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Zamorin

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Just be- fore midnight on the 6th of July, 1957, the police telephoned that a motorist had reported seeing three red rockets off Kildalloig three miles south of Camp- beltown. The life-boat City of Glasgow II put out at 12.5 in a swell. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, there was a heavy thunderstorm, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht Zamorin, with a crew of four, near Auchenhoan Head. She had left Donaghadee for Campbeltown early on the 6th of July, but shortly afterwards her engine had broken down. Her crew had been able partly to repair the engine so that it could run for a quarter of an hour at a time, but it eventually broke down com- pletely. The yacht was then sailed to the entrance of Campbeltown Loch, when an easterly breeze suddenly sprang up and carried the Zamorintowards the dangerous rocky shore of Auchenhoan Head, where the life-boat was just in time to save her from being pounded on the rocks. At the height of one of the most severe thunder- storms known in the district for many years the life-boat took the Zamorin in tow and brought her to Campbel- town, arriving at 2.5.—Rewards to the crew, £7; reward to the helper on shore, 13s..