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Penguin

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a vessel was waving a red flag two miles east of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 in a calm sea. There was a light easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor yacht Penguin, of Falmouth, with a crew of two. She had engine trouble, and the life-boat took her in tow, arriving back at her station at 2.30.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..