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John Wesley

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.2 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard reported a man on a fishing boat wav- ing a flag, and at 10.15 the life-boat W.R.A. was launched, manned by her coxswain-and a scratch crew. A west- north-west breeze was blowing with a moderate swell, but breeze and swell were increasing. The life-boat found the Seahouses fishing yawl John Wesley two and a half miles south-east of Seahouses, drifting with the engine broken down. She had three men on board. The life-boat towed her into harbour at 11.18.—Rewards, £24 16s..