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Spero and Blanche

Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 1.32 in a rough sea, with a fresh east-north-east breeze blowing. She found the local fishing boats Spero and Blanche off the harbour bar, and escorted them in, arriving back at her station at 2.15.—Rewards; £13 125..