STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 5.45 in a strong north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. She found the S.S. Fawn, of Ramsey, of one hundred and forty- two tons, laden with grain and bound for London with a crew of six. She had anchored because of trouble with her boiler, but the chain had parted and she had stranded on North Tail.

The life-boat took off her crew, and then stood by. As the tide rose the Fawn refloated. With some difficulty the life-boat put her crew on board again and towed her to Appledore, arriving at 9.30 that night.—Property Salvage Case..