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Rising Venus

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1952, the honorary secretary saw a motor boat in difficulties off the har- bour and kept her under observation.

She drifted slowly towards the rocks at the east side of the harbour, and at 3.25 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. There was a heavy swell with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing, and she found the local motor boat Rising Venus, with a crew of two, half a mile east of the harbour. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to the harbour and reached her station again at 4.30.—Rewards, £5 5s..