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Mizpah

Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah informed the motor mechanic that her husband's boat had broken down with engine trouble off Buddon Point., At two o'clock the life-boat The Good Hope was launched. There was a calm sea, a, light variable breeze was blowing, arid the tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found the Mizpah, with a crew of three, and towed her to Montrose, arriving at 3.20.—Rewards to the. crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore," £? 12s..