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Grace Darling

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched. The sea was moderate with a moderate south-easterly breeze blowing, and the life-boat found the local fishing boat Grace Darling with a life-boatman on board. She had lost her rudder, and a net had fouled her propeller. The life-boat towed her to Fleetwood, reaching her station again at 3.15.— Rewards, £11 10*. 6d..