Clovelly, and Appledore, Devon.-—-At 1.35 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1948, the Hartland coast- guard reported to Clovelly that the motor vessel Lerina, of Bideford, which takes supplies to Lundy Island, had dragged her anchors off the island, and gone on the rocks. The motor life- boat City of Nottingham was launched at 1.45. The south-south-east breeze was moderate, but the sea rough.

The life-boat found the Lerina, with a crew of five, at the landing stage.

She had refloated herself, using a kedge anchor, but her engine had broken down and she was making water. The master asked to be towed to Bideford but the life-boat took him to Clovelly.

There she anchored the Lerina off the pier just before midnight and made fast alongside her. Four hours later she brought the Lerina into harbour and arrived back at her station at 4 o'clock that morning. At 12.15 that after- noon, the 28th, the master asked the Appledore life-boat station to take his vessel to Bideford and, as no other boat was available, the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 12.35.

She towed the Lerina to Bideford har- bour, in a south-westerly breeze with a rough sea running, and reached her station again at 6 o'clock that evening.

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