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Mavis

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 4.56 in the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1949, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in danger in Brodick Bay, Arran, She had run short of petrol and lost her dinghy. The life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 5.8, in a strong east- north-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and found the motor yacht Mavis, three hundred yards north-north-west of Brodick Pier. She had on board a doctor, his wife and child. The life boat rescued them and, with some difficulty, landed them at Brodick Pier. She arrived back at her station at 2.50 next morning.—Rewards, £20 7s. 6d..