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Sethon (1)

Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.20 on the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that attempts were being made to refloat the trawler Sethon, of Fleetwood, which had gone aground fifteen days earlier in the Sound of Islay. The life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out at 3.35 in a slight sea. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze blow- ing and it was high water. The life- boat stood by the trawler until she had refloated and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 5.45.—• Rewards to the crew, £7 1 Os.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..