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Margaret and Goshawk

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1957, a telephone message was re- ceived that a yacht with her sails badly torn was eight miles south of Campbeltown. A fishing vessel was alongside her and she was in no immediate danger. At 10.12 the coastguard reported that the fishing vessel and yacht had moved very little, and as darkness was coming on and a strong north-north-westerly wind was blowing, the life-boat City of Glasgow II put out in a choppy sea.

The tide was flooding. At the en- trance to Campbeltown Loch the life- boat met the fishing vessel Goshawk, with the yacht Margaret, which had a crew of six, lashed alongside. She escorted both boats to harbour and reached her moorings at 11.40.— Rewards to the crew, £7..