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Ebor Jewel

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 4.48 in a strong northerly breeze with a rough sea. She found the Danish fishing vessel Ebor Jewel, bound for Grimsby with a crew of three. Her engines had broken down and she was in danger of driving ashore. The life- boat towed her to Grimsby and then returned to her station, arriving at 8.45 in the evening.—Property Salvage Case..