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The Royal Naval Motor Vessel Santa Cruz

St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the St. Abbs Head lighthouse-keeper reported that a small vessel had fired two rockets half a mile north-east of the lighthouse. At 8.20 the life-boat W. Ross Macarthur of Glasgow was launched in calm weather. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the Royal Naval motor vessel Santa Cruz with a broken shaft. She had a crew of six and twelve naval cadets on board. The life-boat took her in tow to Eyemouth harbour and reached her station at 12.20 early on the 3rd of August.—Rewards to the crew, £7.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 ] 7s..