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The Auxiliary Yawl Sheenan

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.56 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yawl was making distress signals about two and a half miles to the eastward, and at 4.45 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat found the auxiliary yawl Sheenan bound from Denmark, with a crew of six. Her log line had fouled her propeller. The life-boat stood by until the crew cleared it, then, at their request, guided the yawl to the harbour and reached her station .again at 6.15 that evening.—Rewards, £6 8s..