Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 3.20 early on the morning of the llth of October, 1953, the police reported that the local motor fishing vessel Welfare, with a crew of two, had left Newhaven and ought to have reached Dunbar about six o'clock the evening before. At 3.55 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. The sea was rough with a moderate west-south- west breeze blowing. The life-boat found the Welfare three miles west of Fidra Island. Her engine had broken down, and her crew were cold and wet. The life-boat rescued them, put two men aboard, and towed the Wel- fare to Dunbar, arriving at nine o'clock.

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