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Eve

Tynemoutb, Northumberland.—At 7.12 in the evening of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht, then two miles to the south-east, was drifting towards Frenchman's Point. The life-boat Tynesider, the second coxswain in charge, was launched at 7.35 in a moderate sea, with a moderate north- easterly breeze. She found the local sailing yacht Eve, with a crew of two, dragging her anchor two hundred yards from the rocks off the Point, and towed her to harbour, arriving back at her station at 9.13. The owner expressed his thanks and made a donation to the Institution.—Rewards, £10 16s.