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White Heather

Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate sea. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze blowing and the tide was flooding. The White Heather, which had a crew of five, had broken her propeller shaft, and the life-boat took her in tow and reached her station at eleven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £13 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 18s..