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Providence and the Molla II

Newhaven, Sussex. — At 7.5 On the evening of the 28th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel, with another in tow, had broken down off Beachy Head lighthouse. Later reports said that the vessels were drifting. At 8.8 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a moderate sea and southerly wind, and came up with the motor boat Providence, of Dover, with the Molla II in tow. Both vessels were very close inshore. The life-boat towed them and their crew of two to the harbour, reaching her station again at one the next morning. — Rewards, £14 2s..