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Noddy

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned. At 10.35 the life- boat Crawford and Constance Conij- beare put out. The sea was calm, there was a light northerly breeze, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the Noddy one mile south of Pendennis Point, towed her to Mylor, and then returned to her station, arriving at two o'clock on the morn- ing of the 7th. The owner made a donation to the funds of the Institu- tion.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16,?.; reward to the helper on shore, 125..