOMBE TO SKYE Appledore, Devon.—At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles west-south-west of the Westward Ho look-out.] The motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 10.25 in a westerly gale, with a rough sea. There was no sign of the yacht at the position given, but the life-boat continued the search and found her at midnight a mile • off Rocks Nose. She was the Kanwara, of London, bound from Salcombe to Skye, with only the owner on board. He asked that a life-boat- man should be put on board to help him navigate her to a safe anchorage.

The life-boat then escorted the yacht to Appledore Pool, and returned to her station at 1.30 the following morning.

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